Posted 8:55 AM by Gene

A publication which is 18-percent owned by THE LORD GOD tackles whose side Jesus should be on. We can be sure we know -- but just so our readers don't take it too personally, JonBoy has one of those annoying all-purpose last grafs that fool no one:

In the East Room of the White House on the National Day of Prayer in 2005—an event organized by Dobson's wife, Shirley—President Bush told an old story about Abraham Lincoln. A minister once remarked to Lincoln that he hoped God was on the president's side. No, Lincoln replied, that wasn't quite right: it was Lincoln's job to make sure he was on the Lord's side, for "the Lord was always on the side of the right." In the wars of our own time, we can hope, too, that we will end up on that side, whether we come from the right, the left or somewhere in between.

First off, who needs "God" when we have GOD -- or more to the point, ourselves? Second, because news hacks are true believers of a different sort, aren't those who believe in THEIR Nazi reactionary "God" somehow -- well, smaller in "His" eyes? Third -- and we've gotten so we must say this every time we encounter religion in the news -- when the hacks mention "God" with the usual gassy pieties (and the quotation marks merely reflect their beliefs) we know they haven't been inside a church other than to "report", and moreover, they're pulling the usual fake Our Town routine, to show their non-existent allegiance to the PEE-pul they despise in the highly exclusive shelter of the luxury news suites.

Meantime JonBoy pulls another ANNIE. He obviously thinks his readers either don't have computers, or they can't read. For our editions it's the banal "The Politics of Jesus." For the international editions it's "AMERICA'S GOD COMPLEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!) These jerks' contempt for their readers is DEPTHLESS.