Taking the "Whole Bird"

"Obama wants to encourage this move, which would be good for him and good for progressive politics. Fear that Obama's analysis is exactly right is why so many conservatives are so angry with Warren for blessing the new president's inaugural."

E.J. Dionne, Jr., in The New Republic tells leftist critics of Barack Obama to relax over the Rick Warren invitation.

And in a January 2009 Los Angeles Times article, Gustavo Arellano places Warren into the history of religion in Orange County, California.