I found this quite accidentally, but it's a good and funny read. All inserted laughing heads are mine
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In Defending Tim Tebow, The Five Attack Bill Maher, Atheists, Pro-Choicers
As you know, over the week-end, during the sacred period
when people
watch football, eat and drink too much, and open gifts that will get
returned during a mad mall frenzy, Bill Maher had the audacity to tweet
about how Fox god, Tim Tebow, was screwed (Maher used another
colloquialism) by his brother by another mother due to the Denver
Broncos humiliating loss to the mediocre Buffalo Bills. For Fox News,
this was BLASPHEMY of the highest order. Fox Nation, a place for those
who believe in tolerance (not), immediately posteda
lede about "Pig Maher's" egregious offense to Tebow and his brother by
another mother. Not surprisingly, "The Five's" good and tolerant
Christians Tim Tebow fans rushed to Tim's defense and in so doing
showered Bill Maher, atheists, and pro-choicers, all anathema to Fox and
its audience, with anything but Christmas Christian love.
Monday,
Jesuit educated Eric Bolling began by saying that Tebow "drives
atheists crazy." (Eww, bad atheists.) Actually I was speaking to some
Catholics, on Christmas, and they find Tebow's very public
Christianity very annoying. Joker Bolling cited how "liberal clown" Bill
Maher was "begging for attention" with his tweet which really "ticked
off" Bolling who tweeted that Maher is "disgusting, vile trash." Bob
Beckel, The Five's token liberal, praised Bolling for his response
which, according to Beckel, Maher "deserved." Beckel expressed his
disgust that this occured during a celebration of "our lord and savior."
(Your lord and savior, Bob). But then, good Christian Beckel, who
wouldn't take the name of his lord in vain during the Christmas season,
said he was tired of defending "this son of a bitch." (Baby Jesus claps
his hands)
Greg Gutfeld provided his trademark sophomoric "humor" when he
suggested that Maher hates the good looking Tebow because Maher "looks
like a thumb with a face like an aadvark." Attorney and former
Victoria's Secret model, Kimberly Guilfoyle, gushed that Tebow is
"beautiful." Andrea Tantaros snarled that Tebow's mom, when told that
fetus Tebow was going to be mentally handicapped, didn't have an
abortion. Tantaros wanted to know what atheists and pro-choice people
"have wrong with this." She added that they can still have abortions.
She continued her rant about how Tebow should be able to celebrate the
gift of life "because her mother embraced the right to choice." (LOL,
the Christian/Catholic right, for whom Fox News is a mouthpiece, is
dedicated to eliminating that right) Tantaros ended her sentence, "I
guess she didn't choose the right choice." (Right, pro-choice atheists
really care what Mrs. Tebow did, please) When Bolling said that Maher
wants to remain relevent during the show's hiatus, Tantaros chimed in
that he's "a pathetic human being." Beckel said that "bringing Christ
into any of this is abhorrent" and defended Tebow as a "remarkably
religious man who has a relationship with his lord and savior and it
should be left at that."
There should be no question as to why Bob Beckel is the token liberal
on this show as he is a devout Christian and for Fox News, Christianity
seems to be high on the list of qualifications for Fox employment. With
only a few exceptions, the majority of the mainline pundits are
Christians with the majority being Catholic. With the departure of Alan
Colmes from a full time position on Hannity, there is only one *Jew,
Chris Wallace, who is an anchor. While one of my Fox apologist critics
says that my mention of the Christian/Catholic tilt at Fox is
prejudicial, the reality is that Fox News does not represent the
diversity of religious views in this country. It is, clearly, a vehicle
for the political and anti-choice agenda of the religious right and the
US Catholic Bishops, as shown by Fox's Catholic NY archdiocese litigator
Peter Johnson Jr. who, on threeoccasions, aggressively supported the position of the Catholic bishops on the health care contraceptive mandate.
Fox's animosity towards atheists is palpable but not surprising given
that Fox is all about creating cultural wedge issues in order to divide
Americans and stir up hatreds - which seems to be the hallmark of the
homophobic (Catholic Archbishop George just compared gays to the KKK) and
anti-choice Christian right for whom and of whom Fox News exists. Bill
Maher's tweet, which was amusing given that the Christian right seemed
to connect Tebow's win with divine favor, was used to, once again,
attack atheists. The panel consisted of one non-Catholic Christian
(Beckel), two Catholics (former altar boy Gutfeld and the divorced and
remarried Guilfoyle) and Tantaros who appears to be Greek Orthodox. And
that's fine but their bias isn't. Wouldn't it be refreshing to have an
actual atheist on that panel rather than a bunch of biased Christians!
Praise Tim Tebow.
*Correction: Noted Fox apologist (paid?) "Johnny Dollar" informs me
that Geraldo Rivera and Jamie Colby are Jewish. Meanwhile, the rest of
the gang, for the most part, are Christian with a strong conservative
Catholic presence. Their big (biggest?) draw is the very traditional and
Catholic Bill O'Reilly whose stand against Dr. Tiller must have made
his bishop very, very proud.
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