Which makes it only slightly more fraudulent than everything else that airs on TBN.

Oh I think the primary set of assertions regarding Christianity are far more fraudulent than what we observe here, and far more damaging to humanity than what this two-bit huckster did. We just don’t criminalize that form of fraud; in spite of the abuse humans have suffered through.

“We are not defending any of our running mates’ statements now or in the future,” he noted, adding “The people of Virginia need to get comfortable with each candidate individually.”

“We”? “Our”? Going straight for the royal “we”, are we?

This is the same chap who used to believe that the French belong in Algeria but not the other way around

He’s not alone: my mother once told me that, in her youth, she had been staunchly pr-French Algeria, until one day when she assisted to a reunion of nostalgic of the colonial empire. Basically, what most people present wanted was to use France’s nuclear stockpile to genocide the algerian population and repopulate the country with settlers once the radiation level had fallen: this was what people from the french far-right were saying during the early 60s when they believed themselves in front of a friendly audience.

Suffice t say, it was enough to turn my mother from strongly pro-french Algeria to pro-algerian independance in less than three minutes. But this story is for me a personal reminder of the disgusting urges which drive the self-proclaimed “über-patriots”.

The Crouches, the owners, were accused by one of their relatives who is also their accountant, of diverting tens of millions of dollars to their own use.

There have also been sexual scandals.

democommie writes:

Warren Zevon, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler, Neill Young, Joe Walsh, John Hyatt [Hiatt] are–just off the top of my head–male vocalists who are not what anyone would call great “singers” but nobody else can do their songs like they can.

I’d add Tom Petty into that mix, who I love. And hey! I think Neil Young’s a great singer, even though I don’t usually like high-pitched singers.

While I don’t normally gravitate to lyric-centric artists (devout Stones and Led Zeppelin fan), I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan. I had a thirty-three year-old relative with an open mind challenge me to put a play-list together over Christmas. She’d only heard a Dylan song here and there and did not get why he had such devout fans (like me). So I put together about 140 minutes of his music in reverse chronological order and submitted it to her. This was the first time I recall ever being responsible for a conversion. I should point out she’s my primary resource where her challenge is keeping me relevant instead of stuck in the late-60s through the grunge era.

There’s an entire industry based on that principle. Or rather, the industry is based on the fact that the rubes believe that principle. No matter how many times someone explains independent events, people continue to believe that events are connected somehow.

I also wonder how many people have said, “Thank God? Are you kidding? I cannot think of anything more obscenely insensitive that a person could say while surrounded by scattered corpses and all this destruction” I think even a devote Christian might say that, but you sure as hell won’t see it on the news.

Paging Wolf Shitzler, paging Wolf Shitzler; hie thee unto Casa democommie–STAT!