Former White House Official: Rove Privately Referred To Evangelicals As "The Nuts...Ridiculous...Out Of Control"...

Crooks and Liars October 11, 2006 11:47 PM

Transcript from Countdown With Keith Olbermann...

When President Bush touched on Iraq at his news conference this morning, he may have been revealing more than he knew.

[video] BUSH: The stakes couldn't be any higher, as I said earlier, in the world in which we live. There are extreme elements that use religion to achieve objectives.

He was talking about religious extremists in Iraq. But an hour later, Mr. Bush posed with officials from the Southern Baptist Convention.

It is described as the largest, most influential evangelical denomination in a new book by the former number-two man in Bush's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives.

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