As usual, while doing the crossword puzzle this morning, I
had Good Morning America on in the background. Yeah, ABC is a Disney subsidiary
and you get a lot of promos for their product, but overall, I love the cast and
format. They manage to make Today's cast seem bland and "stick in the muddish"
by comparison.
As I was half
listening, half cursing under my breath (the Friday puzzle is a bitch!), I heard
the name Joel Osteen, and they cut to a pre-taped Robin Roberts segment with this
shill and scam artist extraordinaire. After about three words from his recently
medically sculpted face I felt like I needed another shower! What a smarmy,
sorry piece of work this man is. Every
word was a platitude, and a tenth grader could have written his banal, trite
and meaningless message. In other words, he was consistent with every other televangelist
ever.
What saddens me even more, on reflection, is
that people who can't afford to do so send him and his ilk lots of their money.
It reminds me of a line from one of the truly great western films of all time - The Magnificent Seven. In the
film, , the bandit Calvera, played superbly
by master character actor Eli Wallach, says of the small border town he
terrorizes and extorts: " If God didn't want them sheared, he would not
have made them sheep." Come to
think of it - televangelist/Mexican bandit?...the only difference is the gun.
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