ABC Nightline: Jesus is Alive in Siberia AND "Do the Clintons Really Hate Obama?"

[K Gardner]

I don't usually watch Nightline, but as I've given up COMPLETELY on cable news, I turned it on last night. There was a rather strange story about a Messiah in Siberia whose followers live off the land at the foot of a remote mountain in Siberia. One of the Nightline reporters actually took a crew there and was allowed to film.

Deep in the heart of Siberia's birch forests lies one of the largest and most remote religious communes of the planet. More than 5,000 people have left their families and their homes to move here and join the Church of the Last Testament, which has more than 10,000 followers worldwide. The church centers on one man. He is known simply as Vissarion, meaning "he who gives new life," or simply as the teacher, and he claims that he is Jesus Christ.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/FaithMatters/story?id=5225539&page=1

This was followed by a Jake Tapper excoriation of the Clinton's recent appearances, citing how many times they mentioned Obama's name (once each)and an attempt to paint the two camps as "divided".

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2008/story?id=5224329&page=1

Hard Feelings Divide Clinton, Obama Camps

People close to Clinton are frustrated that the Obama campaign has yet to propose a way to help her retire her campaing debt, while some close to Obama think the Clintons are being sore losers who won't go out of their way to praise Obama.

A case in point was Bill Clinton's appearance Sunday at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. During his address, the former president mentioned Obama only once, and that was to praise Obama for supporting one of programs begun during Clinton's administration. "I was delighted to read that Senator Obama said he would reinstitute the COPS program," Clinton told the conference.

And when Hillary Clinton made her first public appearance this weekend since her concession speech, she never even mentioned Obama's name.The closest the New York senator came to citing Obama during her speech at a Bronx high school's graduation was to say, "No one five years ago, or four years ago, could have conceived that an African-American and a woman would be competng for the president of the United States."

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At this point, I'm thinking I might save a bit of money and just have the cable disconnected at my house. Maybe I could afford a tank of gas.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. This sounds really Mickey Mouse

Image: TurnOffYourTV.com

[damntexdem]

6. No, no -- Mickey Mouse is alive but hanging out in Argentina.

But he may move due to Argentina's economic problems.

[L0oniX]

2. Why do people watch the Mickey Mouse channel?

[AndyTiedye]

3. The Mighty Stupidity Machine is Just Getting Warmed Up

By October, you'll need a barf bag to watch TV.

[K Gardner]

4. LOL.. I already do.

[damntexdem]

5. Yes, but is Elvis there with Jesus?

[ihavenobias]

7. Nightline is terrible. Recently I ranted about a horrible Obama smear segment they ran...

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2kT2-SAvSA

Pretty terrible, right? A hot-piece poorly disguised as humor. Shockingly, Media Matters didn't cover it. But Cenk of TYT did talk about it, so that's something.

But it doesn't sound like Nightline took our emails seriously.

[zanne]

8. Have you noticed that wherever Jesus is spotted...

It's never here?