What happened to Dobson?

[Buddyblazon]

My Mother is an ultra-liberal psycho-analyst. She's been a counselor for 25 years.

When I was a kid, she used many of Dobson's lesson plans when dealing with families and children. And I remembered that the other day and asked her how she could possibly use that madman's suggestions.

Her response was that she hadn't used his stuff in close to 20 years. She said he wasn't always that looney. That his earlier stuff was level-headed and insightful.

But at somepoint, she said, he became this extreme wack-job.

So...does anybody know what brought about this change? Exposure to high levels of Mercury? Repressed sex life? Brutal mugging?

What in the hell happened to James Dobson?

[ck4829]

1. The $$$ started rolling in

[triguy46]

2. he was nuts from day one, IMHO. n/t

[Buddyblazon]

5. I would go with your assessment...

IF I didn't know my Mother was extremely competent at her job and knows her stuff.

She's had a private practice for well over decade now and MANY large companies refer their employees to her BECAUSE she's so good at what she does. She's been in employee assistance for 18 years.

[triguy46]

20. I'm sure that's true...

I just have a inner fount of skepticism that bubbles when around dobson clones, and there are a ton of them out there in the consulting, self help, free advice world. He has never expressed that he had any kind of Damascus road experience early in his career, that would make me believe that initially he was stealthy, then as his money base grew, came out of the casket into the daylight.

[napi21]

3. Probably $$. He saw all that $$ that the popular TV fundies

were making, and I suspect he decided "Hey, I can do that!"

[Jara sang]

4. Money, the guy is a tool

of the Christian Right

[ladjf]

6. Power, greed, money.

[Buddyblazon]

7. I don't get it though...

Because I grew up as my Mother's son...I spent lots of time around people in that profession.

And not one of them would be willing to sell out their scruples for a wad of money.

[MissMarple]

8. Your mother is right about the psychology part.

Then religious insanity took over.

[China_cat]

9. So...does anybody know what brought about this change?

Governmental permission for shit that would have gotten him shut down before.

[Buddyblazon]

11. That's a pretty bright observation...

Does anybody know if his transformation coincides with the repeal of the fairness doctrine?

[kweerwolf]

10. Dobson started "mainlining Jesus"

Once he got hooked, he became a pusher of fun-D'uh-Mental-ism to support his habit by ensnaring otherwise decent religious folk and getting them addicted to the smack of self-righteousness.

[Buddyblazon]

13. "Mainlining Jesus"

:rofl:

"James...this is an intervention. You've been spending all your waking hours with your Jesus pipe and chore boy. It's time to wake up."

[leftofthedial]

12. $$$$$$$$$$$$

same as the rest of "religion"

[Buddyblazon]

15. I wish their Jesus would show up....

throw over their marketplace tables and scream, "THIS IS A HOUSE OF WORSHIP!".

Oh wait. He already did that once. And apparently they've already forgotten.

[Hobarticus]

18. If Jesus showed up, you'd see so much money thrown out of windows

it'd make your head spin. Anything to beat the odds of that camel passing through the eye of a needle.

[salin]

14. Greed, recognizing a huge niche market and exploiting it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Yeah he was sane at one point. Who knows what happened? My guess

is he turned into a bitter old white male. Many get sucked into fundyism and black and white thinking on other subjects as well.

[Love Bug]

17. I think he got unhinged after he sat on that commission to

study pornography in the 80s. Looking at all them hooters did him in!

[mzteris]

19. he became a

TRUE BEEEELIEVER!

He started believing he was better than everyone else.

I can't find the ref now, but I read that he thinks he's attained a "sinless" status or something - that he can DO NO WRONG.

oops - found the ref:



James Dobson's War on America
by Gil Alexander-Moegerle

. . .According to the author, Dobson's Nazarene belief that he is sinless and morally perfect results in Dobson's stance that he is morally superior to others, even his employees. . .

(Former James Dobson aide and Focus on the Family co-founder Gil Alexander-Moegerle offers an insightful and detailed expose of militant moral and political activist James Dobson, the man credited with the power surge of the religious right. )