Rob, Welcome to the Lake.

Jane, Thank you for Hosting today’s Book Salon.

Hey guys, nice to be here.

Welcome, Rob. This should be great!

Jane!

Welcome to FDL Rob!

And my first question: Just what did Arbor Day do, anyway? Arbor Day may know but the rest of us want to know as well!

Welcome Rob!

We frequently worry about what the post-apocalyptic color palate will be.

And if cannibalism is the highest form of flattery, I’m happy to be held in low estimation by the Red State crowd.

The Red Staters will all be in heaven won’t they?

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Ha! You get an extra treat for reading the footnotes.

I mention in the book that the “Apocalendar” allows to you dispense with Tax Day, your 40th birthday, or any similarly hated day, including arbor day, which… well, let’s just say, when Reagan claimed that trees cause pollution, he was like that proverbial broken clock.

Well, the irony is, while the Red Staters will likely get raptured, remember some of the Blue strongholds are coastal, which could get flooded, iced over, or chomped on by giant robo-whales. So I think the safe course is to pick an entirely new political color to rally behind. I’m partial to mauve, or perhaps a nice ochre.

Welcome, Rob!

Happy (belated) Birthday Jane! BTW it’s “derring do“

Welcome Rob Kutner! I hear the Apocalypse is supposed to be a blast!

Would salmon be too “red”?

I’m kinda partial to Salmon Nation….

Rob,
Did you use any “traditional” Sci-fi/Fantasy works as inspiration for this book? I ask as I sense a hint of Heinlein’s Farnhom’s Freehold lurking around in some of the points. IIRC, he stated that the ability to play Contract Bridge was a good skill to have during the end times.

Depending on which scenario ends the world, the apocalypse could be a blast, totally chill, out of this world, rock, be electrifying, radioactive, or suck – in a Heavenward direction. But however it happens, it will be great news for those who survive it.

Maybe we Left-Behinds could start a buddy system, so we can be sure to get the person’s stuff we want.

I want Ted Haggard’s rolodex. And the NaziPope’s hats, shoes, and dresses!

Hi Rob, hi Jane, great introduction, can’t wait to read this book. I have a very specific question about Rob Riggle, but I think I will wait until later in the Book Salon to ask it, thanks….

Bonus points, dakine01. I did indeed read Heinlein’s at-the-time quite controversial novel (from the 50s/early 60s?) it dared to treat a Black guy as a peer to the family. Although honestly, enough with the bridge – there was a lot of it.

Traditionally speaking, I also particularly enjoyed Alas, Babylon and On the Beach (the movie is amazing if you haven’t seen it – your opportunity to see a non-dancing Fred Astaire off himself!)

BTW, I’ve never done an online chat, so this is fun. All these people keep showing up, I keep thinking this is going to turn out to be some kind of e-intervention: “Rob, it’s about your Internet addiction…”

i am soooooooo buying your book. this is where my rebate check is going FDL BookSalon p0rn.

I was going to wait till later to ask this question but we’re about to get smacked with thunderbolts and lightening-

Was there any particular reason you were deported from Uzbekistan?

No, Rob . . . “This Is Your Life!”

I’m partial to The Road Warrior.

You wanna get out of here…you talk to me.

It’s kind of how I feel about our comments section.

Good call, Kathryn. You’re doing your part to stimulate the economy – which will make us that much more attractive to the aliens.

Hi Robb, welcome to the lake….

How funny is the stuff that doesn’t make the cut into The Daily Show? What is done with those bits if anything?

Even weirder is that Jane answers all FDL comments in an Australian accent.

Oh do buy the book.

If my teenage nephew is reading…you’re so getting this for your 16th.

How did you guys on TDS get access to, and cull through, all kinds of clips that we never got a chance to see on MSM? One that comes to mind was back during a “graduation ceremony” for some primarily Sunni new members of the Iraqi military who, upon getting their post-graduation posting information (to Shia areas IIRC) started rebelling and taking their uniforms off. I’d seen a tiny tiny article online about it, but you guys had VIDEO.

