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September 25, 2008 at 17:27:57

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Demons. Devils. Republicans. Oh, My...

by Mike Malloy

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This isn't true. Tell me this isn't true. A so-called "demon exorcism" performed over the Republican Vice Presidential candidate? In one of those crazed, arm-waving, tongues-speaking, nests of faux Christian end-timers, this one in Alaska?

The medieval ritual performed by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from "witchcraft" as she prepared to seek higher office? What century is this? What kind of wacko craziness is slopping around inside the Republican Party now? Are they serious? America wants this sort of freakish religio-psychosis a heartbeat from the presidency?

I may faint.

The video is here and it is mega creepy, otherworldly, bizarre, just absolute madness. Another video is here. Hysteria. Psychosis. Demon-haunted minds. This is what we've come to? Spooks? Ghosts? Devils?
Linda Blair walking upside down and backwards down the staircase while her mother and poor Father Karras stare in horror?

When does Sarah Palin start the green projectile vomiting? When does she go into a trance and shriek the names Abbadon? Bifrons? Lamia? in order to cast them out? When she's asked to consider a nuclear attack on Russia after having risen to the presidency because face cancer ate McCrazy's head? Is that when Palin screeches out the names of demons? Babbles for Jesus' protection? Spins in circles while thunder and vile odors and otherworldly screams roll and reverberate through the White House?

I wish I could wake up. I know this is all a nightmare. The political system of my country has not sunk to this level, has not fallen into the sort of madness depicted so graphically in the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. No way, right? It's a sketch. A bit. That's it! A Saturday Night Live sketch. McCain and Biden and Palin and Obama are going to towel off their makeup and there they are! Chevy Chase! and John Belushi! and Jane Curtin! and Garrett Morris! It's all a bad dream! A nightmare! It's a goddam television comedy show!!!! From 33 years ago!!

But, um, it isn't. This is all so real, so absolutely real. Think not? A poll taken at AOL's home page asked subscribers for a reaction to the video. Half of the respondents say it makes them "uneasy." The other half says, "I don't have a problem with it."

I don't have a problem with it. Get it? Thousands of people, who will probably vote on November 4, have no problem with the woman who is now the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee having an invisible magic shroud draped around her to protect her from "witches" and "demons." Arghhhhh . . .

Meanwhile, Bush and McCain and Obama are today having a sit-down to determine how deeply the penetration should go as the US taxpayer gets raped, assaulted, bludgeoned for the sake of preserving a corrupt system of predatory capitalism that is as evil as the demons that Palin believes are floating around her, nipping at her soul, biting her hair, making foul the air she breathes.

I gotta wake up . . .

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Mike Malloy is a former writer and producer for CNN (1984-87) and CNN-International (2000). His professional experience includes newspaper columnist and editor, writer, rock concert producer and actor. He is the only radio talk show host in America to have received the A.I.R (Achievement in Radio) Award in both Chicago and New York City, the number three and number one radio markets in the country. His radio experience includes the 50,000 watt blow-torches in both the South and the Midwest, respectively WSB-AM in Atlanta and WLS-AM in Chicago, and as one of the original hosts on Air America - a two-year-long association that ended in a massive train wreck. Mike's nationally-syndicated program can now be heard weeknights on affiliates of the Nova M Network and on XM Satellite and Sirius Satellite Radio as well as on live Internet streaming. It is not difficult to pigeon-hole Malloy politically. Generally speaking, he is a traditional Liberal Democrat doing his part to return the Democratic Party to its Liberal roots.

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Wanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black AmericaUrban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman Contributing editor: (works in progress)Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency Screaming Doors (novel) Screaming Doors
M. DavisWanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black AmericaUrban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman Contributing editor: (works in progress)Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency Screaming Doors (novel) Screaming Doors

As much as I destest charlatans

..we may need a miracle worker to detoxify and decontaminate the White House and governmrnt after the brimstone of the Bush administration is finally cleansed. What really scares me, however, is the inability of the american people to see when they are being had, taken for a ride and are the target of satire, manipulation and social engineering.

Oh, well, one day, when the cockroaches become sentinent after the latest atomic fueld atrociuty inflicted on Mother Earth an drise to prominence maybe 50,000 years from now, they will look in confusion at the relects that used to be human civilization.

by M. Davis (51 articles, 2 quicklinks, 15 diaries, 157 comments) on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 5:51:18 PM

I am currently retired. My favorite hobbies are karaoke singing, photography, and travel. I have immediate family living outside of Philadelphia, PA whom I visit once a year (during the Christmas holidays). I've also participated in a number of anti-war demonstrations since October of 2002. I consider myself a staunch defender of the US Constitution.
eileen kuchI am currently retired. My favorite hobbies are karaoke singing, photography, and travel. I have immediate family living outside of Philadelphia, PA whom I visit once a year (during the Christmas holidays). I've also participated in a number of anti-war demonstrations since October of 2002. I consider myself a staunch defender of the US Constitution.

Demons, Devils, Republicans. Oh, My!

So, this is what the USA has come to - from the "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" phrase from JFK's Inaugural speech in January of 1961, to the mumbo-jumbo from a Kenyan pastor of Governor Palin's church?

What's desperately needed here is rationality, not superstition and panic. The rest of the world is mocking this country for the craziness that is going on here. If the US wants respect from the rest of the world, it must earn that respect by behaving rationally. Dispense with this hocus-pocus and deal with reality.

by eileen kuch (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 77 comments) on Friday, September 26, 2008 at 5:44:57 PM

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