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Wednesday, September 03, 2003
 

 

DON’T KNOCK THE ROCK! 

Roy Moore Draws Support of Rock-Worshipping Cults

By World O'Crap Special Correspondent Scott C.

 

The recent debate over Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore’s monument to the Ten Commandments has exposed and to some degree exacerbated the tensions that exist between mainstream and fundamentalist Christianity. At the same time, however, the 5,300 pound cause celebre has also served to unite several previously hostile religious movements.

"Initially, church elders declined to take a position on this controversy," said Ronald Zietlow, Chief Mameluke of the Igneous Brotherhood. "We mistakenly believed that Chief Justice Moore and his followers worshipped an omniscient, omnipresent, but non-corporeal diety, and that the granite monument was merely symbolic. Naturally, that sort of abstract cosmotheism doesn’t interest us, since we worship the sturdy and tangible Three Stones of Fintoozler. But once we heard the protesters screaming, "Get your hands off our god, god-haters!" (Protesters React Angrily to Monument Removal ) we realized that the granite carving was in fact their diety. Naturally, we felt obliged to offer our support in the spirit of stone-worshipping ecumenism. Plus, we admired their forethought in placing a copyright notice on their god. Many’s the time I wish that the High Prophet had taken a moment to visit the Trademark Office, since we’re losing quite a bit of potential merchandising revenue at the Three Stones. Particularly sales of T-shirt and those foam drink sleeves."

This sentiment was echoed by Timothy DeLongpre, a deacon at Our Lady of Feldspar in Sterling, Virginia. "As a minority faith which reveres consecrated sandstone, we are firm believers in defending the right to practice one’s religion, free of interference by Federal bureaucrats. We are also staunch supporters of anything which strengthens the ecumenical bonds of friendship and respect among the world’s leading rock-worshipping cults, because, frankly, some of them practice human sacrifice and they scare the crap out of me." DeLongpre added that many in his congregation have admired the way Chief Justice Moore championed his faith by hiring workmen to sneak his god onto public property in the middle of the night, and the way he boldly secured a copyright on his own Maker. "In our own parish, the poor often go hungry because our product line has been diluted by the unlicensed theme mugs of third party heretics."

Father Rodolfo, pastor of the First Church of Mexican Wrestlers Who Worship Rock Men From the Moon has closely followed the contretemps in Alabama, and believes that whether Moore’s effort succeeds or fails, he will long be honored as a peacemaker.

 

 

"Ours is a very inclusive church," said the priest as he took a break from calling Bingo on a recent Wednesday night. "And we are saddened by all this factionalism: Shale versus gypsum, sedimentary versus metamorphic. These doctrinal squabbles threaten to overwhelm our faith and blind us to the one thing we should never loose sight of: that despite our different beliefs and customs, we are all children of a big rock."

 

 

Rawiri Gaia, priestess of Rapa Nui agrees. "I believe that Moore’s crusade can already be counted a success, for it has helped to heal the theological divisions within my own faith." She gestured eloquently toward a towering head carved from the native rock.

"For countless generations we have venerated these enormous graven images of Richard Kiel. Or possibly Ted Cassidy. That’s another doctrinal sore point. But the fact is, in recent years we’ve seen a graying of our congregations. We needed to modernize our services, do something to appeal to the younger set, so we began outfitting our monoliths with gigantic Devo hats from the ‘Whip It!’ video.

"Some of our more traditional members threatened a schism, but fortunately Judge Moore’s timely stand on behalf of boulder fetishists everywhere reminded us that when it comes to eternal salvation, it doesn’t really matter what accessories your god is wearing. Only that he was carved with loving care, and inscribed with a copyright notice."

Not all devotees of stone deities welcome the attention brought by Ten Commandments imbroglio. Dave Bradley of Appleton, Wisconsin, who worships marble ("I like a smooth god," he says) claims that all the publicity has brought "kooks and whackos" flooding to his faith.