Don’t rule out fuschia as your new color choice. In addition to being widely available in lipsticks (enhancing your ability to create slogans on t-shirts at whim), it has the added benefit of looking a tiny bit like the name for a medical condition.

What if you’re at a skeet shooting range when the rapture happens? Any established protocol?

I was deported from Uzbekistan because I was making a documentary and got tired of paying bribes, so I finally refused. They asked, “When are you leaving?” I said: “Thursday.” They stamped “Deported Thursday” on my passport – it was the same designation given to Solzhenitsyn! How sweet is that?

So, if we help make Rob wealthy, do we get to participate in profit-sharing? No, wait. That’s socialism. Ewwwww. Scary. Never mind.

Like I say, I thought you might have read Heinlein. Although you didn’t offer any good preservation tips for “long pork.”

I have both read On The Beach and seen the movie and seem to recall reading Alas, Babylon as well.

About stuff that gets cut from TDS, we generally write way more than we can fit in the narrow time-window of our show. Some of that re-appears on the TDS website, I believe. The rest of it is printed out and used to paper the giant cage of our Satanic Majesty—oops, I’ve said too much.

Traditionally speaking, I also particularly enjoyed Alas, Babylon and On the Beach (the movie is amazing if you haven’t seen it – your opportunity to see a non-dancing Fred Astaire off himself!)

That was amazing, wasn’t it? Kinda like Sinatra’s turn as Bennett Marco in The Manchurian Candidate. The best role he ever had, yet he went out of his way to try and suppress the film in his later years.

About stuff that gets cut from TDS, we generally write way more than we can fit in the narrow time-window of our show. Some of that re-appears on the TDS website, I believe. The rest of it is printed out and used to paper the giant cage of our Satanic Majesty—oops, I’ve said too much.

Wow, you know Mick Jagger?! Cooool!

Mary, about the video footage — the scary part is, we have NO SPECIAL ACCESS to footage the MSM doesn’t. We have arguably less, b/c we have to pay for it on a Comedy Central budget. They get everything we do and more, we just choose to use it.

I hope Jay Leno is saved. I read he has bunches of cool cars. I would like some of them.

sorry, dakine01, can’t help you with “long pork” as I keep long-kosher

Seriously, I highly recommend On the Beach (movie) and not just for the Fred Astaire. It’s lovely, haunting, and really sticks with you. That sequence with the San Franciscan who decides to go down irradiated and fishing… wow.

Rob — so great to have you here at FDL today. I don’t know how you guys keep up the snark, day in and day out — the folks inside the Beltway make such a mockery of themselves on a daily basis that it’s getting tough to top it. (Sucks when The Onion starts to seem like documentary series, doesn’t it?)

As Jane says, I’m wondering why James Dobson, Bill Donahue or Pastor Hagee haven’t denounced you outright yet? Are they just wreaking havoc with your royalty checks or what?!?

Here’s a logistical question. Is the naked thing and achieving heaven simultaneous and quick? Because I have to tell ya that as one almost certain to be left behind, I do not relish the prospect of having to see McBush’s pink tush.

Honestly, I’ve been *dying* to get denounced by someone in the intolerant Christian Right. I blame my publicist for not pushing this harder. I mean, think: every copy they burn, they have to buy first.

Good question, Barbara. No one really knows how fast the Rapture will occur. (as opposed to everything else, which we know as an exact science). But I’m pretty sure TMZ is hoping it goes fast, so they can deliver exclusive photos of “Holy Upskirts.”

Mary, about the video footage — the scary part is, we have NO SPECIAL ACCESS to footage the MSM doesn’t. We have arguably less, b/c we have to pay for it on a Comedy Central budget. They get everything we do and more, we just choose to use it.

Michael Moore is in much the same situation. The most damning stuff is the stuff that we all know was shot by network TV cameras, but somehow never made it to the evening newscasts.

