700 club Blew. My. Mind.

[d_r]

So last night I tivoed the kids some classic disney cartoons that were playing on ABC Family Channel - I love, love the one where Donald Duck is snow ball fighting his nephews. Anyway, he tivo recorded the first several minutes of he "700 Club." Wow. I wactched three minutes of it and it blew my mind completey.

OK, I thought I knew that it was a television evangilist show, I thought I knew that it would be preachy. I didn't know though that it was a political show disguising itself as a news show. Holy Cow.

So they started off with this man and woman at what looked like a "news desk." Good news. The republicans in congress have prevented the democrats from imposing a tax cut. the republicans have preserved the Bush-era tax cuts. Thanks to the republians, your paycheck won't have more taxes taken out of it next week. Despite the democrats trying to raise taxes and take away the Bush tax cuts, the republicans fought to lower taxes for ALL Americans (and then the cut away to out of context clips of democratic legislators saying things like "...this goes against all the ideals of the democratic party..."). Then they came back, and said that the compromise that had to be negotiated with the democrats was still not a great compromise, because it didn't give enough to working Americans. But it was the best compromise that the republicans could acheive. Then a cut to President Obama taken out of context saying something like "...we had to compromise with the rublicans..."

It was amazing. It was balls out amazing.

Then it started talking about don't ask don't tell. That the democrats were pushing to repeal it, despite the grave warnings from the DOD poll that found that 12% of spouses would encorage their spouse to quit the military if DOTD was repealed. A clip of some guy "a 12% reduction in our forces would have serious consequences to our readiness." And the a picture of the "conservative enemies" in the republican party - and especially the hated Olympia Snow - who might vote to repeal DODT. And then a clip of another guy "these so-called republicans will have blood on their hands just like the democrats, because this measure will cause our soldiers to be killed."

That was all I could handle of it. But holy cow, I couldn't beleve it could be so slanted, so propagandized. It was so obvious, so transparant. They weren't even embarrassed by it. It was beyond patisan, it was down right propaganda. I was flat out amazed.

[Warpy]

1. The good news is that the government finally caught on some years ago

and those bastards are being TAXED as a political organization. Yes, it's a fraud and a scam, but frauds and scams are apparently quite legal in politics.

This is what is keeping so many people deluded and in chains. The good news is that as the Reagan/Bush disaster continues to wreck things, people will start to wake up. Disaster in their own lives is the only thing that will wake them up.

In the meantime, the government they hate so much is collecting taxes from them.

[Orrex]

2. My favorite part is when Pat Robertson squints in constipated prayer

The spirit really moves him, that's for sure.

[blogslut]

5. It's double hard for him to do that squinting

...since the facelift.

[Angry Dragon]

6. You mean the guy that had his daddy the senator

get him out of serving in the front lines in Korea and made him
a liquor officer so he could have sex with prostitutes before he got religion??

[toddaa]

8. He's squeezing off a silent one

Notice how he always leans just slightly to the right when he does that?

Hate to be sitting next to him.

[morningglory]

13. My fave: Rev. Constipation praying that the Lord would

smite and "take out" a supreme ct. justice. "Lord, you know which one." It was when Sh*thead was still pretzeldent, and the Rev. wanted him to get to appoint a justice to stop all this legislating from the bench that was apparently going on. Who knew?

[TheKentuckian]

24. I totally randomly caught that one and as a Christian that was probably the most disgusting I ever

saw on the television machine.

I recall it as wishing death and/or at least severe illness on all the "godless ones" (or somesuch).

110% False Prophet and worse.

[Monk06]

23. Nothing spells piety like taking a big assed dump !!! Ifn you close your eyes your prayers get

there before anyone else's, Shazam !!!!

[progressoid]

28. Crapping for Jesus.

[TheKentuckian]

3. Faux is 700 Club-lite

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Well-put

[Johonny]

4. My fav 700 show clip ever

they were in India showing people bathing in the Ganges and they blurt out. "Indians support many primitive religions and beliefs such as the thought that ritualistic bathing can cleanse a person."

