Stop them damn cartoons!
If you own a TV station, need a meteorologist and don't like Nazis, Sam Kuffel is now at liberty (as actors used to say). She criticized Elon Musk's Nazi salute and was fired by CBS58 in Milwaukee. Even at the local level, even in weather forecasting, gutlessness prevails.
That was King Henry II of England, who supposedly asked his knights to rid him of the "turbulent priest" Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. Four of them did, and Henry was excommunicated by the pope until he walked barefoot into the cathedral and took his punishment before Becket's shrine. T.S. Eliot wrote a swell play about it.
The Leader is having troubles of his own with the "so-called Bishop" of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde -- like a woman could ever be a bishop in a real religion. "Nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart" was his critique; surprisingly, he did not trash her appearance, as is his wont when women challenge him (he considers "not my type" particularly devastating). Sir Sean Hannity answered his liege lord's call, sputtering about "a far-left, woke tirade" and "a disgraceful prayer full of fearmongering and division." "National Cathedral has become a sanctuary of Satan," cried Sir Todd Starnes. "Franklin Graham tells me...that [it] has fallen into the hands of LGBT activists. GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED!" Sir John Rocker calls it "absolutely disgusting behavior," while the knight who modestly hides behind "Johnny MAGA" was stunned: "The audacity to pull something like this." What did the "blasphemous" "bishopess" say? "I ask you to have mercy...our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger. For we were all once strangers in this land."
Not long ago the chaplain of the House of Representatives was fired by Speaker Mouse Turd because she led a service of remembrance for those who suffered in the January 6 coup attempt. Now the MAGA cult want the Bishop of Washington dismissed because she quoted the Bible to their corrupt overlord, who sees religion as just another way to bamboozle the simple-minded. May an atheist offer a solution? Rebuild Jefferson's "wall between Church and State" even higher. Dismiss all the chaplains, cancel all the "prayer breakfasts" and "national prayer services." It's the only way to ensure that clerics who take their religion seriously will never again comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable by speaking truth to the swollen orange face of power.
"Stop them damn cartoons!" Boss Tweed demanded. He didn't like the way he was regularly portrayed by artist Thomas Nast (an immigrant from Germany, by the way). "My constituents can't read, but they can see cartoons!"
MAGA are not big on reading either, but from time to time they are exposed to criticism of the Leader on television and even in church, and there's not much he can do about it unless the Free Press collaborates in its own destruction. It looks like at least some of them can't wait to start.
It will take time (how about never? Is never good for you?) for the Leader's "Ambassadors to Hollywood" bring the entertainment industry under control. Meanwhile the place is honeycombed with traitors, as Major Strasser might put it. The Leader won't be pleased to learn that The Apprentice, a less than worshipful look at his career, has been nominated for Academy Awards in the Best Actor (Sebastian Stan) and Best Supporting Actor (Jeremy Strong) categories. Sadly, Jimmy Kimmel is not hosting. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is now officially more courageous than CBS, ABC, NBC, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
What are you afraid of?
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