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A HERETIC I AM

(24,572 posts)
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:47 PM Jul 2015

Yesterday I was driving through the wilds of SE MS, lost the NPR station, and found Janet Parshall

Last edited Sun Jul 19, 2015, 06:05 PM - Edit history (1)

If you don't know who that is, just imagine an annoying Xtian fundy who knows how you should live better than you do.
With a radio show.

Janet;

Hateful person


Anyway....
She had another fundy of similar ilk on, a Mr. Robert Jeffress of Faux News fame.

Mr. Jeffress;

Weasel looking dirtbag

Mr. Jeffress was carrying on about the recent Supreme Court Rulings (of course) and said that (paraphrasing)

"This world is out of control"

Really? Out of control, is it?

No, you horses ass, it is just falling out of YOUR control and those like you.

This was of course, followed by claims that we are in "the last days" yadda, yadda blah, blah, blah ad nauseum. All because a specific group of people that he had been heretofore allowed to discriminate against with impunity can finally do something he has been allowed to do forever.

It was at that point I started shouting at the radio and decided that silence was better for my blood pressure!

The world is out of control. What a complete load of fucking bullshit.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, in spite of the move toward marriage equality, things are going to get worse before they get a whole lot better. People like Mr. Jeffress do not like it ONE LITTLE BIT that their influence is on the wane and they will fight back, tooth and nail, hammer and tong, until it becomes clear that the rest of humanity (or at least a sizable number of rational people) just do not care to be subject to their strict view of how we all should live. All the while they will scream that they are being persecuted because they don't get to tell you how completely fucking awful you are.

Just remember, if you live your life like you see fit or advocate for others to be able to do the same, and that advocacy is at odds with the Mr. Jeffress's of the world, then the world is therefore "out of control"

Good. May it ever be so.

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Yesterday I was driving through the wilds of SE MS, lost the NPR station, and found Janet Parshall (Original Post) A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 OP
The deep south is like another planet, isn't it? Warpy Jul 2015 #1
You acknowledge it, but it bears repeating: bvf Jul 2015 #2
Yeah, I was in rural Ohio a couple years ago. progressoid Jul 2015 #6
Well, yes it is, but to be fair, Ms. Parshall is all over the country. A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 #4
Yeah, poor old Camping, at least he had the good grace to be surprised Warpy Jul 2015 #5
I used to listen to Camping a fair amount, particularly out west. A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 #8
You begin to see just why they elect assholes who sell them out when you listen to fundy radio down AlbertCat Jul 2015 #15
Her show is everywhere- digonswine Jul 2015 #3
I stopped using a radio years ago. Warren Stupidity Jul 2015 #7
LOL...Well.... A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 #9
Some of us have other ways of listening nt Lordquinton Jul 2015 #12
Hear, hear! Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #10
Yes you are, dearie. A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 #11
I'm beginning to believe that folks like these are more useful to our cause than to their own. LiberalAndProud Jul 2015 #13
rest of humanity (or at least a sizable number of rational people) just do not care to be subject to AlbertCat Jul 2015 #14

Warpy

(113,116 posts)
1. The deep south is like another planet, isn't it?
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:55 PM
Jul 2015

You begin to see just why they elect assholes who sell them out when you listen to fundy radio down there. When that's all you hear, you tend to believe it.

Whole sections of the country are getting to be just like it, too. No alternative messages are getting through, at all.

It's why scuttling the Fairness Doctrine (and Reagan vetoed it 3 times after Congress passed it again) has done so much damage. It allowed propagandists funded by billionaires to control everything a lot of people in this country hear.

Preachers are the worst of the bad lot.

 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
2. You acknowledge it, but it bears repeating:
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 04:16 PM
Jul 2015

It's not just the south.

A few years ago, I commuted regularly between Cleveland, OH and points south within the state. The "dead zones" in which the only programming available was AM talk radio were really scary.

Reagan's dead. Fuck him anyway.

progressoid

(50,697 posts)
6. Yeah, I was in rural Ohio a couple years ago.
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 05:43 PM
Jul 2015

Not exactly a bastion of critical thinking.

I can say the same for a lot of my home state (Iowa). And South Dakota and Nebraska and Missouri and Kansas and...

