Supporting the Separation of Church and State
Posts Tagged ‘Hypocrisy’
Minister Caught in Internet Sex Sting
Categorized: Religion
Tagged: Fundamentalism, Hypocrisy, Sex Crimes, Sex Scandals
Joe Barron, a minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch, has been caught up in an online sex sting after driving nearly 200 miles to have sex with what he thought was a 13 year old girl. This meeting follows two weeks of sexual conversations between Joe Barron and an undercover officer posing as a 13 year old. In his car officers discovered a webcam and condoms. Joe Barron has been charged with online solicitation of a minor, and is released from jail on bond.
Joe Barron is (was?) one of 40 Baptist ministers at one of the nations largest churches, Prestonwood Baptist Church. One of Joe Barron’s responsibilities at the church was to provide ministry for married adults. I would assume that many of the couples that Joe Barron has served over the years had young teenage daughters. One can only imagine how this revelation is affecting them.
I honestly feel sorry for these couples and Joe Barron’s family. In times like this it would be very easy to gloat and point out how often Republicans and Right Wing conservatives get caught up in sex scandals. I would like to step back from that briefly and say that I feel sorry for the only victims in this crime, the couples Joe ministered over the years and his friends and family.
More on this story as information comes available.
William ~ WWJV4.com
Angry Pennsylvanian Is From New Jersey
Categorized: Democrats
Tagged: Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Hypocrisy
A couple liberal blogs are reporting that one of the guys in an ad Hillary ran in Pennsylvania actually voted in NEW JERSEY! The impostor shows up around 20 seconds in and says “the good people of Pennsylvania deserve a lot better than what Barack Obama said”. Watch Clinton destroy the Democratic party with her lies and girl cooties.
[youtube width="500" height="394"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAXucMY7Dvk[/youtube]
I guess it is only fair to point out the ad never makes any untrue claims nor does it go into the guys history at all. Its just a short statement mixed in with several others. In his quote he doesn’t say anything untrue or deceptive and never implies that he is from Pennsylvania. I Should also point out that while he voted in New Jersey he lives in Pennsylvania now and will be voting in Pennsylvania this November.
So I guess there isn’t really much of a story here after all. Sorry to waste your time. I’ll just join in with the other anti-Hillary liberal blogs in attacking her for tearing apart the Democratic party. Pay no attention to our blatant hypocrisy as we do exactly the same thing ourselves. Can’t help wondering what the response would have been from these blogs if it had been an Obama ad in question.
William ~ WWJV4.com
Compassion Makes Conservatives Puke
Categorized: Politics
Tagged: Fundamentalism, Hypocrisy, Liberality, Tolerance
The Roman Catholic Church lists 7 holy virtues which include both Charity and Kindness so you would think that Compassion would be something that conservatives would embrace. Well at least you would think that if you just listened to what they say and paid no attention to their actions. Eric over at RedState has apparently decided to give up the charade however and published this … (reposted in full as its too short to excerpt from)
Only CNN and the Democrats would put together a “Compassion” forum. Isn’t the Democratic Primary already a compassion forum where Hillary and Obama express their compassion for the little guy while doing their best to avoid actually touching them?
Amazing. He managed to pack hypocrisy, racism and sexism into two sentences all the while being condescending to one of the main messages of Jesus. Pretty amazing. Not surprisingly the conservatives who comment on RedState failed to connect compassion to the teachings of Jesus as well so I decided to help them out.
Liberals are weenies. HaHa! Compassion is something that Jesus guy would talk about.
While I doubt my comment will make any difference as conservatives have an amazingly strong ability to filter out any bits of reality that differs from their own opinions. It did brighten my Monday morning though. Eric at RedState declared that an open thread so please head on over and remind them about the teachings of their professed religion.
William
WWJV4
McCain Refuses to Support Troops
Categorized: Republicans
Tagged: Hypocrisy, Jim Webb, John McCain, Support The Troops
John McCain was down the road in Kansas City the other day speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Unsurprisingly his speech centered on the military and especially the shameful treatment of our nations veterans. McCain said that veterans “now deserve the distinction of the best Americans, and we owe them a debt we can never fully repay.”
I agree with John McCain that we owe veterans more than we are giving them. I would just ask McCain why even though he says he supports the troops and is running largely on his service history he refuses to do anything that would actually repay the troops for their service.
John McCain has flat out refused to support our troops by endorsing Jim Webb’s new GI Bill that would improve education benefits for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Or maybe he shouldn’t have killed the dwell time amendment last summer that would have ensured our troops had enough time to rest and recover between deployments.
Think Progress has compiled a nice list of other ways that McCain has shown his support for the troops:
- Voted AGAINST an amendment providing $20 billion to the VA’s medical facilities. [5/4/06]
- Voted AGAINST providing $430 million to the VA for outpatient care “and treatment for veterans,” one of only 13 senators to do so. [4/26/06]
- Voted AGAINST increasing VA funding by $1.5 billion by closing corporate loopholes. [3/14/06]
- Voted AGAINST increasing VA funding by $1.8 billion by ending “abusive tax loopholes.” [3/10/04]
- Voted AGAINST a $650 million increase in veterans’ medical care funding. [8/1/01]
I guess what McCain really meant wasn’t that we owe veterans a debt we can never repay but instead that we owe veterans a debt he will never repay.
Update: This morning on The View McCain said that veterans need “significant educational benefits in return for serving” yet he still wont sign Senator Webb’s GI Bill to provide it for them. ~ 4/10/08
William
WWJV4.com
McHenry Calls Soldier a Two-Bit Security Guard
Categorized: Republicans
Tagged: 2008 Election, Hypocrisy, Iraq, John McCain, Mainstream Media, Patrick McHenry
Seriously, what the hell do Republicans have to do before our mainstream media starts doing its job? Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) belittled a U.S. Soldier serving in Iraq for following orders and not allowing him access to a restricted area that McHenry was not authorized entry to. “I was not very happy with this two-bit security guard. So you know, I said, “I want to see your supervisor.” Watch it here.
[youtube width="500" height="394"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9FAfQ2imUw[/youtube]
McHenry recently got over feeling sick about a McCain presidency and is now a supporter. Think there will be any outrage from the conservatives for John McCain to disavow his Troop Hating comments? Me neither.
Can you imagine the outrage if a Democrat had said the same thing? The right wingers would be all over it. Instead since its a Republican were just now hearing about it from the liberal blogs while the mainstream media has remained silent. I’ll be updating this story in case the mainstream media covers this but there are a few networks I’m particularly interested in.
News Network Coverage:
- CBS – No Coverage So Far
- CNN – No Coverage So Far
- Fox – No Coverage So Far
- MSNBC – No Coverage So Far
Note that this is my first time trying out Google Alerts so I may miss something. If I do please post it in the comments. I may also be way off base and the mainstream media may jump on it now that the story has broken. I would be surprised but you never know.
UPDATE: Apparently McHenry was referring to a foreign contractor and not a US Soldier. I don’t think this makes any difference though. It’s not like the guy wasn’t following orders and risking his life just like our soldiers.
Posts
