Gotta Love Jesus. And the South.
October 10th, 2007Thanks reader Kent for sending this in. o
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October 12th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
ps. LOVE your site! Heather’s too!!
October 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Someone post this on youtube, we need to destroy this guy
October 12th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Pat and Jon:
I’m both your lovers.
And I’m both your readers.
Kiss and make up, plz.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Is it time to get the band back together?
October 12th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Dudes, I’ve been trying to get it back together for a while now. Andy wants to do it too…
October 12th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Exactly the kind of guy who needs to have a pole rammed up his arse and the pike displayed on the county square. gawd almighty…
October 12th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Is this the Christian way to avoid accountability?
I nominate this guy for the job of (Bush) Whitehouse Press Secretary.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:21 am
The fleecing of America continues. They look like robots don’t they. And they want to convert you.Religion, government’s right hand at mocking the people.I wonder how many situations like this exist.If this reporter didn’t report this, how will we know.Jesus , Jesus, Jesus. I am getting sick of hearing this name.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
The way he keeps repeating the same thing over and over again in that flat monotone with absolutely no emotion makes him sound exactly like a programmed cult member. Like it was drilled into him to respond that way when cornered…
What sort of evil demented organization could take such total and absolute control of a person’s intellect that it would leave him reduced to a blabbering fool, repeating nonsensical non-sequiturs in the face of direct questions?
Truth is, he’s not really any different than most christians I’ve encountered.
P.S. The whole “is it the South or isn’t it” argument is SO not the point…let it go…
October 14th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Not to completely defend the guy…but he has probably been hounded by reporters and lawyers using words like indictiment, grand jury, perjury..etc…I am sure what he really realy wanted to say was much worse. But he took what he thought was the high road..paved in gold no less. All this reminds me of a joke.
One day these two fine southern ladies were sitting on the front porch having some iced tea.
One of the women sticks out her hand for the other woman to see, and in her long southern drawl says “Look at this ring my husband gave me. Isn’t it nice?”
To which the other woman replies, “Oh that’s nice, that’s real nice.”
The first woman then says , “And just last month he took me on one of them Caribbean cruises.”
The second woman again replies, “Oh that’s nice, that’s real nice.”
“Well sweetheart doesn’t your husband ever buy you nice things or send you nice places?”
“Oh”, the second woman responds, “When we first got married he did send me to etiquette school.”
“Why’d he do that?” the first woman asks.
To which the second fine southern woman replies, “Well you see, before, when someone told me about the jewelry their husband gave them, or the trips he sent her on, I would have just said I don’t give a fuck, but now I say that’s nice, that’s real nice.”
October 14th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
“Not to completely defend the guy…but he has probably been hounded by reporters and lawyers using words like indictiment, grand jury, perjury..etc…I am sure what he really realy wanted to say was much worse. But he took what he thought was the high road..paved in gold no less”
How does that make what he kept repeating any less crazy or inappropriate?
October 14th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I hope y’all called the phone number at the end to let Joe know that Jesus loves him. I did.
October 14th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
TedinLA….you missed the point….I am not say it did either.
October 15th, 2007 at 1:41 am
“TedinLA….you missed the point….I am not say it did either.”
WOW! Was I supposed to understand that? What, you have GWB ghostwriting your comments?
October 15th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Tedster…that’s nice, that’s real nice.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Not reading all the comments but I live in St. Charles and this is an older story. Ortwerth is no longer in office and the juvenille justice center has been used for at least the past year. Mr. Jesus also banned “non family friendly” acts from our the city financed arena (which wasn’t making money to begin with). Now, I believe he is a minister which makes perfect sense.
And Missouri is usually considered Midwest although it was Confederate (re: The Missouri Compromise) and parts of Southern Missouri seem like they are in the deep south. Still, no one from the south considers Missouri southern.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
OK, bb…gotta hand it to you on that last one…congrats…
October 15th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
wow. i bet even Jesus was embarrassed to watch that clip.
October 15th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
St. Louis isn’t the south…. good job.
October 15th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
that elliot smith guy (the reporter) bugs me. i used to live in st. louis (now in nyc) and all it ever seemed like he was doing was digging up useless bullcrap to report about. for instance, this video: (paraphrase) “2 weeks after its completion, why is this facility not in use?”
classic sensationalism.
and while the jesus stuff the guy was talking about was bizarre in this context, i’m not going to knock the guy for his beliefs (no one should, you know?) he should’ve just stuck to his guns and kept saying “you can ask me these questions in writing and i’ll answer them in writing.”
just my thoughts on the video overall.
October 15th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
woops. i got my time frame wrong. 2 months he said, not 2 weeks.
my comment still stands though. & i still think it’s sensationalism.
oh well, i hope everyone’s having a good day.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Southerngirl…
The crazy you speak of is Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church, located in Kansas. As a Christian and a native St. Louisan, I don’t claim him. Don’t know many others who would, either.
October 16th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Adrienne- I know he’s from Kansas. I was just trying to show the difference between Midwest Crazies and Southern Crazies–which we have a boatload of.
TedinLA- It is important to correct misperceptions about what is the South and what is not. We have enough crazy down here without taking on the Midwest’s, too. And since Blurb’s blog is an international venue, we make sure his are facts right. ; )
October 16th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
I’m not really sure why you reference “South” in your title because the video clip clearly has nothing to do with the Southern region of the US. I’m a South Carolina native, but now reside in Michigan and I just get very sick of people stereotyping the ENTIRE southeastern United States the way you have, because quite frankly it’s ignorant let alone false. It’s like me saying everyone from San Francisco is homosexual, or everyone who lives in New York City talks like Fran Drescher. It’s not true to just lump everything into one category. It’s funny though because somehow certain people get away with it while the media loves to rag on others for it.
So…with that being said, whatever agenda you’re trying to push (obviously something with Christianity and the South), atleast find a video that supports the claim you’re trying to make. Making us watch a video that comes from a suburb of St. Louis has nothing to do with your point.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Dave, your comment makes my point of using those terms in the title.
I did not “make” you watch anything. As a palette cleanser, you may wish to visit videos whose agenda it is to celebrate hacking non-motorized, gravity powered vehicles here:
http://blurbomat.com/archives/2007/10/15/insanely-rad/