Please forgive the short diary, but I just came from watching the Daily Show's mid-show segment with Jason Jones, who interviewed two ministers who held some, should we say, peculiar positions about our 44th President.
The result from the Daily Show's cutting room floor was spectacular.
Cross-posted at Talking Points Memo
The first interviewee, Rev. Daniel W. Blair from Texas, speculated that Obama shares qualities with the anti-Christ because:
- People "worship" him.
- People agree with his message.
- He "came from the sea" (code for Hawaii, apparently)
- He is swift like a leopard, has the feet of a bear, and has the mouth of a lion.
I did a little digging into Blair, and found the same stupidity on his own blog. I will not do him any service by linking to it, but I will point out that part of Blair's "evidence" that Obama is the anti-Christ is because the stimulus bill includes "a mental health provision that will ultimately give companies power over their employees by requiring that they get psychological counseling and drugs to improve their productivity." I actually couldn't find anything in the bill that lets any company "require" any employee to get "psychological counseling and drugs," but oh well. Let's forget about it and move on.
The second pastor, Harlem Rev. James David Manning, said that anybody who would call Obama the anti-Christ was a fool. However, he did say that Obama was Hitler's "twin" who will do to Americans much worse than what Hitler did to the Jews. Why, you ask? Because, according to this guy:
- America is in dire economic straits, just like Germany was in the 1930's.
- Obama is an effective speaker.
- Obama is a bisexual. When pressed for comment, Manning said he had "no empirical proof" of this.
....Wait, I should explain that last one (as though the rest of it is worth explaining). Manning said that Obama is a bisexual because he's "like a bicycle, rolling on both ends, of the sexual spectrum." That's right, he claims Obama is a "bisexual" because he's "like a bicycle." Amazing, no? "Bisexual" sounds like "bicycle," ergo they are the same thing, and Obama happens to be both! That's like one of those convoluted ways that the 1960's TV Batman would figure out how a crime was being committed and who was behind it just by stringing together words that sound alike.
"Money was stolen from a bank....piggy bank....pigs live on farms....Old McDonald had a farm....McDonalds has a new Happy Meal....Happy meal makes kids smile....my GOD Robin! The Joker is going to rob a kindergarten!"
Jason Jones had time to ask Manning if he thought before he spoke, to which Manning replied, "I think very carefully and long before I speak." "I don't think you thought long enough," Jones said in return.
The Daily Show then spoofed these outrageous claims about Obama in the style of The Usual Suspects, where Jones eventually puts it all together by seeing a series of news clips on his bulletin board (with little audio clips of the words "Kaiser Soze" sprinkled in for good measure).