LOL

Hey Pups get to the shovels and Digg this great Book Salon with Jane and Rob Kutner:>)
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Right, and this isn’t even obscure, “left on the cutting room floor” material. We subscribe to news footage services like AP (as all news outlets do), this stuff is packaged, framed, and edited for distribution.

’m wondering why James Dobson, Bill Donahue or Pastor Hagee haven’t denounced you outright yet? ’m wondering why James Dobson, Bill Donahue or Pastor Hagee haven’t denounced you outright yet?

and in that vein, any plans to put a smack-down on Joe Scarborough, who made you all the subject of one of his mostly incomprehensible rants a few days ago?

I think we’d all be happy to pitch in…

How much higher off the ground is your Satanic Majesty’s chair than the guest chair?
We notice when he makes the guest sit first, every single time, you know.

Dugg – Thanks nahant!

Rob, so what drove Dennis Miller over to the darkside?

And can the rapture happen before the November voting so we can get rid of even more Republicans?

Hi, Rob, and thanks for being here. Great — another DFH book to buy with my stimulus check! “Alas Babylon” was great, and if you haven’t read “The Disappearance” by Philip Wylie you might enjoy it. It’s kinda like the Rapture, except from the women’s point of view all the men vanish and from the men’s point of view all the women are gone. As far as post-rapture color choices ocher might be easier to deal with, or khaki that’s supposed to look sorta messy…

Sorry, Christy. I have to be careful, just on the off-chance that the only patch of land left untouched by the Big One is Scarborough Country. I know at least he believes himself to be on the high ground.

But seriously, if you any of you have co-workers, family members, pets, et al. who are part of crazy Christian groups, please do get a copy into their hands!

Hey Rob, welcome! Sorry I’m late, I was out collecting roadkill for supper. Boiled day old opossum tonight mmm mm.

Unless, of course, Joe Scarborough enjoys a spanking…in which case, I’ll have to pass. That mental image just isn’t worth the delivery.

I wanna know how long Jonah “Doughy PantsLoad” Goldberg was on the set and what protection was available to the TDS brainbank against the onslaught of “Teh Stupid”?

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I don’t agree w/his politics, but I want to say a word on behalf of Dennis: He’s a really fine, decent guy who gave me my first big break and always supported his writers, demanding that his CNBC show (RIP!) be unionized (ie, WGA) despite the network’s urgings. Politically, he got driven further rightward by the partisanship of the 2000 election and foreign-policywise, he got spooked by 9/11. Socially, he’s pro-gay marriage and pro-choice.

As far as when the end happens,I’m actually hoping for right after the Christmas gift-giving season!

35 – Well, as if world destruction and Dobson being raptured in the buff (I need to dig out Doug Feith’s textbook to figure out if that is “naked” rapture or merely “clothing removed” rapture)aren’t enough to scare me, now I find that out.

Up until now, I was relying on Good Omens as my guide to the Apocalypse. Now it looks like I’ll have to go buy your update. With a bottle of cheap wine and a good sized bottle of Advil. I’m guessing that trying to explain to the Sheep here, Goats there Deciders that you were waiting for the movie to come out won’t go over big.

Thanks for the smiles during some very depressing times. I’m looking forward to reading your book.

welcome to the lake, mr kurtner

why did you write this book?

Thanks, Marion in Savannah (I’m from Atlanta, btw). I’ll check it out. And for those of you who like apocalyptic gender-based scenarios, do yourself a favor and read Brian K. Vaughan’s genius graphic novel “Y: The Last Man.”

Good Omens is also a good read, but I was particularly psyched to hear from Neil Gaiman (its co-author) that he’s reading Apocalypse How as his bathroom reading. That’s its noblest use, IMO!

As far as when the end happens,I’m actually hoping for right after the Christmas gift-giving season!

Why not right before? Opening presents is SOOO much fun!

Suzanne, I wrote this b/c I’ve had a lot of free-floating anxiety percolating since growing up a) as a Jew going to a Christian school, and b) as a child of the 80s who got freaked by The Day After. All that got recharged by 9/11, ebola, global warming, etc. Seems like it could happen any day, any number of ways – so I took the Daily Show route of diffusing my anxieties with laughter.