 "None Dare Call It Necrophilia"

Still, whether Moore’s Take Your God to Work Day program is successful may prove less important in the end than the comfort and inspiration it has provided to hundreds of pagan Alabamians. "It’s like the Stonewall Riot," said protester Cyrus Fletcher of Mobile. "Except with a big rock. And fewer drag queens."

 


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Fair and Balanced O'Reilly Update

If you want to read the O'Reillyite spin on last night's spot which declared the NY Times anathema because it hurt Bill's feelings, now you can, thanks to NewsMax.Com ("America's News Page: Implying That All Other News Pages are for Commies since 1999"). 

O'Reilly Tears Into the New York Times

(Okay, I have to admit that when I first read this headline, I thought it said "O'Reilly in Tears Due to New York Times," but I do need new glasses.)  Here's the first paragraph, which attempts to make Bill's "big bully who beats up anybody who disses him" stance seem like a good thing, but since we know that Bill doesn't actually beat up his taunters, but rather calls in the Fox lawyers to do it, we are not exactly wowed by Bill's machismo.

Leftists never learn not to tangle with Fox News star Bill O'Reilly. When his Irish temper is aroused he can be tough, something the New York Times got a taste of last night.  The Times, which cozies up with the likes of O'Reilly foe Al Franken, recently exposed as having lied to Attorney General John Ashcroft, carried a column by Judith Maslin that says the alleged satirist "makes a bull's-eye out of Mr. O'Reilly" for having told whoppers.

Anyway, if I were the NY Times, I'd sure be shakin' in my boots.  Oh, wait, if I were the NY Times I'd "use any and all methods to hurt and diminish those who stand in [my] way," so I'd just have the boys take Mr. O'Reilly for a ride. 

Oh, and since Franken DID lie to Attorney General John Ashcroft (he sent him a prank letter asking for a story of when John just said no to sex, for an obviously fake abstinence book), this constitutes treason under the Patriot Act.  So, maybe John will help Bill beat him up.  Or maybe the DOJ lawyers will just help the Fox lawyers do the job.  Unless the SMERSH of the publishing world, the NY Times, has both of them fitted with cement shoes.

 


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This Just In: Rambo O'Reilly Takes On Lethal NY Times


In today's "O'Reilly Factor," Bill used his "famous Talking Points Memo" to declare war on the vicious and deadly New York Times.  Bill claimed the influential paper has a "far-left Democratic and secular agenda," and uses terrorist tactics to attack anyone who dares to speak out against them.

Like Bill O'Reilly, for example.  Yes, just yesterday, in a piece by Janet Maslin, the paper libeled Bill, in a smear-job meant to punish him for daring to challenge their liberal, ungodly plans for America.  The Times untruthfully said that O'Reilly said he won a Peabody Award, when Bill has two transcripts which prove that he said his SHOW won a Peabody, and anyway it was an honest mistake, sorta, and it wasn't nice to bring this up now.  And the rag also accused Bill of lying about where he came from.  But the house exists -- it was shown on the A&E Biography episode about Bill.  So, the Times must have just made all this up in an attempt to treacherously make Bill look like a LIAR.

Bill said that the Times is so powerful that no one dares oppose it, except for Fox News, which is why the paper is always picking on Bill and his station.  He added that while it's a fact that nobody watching his show cares a whit for what the NY Times may say about anything, it's a sad truth that many decent, hardworking, low-brow papers may reprint Times articles, so you might get infected with secularism and Communism and O'Reilly mockery, and not even realize it!

Bill concluded by reiterating (with a PowerPoint slide capturing the key points, to make it clear to even the slower O'Reillyites), that the New York Times pushes a far-left, secular agenda on America.  Then came the ominous warning that the massive and unprincipled NYT organization "will use any and all methods to attack those who oppose them."

To presumably include threats, blackmail, knee-capping, leg-breaking, holding family members hostage, and sending opponents to sleep with the fishes.  So, one has to admire Bill's courage in taking on this formidable and ruthless foe.

