Indeed, The religious types are just being pulled along for the ride; misused in just exactly the same fashion that the GOP neocons are misusing natural resources of the planet. (Long term consequences? Who cares! As long as I get my hookers and blow today!)
They are either too deluded to see this, too hypocritical to think it worthy of action, or too ignorant of their own faith to see through the ruse.
SQ:
Never underestimate the danger of an idea. There's a reason why despotic regimes have historically controlled what ideas are presented to the public, and why Stalin has his particular famous quotation on the matter. She's just a small time mouthpiece, sure-- but she follows the same rules that a more powerful despot uses; selective representation as a form of misrepresentation, disguised as objective reporting. That is censorship on her part, because she is giving bias toward her preferred idea base, at the expense of all other points of view. If you listen to her and ascribe her as being a valid reviewer, your opinions about media offerings will be skewed by her biased censorship.
It's not on the same scale as "Official government media" type censorship, but uses the same playbook. (A lightning bolt and a zap to the finger from a van-de-graff generator are "the same thing"- static electricity-- even though there is a world of difference between a lightning bolt and a static finger zap.)