I'm like dude do you guys even try to read the bible.

[personman]

29. Primitive beliefs like bathing can cleanse you? :)

Bible aside, I'm fairly certain these primitive beliefs can be validated by anyone with a functional nose.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

32. Although certain parts of the Ganges might put that in doubt.

[dkofos]

7. Makes faux seem like real news.

[geckosfeet]

9. For people with no mind or thought process, there is the 700 club,

[beam me up scottie]

10. Welcome to my world.

When I first moved to the buy-bull belt I used to wonder where people got their information.

x(

[jwirr]

11. I worked as a maid for a woman who watched it. I was waiting for her to

finish eating and standing in view of the tv. For one solid hour the so called Christian preacher preached without say the name of Jesus even once. It was all political. They should not be tax exempt.

[louis-t]

12. Brainwashing, pure and simple.

Spell-check is your friend. :P

[d_r]

14. what really floored me

wasn't just that they were blatantly slanted, and not embarrassed enough to try to hide it, it was the obviously wrong parts. It was like, instead of trying to make some convulated argument that "rich people need a tax cut, too, so the money will trickle down" or even "it isn't fair to tax rich people more, they worked for that money and deserve it" (as wrong as those arguments are) they just skipped right passed it and said "republicans have gotten you a tax cut, and the democrats wanted to raise taxes, but the republicans fought for a tax cut for all Americans."

It was crazy.

[sarcasmo]

17. Are they tax exempt?

[Initech]

16. I'm really surprised that Christian Broadcast Network hasn't been labeled as a hate group yet.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. Fundie RWingnuts lie. It is part of their upbringing...perhaps even their genetics.

Facts are irrelevant to them.

[H2O Man]

19. Is it tomorrow?

Or just the end of time?

[Enthusiast]

20. They aren't REAL Christians

in the sense of loving thy neighbor. They are pretend Christians like Fox News is pretend News.

[beam me up scottie]

31. They are as real as any other christian.

The Crusades, the Inquisition, the genocide of countless small tribes around the world, all done in the name of Christ by christians.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. If you get to say that, I get to say Stalin wasn't a real atheist. Deal?

[Enthusiast]

38. LOL! nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

21. I haven't seen any of that show since the 1990's while Clinton was POTUS

It was, if you will forgive the pun, god-awful! :puke:

[RegieRocker]

22. DO NOT WATCH THIS SHOW

it is satanic and demons will jump out of the TV and posses you.

[TheKentuckian]

25. Probably closer to the truth than you or science could ever believe

[MilesColtrane]

26. It is truly an alternate universe.

The scary thing is, I really think they believe the shit they are spewing.

[mudplanet]

27. My favorite is the "Van Impes". If there is a devil they are so obviously

"of him" it's hysterical.

[lumberjack_jeff]

30. You can say any shit you want, so long as your audience thinks it's God talking. n/t

[divvy]

33. ENOUGH ..... TAX THE FUCKERS

I am sick and tired of conservative political-action organizations being supported by the rest of us. They are a blight.

Save America .... TAX THE FUCKERS

[wiggs]

34. It is not isolated propaganda. People who listen to 700 club hear the same thing

on other religious programming, on literally 90% of talk radio, on Fox, on conservative websites, and in several magazines/newspapers. It is a coordinated, deliberate marketing plan for lies. And it works because they hear it over and over.

[tex-wyo-dem]

36. Yep, one of the oldest tricks in the book...

Repeat the lie over and over again and the lie is perceived as fact to certain susceptible people. Hearing the same lie from a number of different sources makes the tactic all the more effective.

[bedazzled]

39. most of these folks just remember the last thing they hear anyway

have to "catapult the propaganda"

[Kablooie]

35. It's God's truth just like the bible. You can't dispute it.