Disney's preacher
by Joe Palmer
[ opinion - november 07 ]
Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States unless the opposition party, the Republicans, get cracking and energize their base, Former House Leader Tom Delay says.
In January 2008, the popularity polls for potential public servants in the US will begin with "primary" elections in random states where party members choose among candidates, causing a snowball effect for some individuals, but melting others' chances.
The primaries are literally the Biggest Show on Earth, with brazillions spent on broadcasting and exaggerating the virtues of the candidates. [It is said that Mr Bush was told four Brazilian troops were killed. He asked, "How many's a brazillion?] The money to pay for this ballyhoo comes from both coin purses and deep pockets. If telemarketing and public begging make you sick, American election hype would gag a maggot.
What does it augur and portend when a powerful, hidebound religious leader endorses a libertine candidate's cheques? Who are Pat Robertson the Preacher and Rudy Giuliani the Mayor? Here's the scoop on the ayatollah of Revivalists, Pat Robertson, hugging the former mayor of New York City and investment banker, Rudolph Giuliani, who is running [if we stand for an office in the US, we get knocked down] for President.
We can understand the motives of the spokesman for the Religious Right, Pat Robertson, televangelist extraordinaire, throwing his prestige and moral weight behind Rudy Giuliani for him to become the Republican candidate in hopes of beating the Democrats by a knockout next year. Last time out it was a split decision. The judges were corrupt, but they were our judges. Democrats are bad. Republicans are good. Giuliani is a Republican. Therefore, you must vote for Giuliani. The level of discourse rises almost that high.
Guliani is both trusted and popular because as mayor he held New York City together after the attacks of 9/11, but Giuliani supports the abortion laws and wants gun control. He is a twice-divorced Italian-American who used to live with homosexual friends, with gays in Gotham, Sin City, in the Big Apple! However, from Robertson's point of view Giuliani is the best of a bad lot. The other "front runners" are John McCain, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee. The Reverend Dr Robertson evidently thinks none of them has a chance.
Robertson is the President of the PTL [Praise the Lord] Club, a televangelist. He is host of The 700 Club, the founder of many organizations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment, and Regent University, all of which are owned or influenced by the Walt Disney Company, a corporation reporting an increase in earnings from its studio, media, parks, and toys from $3.4 billion in 2006 to $4.7 billion in 2007.
The Religious Right, whatever it is, got Bush II elected twice, they say, and Pat Robertson, the great TV personality and Holy Man, believes it, but it is not simply true. It was not religion alone that got Bush I and II elected; it was race (and the preservation of great private fortunes, the primary factor, incidentally).
One political party, the Democrats, the Donkeys not the Elephants, pretends and tries to embrace the poor and all races, but most Americans could not care less about treating the poor or colored as equals, except under the law, and as Mr Bumble says, "If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass, a idiot!"
Americans of European ancestry have a history of dealing harshly with rabblement (the proletariat) and with 'colored', non-white, people who do not bow down before them. Look at the Amerindians, assimilated or killed, pushed into the deserts and forests, into Mexico and Canada; the African slaves, used, liberated, miscegenated, killed, incarcerated, sequestered; the Orientals, accommodated or shunned (Harry Truman would not have dropped the bomb on Europeans); and the poor Whites, fed bread and circuses, Twinkies and TV.
We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, "We've had enough," we are going to take over, said Pat Robertson in a speech given to the April, 1980 'Washington for Jesus' rally, quoted from Robert Boston's The Most Dangerous Man in America, p29.
Is Robertson putting his preaching agenda on hold while he rescues the Republicans? What about his bloviations directed at transgressions of the moral law, his "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" messages? What about man's fatal flaws and abortion, atheism, evolution, Michael Moore, communism, Cuba, liberalism, infanticide, euthanasia, Equal Rights for Women, the American Civil Liberties Union, homosexuality, gay marriage, child pornography, and so on?
I would warn Orlando [Florida] that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate - this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor. - Pat Robertson, on 'Gay Days' at Disneyworld
By coming out for Rudy, Robertson is not hanging out at the Bus Station looking for boys or playing footsies in the public john; he is shouting "My kingdom for a Christian!" Elmer Gantry, Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart also got their Satanic atonement, their redemption through sin, but not by endorsing sinners like Giuliani.
It reminds me of the old story: will you have sex with me for $20? "No, I'm no whore!" Will you have sex with me for $2,000? "Sure."
Robertson is a media guru, a television preacher and a real do-gooder whose creations are owned by the Walt Disney Company, a corporation that owns the ABC network through which it insinuates its ethos. There is never a realistic ending in the insipid, lying Disney movies. In critical fact, all the Disney movies are comedies. There are no tragedies. The good guys always win. Every day is a Sunday picnic. Bambi, Snow White, Cinderella, Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Yen Sid the Socerer's Apprentice [Disney backwards], and Chemabog the demon of Bald Mountain insinuate a fantastic dualism into the minds of children, especially into the minds of those of us who never grow up [I was frightened nearly to death at age five by Fantasia]. We do not live in a world where no one is cruel for long, where sinners always repent, where bad guys get their proper punishment, where hearts are always true, virtue is always rewarded, and children must be shielded from the truth.
By their words shall ye know them, saith the prophet. Well, look at some words said earnestly by Pat Robertson:
Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up. - Pat Robertson, on nuking the State Department
And: The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
And: Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians.
'Nuff Sed, Snuffy Smith used to say in the funny papers.
