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He read brochures in Arabic about jihad, held forth to friends on the subject of holy war, and professed disaffection with his previous life and a desire not to leave the world "in a natural way."
Floyd is making me believe more strongly in a Divine Power: From the moment yesterday that I professed to you my belief that acts of God are now invariably overhyped, this one began heading directly toward metropolitan New York--toward me, I'm thinking, and my flip, callow hubris.
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.
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.
This week, he recycles the same suit and bow tie and evasions on Face the Nation and Meet the Press . He chiefly concerns himself with abusing archenemy Kenneth Starr, though Tim Russert chastens him by reading back a series of quotations that document how, not too long ago, the lawyer was a professed member of the Ken Starr Fan Club.