To help in his principled and valiant stand, let's look at the smear/article the paper printed about him yesterday: Franken Retorts, You Decide.  It turns out to be a review of that horrible Al Franken's new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.  Here are the paragraphs which evoked Bill's fury:

Note to Bill O'Reilly, the de facto publicist for "Lies" thanks to Fox News's hapless efforts to block its publication: Never say "Never said it" or "You can't find a transcript where I said it" when a man with 14 researchers is on your trail. In a book that baits its targets with varying degrees of success, Mr. Franken makes a bull's-eye out of Mr. O'Reilly. First the prize: he shows how Mr. O'Reilly's erroneous claim that he won a Peabody Award evolved into even bigger fibs once it was challenged.

Then the porn: a mortifyingly stilted erotic passage from Mr. O'Reilly's novel "Those Who Trespass" is sent up repeatedly here. Then the political affiliation: a 1994 voter registration form is dug up, courtesy of National Public Radio, and reprinted to contradict Mr. O'Reilly's 1996 claim that he was not enrolled in a political party. (The form counts him as a Republican.) And finally the provenance: accounts of a childhood in Levittown, N.Y., are contradicted in The Washington Post by "an inside source (O'Reilly's mother)." 

So, while the NY Times did not make up these stories about Bill, but rather included them as part of a review of the book which orginated them, it's obvious that the paper covered the book as part of their campaign of terror against Bill.  And since the truth of the matter is that Bill said "We won a Peabody," not "I won a Peabody," (even though NOBODY at "Hard Copy" won a Peabody, and Bill wasn't even there when the tabloid TV program won the Polk), he wasn't really lying when he denied ever saying he won a Peabody.  Thus, we must conclude that the Times has their pants on fire, and that Bill is a shining beacon of truth in a world of equivocators, fibbers, and untruth tellers, such as that fiendish Bill Clinton, with his claims that oral sex isn't intercourse.

Now, let's consider the other Times lie, the one about them writing that Franken's book says that Bill didn't grow up where he claims he did.  Well, Franken does say this, but that's not the point.  The point is, the secular, lefist rag is trying to defame that American icon, Bill O'Reilly.  So, let's investigate this a bit more. 

Bill's Official Fox News bio says, "He lived in a modest house with his father, mother and sister in the Westbury section of Levittown."  And it's an undeniable fact that Bill DID live in a house, since that house was on A&E's Biography (well, I didn't actually check that out myself, but Bill said it, so I belive it).  And while it is also an undeniable fact that Westbury is not a section of Levittown (but is instead a town a few miles away from Levittown), Bill's house was apparently built in the STYLE of Levittown, so Bill probably just got confused about where he lived.  And while it's also true that a The Washington Post story from December 2000 really did quote Bill's mother as saying that that Bill grew up in Westbury, a "middle-class suburb," the Post, an ally of the godless Times, probably tortured Bill's mother until she said this.  However, while Bill never responded to the implication behind the fake provenance charge -- that he claims a blue-collar, man-of-the-people, up from slavery background that he isn't entitled to -- he also didn't refute the charge of writing porn, which must prove something.  In any case, Bill did live in a house.

And so it is clear that this NY Times book review does constitute libel, since the paper published these untrue statements about Bill, knew they were untrue, and they did this with malice and evil aforethought.  I'm sure the valiant Fox lawyers will help Bill pursue this in the courts.

Sadly, the two clergymen there for the next segment, "Are the Secularists Taking Over?" either couldn't or wouldn't agree to help Bill in his battle with the insidious NY Times organization, and Bill was left, like Gary Cooper in High Noon, to face these villains all alone.  (Although, as he pointed out, he's not going to be a "Christian martyr," since he does host "the most powerful program in prime-time," and so will at least be able to take out a few of the Times' paperboys when it comes time for the showdown.)  But still, it's no fun having a jihad that nobody else will join.

So, as we huddle tonight with our families, quivering in terror of the sinister, terroristic NY Times and the vast power it holds to squash us like bugs with claims that we never lived in a house, let's say a prayer for that unstoppable truth-teller, Bill O'Reilly, knowing that he is risking his life for us, to ensure our freedom from secularism, liberalism, and reviews of books that make fun of Bill O'Reilly.
 


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