See, you’re not giving the Rapture the dignity it deserves. (Oh, lord, where is FISA when we need it?!) I’m thinking of rolling out my own line of holiday gift-Rapturing paper. Ya gotta buy it now, full price, cuz there won’t be any after-the-holidays sales. Bwahahahahahaha!!

Yes, we should narrow it down between gift-buying and gift-giving.

Sort of a December 24th vibe. Then they could all celebrate the Baby Jeebus’s birthday in heaven!

Cool! Your paper works kinda opposite to the rapture with people leaving clothes behind — your paper gets raptured, and leaves the gifts behind… But it does rather take the anticipation out of the holidays…!

Nice to know that about Dennis and the WGA. I’ve wondered since 9/11 how so many otherwise seemingly rational people got the bejeebers scared out of them in such an irrationally insane way — including Fourth Branch Dick Cheney and his whole damned staff. I keep going back to that Kung Fu Monkey post about prior generations and how tough they were in the face of world war — and what a bunch of ninnies so many of us turned into the last few years — it’s just plain sad:

“…Maybe it’s just, I cast my eyes back on the last century …

FDR: Oh, I’m sorry, was wiping out our entire Pacific fleet supposed to intimidate us? We have nothing to fear but fear itself, and right now we’re coming to kick your ass with brand new destroyers riveted by waitresses. How’s that going to feel?

CHURCHILL: Yeah, you keep bombing us. We’ll be in the pub, flipping you off. I’m slapping Rolls-Royce engines into untested flying coffins to knock you out of the skies, and then I’m sending angry Welshmen to burn your country from the Rhine to the Polish border.

US. NOW: BE AFRAID!! Oh God, the Brown Bad people could strike any moment! They could strike … NOW!! AHHHH. Okay, how about .. NOW!! AAGAGAHAHAHHAG! Quick, do whatever we tell you, and believe whatever we tell you, or YOU WILL BE KILLED BY BROWN PEOPLE!! PUT DOWN THAT SIPPY CUP!!”

BTW, my favorite Crayola color should be considered: burnt sienna.

But just think of all the pressure on the Saved to really get in shape – and you thought bikini season was daunting!

Sorry, I can’t make the Rapture..I’m still working on my house and I’ve a hair appt. that I can’t miss.

Oh, and Rob, my utterly irreverent husband is getting a copy of this as a surprise. I’m sure he’ll take it to his office and offend everyone there with great glee. So, thank you in advance from him.

Well, that’s true. No one wants a repeat of the John McCain cottage cheese and lime jello background look for the Rapture. Ick.

“Burnt Sienna” – now *that’s* a perfect apocalyptic color.

60 – That is funny. It makes it a little awkward to ask him how long it took to finish.

Good to know that there’s a chance you’ll make a guest appearance if there is another American Gods sequel. I personally believe and believe strongly in bathrooms, so that’s a congregation of at least 1 if you choose to serve as the god of bathroom reading options.

Hilarious! Pups, be alert. When barbara eats chocolate (to which she is allergic), the caffeinated thing kicks in and the words fly long before the brain engages. Kind of like George Bush speaking . . . pretty much anywhere.

If we do a second edition, I’m definitely thinking of enclosing a packet of bran.

Dammit! Spewed chocolate all over my monitor!

Christy, that’s a great synopsis of the systematic ‘deballification’ of American foreign policy. I could almost hear Stephen Colbert reciting that verbatim.

Quick, Christy . . . copyright!!

You should do it as a Web video, just record your voice over still of those speakers.

(Rob Kutner: the leader in ideas for *other people* to do!)

I wish I could claim credit for it, Barbara, but it’s John Rogers’ from Kung Fu Monkey. It’s one of my all-time favorite blog posts — and it’s fricking hilarious. Of course, John’s a comedy writer, so…

lol, Terror! Now give me your money.

Welcome Rob! I don’t watch the great opiate of the nation but I’ll trust Jane’s review and get a copy for a xian nutter inlaw. >:]

Did you see today’s Opus? I can’t find a link—sorry.

