<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4de59f8f-2b5e-4fd3-993f-80561aea88ae/7F0D5695-5378-43FF-9237-D0F20BA2D1E6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/142047/msnbc%27s_maddow_show_propels_growing_scandal_over_washington%27s_%22christian_mafia%22/" href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/142047/msnbc%27s_maddow_show_propels_growing_scandal_over_washington%27s_%22christian_mafia%22/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/142047/msnbc%27s_maddow_show_propels_growing_scandal_over_washington%27s_%22christian_mafia%22/"><P class="storyheadline">MSNBC's Maddow Show Propels Growing Scandal Over Washington's "Christian Mafia"</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/142047/msnbc%27s_maddow_show_propels_growing_scandal_over_washington%27s_%22christian_mafia%22/"><DIV> In a new August 17, 2009 Maddow show segment [link to <A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/">MSNBC page with viewable show segment</A>], Rachel Maddow and Jeff Sharlet discuss, among many new revelations, the disturbing fact that the <A href="http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/christian_embassy.html">"Christian Embassy" scandal</A>, propelled by a <A href="http://www.slate.com/id/2155453/">complaint</A> to the Department of Defense from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, was investigated by a Pentagon Inspector General who is in fact a Family member.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/142047/msnbc%27s_maddow_show_propels_growing_scandal_over_washington%27s_%22christian_mafia%22/"><DIV>Over the course of the summer of 2009, Washington's Family-run "C Street House" has become notorious as a <A href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/18/82144/4697">string of sex scandals</A> have engulfed national GOP political figures who live at or have lived at, or attended Bible study classes at, the secretive former convent turned church-cum cheap-rent high end boarding house: Senator John Ensign, former Congressman Charles "Chip" Pickering, and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/142047/msnbc%27s_maddow_show_propels_growing_scandal_over_washington%27s_%22christian_mafia%22/"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IB8w7kvbxkg&hl=en&fs=1&" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7F0D5695-5378-43FF-9237-D0F20BA2D1E6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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