Ugh...

OK, per the previous post and perhaps through other channels, we know that the Rev. Chan Chandler of the East Waynesville(N.C.) Baptist Church led a purge of church members who voted for John Kerry. I gave the NYTimes until Sunday to come up with a story as I figured they would need to get someone down there and all. I looked through the National section of the online paper everyday looking for some mention and never saw it.

Interestingly enough, today we find this which includes the following:

"The committee also recommended that the paper "increase our coverage of religion in America" and "cover the country in a fuller way," with more reporting from rural areas and of a broader array of cultural and lifestyle issues."

which one would assume includes mention of a rural church purging members for political reasons. So, for completeness sake, we do a search for "Waynesville" and get:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Church-Politics.html

which, in fact, gives us the story and is dated Sunday. But, check out that link; it's not in the National section but in something called the aponline section which I didn't even know existed. Plus, it is an AP story with no NYTimes reporting.

News Flash, guys: it's never too frigging soon to start reporting on the nascent religiofascist movement in this country! This same movement would surely shut you guys down as a first order of business so I think you might be interested in bringing it to everyone's attention. Sometimes I think you people are just waiting to cash in your own insurance policies. Come on!