Two leaders of the Religious Right have blamed the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal on a remarkable source: watching too much MTV.
Chuck Colson spoke this week at a pastors' briefing in Washington sponsored by the Family Research Council. In a May 12 e-mail to supporters, FRC President Tony Perkins observed, "As Chuck Colson pointed out at yesterday's Pastors' Briefing, when you mix young people who grew up on a steady diet of MTV and pornography with a prison environment, you get the abuse at Abu Ghraib."
Perkins also accused "the liberal media" of using the photos "in an effort to damage the Bush Administration."
The remarks drew derision from Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group.
The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director, made the following comment: "This is one of the stupidest things said about the Abu Ghraib scandal to date. Seeing Colson and Perkins stoop this low should not really surprise me, but I'm disappointed at their lack of imagination. Surely they could have found some way to blame the scandal on same-sex marriage, Bill Clinton or activist judges. Blaming every horrible thing that happens on MTV is SO '80s."
Yeah, it's pretty damn stupid, but well, these are stupid people.
Oh, I guess MTV and pornography explains the torture in prisons and sex slavery in the Arab world...oh wait...
And maybe the media isn't using the photos to damage the Administration...maybe the photos are just fucking truth about the Administration's fuck ups...couldn't be....
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They're going nuts trying to pass the buck on this one aren't they?
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
I can believe this. After all, homosexuality was responsible for 9/11.
"Show me an angel and I will paint you one." - Gustav Courbet
"Quetzalcoatl, plumed serpent of the Aztecs... you are a pussy." - Stephen Colbert
"Really, I'm jealous of how much smarter than me he is. I'm not an expert on anything and he's an expert on things he knows nothing about." - Me, concerning a bullshitter
Gil Hamilton wrote:I can believe this. After all, homosexuality was responsible for 9/11.
Yeah, but that was the wrath of God.
Anyway, lots of people on the far right have been blaming the mess on things like feminism, liberals, and the media. Here are some more examples. They'll use anything to shove their beliefs down the throats of others.
Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote: Here are some more examples.
BWAHAHAHAH... *laughs* ... *cries*
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you will be a minister of death, praying for war." - GySgt. Hartman
"God has a hard on for Marines, because we kill everything we see." - GySgt. Hartman