So the left behind fashions are sure to be, shall we say, less than optimal. But what about the cars?

You should do it as a Web video, just record your voice over still of those speakers.

ooh, great idea. I, for one, can’t wait to hear Christy’s Churchill impersonation! *g*

But what about the cars?

You haven’t seen the bumper stickers? “When the Rapture comes, can I have your car?”

But what about the cars?

My guess is that all the folks who designed and promoted monster trucks and the Hummer will be raptured, which will leave behind [(c) by Tim La Haye] the designers and promoters of electric cars. Cars will DEFINITELY get better.

And I hear that a lot—the last line, us, now—from grown men who are scared poopless of the Iranians. I can’t tell you how many guys I’ve talked with while waiting for planes in airports who, with their fancy leather briefcases, seriously think this.

That is scary.

Presumably, anyone who takes the Rapture seriously isn’t driving a hybrid. So if you’re left behind, expect to get your pick of the latest Satan-lovers Utility Vehicles.

Lizz Winstead says she was on a radio show with Tim LaHaye and asked, ‘When the Rapture comes, can I have your stuff?’ She says her mic was then cut.

On the other hand, if our machines evolve and take over, we could also see a world dominated (as if wasn’t already) by…. TRUCKOSAURUS!!!! (insert reverb effect here)

Seen those as antidote to the ones that say “In Case of the Rapture this car will be Unmanned” or something like that. Unmanned indeed.

Rob, Huge thanks to you and your whole crew. I would not have gotten through the last 7+ years without The Daily Show and then Colbert. I still remember when “Indecision 2000″ was a unique idea to TDS—before all the “real” news orgs started using it.

TDS and Colbert give a much better accounting of what’s in the real news than the folks who are supposed to be doing the news. Talk about topsy turvy world!

OMG — I would pay money for a studio cam shot of LeHaye at that instant if he heard it.

I think I’ll pass—unless there’s a snappy turquoise Miata in there somewhere.

He must have spit out his blood of Jesus.

Do the raptured women get to take their jewelry with them?

We’re into recycling and diamonds are really good for that purpose.

Oh, honey, take a number. Ummm, that was rude. Mr. Honey, take a number.

Rob, I have to ask: The John Stewart/Tucker Carlson moment on CNN. How much liquid did you guys blow out your nostrils while you were watching it that first time? Did he warn you — or were you watching it live?

Because working with him, that whole show had to be just pure comedy gold for you guys. You can’t mock the media and the establishment mindset as well and as much as you all do — including in this book! — without getting some serious satisfaction about a live television comeuppance like that.

Naked is naked, girl. No exceptions.

Do the raptured women get to take their jewelry with them?

Apparently you go “just as you are, without one plea,” so I presume that there will be a lot of little earrings and stuff that we should be careful about vacuuming up only one of…

Believe it or not, Jon vs. Tucker (otherwise known as “the highest ratings a segment of Crossfire has ever gotten) was not planned as such. Jon and our former producer Ben were headed down to DC to promote the book and were trying to figure out some clever way of calling that show on their b.s. But Jon says, when they’d prepared bullet points to confront him with, his emotion took over and he just shot from the hip (evidently located in the mouthal region). He felt sheepish about it, actually – but I imagine the cancellation of CF helped him ‘get over it.’

I sort of like Teddy’s idea about a buddy system.

Ann Coulter’s black cocktail dress could probably stand up by itself now. Not that anyone would want it, but it would kind of be like she never left.

Eew.

Actually, RevDeb, you’ve made me curious about another ‘unnatural’ bodily accoutrements as well. What about gold fillings? Metal head-plates? Will we see a shower of silicon breast-bags hit the Earth?

The cherry on that whole incident – or maybe the cherry and the whipped cream and the drizzle of kirsch – was when the new president of CNN cited Stewart when he was explaining why he was cutting Carlson loose and cancelling Crossfire

Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at “Crossfire” when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were “hurting America.” Mr. Klein said last night, “I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart’s overall premise.”

