We’ve all seen the video of the nutter who pulled a sneak attack on John McCain at a town hall meeting. Well, Marty Parrish has been found out. He’s a Dem plant. Gateway Pundit and the guys at Powerline have done the research on this guy, and have found out some interesting things about him.

First of all, he ran Joe Biden’s campaign office in Des Moines Iowa. Next, we discover that he signed into the event as a Huffington Post reporter. Then the media, including the Huffington Post  — the ones who apparently got him his press credentials for the event — tried to pass him off as a Baptist minister. It turns out he’s not a Baptist minister. Gateway Pundit has the email from the church he claims to have an affiliation with.

Marty Parrish is a non-resident and inactive member of our church. We do not remove members from our church records until another church asks for them. None have asked for Marty’s records and he is still officially a member of our church. A church member who lives away from the city is called a non-resident member. One who does not attend regularly is called an inactive member. He was inactive before he moved to Iowa. Marty is not, nor has he ever been, a minister of this church or any other Southern Baptist Church.

He was licensed by this church at some distant past (he says tin 1980; those who were here at the time say earlier). Marty told me that he was licensed as a teenager just before he left on what was supposed to be a summer mission with some non-Southern Baptist mission in some state other than Arkansas. he stayed after the summer and served two churches as youth minister for a couple of years. A license is only a local church’s encouragement an individual who expresses desire we call a “calling” to become a minister. Apparently, Marty demonstrated some aptitude early during his young adult life. In Southern Baptist life, a license is not considered “ministerial credentials.” Ordination is the level of actual practicing ministers and that usually is after seminary or at least Bible college. Marty did neither. He did not serve on any other church staff after those years. By his own admission, he did not follow the Lord for many more years.

There’s much more in Gateway Pundit’s post, and the guys at Powerline have audio of Parrish getting schooled by John Gibson. As see-dubya put it:

Here’s John Gibson toying with Parrish like a cat with a dead gopher. Gibson establishes right off that the guy’s an Obama supporter and then it’s off to the races.

Oh, it’s going to be an interesting election season.

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