AM radio, and now the internet, keeps these people mired in their stupidity.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,572 posts)
4. Well, yes it is, but to be fair, Ms. Parshall is all over the country.
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 04:33 PM
Jul 2015

As mentioned in the other posts, radio shows like hers and evangelical personalities like hers are not strictly a southern thing.

Don't forget that Harold Camping, famous for saying the 2nd coming was going to take place May 21st, 2011 (he has since shrugged off this mortal coil) broadcast from the Bay Area.

Warpy

(113,116 posts)
5. Yeah, poor old Camping, at least he had the good grace to be surprised
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 05:11 PM
Jul 2015

when it didn't happen for him, either. Most of them just tell their sheep that they misheard and go on as if nothing was supposed to happen. For that reason alone, Camping is in a class all by himself.

I mentioned it in my post, also. Large swaths of the central part of the country are nothing but bible, right wing talk, and a few C&W stations run remotely.

What has happened to media in much of this country is horrific. There is no other word to describe it.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,572 posts)
8. I used to listen to Camping a fair amount, particularly out west.
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 06:13 PM
Jul 2015

Back when I was doing a lot more cross country driving than I am now, I would listen to old
"Brother Camping" late at night. No matter where you are, if you get to the point where hardly any radio stations are coming in, the ones that are seem to be exclusively Christian programming.

Once a young female caller, who was concerned that today's music might lead her astray, was told by Old Weird Harold that she should "neeeeeveeeer" (drawn out as he used to do) listen to any music at all that didn't glorify god.

She had to listen to specific works of Bach, Mozart and the like that were commissioned by the church if she wanted to be free from temptation!


That got me doing one of these inside my cab,


as much rolling as could be done, anyway!

He was amusing, if nothing else.

Mr. Jeffress on the other hand, is just a whiny dickbird who can't stand the fact that he doesn't always get his way anymore.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
15. You begin to see just why they elect assholes who sell them out when you listen to fundy radio down
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 08:48 PM
Jul 2015

The same thing happens when you listen to fundie radio in the West, Midwest, and North East (where fundie radio got started)

digonswine

(1,485 posts)
3. Her show is everywhere-
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 04:16 PM
Jul 2015

During the school year, I listen to some of her show on the drive home-I like to know my enemies.

There is a recurring theme about how gay marriage, etc. infringes upon THEIR rights-it never registers what flaming hypocrites they are being.

To her credit--her show is halfway listenable and she has on some smart guests-even if rarely. She even has her hubby do twice-monthly "debates" with Barry Lynn--who does a great job of forcefully defending separating church from state.

She does have that common and grating christian arrogance that allows her to laugh off opposition with a chuckle. It must be sooo great to know you are right all of the time!

A HERETIC I AM

(24,572 posts)
9. LOL...Well....
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 06:17 PM
Jul 2015

it's good SOMEONE divine handled the job!

Honestly, I was perfectly happy listening to "Click and Clack" and "This American Life", it's just that I drove to far from Mobile! All of the sudden, the strongest signal on the NPR end of the dial was good ol' Janet!

I have other ways of accessing media while on the road, but fumbling with the devices while on a two-lane in heavy traffic isn't a good idea!

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
10. Hear, hear!
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 06:24 PM
Jul 2015

"...they are being persecuted because they don't get to tell you how completely fucking awful you are."

Yes, I am awful. And I am still a better person than these people.

LiberalAndProud

(12,799 posts)
13. I'm beginning to believe that folks like these are more useful to our cause than to their own.
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 08:18 PM
Jul 2015

As the voice of the believers becomes more obviously outlandish and counter-intuitive, more come the the obvious conclusion that it's all entirely bullshit.

Not everyone, I suppose. There will always be those who are willing and able to settle in Jonestown.

Still, some days I dare to hope that the human race will survive long enough to witness the last days of fossilized, ancient superstitions.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
14. rest of humanity (or at least a sizable number of rational people) just do not care to be subject to
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 08:46 PM
Jul 2015
..... their strict view of how we all should live.


Y'mean like those loud rabid radical atheists who write books and do TV shows (that are only on region 2 and 4 DVDs)
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