OK, maybe the sprinkle of chopped nuts was when Carlson insisted he totally quit way before they fired him, but, you know, distant second.

Oh my. Can’t you picture it? “Look! The minister’s wife has a Brazilian wax!”

Jane, what makes you so sure Coulter’s going (points upward) a that-a-way?

Oh noes!!!111 Heaven will look like a zombie invasion!!!111

Or” Look! The minister’s wife is technically the minister’s husband!”

We’d better have our hard hats at the ready. The thought of all that silicon falling from the sky!

Ew.

Really sturdy umbrellas too.

I think it was definitely the cherry – fake-tasting and possibly carcinogenic. Crossfire had been dying in the ratings for years, and Klein was looking for a ‘cool’ face-saving way to finish it off.

Jon seemed particularly schadenfreude-d this past week over Robert Novak’s hit-&-run.

Will you guys try to interview the victim, a now-homeless playwright?

What about gold fillings? Metal head-plates? Will we see a shower of silicon breast-bags hit the Earth?

And this you put up without a spew alert! I’m just spitballing here, but my guess is that in their theology, such as it is, if it’s “inside you” it’s “part of you” and gets raptured with you. At least I sure as shit hope so…

Presumes facts not in evidence, ma’m: Coulter’s savedness.

does the Colbert staff keep a token, standard-issue wing-nut Republican around to riff off of?

And what kind of car does Stephen drive? If he’s in-character at The Rapturous Moment, he could be gone. I mean, Nobody’s perfect, right?

(I’m looking for a virtuous man – with a Viper).

And what makes you think she’s a candidate for elevation?

But yes, that dress definitely could stand up by itself. In fact you could probably tack a road sign on it and it would remain upright.

*newt faints dead away…*

Yes, L’Affaire Novak was almost like Dick Cheney Duck Hunt, Pt. II. If I can brag a little, I was proud to claim the line that Novak is filled with “the cure for the cure for cancer.”

I didn’t know that about the victim, though! I’d bet our guest booker is on the case.

LOL — The Crying Game version of The Rapture. Or Six Degrees of Separation from the throne of God…

For some reason I had this horrific image that what we’re left with is…FLDS.

Did Steven Colbert write his own magnum opus for the WH Press Corps? And did any of you anticipate the reactions to it?

Many of us were watching it live on CSpan and it was, if I may say so, Glorious!

Depending on the moment, your rule could mean a career-crippling loss for a “friend” of Ted Haggard’s.

Oh, Teddy, you know Pastor Ted is busy trying to pray the gay away, part 27…

Yes, jayt, the Colbert staff keeps the head of Morton Kondracke around in a bell jar. Sometimes they drop a firefly in there and shake it just to “watch ‘em fight.”

That was a great line! I was also partial to the description of the black Corvette convertible as emblematic of Novak’s “end-life crisis.”

I believe Stephen and his staff wrote the WH Press Corps speech. He knew he was going to get flak and not be “asked back” for it. I think what was more surprising was that the media was so thin-skinned that they tacitly ‘dropped’ the story. Poor babies!

It would seem that Broder offers lots of great fodder as does Maureen Dowd, yet you seem to give them free passes almost all of the time. What gives?

Amazingly thin skinned. I think that is something that most people aren’t aware of. Very fragile egos. And this was right before the kick off of his own show if I’m not mistaken. Great way to start off.

It’s hilarious that you envision our offices as Olympus in “Clash of the Titans,” pushing around our chess pieces and determining “who shall be pilloried and who shall skate.” Truthfully, some people like MoDo and Glenn Beck are trying so hard to be funny themselves, it’s not worth our while.

Good point. Take MoDo’s POS today for example. I’m amazed that she’s not held up to ridicule on a twice or thrice weekly basis. It’s getting very dark and growly outside, and we’ve got a severe weather alert, so if I disappear for a while it’s because the lights went out…

If it’s a clash of the Titans, you guys won long ago. Long long ago.

