So, the Chrisleys, the "squeaky clean" CHRISTIAN couple who, for years, hosted a TV show and

[Atticus]

held themselves up as paragons of virtue and "proof" that God rewards the hardworking faithful---are starting their prison sentences. He will serve 12 years; she will serve 7. It seems their "success" involved frauds that yielded them over 30 million dollars and funded their $300,000 a year clothes spending.

But, hey---at least they weren't gay and didn't do doobies, amiright?

[we can do it]

1. Hated that show🤮

[packman]

5. Ditto -pure sleaze

Pretentious, shallow family all glitter, smiles and privilege. Then again look at the kardashians parlaying that phony life style into a "reality" show. Reality my ass.

Looking into my crystal ball, I predict:

In the near future - THE TODD AND JULIE EVANGELIST HOUR - Send your prayer seed money for a bag of Holy Sand from the Hills of Jerusalem.
Hell, if it worked for Jim Bakker, why not them?

[Firestorm49]

33. What goes around comes around. Too bad that it isn't being applied on a larger scale!

[LisaM]

50. But the Kardashians don't grift.

I don't watch their shows, but I have no real beef with them. They aren't asking their viewers for money. They clearly aren't racist. I don't bother with them, but I can't figure out why they bug people so much.

[ShazzieB]

54. Ask Ryan Seacrest, LOL.

I'd like to know, too!

According to Wikipedia, Ryan Seacrest came up with the idea for the series and his company produced it, so, at least in theory, he should be able to answer that question.

[Ray Bruns]

53. I could never figure out why they had a TV show nor could anyone ever explain it to me.

[LisaM]

56. It just doesn't do any harm that I can see.

I watched exactly one episode and it was meh, but I didn't come away with any hatred for them.

[LakeArenal]

62. Watch the old filthy rich cattle drive.

First appearance of CourtneyKardashian.
Along with Rod Stewart’s little spoiled brat
Pat Benatars spoiled little brat
Tommy Hilfigers spoiled little brat.

What a spoiled little entitled brat she is, too.

[Rebl2]

24. Must not

have been on in my area. I don’t remember it or maybe on a channel I don’t watch.

[niyad]

2. Never heard of them, but may they receive everything they deserve.

[malaise]

3. Same here

and love that line
may they receive everything they deserve.

[liberaltrucker]

79. Like this?

[malaise]

80. Perfect

[Sky Jewels]

4. Todd actually might be gay.

The hypocrisy and lies would be the problem, not the gayness itself, of course.

https://pagesix.com/2022/05/27/todd-chrisleys-ex-business-partner-alleges-they-had-gay-affair/

I could never watch that stupid show. Those people were without any discernible positive qualities.

[leftieNanner]

32. Maybe some of that $300,000 clothes budget

Went into "special outfits" for him.

Sequins ain't cheap, y'know.

[obamanut2012]

40. Why do you think gay men have "special outfits" and wear sequins?

Answer: why do you think that, and why do you think it's funny?

[leftieNanner]

41. The reference is to the recent Republican freak out

Over drag shows.

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

No disrespect intended.

[Farmer-Rick]

34. Oh him.....

I watched once or twice years ago and he came across as a very flamboyant gay man who was an anti-LBGT+ Christian. Even my spouse thought it was a comedy routine.

He made jokes that implied he was gay, scoffed at others who called him gay and insulted other people for not being straight. He would ask his wife and sons if the bright pink and purple shirts he was wearing were too "gay" looking.

It was a Saturday Night Live skit in the making. He was a walking contradiction. I thought people watched him to see him act out this..... routine.....I can't believe people thought he was being authentic.

I was surprised his wife went along with it because he would get the younger boys involved in the gay bashing too. If the boys didn't respond in the right way, he would punish them right there and then, not physically, just threatening to take away toys and things. That's when I realized he was serious and stopped watching.

So he's been acting out all these years? Wow, the guy has some serious self loathing issues and now is a criminal. I feel sorry for those kids.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. Hell, afaiac, they are ALL frauds...it's just that we don't have laws to cover all their crimes.

[paleotn]

10. The First Amendment, for all it's virtue,...

has traditionally made law enforcement loath to go after religious groups for crimes anyone else would have been busted for years ago. Like Warren Jeffs and the whole fundy Mormon deal was some new thing, when in reality they'd been raping and abusing young girls for decades.

[rubbersole]

17. afaiac - as far as I am concerned.

Had to look it up. Thought it might be supplemental insurance...

[Ferrets are Cool]

23. LOL

It's an oldie, but goodie.

[c-rational]

38. +1 ditto

[paleotn]

7. Never heard of them.

But then again, I'd rather poke out both eyes with a dull deer antler than watch "squeaky clean" religious types taking religion to its logical conclusion; i.e. a theme park for fraudsters and cons of all types. So it's no wonder I've never seen nor heard of them.

