Did you go to church (or synagogue? or mosque? or forest circle?) this past weekend, Truthseekers?  Even if you didn’t want to go, it was hard to avoid the good ol’ fashioned tent revival right there on the Washington Mall that replayed over and over and over, hurled without end (amen) on the cable news channels.

And here we thought Glenn ‘Tears of a Clown” Beck was just the latest shiny new model in a line of manufactured NeoCon media stars that periodically infest our airwaves with dramatic, emotional quasi-religious rants about the evils of such radical “liberal”  and hideously destructive concepts as universal health coverage, infrastructure repair, public education, equal rights for gays, and fair labor practices. Who knew that underneath that blond buzz-cut and anointment of Vicks Vap-O-Rub lurked the mind of a Man of God? Move over Limbaugh.  Make way, O’Reilly.  Hannity may be The Baby Jesus, but there’s a new Holy Warrior in the Army of  Murdoch! And to add panache to hubris, Glenn claims all innocence about the uber-coincidence of his rally and the date of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s renown “I Have a Dream” speech at the exact same location exactly 47 years ago.

Glenn said there was no offense intended with the selection of the date and place, it was all-good, because God told him when and where to have the rally.  Kinda like when God told Dim Son to invade Iraq.  Or when God directed Hitler to take over the world.  When NeoCons claim God has spoken to them directly, be afraid.  People generally start turning up dead all over the place.

Just an aside – when loopy Uncle Louie makes a wild-eyed confession that Oprah Winfrey sent him on a mission to loosen all the plastic caps from toothpaste tubes at Walmart, how is this different than the messages this madman receives and maniacally relates to his masses with random nonsensical scribblings on a whiteboard? In both instances, is not psychosis afoot? But I digress . . . .

“For too long, this country has wandered in darkness. … We have had moments of brilliance and moments of darkness. But this country has spent far too long worried about scars and thinking about the scars and concentrating on the scars. . . . America today begins to turn back to God . . . .” , Beck, fighting tears (naturally), proclaimed in grand Hestonian fashion during his “Restoring Honor” Teabagger rally/MLK desecration event on Saturday.  Amen, brother! Pull us out of the darkness, Reverend Glenn! Baptize us in bathtubs of Lipton to sanctify our scars, anoint us with Vicks and save us from the demon (not fully-white, Muslim) Obama!

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