Rod Parsley is one of the biggest hucksters on the fundamentalist fringe, widely credited with swinging Ohio for Bush in 2004 — so it’s no surprise John McCain is hugging him so furiously. What is surprising is that given our elite media’s newfound fascination with the spiritual advisers of Presidential candidates, nobody is looking into what a complete wack Parsley is.
Watch John McCain suck up to him in the above YouTube:
I’m very honored today to have one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide — pastor Ralph Parsley.
His name is Rod, but whatever…
I want to say thank you for being here, I want to thank you Ralph for your kind introduction…for your leadership and your guidance, I’m very grateful you’re here sir.
Rod. Rod.…Mr. Out O’Touch.
Parsley’s rhetoric is not only eliminationist, it positively eroticises violence:
We were built for the battle…we were created for the conflict…we get off on warfare….
Sarah Posner’s new book, "God’s Profits," offers some amazing insights into Parsley and the whole "Word of Faith" movement, which sees proof of God in prosperity. She recounts Parsley’s claim that he cured a baby born without a brain (he offers brain scans to prove it) and other moments of supreme nutjobbery, but this was my favorite moment in the book:
I am crammed to the point of immobility in an upper-balcony pew of the four-thousand seat sanctuary. The praise and worship bands are louder than I’ve ever experienced at any World of Faith service, hyping the crowd into a frenzy and making it impossible to talk to anyone around me. People are dancing and singing, reaching their arms out toward the stage and holding their palms cupped upwards, all set to receive the anointing. My ears are ringing as more people try to squeeze into the pew; no one objects except an elderly woman sitting next to me, who is angry about how loud it is. "Do they think God is deaf?"
We’ll skip over this probable image of me in my senior years and mention that I’m going to lead a panel discussion of Sarah’s book (which covers Hagee, Parsley and other "Word of Faith" extremists) at PFAW on Monday, May 19 from 1-2:30 PM in Washington DC. If you’re interested in attending, you can get more info here.
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finally, pass the parsley!
And no passes for Cindy McCain claiming privacy for tax returns while choosing to marry a public figure. nice try.
gtg.
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rod!
and SUGGAMOMMA,is keeping secret the multi Billiondollar fortune
I only wish it was surprising.
spare the Rod, spoil the chide.
Parsely an NO …sage
Cindis BUDs…$300,000,000.00 PER YEAR,biz worth 3Billion at least,on 10x earnings,she is sole heir…they ALWAYS ,play down the size of the fortune,and thats why SHE AINT TELLIN
Parsley’s stage, rotes merry and slime.
G’oodin
Ever noticed how every one of the “religion for hire” spokeshole has a name that would make them the brunt of the joke their whole life? Or, worse, that they chose these names because their original names weren’t any good for whatever reason? Not sounding “american” perhaps, not having a sting to it that sounds like god fucking made it up himself? But Swaggart, Dollar, Parsley, sheeut. You have to be a member of the funny names club to compete with the original big names like Bhilly Graham (cracker), Orel “Anal” Roberts, Jerry “I’m so fucking fat and dead that I” Fallwell, or the ever smiling village idiot Pat “pray with your checkbook” Robertson.
There are shitload of really stupid people out there ( I know, I’m one). Maybe the conservanothing is not voting this year, but they’re breeding just the same.
we get off on warfare….
so do they ever stick their diks in cannons or sumptin?
ya got to admit this is one teh strange country
I always thought it would be kinda fun to go to a family reunion with Jimmy Swaggart and his family though.
His first cousins are Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley so there would be some good piano music going down.
….soon to be interviewed by Scarborough. Fair?
The McCains will get a pass on the tax returns because they are Republics.
The media and the Republics have completely forgotten that during the 2004 presidential campaign, Republics demanded “disclosure and transparency” in the form of Theresa Heinz Kerry’s tax returns.
Boycott Budweiser until there’s full disclosure by Cindy McCain.
“I’m very honored today to have one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide — pastor Ralph Parsley.”
All bets are off…Fair Game…Yeehaw!!!!!!!!!
Will Rosemary have time?
will McCain’t “embrace” Ted Haggard?
Haven’t bought a bud for – oh twenty years or so…tastes sudsy water.
I don’t want my tax money paying for Cindy’s toilet paper in the WH…sheet by sheet…since she won’t release her tax returns. Pay for your own Cindy!!! Everything. Every bit of food, every share of the employment of your maids and your chefs, and your transportation, and your clothes, and your aides…everything. I want every move you make that costs the taxpayers money accounted for and paid for out of your own money. Get that!!?? Every penny….
But, thankfully, you most likely will never get there.
BTW, where’s your husband’s lobbyist Cindy-clone friend??? Huh? Say Wha??
Shorter St. McBush on Wackos for Jeebus: “Easiest sheep we’ve ever fleeced.”
I’m with you on that.
I have to agree, it is rank. I am really partial to Sierra Nevada, but Shiner has a new Black Lager that is pretty darned good. It requires further investigation, before I can register a definitive opinion, but preliminary results are quite promising.
Senate Ethics committee just passed on Vitter … wtf… i thought having dems in charge of things was supposed to help
how’d he ever get his hands on Jonah’s brain scans ???
off to work – catch y’all later this evening
WTF? Really?
Boxer’s got some ’splaining to do.