That sounds about right. Someone who is not anyone I know is apparently really charmed by the militant centrist vs. bushist loon paradigm, because they always do seem to get hired to do something, but advertisers tend to be not all that patient about people not watching the shows they’re paying for.

And yet, our special effects are just as cheesy.

It had the reverse arc of Kathy Griffin’s “suck on this, Jesus” Emmy acceptance speech. At the moment, Kathy says, everyone thought her speech was terribly funny and they laughed hysterically. It was written up in the trades, barely, as another outrageous funny moment from Kathy Griffin. Only after Donohue got ahold of it, culminating in the Christian theatre troupe that took out the fullpage ad in The USA Today, did people decide they were shocked by her.

Colbert was the opposite — the immediate audience, including the Preznit, was shocked and silent, but as word spread it became a classic. There’s been nothing quite like it ever in America. Likely not ever again, either.

here too. Mostly sky grumblings with little to show for it but the Boston area is getting hammered—watching the radar in another tab.

Sometimes, though, ridiculing the people who merely thrive on attention — good or ill — really isn’t worth your while. Because the energy creatures that they are, they thrive on merely being mentioned. Eh?

Ridicule, hell. She should be jailed for that tripe today.

MoDo is, to me at least, a rather special case because of the way she INSISTS on feminizing Democratic men. Al Gore was almost lactating, John Edwards was the Breck girl, and then there’s been the unending crap about Obambi… She deserves to be eviscerated in a large public forum, with prejudice.

I think Stephen has long thought of himself as the “anti-Kathy Griffin.” If they ever meet, it could open up a hole in the truth-redhead continuum.

Sadly, Jon’s comeuppance still holds true today… They’re still hurting us…!

Reminds me of a great comic book about the rapture that a friend showed showed me some thirty years ago called “The Great Snatch” Someone had put the thing together with great skill to slightly mask the double entendre of the whole enterprise, including great numbers of young people taken into the air with the boys all looking up the skirts of their nubile female cohorts. Anybody else ever see it? circa 1975,

second that.

Coulter wrote a few columns during the primaries about Huckabee and his shameful tolerance for allowing evolution to be taught in schools, which she as a christian had no use for. If Hayes and Jenkins (and, whoever help us, Hayes’ wife) are going to be raptured on the basis of their political donations, Coulter’ll be there.

LOL. I’ll have to remember that one the next time the subject of the rapture comes up.

I think that meeting would require both white AND black smoke.

Believe it or not, part of it’s also just what makes good TV. If MoDo had her own show and she was saying this stuff on video, that would make for a more compelling “back and forth” with Jon than at present, where he’d have to read it aloud, then respond do it.

RevDeb and Teddy: If Ms. Coulter’s ascendancy is not guaranteed and the rapture is probably imminent, I think it behooves us to start praying for her salvation immediately.

Ted tried to monetize his ‘recovery’ and has been bounced from his salvation program.

I suspect what he’s trying to pray away right now is creditors.

that sounds something like indulgences. The whole Protestant movement was started in a move to protest the selling of same. Perhaps the Catholics will get the last laugh after all.

Dugg – Thanks nahant!

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You’re kidding. The Rapture as one big junior high school patent leather shoes moment?

Coulter…which she as a christian

*She’s* a Christian? That does it – I’m not goin’ – no way, no how.

Excuse me, I gotta go kick some kittens…

Someone needs to throw a copy of this book over Bill Donohue’s transom. Or does he only get upset about the specifically anti-Catholic humor?

He should start a business that gives out loans for similar situations… call it Teddy Mac.

I’m happy to work with whatever parameters are needed.

Remember when Oral Roberts said he’d be called home to Jesus if his flock didn’t send in millions? [snort]

Yeah! Now there’s a guy with some stuff!

I don’t know if you read Fred at Slactivist, but he’s been doing an absolutely brilliant weekly exegesis (ten pages of week) of the first Left Behind book every friday for years.

LaHaye and Jenkins are really seriously twisted fellows.

