God To Beck,”Do Not Use My Name In Vain”

Danny Schechter
News Dissector

"God To Beck, Do Not Use My Name In Vain To Bolster Your Career"

Jesus was unavailable when Mediachannel sought out his opinion on Glenn Becks’s performance at the Lincoln Memorial today. Mr Christ, often called JEEEEZ-US by Beck’s faithful, was apparently watching another channel.

We did briefly touch base with his dad, God himself, often referred to as our Lord and Savior, or THE MAN above, who we thought would be pleased by all the adoring rhetoric emanating from the Lincoln Memorial where 47 years earlier a real religious leader held a nation spellbound.

God seemed as if was in a foul mood, as if he felt he was being used by the Fox News host and best selling author, who kept repeating that God was in charge even as he asserted leadership of the Tea Party minions and offered advice that was not found in the Bible or scriptures but on his not yet consecrated website, the one with an ad for LIBERTY SAFES.

Reached on the Royal Telephone, we were told by HIMSELF, “Look, with people in the West turning away from religion in droves, we are always happy to have someone invoke religious principles and spiritual insights. In that sense, Glenn’s Sermon from the Steps was welcome except it was so clear that he is serving a political agenda first.

“How disappointing that the crowd was so uni-cultural wearing T shirts like “I can see November from my House,” and carrying “Don’t tread on me” flags. Why did he have to drag me into it?

“If I am too identified with Fox News, I am going to lose many in my flock who object to all their demagoguery.”

“We don’t need any more messiahs. I want to be the God of all the Channels, not just Fox. I am not into “awakenings” that put me to sleep…

“He kept saying America was at a cross roads without telling us which path to chose. Why has stolen America’s honor? He doesn’t seem to know.”

The MAN was also upset by all the pandering to violence in the name of patriotism. He pointed out the Special Forces Warrior Foundation represents the elite killer special ops units and assassin units in the military, not the folks we should be proud of.

In 2009, he noted, Congress allocated fund for scholarships for the children of everyone iwhose parents died in war, so why is so much money being raised for something that is already being funded?

God also muttered,

“Beck used the term “divine providence” from the past but didn’t seem to consult any in the present, If he had he would have avoided trying to co-opt and distort a day associated wih Dr King, an act of insensitivity to the followers of a true American martyr,

“It is not for me to judge the holiness or the hokeyness of the melodrama, “said God , “but I was a a tad annoyed when at the very end, after the bagpipes and the gospel music, well after an unending spiel choking with emotion, tears and plagiarism from Abe Lincoln, one of those moderate Republicans, the crowd loves to hate and Fox never interviewes, Glenn bid the crowd “good night.”

“It was still mid-afternoon. He must have believed all of this was just a TV show. That put his sinceriity in question for me.

“Good night to you Glenn…”

At that point, the signal on the call dropped.

Bummer.

It must have been AT&T.

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