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This is on a subscription site (www.tnr.com). It's about the new Kuo book, Tempting Faith. The book basically says that Bush and Co. hold evangelicals in contempt and just use them to get elected. Debatable. But the statement below about Pat R. blew my mind. Does he really believe that?

In response, Lawrence O'Donnell--former Democratic Senate aide and the resident liberal commentator at msnbc--dropped the ball. "I think the good news here is that people working in the White House think that Pat Robertson is nuts," he said. "They should. Pat Robertson is nuts." It seemed a little off-message--after all, this was a politically embarrassing book for the Bushies, and here O'Donnell was praising them. True, Robertson does regularly spout off truly nutty and dangerous statements (his call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez; his prayer for the death of liberal Supreme Court justices; his belief that UPC symbols are the Mark of the Beast as foretold in Revelation).