and one of the figures that i pay a lot of attention to his jerry falwell because jerry falwell is building on the rise in terms of popularity and losses from jesse helme is also working with him closely. he's mostly known for his television show and this is the height of televangelist on. he also decides to embark ripe between the same period of time in a serious offense that because i love america rallies and for the first time he'd been holding these families are throughout the country. during this period of time coming brings the i love america rallies to washington d.c. writes the steps of the capitol. let me just give you a description of an i love america rallies. i do this to give you a sense of what they're like, but also emphasize the review of positioning christianity are in some ways in complete and absolute has to jimmy carter. they're very, very different views of the meeting of christianity and a lot of this has to do with in some ways not necessarily theological debates, that's a fairly difficult arguments about the meanings of christianity. here is the i love america rally

changes the texas school board approved for the new textbooks like replacing thomas jefferson with jerry falwell i think maybe the students are better off with the old books. and the very very ugly rupert murdoch if you think murdoch standards of journalism are low in the us and fox so-called news you should see what he's up to in the u.k. murdoch's british tabloid newspaper the news of the world is accused of hacking into the cell phone a million. abducted british teenager whose remains were found two months after her disappearance and deleting several voicemail messages and papers tampering with the phone not only gave the parents of the girl false hope that she might be alive but also hindered a police investigation into her abduction and murder british prime minister david cameron weighed in on the issue saying that if the accusations against murdoch's news of the world are true then quote this is a dreadful act and a truly dreadful situation and called rupert murdoch's minions as we know journalistic integrity that's very very hard. after the break why big oil means big money for the republ

modern angelical movement was still in its infancy and there just wasn't that much outrage you know jerry falwell had a few years earlier been chastising martin luther king for getting involved in politics you know there was still a sense that it wasn't for the church to involvement to involve itself in kind of worldly matters now what really you don't ramble bulmer who is a both in evansville call and a historian of until cool movement at columbia university has argued and i think correctly that what really awoke that kind of sleeping out angelical giant you know basically you had a huge evan jellicoe resurgence in this country in the one nine hundred seventy s. and in some ways it was part of the same spiritual upsurge they gave us you know lots of different facets of the counterculture of the new age movement some of those searchers became what they called ben jesus freaks or jesus people. so there was this movement that was kind of a little bit amorphous most of them were political you know most of the newly awakened until cols got very excited about the jimmy carter campaign including includ

unfortunately, the right-wingers of today oppose it including the likes of ronald reagan, jerry falwell, and those types of people who have dragged their country down continuously. it is just ridiculous. betty ford was a great lady. in today's republican party she would be unwanted and that is disgusting. the republican party has gone to the store. the republican party acts like ignorant fools. host: republican line, go ahead. caller: how are you doing? thanks to that last guy for talking about republicans. i don't remember much about her but i was 10 years old. i remember the carter days. i feel like i have gone full cycle back to those days. with the unemployment rate in the arab world exploding, i feel like we have come full circle. i'm approaching 50-years old and late 40's and there are four or five rehabs that went through my younger days for drug and alcohol addiction. i was a drug addict and a methamphetamine addict all through the 1980's and 1990's and i just about died. it is great what she did but you can lock somebody in a closet for 30 days and make them sober. the only thi