[TNNurse]

8. Have only seen brief clips on news stories,

but he does an impressive impression of gay.

[Botany]

9. I never watched it for more than 30 seconds but the man struck me as very gay and ...

.... their "Christian Faith" seemed really phony.



$300,000 a year clothes spending.

[paleotn]

11. One need only ask L. Ron Hubbard about religion.

[dalton99a]

30. +1. Scam artists

[stage left]

36. Three Hundred Thousand

and this is the best they could do?

[hatrack]

42. Seriously, that's what they got for their money?

[DFW]

64. The guy looks like a Liberace clone.

At least Liberace never pretended to do anything other than put on a show.

[jmowreader]

68. Whoever did her breast implants needs remedial training

Breasts don’t normally come up nearly that high.

So let me see…badly done breast implants, twelve syringes of Botox a month, heavy makeup, handcrafted fake smile, expensive clothes that don’t look good…yeah, couldn’t be anything but a Jesus peddler.

[terry10855]

12. "Reality TV"

It's crap like all reality TV, including Real Housewives and The Bachelor and the people that watch are idiots.

[Diamond_Dog]

15. So true.

[llmart]

48. +1

There's usually nothing "real" about reality TV.

see also: Trump's fake reality show

[deurbano]

58. I personally think those particular shows are stupid (I think football is stupid, too), but not

that people who watch any of those shows (or games) are idiots.

[AllaN01Bear]

67. realitiy aint and they do have writers . etc. that is what one of the last

sag strikes was about . according to my sis who was in the biz.

[gopiscrap]

73. welcome to DU

[Joinfortmill]

13. Youreright

[SouthernDem4ever]

14. If only they had run as republican congressman

they might have avoided jail.

[Rebl2]

25. There ya go

[yaesu]

16. One reason I quit watching TV years ago, the garbage is worse than network so called news.

[zentrum]

18. No wonder the Christian Right

.....is so drawn to Trump. These two have the exact same vibes as he does.

[malaise]

22. Let us Prey!

That is all

[vlyons]

19. It never ceases to amaze me how many "Christians" are just hypocrites masquerading as Christians

I never watch any of those church shows. Hey I'm a Buddhist, so much of the established church dogma is just implausible poppycock to me. Which has nothing to do with the practice of peace, loving kindness, and helping the disadvantaged and poor. All that Christian god rewards true believers with prosperity crap is just another grift.

[Ligyron]

57. It's because most of the believing Christians are gullible sheep.

They'll fall for most anything if it can be tied to a bible verse somewhere.

I can't help but imagine how much better off we'd be as a country now if they could have just somehow, someway left any mention of religion out of the Constitution.

[ForgedCrank]

66. I thought

we weren't supposed to be like this.
I'm a Christian.
Do you think that about me?

[Just A Box Of Rain]

75. Anti-religious bigotry unfortunately reigns supreme here on DU.

I'm a lifelong secularist, but I'm still ashamed to read this crap.

Sorry. It is extremely disappointing.

[ForgedCrank]

76. Thank you

for saying that.
Most of the time, I just sit here and shake my head in disbelief over the continual onslaught of hateful comments toward Christians, but once in a while I just can't help but say something. I would never say something like that about someone elses beliefs, or use such broad brushes to label entire groups of people based on how some misguided ones behave. It really is difficult to believe that is allowed here.

[Ligyron]

81. It depends...

I mean, what do you believe and why do you believe it?

If you believe an all powerful, all knowing entity who can do absolutely anything sent his son (who is also him somehow) on a suicide mission to be tortured to death and that only this somehow permits him to forgive our sins, yeah... you might want to examine that belief a little more closely.

Who or what could possibly compel him to do such an awful thing?

He makes the rules doesn't he? So, since he can do anything, why not just forgive us and skip all the bloodshed? You and I no doubt forgive sins every day, and we sure don't have to go through anything like that horror show before we allow ourselves to do so.

The general idea seems to be that he loves us but we need this forgiveness so we can go to this heaven place to be with him forever. Which frankly doesn't sound like much fun to me, but okay, if he truly loves us so much, why couldn't we just be born in heaven and skip this vale of tears?

You know, when all is said and done, the practice many Christians have of wearing the representation of a torturous execution devise around their necks says a lot I think.

[ForgedCrank]

82. I was

raised as a Christian and that is my faith. To you, it shouldn't matter what I believe or how I live, and I'm not here to convince you of anything or to debate it.
It would just be nice to not be exposed to a constant stream of insults regarding my faith on a political board.

