| Christian right lieberman Original Source Link: (May no longer be active) >http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.02.21/featherman.html>LIEBERMAN FUNDRAISES WITH ROBERTSON, FALWELL >The Forward, 2/21/03 >http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.02.21/featherman.html > >Say It Ain't So, Joe: Browsing through the infomercials on the PAX cable >television network, Hartford Courant reporter Eric Ericson was stunned to >see three giants of the Christian right - Christian Coalition founder Pat >Robertson, convicted Watergate felon Charles Colson and Moral Majority >leader Jerry Falwell - fundraising with Joseph Lieberman. > >Ericson, writing in the January 16 issue of the Courant, reports that the >Jewish Democratic presidential hopeful appeared in a January 2 broadcast >along with the trio in a half-hour appeal for a program called "On Wings >of Eagles," which brings Russian Jews to Israel through the International >Fellowship of Christians and Jews. The Chicago-based nonprofit >organization, run by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, advocates an improvement of >relations between Christians and Jews and receives considerable support >from right-wing Christians. "'On Wings of Eagles' is a modern-day >fulfillment of biblical prophecy," Lieberman says on the infomercial. > >The Hartford Advocate reports in its February 14 issue that Lieberman >asked that his endorsement be struck from the infomercial. Eckstein told >the Forward that Lieberman's wishes are being respected. "We're spending >money to take it out of the video," Eckstein said, adding that the >incident was, "a non-story, [a] stupid story... It seems like a liberal >newspaper essentially trying to get at Lieberman through one way or another. > >-----
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