Oh that liberal elite media and its terrible sense of humor! Everyone needs to get their heads checked, because Stephen Baldwin was simply making a hilarious joke when he said he would leave the country if Barack Obama became president. According to our least favorite Baldwin brother, "The liberal Democrats who didn't get that I was joking need to lighten up." Here's a thought, Steve-O: Perhaps everyone knew you were joking but, deep down, secretly hoped that you were serious and would pack your bags after Nov. 4.
Prince, with his frilly silk shirts and high heel everything, has long been the victim of speculation about his sexuality, and his libido-infused party jams have helped acquire the Minnesota-born musician a devoted gay fan base. So you can imagine our surprise upon learning that the Purple One, who has for several years been an outspoken Jehovah's Witness, went on a homophobic rant during a recent interview with the New Yorker, saying that, in the past, God came down and wiped out homosexual activity.
Unfortunately, you had to know this was coming.
Angered by the news that black voters were a major factor in the success of Prop 8, California's gay marriage ban, some segments of yesterday's anti-Prop 8 protests in LA soon devolved into hateful pits of racism:
Geoffrey, a student at UCLA and regular Rod 2.0 reader, joined the massive protest outside the Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Westwood. Geoffrey was called the n-word at least twice.
It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT, I will call you a nigger. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple…me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.
Oh, it gets better:
Sarah Palin is now asking for divine intervention come Election Day. Fair enough. A hope and a prayer is all the GOP has going for it right now, seeing as how they are out of money, time, and voter confidence.
Asked by crazy evangelical James Dobson if the Alaskan lady is worried about the polls, Palin replied in her typical, scary, Crusades-era rhetoric:
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Well I'll be! Turns out that not all McCain-Palin rallies are heady hives of sticky-faced clown people calling Barack Obama a terrorist ACORN nigra.
Click through to see video of some Republicans at a Virginia rally – a few of them Muslim – swarming and haranguing two jackasses who are defaming Obama by saying he's an Islamic Communist. Surprisingly, the guy with the sticker on his head is one of the rational folk.
Yesterday saw a letter from a concerned reader at The Advocate, who was worried that Ellen DeGeneres hadn't sent any money to an organization combating Proposition 8, the bill that would ban gay marriages in California. Did Ellen, who recently married wife Portia De Rossi in one of these marriages, actually secretly want her partnership to be nullified. No, that is a stupid thing to think.
And now Ellen has released a video showing her anti-support of Proposition 8, which means the check is in the mail, or something:
Oh yes. It's a bit grainy, but that's definitely vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin being anointed in 2005 by Thomas Muthee, the scary Kenyan witch hunter we told you about previously whose main claim to fame is running eccentric old ladies out of his town like a damn Miller villain.
Munger, who writes the Progressive Alaska blog, told me Palin is not just a creationist, but a "young Earth" creationist who believes that man and dinosaurs once shared the planet, and that the world will end in her lifetime.
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Munger claims she tried to stock the local school board with creationists several years ago, which caused him to quiz her on her beliefs."She doesn't believe in science, and her father was a science teacher," Munger said. "She told me she felt she would see Jesus in her lifetime."
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At right is Pastor Thomas Muthee, an insane religious zealot from Kenya who claims to hunt witches. Cute, right? But Muthee isn't just any madman, he's one of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's favorites, as she believes he used his magical powers to help her become governor of Alaska. Seriously!
James Dobson totally has a crush on potential vice-president Sarah Palin.
Dobson, the right-wing leader who once swore he wouldn't vote for "centrist" John McCain, has been absolutely gushing over Palin's place on the Republican ticket.
In fact, Dobson says he hasn't been this excited since the days of Ronald Reagan.
Ah, CBS. We were expecting for Big Brother to not air preacher's son Ollie's homophobic rants that were captured on the live feeds — but during last night's episode, the show completely fabricated the entire scene.
Pastor Rick Warren was the guy who moderated the debates where McCain's cone of silence fell off. Now the popular evangelical with odd taste in facial hair is getting his own magazine with the Reader's Digest people. Maybe!
Everyone is keeping pretty mum about the possible project, which will center around the ideas he promotes in his book, A Purpose Driven Life, which you needn't read or even scan on Amazon to figure out its premise.
But with the magazine industry enjoying a massage from a cheese grater, will religious articles from the guy who thinks churches will solve AIDS be the injection that the flailing biz needs? Actually, yes:
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Know what's been missing from all the postmortems about the mainstream media not covering the John Edwards scandal? Some input from religious types! Other than Bill O'Reilly! Generally, the devout frown on the cheating-on-your-wife thing, and especially the cheating-on-your-ill-wife thing. And the Catholics, who spend much of their time warning followers about spending eternity in hell, are quick to point out sins. Including those made by the media at large. Hope you've got your holy water in a bottle with a squirt spout top! CONTINUED »
When Barack Obama visited the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem as part of his overseas tour, he followed custom and tucked a note into one of the stone's cracks while the media looked on. The contents of Obama's note were quickly published, complete with photograph. It quickly led to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, who oversees the wall, apologizing to Obama, which was followed by a sorrowful plea for fogiveness from the Yeshiva student who was the one who removed Obama’s note. And why is the kid apologizing? Perhaps because he was caught red handed. Roll tape! CONTINUED »
The latest ruckus caused by Sherri Shepherd has nothing to do with the shape of the earth — this time, the View co-host is admitting that she’s “had more abortions than [she] would like to count.” Scandalous! Except that didn’t bother us as much as this quote from Shepherd:
National Day of Encouragement doesn’t go down until September 12, but it’s never too early to start thinking about the 2nd annual event.
What, you ask, is the National Day of Encouragement? Good question!
The great (and by “great” we mean “annoying”) thing about Heidi Montag is that she’s a mystery: Does she really believe the stuff that comes out of her mouth or is it all a big joke? And if it’s a joke, why does she insist on being the punch line?
Lately, Horse Face has gone off on a Christianity tangent, claiming she reads the Bible every day and is a “kind of non-denominational Baptist.” Whatever that means. Also? She plans to insult God through the power of her terrible music by recording a Christian album.
Ben Stein's Expelled isn't the only ridiculous movie attached to an even more ridiculous publicity campaign.
Bill Maher, the HBO host who still allows Arianna Huffington on the show, teamed with Borat director Larry Charles for Religulous, named after, of course, the combination of "religion" and "ridiculous." The documentary, dubbed "the nonfiction film about the greatest fiction ever told," focuses on various religious sects, "including Jews for Jesus, Muslims, polygamists, Satanists, Hasidic Scholars and even Rael of the Raelian Movement."
And though you'll have to wait until October to catch the film in theatres, if the religious right lets it even get that far, Maher & Co. have already set up a website to push their agenda. It's Disbeliefnet.com, a simple and clever take on the surprisingly valuable Beliefnet.com, which is now owned by News Corp., that you can troll for the next few months learning about exciting groups like the Neturei Karta, "an anti-Zionist sect of Orthodox Judaism that denounces the Israeli government as heretics for its efforts to obtain and secure a sovereign state before the return of the Messiah." CONTINUED »
Because the Rev. Jeremiah Wright should not be the only impression of pastors this country gets pounded with on a daily basis, Dr. Phil McGraw and son Jay, through their Stage 29 Productions, is building a talk show around pastor T.D. Jakes, who, like Dr. Phil did with Oprah, already appears on his show regularly. [B&C] Slated for a fall 2009 launch, The Potter's House megachurch leader will probably end up giving the same advice Dr. Phil dishes out, but with God, not psychiatry, on his side.
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