BushCo Thought Harry Potter Promoted Witchcraft
September 24th, 2009, 4:09 PM EDT
Former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer, making the rounds with a new book (he’s on my radio show tonight), reveals that even awarding the Medal of Freedom became politicized. J. K. Rowling was denied the honor because White House officials believed her work “encouraged witchcraft.” When Ted Kennedy’s name came up as a possibility, speechwriter Marc Thiessen put the kabosh on it because Kennedy “was a liberal.”
Anybody remember the story about some Russians were angry because they thought the filmmakers deliberately modelled Dobby the house elf from Chamber of Secrets on the face of Vladimir Putin?
average james Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I never heard that.
Funny stuff.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
“…White House officials believed her work “encouraged witchcraft.””
That anyone who actually believes anything even remotely like this should be employed at the highest levels of government demonstrates just how completely the radical rightwing of the republikkkan party is rooted in the 15th century.
People like this are incapable of addressing the issues of a modern technological world because they really just do not perceive the nature of the world they are living in.
average james Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Witchcraft bad—–War good.
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I stole that.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
BushCo Thought Harry Potter Promoted Witchcraft
Erm…
I am very glad BushCo is not in power anymore.
While I am not over the moon crazy about Obama and his conservative policies, I’m pretty sure he knows that Harry Potter is fiction.
average james Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Oh yeah right,
Harry Potter fiction my A$$, I suppose you think that the Da Vinci Code was fiction too.—A Bushie
Um Cara Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
:^)
September 24th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Bush was a Christian. This is what Christians believe.
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5012/5012_01.asp
average james Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Wow man,
Blast from the past, I grew up with those chick tracts.
Holy Joe
Somebody loves me
Those are pretty trippy.
I wonder if the muslims have any thing like these.
or the hindus
or the buddhists
Lib Patriot Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I remember those Christian chick tracts and how they promoted fear and intolerance, they were/are just awful!
In regards to the tract in the above link, I got a kick out of how the Uncle Bob character tells his niece, “Read the King James version of the Bible. It’s the only English version Satan hasn’t messed with.” LOL!
EricG Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
More like Bush “calls” himself a Christian.
libpatriot Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Interesting how a Christian blogger chooses a moniker that ends with “BS” followed by “FU”.
libpatriot Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Just wondering about that, that’s all…
UWPpm3tBsfU Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
“UWPpm3tBsfU” is the partial output of “openssl rand 8 -base64″ which generates a random string of characters. I have my computer generate random usernames and passwords. It’s just how I do things. So I didn’t really “choose” the moniker. It was produced for me. It’s not my site I linked to. I am a rabid antitheist. Lastly, I do not blog.
average james Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
UWP,
Yah, and you do not argue either.
Yes I do
no you don’t
yes I do
no you don’t.
Look I didn’t come here for an argument
yes you did
I just came here to blog
no you didn’t
yes I did
no you didn’t
libpatriot Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
UWPpm3tBsfU, thanks for taking the time to set me straight about that! And I’m getting my mind out of the gutter (for now).
UWPpm3tBsfU Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I’m curious why you thought I was a blogger. Because I ran chick.com (when I actually don’t) or because I post comments on alan.com? I don’t consider posting comments as a registered user to make one a blogger. If I ran or co-ran a blog at blogspot or under my own domain name, then I would consider myself to be a blogger. If posting comments to websites made people bloggers, then everyone on Digg, Reddit, and Newsvine would be a blogger. They’re just registered users that post comments, or “site members”. That’s not how I see it.
W83QZI51Mbnkme Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
It’s kind of funny how my randomly assigned username ended with “BsfU”. I’ll use this new nickname instead.
average james Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
UWP,
Is that the definition of blogger ?
I did not know that.
I thought I was one(not sure how much I like that) because I regularly post on this site and sometimes others.
After yahoo searchig for definition of blogger, well, there’s a lot of them.
average james Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Excuse me,
I meant the last comment for W83QZ15….
libpatriot Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
W83QZl51Mbnkme, I apologize if my use of the term “blogger” was objectionable. I thought I was one myself, because I post here and elsewhere, though I don’t have my own website like EricG does. Would “poster” be more acceptable?
average james Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
W83Q…..
As long as you do not change your tag to a symbol, like the artist formerly known as Prince, we will be able to correspond by tags.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
J. K. Rowling was denied the honor because White House officials believed her work “encouraged witchcraft.”
He forgot to mention that she encourages homosexuality too.
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Given the brand of “christian” heterosexuals who seem to be all the rage in the south, let’s promote homosexuality and permanent sterilization too.
September 24th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I remember members of the church I went to as a kid getting all riled up about Star Wars. Maybe that was the beginning of my questioning the church as I was an avid Star Wars fan. Some people just have a problem separating fiction from er, well fiction?
average james Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am
You too, huh ?
Satanic conspiracies in books, rock’n'roll, movies, newspapers, TV, government, the homosexual agenda, the UN, the peace movement, public schools……….ad naseum.
Fear from the ‘christian’ conservative right.
It’s their cornerstone, never mind that pesky old Jesus and his “fear not”, “don’t worry” and “whenever possible, be at peace with all men” stuff.
average james Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 11:59 am
A whole lot of these ‘christian’ folks(like my parents) are ok with Disney stuff, as long as it’s the old “good” stuff.
You know like; Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinnochio, Fantasia, Mary Poppins, Bednobs and broomsticks, Escape to Witch Mountain. All of which contain Witches and Wizards and magic.
And let’s not forget about Narnia, Lord of the rings, Wizard of Oz and……geez, in your face hypocrisy.
libpatriot Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
AJ, great examples!
September 24th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Hey– least the kids are reading a book. I think they missed that
average james Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Yah, exactly.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I hope our current President will correct those oversights.
Rowlings and Kennedy both deserve that award.
September 25th, 2009 at 2:42 am