Bent Corner

Earlier I blogged about something Reverend Jesse Jackson said about Presidential candidate Barack Obama. The various mainstream news organizations would not actually quote the good Reverend, even the ones on cable TV where they are free of the constraints put down by the FCC.

I now know what he actually said. What Reverend Jackson said was that he wanted to violently mutilate Barack Obama’s genitalia. Specifically, he stated his desire to cut Barack Obama’s testicles off.

I’ll be honest. I’ve always been a big fan of the Reverend Jesse Jackson. I’ve always admired the way he lived his life. The man has dedicated his entire life to teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not only with words, but with his actions. A man with his talents and abilities could have chosen a much different path in life. He could have been a captain of industry or an entrepreneur. Instead he chose to live a life dedicated to Jesus.

With that said, I cannot support Reverend Jackson regarding his desire to mutilate Barack Obama’s genitalia. If he has an issue with Barack Obama, he needs to find a way to work it out that doesn’t involve a knife and Barack Obama’s testicles. There must be another way.

Supposedly Reverend Jesse Jackson made an off-color comment about Barack Obama.  Evidently his comment was picked up by a Fox News microphone.  What he actually said is not known.  I’ve looked all over the Internets — I even went over to the Drudge Report — and I can’t find an actual transcript of what the good Reverend actually said.

Whatever he said has got to be really, really bad if it cannot even be repeated ON THE INTERNET.  This is the same place that things as Japanese tentacle porn or videos of midget transvestites dressed like Hitler having sex is only a mouse click away. There is no such thing as something being too crude for the Internet.

To be honest, I have a hard time believing that Reverend Jesse Jackson could ever say something crude about Barack Obama. First of all, Reverend Jesse Jackson is a man of God. He has dedicated his life to teaching people about the message of Jesus Christ. A man like that wouldn’t stoop to saying anything negative about anyone, especially something off-color, especially about Barack Obama.

Why would anyone ever say something bad about Barack Obama?

Last week I read a letter submitted to Hagerstown’s premier newspaper of record, The Herald-Mail. The letter’s author was pointing out what a great man the late Jerry Falwell was and he stated that the reason some people didn’t like Falwell was because he was conservative.

Something like that.

I didn’t like Falwell. It wasn’t because he was conservative. It was because he was a dick. I think he was a bully who picked on gay people.

I decided to write my own letter pointing out why some people (like me) didn’t like Falwell.

Today my letter was published. In the letter, I wrote that Falwell was a “bigoted idiot”. They changed it to read “bigoted fool”. This bugs me because I don’t use words like “fool”. It reminds me of Mr. T’s famous catch phrase “I pity the fool“.

This isn’t the first time The Herald-Mail has altered my words. It will though be the last. Every time they publish one of my letters, they change words. A word here, a word there. It’s annoying.

No more. I have a blog. Why do I need to write letters to the newspaper? If I want to call Falwell an idiot, I can. I can call him much worse.

The Rev. Falwell’s ‘flaw’ wasn’t his Christianity

To the editor:

I wanted to respond to John Miller’s recent letter proclaiming the many supposed virtues of the now-deceased Rev. Jerry Falwell.

People are speaking ill of him not because of his conservative views. They are speaking ill of him because he was a bigoted fool idiot.

He said that God had created AIDS to punish gay people and the societies that tolerate gay people. He said that if you were not a born-again Christian, you were a failure as a human being.

He also blamed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on pagans, abortionists, feminists, gay people and members of the ACLU. He also said that gay people were satanic beasts and that when they are finally all annihilated that there will be a celebration in heaven.

Who in their right mind not only believes these things, but actually says them aloud for others to hear? The fact is that Falwell gave Christianity a bad name.

He made Christians look bad. Who knows how many people Falwell kept away from Christianity with his intolerant and narrow-minded views?

Real Christians, the people who actually follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, don’t go around blaming pagans or the ACLU when things go wrong. Real Christians don’t talk about celebrating if a whole group of people were to be exterminated.

Rick Rottman
Hagerstown