Pelosi accused of attacking evangelicals with HBO film
by Jim Brown
February 28, 2007
(OneNewsNow.com) - - A conservative columnist says an HBO documentary produced and directed by the daughter of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is intentionally designed to denigrate evangelicals and make them appear "absurd." Alexandra Pelosi's film on evangelical Christians called Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi has been airing all month on HBO.Author and former syndicated columnist Don Feder has written an op-ed for USA Today on the documentary. He calls the film "an attack piece," noting that Pelosi focused on the most "absurd, ridiculous" things she could find, positing or suggesting "that this is the essence of what it is to be an evangelical Christian in America."
For example, at one point in the movie the filmmaker trains her camera on "the Christian Wrestling Federation," Feder points out. And in another instance, he notes, "she interviews a group of Christian teens who have tie-dyed hair and nose rings and studs in their tongues, fuchsia-colored hair -- so-called 'Goth teens' -- talking about getting a 'high' from God."
The documentary's director selected extreme subjects like the Christian wrestlers and the Goth Christian teens specifically to lampoon evangelicals, the conservative author asserts. "This is a tried-and-true technique of filmmakers with an agenda," he says. "If you want to make something look absurd, you find the most ridiculous examples you can of that thing and you put them all together in a 'documentary' -- and that's exactly what Alexandra Pelosi did."
Feder says Pelosi and other liberals correctly view evangelical Christians as "the principal enemy to the realization of their goals." He says the left has "feared and loathed" Christianity in America since the Revolutionary era, as do liberals today because they recognize that evangelical Christians are the driving force behind the pro-life, traditional marriage, and anti-pornography movements.
