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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Friday, June 06, 2008

Reverend Michael Pfleger's Hard Lesson on Public Life

Candid Camera

(Fox News) -
The Reverend Michael Pfleger, who has been temporarily removed from his duties as pastor at Saint Sabina Church in Chicago, has a simple explanation for how his anti-Hillary Clinton rant at Barack Obama's former church ended up YouTube phenomenon: He didn't know the cameras were rolling.

The Catholic priest tells the Chicago Sun-Times he did not realize Trinity United's Web service was up and running.

He says, "Their live streaming had been down all day, and they didn't know whether it was back up... I regret the dramatization that I was naive enough to believe was just going to be kept among that church."

"This is a dangerous time in America, the freest country in the world where you have to whisper your thoughts."

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