Obama Is The Anti-Christ Warm-up Act, Says Bill O’Reilly Guest

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Obama Is The Anti-Christ Warm-up Act, Says Bill O’Reilly Guest
By Amanda Marcotte
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:43 EST

Holy crap, this might be a whole new level of the right wing just giving into their anger and panic over the fact that Americans were willing to elect a black Democrat as President twice in a row. Bill O’Reilly brought this religious crank, Robert Jeffress, on the basically argue that Obama is the opening act for the Anti-Christ. I mean, he clearly wants you to believe that Obama is basically the Anti-Christ, but he knows that argument sounds crazy. So he, uh, tries to dial it down by saying, no, he’s just the warm-up act. Of course, that still means he believes that the Anti-Christ is coming and that Obama works directly for Satan, but in nutty Christian talk, saying Obama is merely a horseman of the apocalypse instead of the big boss is taken for moderation.

The argument goes like this: Obama is conditioning people to accept a level of tyranny—at this point, O’Reilly injects some comments about Nazis that make it sound like Hitler was a minor player warming people up to the greater evil that is Obama—so that when the Anti-Christ comes, we’re too dumb from our daily beatdowns to resist. These are the three things that Jeffress cites as reasons to believe that Obama opposes freedom:

* The right to an abortion
* The right to have your health insurance cover contraception
* The right to marry someone of your own gender

Yes, if you read that carefully, you’ll notice that the three things that Jeffress cites as assaults on “freedom” are themselves actual freedoms. But they are freedoms held by women and gay people. If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.

[longship]

1. Well put! R&K nt

[rurallib]

2. maybe the real anti-Christ can get us real universal health care?

all I can say is bring (him/her) on!

[shenmue]

3. I don't understand why some people feel so threatened

What an awful way to think.

[another_liberal]

4. All of these aging, Christian Fundamentalists are the same . . .

They all want the World to come to it's end at about the same time their wretched lives are over. It is inconceivable to them that "The Lord" could want human life, and life on Earth generally, to continue after they have passed away. Such an outcome would destroy their highly inflated sense of self-worth and personal next-to-godliness.

They reason: "I'm seventy-plus-years-old. I'm going to die soon anyway, so bring on the Anti-Christ, the Rapture, and the End Times!"

[tavernier]

5. How can he be the warm up act for GWB?

That doesn't make sense. That was Rove's job.

[raindaddy]

11. Good Point!

You didn't hear these fundamentalist Christians coming out of the woodwork when Cheney/Bush was spending trillions of dollars killing and torturing innocent people.

Using the media to lie us into war, sending our children to war for profit, ransacking our Treasury, that's not big intrusive government. Nothing evil about that, hell it was a crusade..

But, expanding affordable health care to more people, extending marriage to all of our citizens along with a moderate black President is a warm up act for the anti-christ?

Funny you never hear them complain about trade agreements that actually are handing more power to a global body of corporations that value profit over human welfare.

[dchill]

6. As if the Antichrist needs a warm up act!

[Enthusiast]

7. This right wing Obama Derangement Syndrome

is contrived. It is a smoke screen so we won't pay attention to what business and government are actually doing. TPTB employed the exact same strategy during the Clinton Administration.

[Madmiddle]

8. Oriely is the anti Christ.

Religious fanatics, all over the world and FAUX brings on thee worst. They have volumes of these idiots waiting in the wings. That's how they operate.

[July]

9. Huh? Is there a coherent thought in this guy's "argument"?

Obama opposes freedom because abortion, legal since he was a child, is still legal?

Obama opposes freedom because the ACA, passed by Congress, includes contraception?

Obama opposes freedom because individual states are, one by one, legalizing same-sex marriage?

Jeez, make an effort, man!

[weissmam]

10. I have never seen either of these cowards

have the guts to say that to an LBGT combat veteran , because they are both cowardly scam artists,

Incoming can't tell the difference

[beerandjesus]

12. What's incredible to me is the right's tolerance for heresy.

For such a "religious" lot, they sure are quick to embrace every two-bit heretic who reinforces their fears.

[MisterP]

13. Antichrist? no! John Saxon? definitely!

[nomorenomore08]

14. Contraception means fewer unwanted pregnancies, thus fewer abortions.

Same-sex relationships, by definition, cannot result in a pregnancy, unwanted or otherwise - unless artificial means are used, of course. Thus every child a same-sex couple has - whether biological or not - will be wanted.

[Initech]

15. Well assuming Chris Christie has a snowballs chance in hell of getting elected, he could be right!