[Kaleva]

61. It's easy to spot false prophets. Look at how they live

I have more respect for the street preachers then I do for the televangelists.

[DBoon]

63. The Middle Ages had a point about monastic life

[LymphocyteLover]

20. Never heard of them or this story but I'm not shocked in the least

[kairos12]

21. Vile, disgusting individuals.

[librechik]

26. yet n/t

[mn9driver]

27. The prosperity gospel isn't actually Christianity.

The New Testament is filled with warnings about chasing money and possessions. According to the actual holy book these charlatans pretend to follow, the love of money is idolatry.

They are a very successful, blasphemous cult.

[Atticus]

28. As Mahatma Ghandi said:

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

[Emile]

29. More and more people are giving up on religion

thanks to Christian con artists.

[Wounded Bear]

31. Oh no! A reality TV show is all bullshit? Who knew?

Never watched a single episode. Saw some trailers and my immediate reaction was: Nope, not worth my time.

Not surprised it's bullshit. Not at all.

[ShazzieB]

55. Same here, on the Chrisley trailers.

I saw lots of those and always found them extremely off-putting, because the sheer phoniness was so blatant and over the top. My built-in b.s. detector was like, "No. Just NO."

I have been known to watch certain reality shows, but the ones that are based around showing spoiled rich people acting like spoiled rich people (whether they are Chrisleys or Kardashians or so-called "real housewives" of fill in the blank) have no appeal to me. They obviously appeal to a lot of people or there wouldn't be so many of them; I'm just not one of those people.

[jaxexpat]

35. There should be a special place in heck for such hypocrites.

An extra year at hard labor for every individual they sucked into their swill-pool would be a start toward parity.

[ananda]

37. Hypocrisy that makes you go hmmm...

isn't that precious.

[Upthevibe]

39. Atticus.........

Even seeing commercials for them made me want to

He's extremely effeminate. Having said that, he may be totally straight.

The fact they were supposedly showcasing how to live an upstanding life is, once again, the epitome of hypocrisy. Where do they find these scumbags of society?

[Botany]

44. "Where do they find these scumbags of society?"

[TheBlackAdder]

47. If someone ever asks me to point out a gay House member, Gym Jordan gets my vote every time.

.

Besides Santos, that is.

.

[Botany]

49. Funny I was just talking to my gay friend this AM .... we let our dogs play w/each other

And he said that he has no doubt that Jordan is gay.

[nevergiveup]

43. After prison they can team up with

George Santos for another scam business operation or better yet they can just run for congress.

[rpannier]

70. Jim Bakker has had a second life grifting for god

[lees1975]

45. Their kind of "Christian Faith" is an invent-your-own kind of faith.

One of convenience, not conviction.

Phonies.

[Hassler]

46. I hasn't heard of these creeps until now. Guess I didn't miss much

[republianmushroom]

51. they just followed that republican family value program.

Look at how much trump has fleeced his base and still doing so.
24 months and counting

[live love laugh]

52. GASP! Why do these folks go on teevee to bring attention to their crimes?

I know who they voted for.

[Martin68]

59. Prosperity Gospel: tailored to fleece suckers.

[twodogsbarking]

60. Creepy and Creepier.

[DFW]

65. I have never heard of them, but after reading their story, I have one hope for them

And that hope is that when they get out of prison, that they do so as paupers, able to enjoy not one cent further of their gains from their phony piety. Have a court sell ALL of their assets, and give their money to food banks around the nation that really do the work of the Jesus they falsely claimed to worship. Hell, do that with ALL of these so-called "prosperity evangelists." Republicans want to eliminate the separation of church and state? Fine, then how's THAT for a way to put that philosophy to good use!

[rpannier]

69. Aren't Trans either

So, they're good people

[TreasonousBastard]

71. Wasn't the TV shoe part of the penance for some earlier..

misdoings? Seems like a large part if their message is just keep doing it.

The prosperity gospel is one jet short of a crash.

[The Grand Illuminist]

72. But then you got questions like...

Where is his cell?

Will he join gen pop?

Will he get safe work away from others?

The answer will more than likely be yes because the well to do are the most protected in the prison system.

[orleans]

74. never heard of this show. i googled

omg--started reading a daily mail lengthy piece from 2014.

yuck!

[PCIntern]

77. It's funny. I've never heard of them so

I googled them and then googled their images. In virtually every shot, she’s turned sideways so that you can see her breasts and her butt. . Her face is front and center fully to the camera but she’s positioned so that you can see her “curves”. And I know, I am not being obsessive or ridiculous here, I’ve looked at enough publicity pictures of couples in my lifetime to know how they are posed.

[Samrob]

78. And at least they weren't "woke." nt

[erpowers]

83. Always Thought He Was Gay

I always thought Chrisley was gay.