Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

Do I hear someone in Heaven jiggling the handle on the toilet tank?

Ah, the repetition of history.....

Ever hear of the Rev. Carl McIntire:
"In his (1930-1950)radio broadcasts the Rev. McIntire rallied against racial integration, Jews, Catholics, Communists, sex education, evolution, liberals, and water fluoridation. He attacked religious groups such as the World Council of Churches and denounced the popular radio and TV evangelist Oral Roberts as "a fraud and a fake."(well he wasn't completely wrong was he.)"

Made $4 million a month....Flush

How about Father Charles Coughlin? Know him?:
"Coughlin broadcast "The Hour of Power," with a nationwide listenership of 40 million in the 1930's, raising huge amounts of money on the radio.... while at the beginning of the Depression Coughlin sounded like a Populist in the tradition of Huey Long, he became more and more extreme. Jewish bankers caused the Depression, he said. Hitler and Mussolini, while stern authoritarians, should be supported he said, because that's what it takes to get rid of Communists....He told listeners ‘Must the entire world go to war for 600,000 Jews in Germany who are neither American, nor French, nor English citizens, but citizens of Germany’. "

In 1940 the New Deal FCC finally took him off of the air.

Made millions of dollars per month during the depression.......Flush

Then there was that guy down in, was it happy valley, that claimed to raise the dead. So many people shipped him their deceased loved ones via the U.S. Mail that the Postal Service shut him down.

We seem to be repeating the late 1020's and 1930's in so many ways.

Ain't nothin new under the sun after all.

Next time I go by Dobson's HQ in the Springs, I think I'll take Fatman and Junior The Bear along with me and we can all blog about the place before its evaporation into the coffers of the bankers who hold its loans.
 

It cracks me UP that Dobson is actin' all offended at being "compatred to" Al Sharpton (he was not). But they ARE two peas in a pod:

They're both extremist blowhards and, for all their surface claims to the Cross, they really don't talk about Mr. Jesus Christ all that much.

And they're both latter-day Huey P. Longs! Long built roads and bridges. Sharpton's service to the black community seems to have been alrgely in giving them a voice, and a vehicle for anger over social disenfranchisement. Dobson has built a reputation as a family psychlogist (cough).

Each built foundations from which to spew. Only Long, of the three, actually did any real good for anybody.
 

Not even Jerry Falwell deserved that...
 

I agree. But it's an example of an actual "attack."
 

Every time I hear one of these people shriek about an "attack", I think of actual attacks on Christians in, say, Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan, or Bangladesh, and I wonder how they sleep at night. Then, I remember that they have enough money to have silk sheets and good air-conditioning so they probably sleep well. . .

The attack on Falwell was declared legal satire by the Supreme Court and the end result was that Falwell and Larry Flynt actually became good friends, with Falwell calling himself Flynt's "pastor" the last few years of his, Falwell's, life. That is a wonderful example of Christian love (one of the few in Falwell's indistinguished career).
 

I only read Penthouse for the articles...
I always wondered about that Flynt/Falwell relationship. Perhaps they were birds of a feather?
 

Oops, I meant Hustler...
...so much porn, so little time.
 

Since I know how fond you are of Dobson, ER, and given your profession, I thought you'd enjoy this story about the wackos at Dobson's American Family Association:

http://tinyurl.com/6o3lsg
 

Oh, that is a hoot. Reminds me of when USA Today was brand new. See, the standing style, then, for morning papers was to use the day of the week, but afternoon papers used "today" in stories to refer to the day of publication. So, copy editors at a some morning papers knee-jerkedly changed the name of USA Today to USA Wednesday, or USA Thursday, or whatever -- because that was the style. :-)

However, to be fair: Donald Wildmon heads the American Family Association, not Dobson; and, Wildmon still makes Dobson look mainstream in comparison; yet, I expect Dobson's growing hysterics to match Wildmon's before long.
 

"Donald Wildmon heads the American Family Association, not Dobson"

Ah right. It's hard to keep the crazy's straight without a score card.