OMG CNN is doing a segment on this Jones character.

[dkf]

They are looking into his previous congregation and life. This is ridiculous.

[JuniperLea]

1. It's about damn time!

Are they into the German church? Are they talking about how the ME has been all over this story all summer long? Are they talking about the Muslim protests all over all summer long?

Man... it sure is taking a long time for sewerdrainstream media to catch up with this story!

[dkf]

3. Yeah they had a German couple talking about how they gave all their possessions for him to sell.

They are going to turn him into a cult figure. Augh.

But nothing on how long he has been in the spotlight of the ME.

[mediaman007]

11. I hope that they get to the part where Jonesy graduated from

high school with Rush Limbaugh! Must have been some lunch hour! I bet neither of them sat at the Jock table!

[Abq_Sarah]

2. Why in the hell

Are they giving this kook ANY freaking airtime?

[RKP5637]

4. It's all about MSM profit. Purely the profit motive, make money at any cost. n/t

[customerserviceguy]

5. It's the Paris Hilton effect

Once you get some attention, you're famous just for being famous...

[dkf]

6. It's a narcissist's wet dream.

I really do think this guy has a personality disorder.

[customerserviceguy]

19. Most fundie preachers do

You have to have a delusional view in order to sell that much snake oil.

[glinda]

7. If they expose him as a nut and crook then good!

[dkf]

9. It did do that. Full on creepy cult leader type stuff.

[pnwmom]

8. If they do, it'll show he's a paranoid schizophrenic.

Maybe we can send him off to one of those Russian psych hospitals?

;)

[spanone]

10. he's set to do 'dancing with the stars'. he's da bomb.

[DrDan]

12. uh . . . change the channel?

[dkf]

14. I admit it was so grotesque I couldn't stop rubbernecking.

[Tyler Everett]

13. CNN Is awesome

I remember back when CNN covered the abduction of a nice young white girl, great aerial footage of the search dogs tracking her down. A few hours of coverage later the breaking news was that it was a hoax. CNN knows how to prioritize national stories.

[Wickerman]

16. I recall something similar about a boy in a balloon

or some such thing, too.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Bluenorthwest]

15. The fact that he's been thrown out of Germany as a huckster

should have been covered on day one. His previous congregation ejected him, I read. So how is it bad that they are finally covering what this fraudulent criminal really is. The stooges are the people who keep calling him 'pastor' and all of that. Criminal. Black mailer. Bad, bad citizen of this nation and of the world.
I say report that all the live long day. Then do one on Donnie McClurkin. Let them all face the light of day, not be given a pass for claiming to be some holy man. This is a nation that loves to fall prey to every Tartuffe that can wave a Bible.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. I agree, Bluenorthwest

Show the Muslim world that WE recognize he's crazy and out of the mainstream. From all that we had seen so far on the news, it looked like he was just another fundy Baptist preacher or something.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. The light of day, I say!

And CNN is just the place for it. This guy is a national shame/laughing stock, not representative of this country, the State of Florida, nor his faith. We should be doing an entire anti Jones telethon, raising money for the flood victims in Pakistan.