Well, not that I’ve ever noticed, but my working theory is that the full van Susteren didn’t help for more than six months or so and she needs an audience that requires a bit less polish than her usual fratboys.

I found that series a few months ago. It’s devastating!

LaHaye and Jenkins are really seriously twisted fellows.

twisted rich
they can’t take it with them, can they?
All that money they’ve made?

The thing that weirds me out is that Left Behind books are so often sold in airports. Is that really what you want to be reading then? Don’tcha just end up hoping for a sinner of a pilot?

Yeah, I remember that. So as not to speak too ill . . . . as Christy would say, “Bless his heart.”

They must have sent it because he is now 90.

LaHaye and Jenkins are really seriously twisted fellows.

Either of ‘em drive a Viper?

To quote a colleague from my Dennis Miller days, “Heaven is the ultimate offshore banking account.”

seriously twisted and seriously wealthy.

No I hadn’t heard of that link. Will check it out.

Actually, he gave a specific date when it had to be done, and it wasn’t… There was a bit of humming and hawing about God working in mysterious ways as I recall…

I’m afraid I tend to hide them in Barnes and Noble.

Ordinarily I wouldn’t, but for some reason they have Left Behind books in the children’s religion section.

LaHaye is, of course, also at the center of the Eric Prince-financed group Council for National Policy, which is hugely influential within the current malAdministration.

Dude — you’re going to have to find someone who can research all Viper owners world-wide so you can get tight with a few of them!

Maybe you can take up as much money as you can swallow in a condom – Maria full of grace indeed.

Fred is a reporter and was a theology student. Yeah, he’s pretty devastating ;)

Also he got married this weekend (yay, Fred!)

I suspect LaHaye is making tooooo much $$$$$ to be listening for any call from his version of Jesus as to get his butt up to heaven anytime soon.

yeah- that- and a bunch of landowners who wanted to rip off the Church’s Real Estate (and did)..BIG BUCKS…Henry the 8th started it and the Germans were watching. They recruited Luther who badly wanted sex- and the rest is history—well there was the printing press thing too—

Congrats to Fred!

He’s registered at

http://www.amazon.com/apocalyp…..038;sr=8-1

Rob, Thank you for stopping by the Lake and spending the afternoon with us.

Jane, Thank you for Hosting this great book salon.

Everyone, if you haven’t bought the book, there is a link above.

Thanks all.

it’s always about 3 things. Money. Sex. Power.

The essences of life in the fast lane.

Whoa whoa, easy rwcole! I’m not caught up on The Tudors yet. Spoiler alert?

Slow lane too I suppose- just less of it.

Thanks, everyone. It’s been fun. And a huge thanks to Jane, Bev, and FDL – a resource I often turn to in pitching ideas at TDS.

Happy Surviving!

Sorry- if ya don’t wanna know how it turns out- don’t read any more.

Thank you!

With the printing press- EVERYONE could misunderstand the scriptures- didn’t even need ta read aramaic.

Thank you Rob, really enjoy the humor!

that’s downright scary!

Eric “Blackwater” Prince? Eric “I’m related to the DeVos Family” Prince?

Very smart move! Lots of great material here. And we are most happy to share with such an esteemed institution as yours.

Will have to add this book to my collection of America, the Book, and my Franken collection.

Look fer a star of David- yer safe.

Attending to bidness for a while. Back late.

Mentioned yesterday that Gandhi said something like: “I like your Jesus Christ. Your Christians, not so much.”

you’re going to have to find/research all Viper owners world-wide so you can get tight with a few of them!

yep – a really stupid and futile gesture – and I’m just the guy to do it!

It’s scary for lots of people ta think that they could be raptured at any time- even while takin a shit.

How embarassing.

This book’s in my Amazon cart!

Thanks for this great chat, Rob — keep on informing America!

Oh, I’m getting it delivered to the office tomorrow. Leaving aside the rest of the brilliance, dude, you got the Gaiman vote.

You’d be surprised how many people bring scary medical thrillers (”Coma”) to the hospital.