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MSNBC host assures viewers that Obama is not Satan
Monday, 18 March 2013 23:11
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MSNBC guest host Michael Eric Dyson on Monday night chided conservatives like Glenn Beck for “literally” demonizing President Barack Obama by comparing him to Satan.

On his Twitter account Sunday, Beck noted that the Satan character from The History Channel’s new mini-series The Bible looked quite similar to Obama.

“By this morning, ‘ObamaSatan’ was trending on Twitter,” Dyson complained. (Read more…) “The History Channel released a statement calling it ‘unfortunate that anyone made this connection,’ but that hasn’t stopped right wing conspiracy sites from turning out delusional posts further comparing our President to the devil.”

He went on to assure viewers of the liberal network that Obama was not in fact the devil.

“Let me get this straight,” Dyson said, “the devil is a man who fought to reform healthcare so people with preexisting conditions can’t be denied coverage, a man who’s set to end a decade of war, a man who’s fighting to raise [the] minimum wage to help America’s struggling workers, a man who puts the interests of the middle class ahead of the interests of the privileged?”

“Sounds to me like some people need to get off the Internet and brush up on the good book.”

Watch video, courtesy of MSNBC, below:

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Fox News contributor ‘unnerved’ by Ashley Judd’s ‘obsession’ with rape
Monday, 18 March 2013 15:46
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Fox News contributor and comedian Steven Crowder mocked liberal actress Ashley Judd on Saturday during a conservative gathering, claiming she was strangely fixated on rape.

“By the way, in breaking news, Ashley Judd just tweeted that buying Apple products, again, is akin to rape,” he said at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “From her iPhone. Rape — now she knows how my brain felt after Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. (Read more…) Oh, she said it. What is this obsession with Ashley Judd and rape? It’s pretty unnerving.”

As Mother Jones noted, Judd was sexually abused as a young girl.

Crowder was referring to an opinion piece Judd wrote in 2010, in which the actress lamented she was inadvertently supporting rape by purchasing Apple products and other electronics. The mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo frequently employs violence, including rape, to coerce workers into producing the materials needed to manufacture electronics.

“My electronics, received as gifts or purchased, profit armed militias and support slavery,” Judd wrote. “I am financing mass rape as I enjoy these ridiculously Global North ultra-efficiencies and conveniences, for large scale rape is the preferred predation mining interests use to humiliate and terrify local populations, in order to control resource areas.”

Judd is rumored to be considering a run for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky. She would face Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Watch video, uploaded to YouTube by Mother Jones, below:

 
Pat Robertson says bankrupt families should give him ‘just $20 a month’
Monday, 18 March 2013 13:41
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Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday encouraged families who could not pay their bills to become “partners” of his ministry because “it’s just $20 a month.”

At the end of Monday’s 700 Club broadcast, Robertson told the story of D.L and Deborah Hobby, who “lived large” in a 4,600-square-foot home until the housing market crashed and their real estate business dried up.

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After selling their home at a “huge loss,” the Hobbys declared Chapter 13 bankruptcy in 2010. The “defeated” family of four was forced to move into a 1,000-square-foot home.

“That is when we really started to focus on God,” D.L. Hobby recalled.

“D.L. and Deborah did agree on one thing: They would keep on tithing despite their financial difficulties,” a CBN narrator explained. “The Hobbys began to watch The 700 Club and eventually became partners.”

“There were so many stories on there that gave me hope through God’s word,” Deborah Hobby told CBN. “And it just encouraged us.”

That’s when “amazing things started to happen,” the report noted. “Deborah’s business eventually started to rebound. And within two years of the bankruptcy, the Hobbys bought a larger home.”

“Our finances have been restored because of him,” Deborah Hobby observed. “And I believe it was because of us continuing to tithe, and us putting God first in our lives.”

“They were faithful,” Robertson opined at the conclusion of the report. “Listen, there is no way you can out give God. You can’t do it. And that which is given to him will come back 30, 60 and 100 fold.”

“We encourage you to join the 700 Club,” the TV preacher added. “It’s just $20 a month. And if all of us do it together, it gets to be millions and millions and millions of dollars!”

Watch this video from CBN’s 700 Club, broadcast March 18, 2013.