Focus
On The Family’s
Toxic Corn Pone Letter From 2012
By Robert Weitzel
04 November,
2008
Countercurrents.org
“You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I’ll tell you what his ’pinions is.”
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Mark Twain -
Mark Twain once said that “in
matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers
are not above the monkey’s.” Now if the two are combined,
as James Dobson’s right-wing Christian organization, Focus on
the Family, did in their recent “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s
America,” the bar has been lowered to somewhere between the
reasoning power of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, the most poisonous
biological substance known, and that of George W. Bush . . . the most
toxic presidential substance yet known [19 percent approval rating].
Dobson’s letter from the “future” was emailed on
October 22 to millions of his weekly TV and radio audience in the
United States. His purpose was to scare the bejesus out of corn pone
connoisseurs who devour the stuff faster than even Jesus can multiply
it.
Keep in mind that the targeted readers’ “reasoning power”
has already convinced them that they’re going to be Raptured—swooshed
up bodily [naked as a third-rate centerfold] into heaven—moments
after they initiate an apocalyptic nuclear conflagration in the Middle
East, which they hope will eventually engulf the entire world. This
is not a one-derivation-above-the-mean crowd, after all.
“To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the
sheep was a tautology.” Thank you, Mr. Twain.
According to the letter, a phantasmagoria of horror begins shortly
after Obama takes office. Shedding his centrist campaigning skin,
he is transmogrified into a far left-wing liberal antichrist. Outlandish?
Keep reading.
In his first week in office Obama fires all 93 U.S. attorneys and
replaces them with radical ACLU lawyers. Consequently, the Justice
Department initiates criminal proceedings against nearly every member
of the Bush administration.
Due to death or retirement, the Supreme Court is taken over by far
left-wing radical judges (6-3 majority) who—you guessed it—begin
legislating from the bench. The youthful appointees are expected to
rule the country for the next 30-40 years.
Same-sex marriage becomes the law and compulsory training in gender
identity in elementary school results in the firing of tens of thousands
of Christian teachers accused of hate speech for refusing to speak
positively about homosexuality.
The Boy Scouts choose to disband rather than obey a Supreme Court
decision ordering them to hire homosexual scoutmasters to sleep with
young boys in tents.
The Bible can no longer be read on radio or TV because doing so amounts
to hate speech, and students cannot pray in school . . . not even
silently while sitting outside the principal’s office.
All federal restrictions on abortion are removed and babies are killed
only seconds before they can be delivered. Doctors and nurses who
refuse to “murder” babies lose their licenses.
A new law mandating equal time for alternative views on public airwaves
drives Rush Limbaugh types off the air, essentially shutting down
conservative [hate] talk radio in America by 2010.
Commander in Chief Obama proves to be a total wimp, which emboldens
Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists who eventually seize control of Iraq,
imprisoning, torturing [imitation is the ultimate form of flattery]
and putting to death millions of “American sympathizers”
in that country.
Obama, it seems, is more interested in sending foreign aid to impoverished
Third World countries in the form of food and medical aid, which does
nothing but nourish and keep healthy the next generation of terrorists.
Dobson finally lets go of his tenuous grip on reality when he describes
how Iran’s one nuclear missile destroys Tel Aviv and forces
Israel to cede huge amounts of land to the Palestinians, leaving Israel
defenseless. WHAT? Israel cede land? Israel defenseless?
“The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that
the lightening ain’t distributed right.” Thank you Mr.
Twain.
Oh yeah, and gasoline costs $7 per gallon and only military personnel
can own a gun.
Needless to say, the next four years are a living hell for the Dobson
clan, much as the last eight years have been for anyone with reasoning
power marginally superior to that of Twain’s pet monkey.
As a bona fide left-wing liberal atheist, who “wasted”
a vote on Nader, I had mixed feelings reading Dobson’s half-baked
corn pone. My initial reaction was something akin to enjoying a preposterously
funny Twain satire. But then I began to get the creepy feeling I was
reading an American fundamentalist version of the Nazis’1935
Nuremburg Laws, which disenfranchised German Jews and foreshadowed
the murderous persecution of European Jewry.
It became clear that what I was actually reading was Focus on the
Family’s back-handed glimpse of America under a ruler of their
choice . . . say, for instance, Sarah Palin.
Win or lose this time around, Palin is the GOP’s rising star
and James Dobson’s heartthrob. She’s the “real deal”
of an End Times fundamentalist. Unlike President Bush—a suspected
convert—she’s been stuffing her gob with apocalyptic corn
pone her entire life. The only way for Palin to get to heaven with
her admittedly appealing carcass intact is the Rapture route via an
Armageddon avenue, which does not bode well for a survivable foreign
policy.
It’s easy to poke fun at the corn pone Focus on the Family and
like-mindless organizations dish out during an election. It stops
being funny, however, when one realizes that for tens of millions
of people this fare is their only sustenance, and this toxic repast,
like the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, is the most poisonous of
all substances to the body politic.
“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom,
we need only observe it in election times” Thank you, Mr. Twain.
Robert Weitzel is a contributing editor to Media
With a Conscience (www.mwcnews.net).
His essays regularly appear in The Capital Times in Madison, WI. He
can be contacted at: r[email protected]