Stephen's got two guests again, sorta. I guess he'll be talking to Bernie Sanders from the site of the National Vigil for Health Care Reform (my emphasis):
Americans will be coming together all across the nation on the evening of Dec. 8th for a national vigil to demand that health care reform include a public option.
Here in Washington, DC for Obama will be joining MoveOn, NAACP, National Physicians Alliance, HCAN, CAF, DC for Obama, Faithful Reform in Health Care, ProgressiveCongress.org , United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society, American Medical Student Association, NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, Union for Reform Judaism, Disciples Justice Action Network (Disciples of Christ), United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries Doctors Council of DC/NUHHCE/AFSCME, Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, Washington, DC, Bon Secours Health System Inc, American Muslim Health Professionals and others to hold a rally in Upper Senate Park.
On the eve of this historic legislative moment, gather with us to remind Congress that their actions in the following few weeks will have an impact on the lives of Americans, and that Americans want health care reform with a public option. ...
Or maybe it'll be done by the time Colbert films. Don't worry if you missed that one -- there's another protest opportunity right around the corner. Sen. Sanders might also chat about his opposition to the renomination of Fed chairman Bernanke -- you signed the petition, yes? My favorite headline:
Hero Senator Bernie Sanders Puts a Hold on US Treasury Burglar Bernanke
Stephen's other guest is Phyllis Schafly's son Andy. Not the gay one, the one who's the founder of Conservapedia. And is re-writing the bible so that it more closely lines up with his fundamentalist world-view, which I guess he's still calling Christianity. Wikiality describes him thus (click through for the picture):
Andy Schlafly is possibly the greatest scholar of human history and the lies of evolution. Mr. Schlafly presently runs Eagle Forum University and the Conservative Encyclopedia. His pro-family education and activism protects America from "safe sex" liberals and sodomites.
The Encyclopedia Dramatica, in an entry which is not for the faint of heart or Victorian of mind (and might trigger those NSFW filters), describes him as so:
Paranoid, sexless and failed engineer / politician / lawyer / teacher / human being Andrew Schlafly is the creator and Big Sister of Conservapedia, which is like Wikipedia only more charming since everyone wears their bias on their sleeve. Like every good Republican, Schlafly uses defamation as a weapon of choice against his sworn enemies: evil liberals. ...
...Andy Schlafly has a fucking weird voice. This explains why he keeps most of his ideological confrontations to the net, since when you sound like a diarrhea-gargling muppet having its throat stood on, you automatically lose any argument.
The Uncyclopedia has this to say:
Conservapedia is the wiki-based online encyclopedia project that purports itself to be "the trustworthy encyclopedia." Little do its poor, misguided editors realize, however, that Conservapedia is actually rife with stinking liberal bias and viewpoints. While its creator, Andrew Schlafly , wears an elaborate façade of the archetypical conservative: overt piety, disapproval of so-called "science," and hatred for all things liberal, the liberal stance of his sad website is manifestly clear. He single-handedly shames the United States flag by printing "conservapedia" right onto it. ...
Wiki: the Communist Manifesto
The format called the "wiki", being based on collaborative contributions by many contributors, is the opposite of good, clean, American Conservative values. It is, simply, collectivization in disguise.
Real Conservative internet sites, like Worldnetdaily, use laissez-faire competition, not collaboration, for their pages. Conservapedia is a wiki, and wikis depend on the input of the common worker for their content. Therefore, Conservapedia, and its Conservapedian proletariat supporters, is a Commie-pinko front for liberal values.
Comrade Schlafly says that Wikipedia is six times more liberal than the American public, but statistics show that members of Conservapedia are, on average, more than eleven times more liberal than real Americans!{7} ...
And here's satire site The Spoof.com:
Andy Schlafly, son of Phyllis Schlafly, is picking up where his mother left off. "She was always too liberal", he said in an interview. "Sure, she campaigned against women's rights, but you'll note that she never campaigned against women."
"But even moreso", he continued, "she never tried to correct God's word, and re-write it more in line with what God would have said, if he'd been as wise as we are."
So Andy, with a little help from a few thousand inbred friends from all around the world wide web, is going to re-write the Bible so as to get all the "liberal" parts out of it....
Indeed, even this writer for The Spoof is at a loss as to how to adequately lampoon a project that is pretty much a lampoon on it's own. Customarily, it would be appropriate to take some standard verse of the Bible, and pretend that Andy Schlafly had a problem with it and was going to delete it.
However, as Andy actually does have a problem with Christ saying on the cross, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.", for it being too liberal and wishy washy, I am wondering what more can be said.
Perhaps in the coming weeks, that being probably about how long these Bible burners will need for their scholastic undertaking, they can also get rid of those liberal messages of the meek inheriting the earth, forgiving other's trespasses, and removing beams from their eyes before removing motes from others.
If they've still time, maybe they can delete the creation story, which was nothing more than the tale of Eve accepting free food from Satan, clearly an allegory about the modern liberal welfare state....
I expect Stephen to have fun with this.
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