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At a press conference following the screening of his film Dogma , which will have its first public showing October 4 as part of the New York Film Festival, the writer, director, and professed devout Catholic Kevin Smith appeared both shell-shocked and befuddled by the outrage that his movie, sight unseen, had provoked.
George Bush--a professed admirer of TR--is the Tarzan of our day: A patrician Yalie (Lord Greystoke), and at the same time a Texan redneck (Tarzan), engaged in wildcatting (could there be a more metaphorically resonant term?)
In July of this year, I received a phone call from a young woman who professed to be my daughter.
Both professed their whole-hearted support for SCOSE (as did the then General Manager, who attended one Christmas party), but neither has been able to deliver.
If we consider the right-wing politicians and media people on your list as actually believing their professed ideology, which I'm not sure they all do, I think yes, orthodoxers of one sort or another are often fighting the return of the repressed: a stop-me-before-I-divorce-again kind of a thing.