I know, I know. I once wrote a blog post asking if Sarah Palin is the new James Dobson.
But after reading a Newsweek story on the American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer, and the fact that Palin is keeping her hat in the ring as a presidential hopeful, rather than pursue being the evangelical leader of America, I’m beginning to wonder.
As the Newsweek story points out, Fischer has been making some outlandish comments in recent months to the media that sound a lot like Dobson in his heyday. Is he calculating these comments to create maximum publicity? That’s what Newsweek wonders in its article.
“You might think that attention in the form of mockery is not what a public-policy organization would want. But when your business is waging a culture war, there is no such thing as bad publicity for ideological or rhetorical extremism. Being criticized by liberals in the media raises the profile of a socially conservative organization, and burnishes its credibility among the base. Just ask Sarah Palin, or her fans. Fischer’s critics also benefit from the twofer of his being both entertaining and threatening.”
Read the Newsweek story here.
James Dobson on his worst day was never as totally crazy, incoherent, & mean spirited as Bryan Fischer. Beliefs like – gays orchestrated the Holocaust & gays should be imprisoned – are indicative of crazy person thinking. Dobson was never a crazy person.
I have never heard of this guy, but from what I read in the story, he does not say anything more outlandish than people from the liberal side do. And you will most likely read some of those outlandish things here when they read this story.
And I love how the headline of the story is “The Liberal Media’s Conservative of the Month” Do you think you would ever see the Conservative Media’s liberal of the month or at least some form of response to what they write? At least on shows like FOX News they allow liberal commentators to reply. This is a joke.
Just one more gray haired fearmongering out of touch old fool if you ask me. What would help is if the media would stop giving voice to the fringe by highlighting these guys. Let’s put focus back on the center where the majority of us live our lives.
“…he does not say anything more outlandish than people from the liberal side do…”
“…be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect…”
Pick a standard any standard.
Ok, this guy thinks it is a positive thing to make a fool of himself.
Are these nuts so desperate for attention that they are content to be the laughing stock of america to get it?
If he did stated that gays orchestrated the Holocaust & gays should be imprisoned . He needs to repent, those statement can not be support by God’s Word,
Actually, the holocaust can’t be supported by God’s word since it happened after the Bible was completed
Wharmaster, you are so desperate for attention that you post on every story in the religion section about your fixation with homosexuality! And to clear up jimjinco’s confusion, the Bible was written in the years following the life of Christ, and it was written directly by people who either saw what happened, or were interviews from the people who were actually there. And this was LONG before the holocaust. But nothing in the Bible would ever support the holocaust in any way.
The bible was completed about 2000 years ago. How long ago do YOU think the holocaust was?