McCain doesn’t know this guy from a hole in the ground so it was set up by his staff. WTF were they thinking? I suppose as consultants they have this checklist item’ suck up to fundamentalists. Well that’s all well and good but not just any fundi you idiots.
I can see now why McCain is almost the perfect president for the GOP. He is possibly dumber than Bush or Reagan and has Bush’s almost zero level of judgment. Whoever gets on the inside of a McCain administration would just have to line up their guy and shoot. He will say anything he is told to.
Mr. L listens to these religious whackjobs transmitting on the short wave at night. It’s how he falls asleep, listening to their ranting.
Sometimes, he turns up the volume so I can hear. He finds it highly entertaining to watch my head explode.
The fact that McThueselah gets a pass on embracing these whackjobs has the same effect. BOOM, brains everywhere.
yeah, wolfie just announced it on CNN
The Senate really does believe they are a very exclusive club, citizens are like children-to be seen and not heard (from). Witness Schumer’s behavior! They chose him to head up the DSCC, which must mean that they like the face that he presents, the very image of an ideal Democratic Senator.
No, because tweaking makes you Haggard…
Well, this just keeps making it harder to get the twit outta the senate. Of course we got cold cash Jefferson and now we just elected one of the worst nazis in the state legislature, Scalise.
Boxer said at the time the ethics complaint was filed that any action would have to be driven by the Republicans. I think they felt it wouldn’t result in any action and would just be a distraction and most people thought he would resign. Investigating the personal life of even a big fat lying hypocrites like Craig and Vitter should not be done.
I don’t think calling for McCain to explain his Haggee relationship is helpful at all.
Teresa Heinz Kerry would not release her tax returns either.
I would have wanted her to pay for her own TP in the WH too.
What I don’t understand is all these guys have these whacko relgious connections and the only one folks get historical about is Jeremiah Wright?
she did though,pr partial iirc
Actually, Theresa Heinz Kerry released a small part of her 2003 income tax return on Oct. 15, 2004.
i guess you can say any whacko theological thing but don’t say anything seemingly anti-american
well ya see he is a chocolate preacher/(snark)
hahahahahaha
whatever little portion she released me and my whole fam damly could live on for the rest of our lives”g”
more like cafe latte, wouldn’t you say? he is actually lighter than I am
everybody in this country RUNS TO THE BEACH to burn the shit outta themselves…but cant wait to tell ya how WHITE they are…as i said …this is a STRANGE country
Yeah, they said it was because the ‘activity’ took place before he was a member of the Senate. They ignored the Palfrey stuff completely, I think.
(Wouldn’t be surprised if at least one member of the committee was also her customer and didn’t want it coming out.)
heheh so true. I also wondered about the collagen lips and the booty impants. Who are they trying to look like? It’s all silly.
But I will admit that I am the envy in the wintertime *g*
LOL – Crone Power!
Heh, heh! (((((((LS)))))) Oh, and thanks LS for being a link with sanity & all that other good stuff.
In 2004, Republicans insisted that all materials, relating to Kerry’s income and his wife’s, be publicly released. They’d want the same standard now for McCain, right?
I wonder if the MSM will explore this issue?
Booty implants!? Guess I’ve lived a sheltered life.
I’m here to tell you though that pale northern European skin is not at its best after the age of fifty.
No more running to the beach –now just fake tans. Actual tans cause cancer and wrinkles.
The Heinz Kerry thing is interesting apparently she released enough informaton for the NYTimes to show how she benefited from the Bush tax cuts…some sort of a summary. Thanks for pointing me to the information.
I’m out here in L.A. Women are getting the booty implants. i was asked very politely if i had had the procedure done. I told her nope my that is the butt that rice and beans built *g*
hahahahahahahahahahaha707
my favorite dinner btw
no one objects except an elderly woman sitting next to me, who is angry about how loud it is. “Do they think God is deaf?”
“Get off my Lawd!”
You’re funny.
well he is SAINT McSame
R&B Butt…Hahahahahahaaaa…
we used to have rice and beans everyday for dinner. black beans, rice, tomoto salad (tomatoes, garlic, parsley, a lil vinegar) and oranges (helps with the digestion of beans) now that was some good eating
Swopa already has a nice new post up about A Different Kind of Public Financing!
Black beans and rice is my favorite food…
I use Goya Black beans
Goya black bean soup
Green pepper
oregano
garlic
onion
S&P
Sazon w/cilantro
and a BIG Dollup of sour cream,and chopped Vidalias with parsly
have to buy some oranges,lol
So where are the “reasonable” Christian pastors/leaders, e.g., Jim Wallis, now that we’ve got full blown crazies like Hagee and Parsley out spoutin’ their crap on the campaign trail? Where were they when the Rev Dr Wright was taking all the heat for his remarks? And giving back in good measure I might add. So where are the leaders of the great American churches? Are they out there trying to counteract these bozos and I’ve missed it? I think if I were a Christian leader, which I probably couldn’t be further from, I’d be out there telling folks that preaching hate and discontent ain’t where it’s at. Why is it up to folks like firepups to take these fools on?
McCain’s confusion of “Rod” and “Ralph” is, like many of his other seeming gaffes, quite deliberate. If for some strange reason he is ever called on this, he can just say it was some other guy, “Ralph” he was referring to. That sly fox!
You know, those “reasonable” people actually BELIEVE in the separation of church and state. And act accordingly. Any time I hear politics preached from the pulpit I beat feet out of there…