paper 2

I'm analyzing the way the republicans and conservative religious leaders frame the policies of the right with religion to get swing votes and pump up their base so they go out and vote. Although I am looking at a speech given by President Bush to a group of southern Baptists most of my paper focuses on press releases given out by the Family Research Council about Justice Sunday-Stopping the Filibuster against People of Faith and Justice Sunday II-God Save the United States and this Honorable court. These were events on Sunday evenings that were broadcast on television and over the radio. They used religion to talk about politics and the fight against liberals. I was expecting them to have a small audience and feature speakers who were radical conservatives with no real power in politics but Justice Sunday II featured six current Congressmen and was watched in 79 million households. This is not a huge part of the American population but it is still a significant number of people.