I don't KNOW Glen Beck, but I often don't agree with him. Also, our local Mormon Radio guy, Bob Lonsberry. Today, I was checking out what it takes to write a book possible aimed at an LDS audience. I came across this post and it just made me roll my eyes and want to shower. I can see how Glenn is Bob's hero ... it just nauseates me that both these men get to spout their opinions, not just as Christians, but as token Mormons and there are plenty of times the things they say are the antithesis of Christianity. This morning, for example, Bob begging people not to vote for Obama because he had the audacity to say the Constitution was flawed. Has Bob not read the bit about slaves not being full people? Maybe, from that point of view, one could see how Obama might take issue with the sacred perfection that is the Constitution.
I think I'll go vote today. I'll vote my conscience, my hope, my gathered knowledge. And a little out of spite.
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Wow, "Absolute truth" is a pretty tall order.
The conservative talk radio in Burley always drives me nuts when I'm home. I don't know why I bother listening to it, other than from sheer astonishment. They rant on and on about illegal immigration. Once the host actually made the comparison between "Mexicans" and "Al-Qaeda," saying that they are culturally similar groups, both bent on destroying America.
What amazes me is how statements like that, spoken from an insular world of fear, ignorance, and hatred, are often seen as patriotic and pious.
Holy crap!
Lonsberry is nuts. I've known that for years, actually, from the few times I've accidentally heard his show (or had it inflicted on me). But wow. Ima need two showers.
Whether or not I agree with him, Beck can be intermittently entertaining. But Lonsberry's a cloying, grating phony: he broadcasts from Rochester, New York but talks like a local; his website claims he's won a bunch of Associated Press Awards, but his name turns up in AP searches only once: when he was suspended from his New York station in 2003 for comparing Rochester's black mayor to a monkey.
(Exhale and purge...)
I'm doing National Novel Writing Month as well. It's my second time, and I had a lot of fun last year.
I heard about the write a novel in November thing from your blog (sorry, I should add a link to be polite).
Don't call people, not your own children monkeys, is a rule I try to live by.
He's NOT local? Wow, really fraudulent. NEW YORK??
Getta rope.
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