Fish, Barrel, Smoking Gun.
Yeah, yeah, I know that Mythbusters already proved the myth about shooting fish in a barrel, but when the Rocky Mountain News passes along a fish like this, its time to lock and load.
Dobson: Obama distorting Bible, Constitution
COLORADO SPRINGS — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.
The criticism, to be aired Tuesday on Dobson's Focus on the Family radio program, comes shortly after an Obama aide suggested a meeting at the organization's headquarters here, said Tom Minnery, senior vice president for government and public policy at Focus on the Family.
"Fruitcake interpretation"? Ha ha ha!! Hooo ho hoo!!! James Dobson, the simple-minded, two-bit, flim-flam man of Colorado Springs' Fuck the Family is complaining about someone using their interpretation of the Bible to push an agenda with which he doesn't agree.
I actually had to read the article twice to confirm that what I was reading was real. Yes, it's true, James Dobson is lecturing someone about abusing scripture to push an agenda.
Kettles and coal the world over are rejoicing at their newfound contemporaneous status.
And of course, there's this:
A McCain campaign staffer offered Dobson a meeting with McCain recently in Denver, Minnery said. Dobson declined because he prefers that candidates visit the Focus on the Family campus to learn more about the organization, Minnery said.
What the fuck? Does Dobson think he's the fucking Pope?
But the real money quote shows up a few paragraphs down in the article:
"I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology," Dobson said.
"... He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."
That shockwave you just felt was irony and hypocrisy colliding and then imploding. In other news, there is a rip in the space/time continuum, a black hole is developing between Jupiter and Saturn, hell is freezing over as we speak, and my cat just shacked up with a dog down the street.
Labels: faith, Focus on the Family, humor, religious conservatives, religious extremism, religious nuts, separation of church and state
posted by Becca at 19:49
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7 Comments:
Hmmm. Y'know, I *thought* there was something a little odd about your cats ... it was Elliot, wasn't it?
What a great name, The "Pope of Colorado Springs"
Ya heard it here first.
@ Alpha: Yes, it was Elliot. Little bastard. ;-)
@ Poppymann: Spread the word! Preach it brother! :-)
Brilliant post. Thanks for putting it ito perspective.
you misattributed the quote "... He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter" by making it appear to have come from Dobson, describing Obama. In the article you're referencing, the quote is attributed to Joshua DuBois, director of religious affairs for Obama's campaign, describing Dobson.
@ CrazyWorld: You're probably correct. That was how I originally read it. But a closer examination of the passage (the ellipsis preceding the comment indicates a continuation of the prior quote, and a period at the end before invoking DuBois' name) seems to indicate that it actually came from Dobson. Also, the "gutter" comment doesn't seem consistent with the other quoted response from Obama's camp.
The updated story doesn't have the quote, so I can't tell for sure.
Actually, now that I look more closely at it, I'm pretty sure you're right. I had scratched my head a bit when I originally read it because the tone of the comment seemed completely out of character for the Obama camp (but perfectly fitting for the kind of judgemental hostility that is Fuckus on the Family's stock-in-trade,) but I think the fact that it leads that paragraph was why I didn't look at it more closely and pick up on the period and other evidence to the contrary. That quote definitely does not belong in that paragraph.
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