EARTH TO JIM
What planet are you on now? From a WND column on “How and why we’re going to win”
In the media, 8 million bloggers – and websites like WorldNetDaily – are starting to supplant the giant TV networks and newspapers. In education, homeschools have broken the National Education Association monopoly. In entertainment, G-rated films have mushroomed.
Bloggers, home education, and G-rated movies? Ummm, no. For pushing opinions, blogging is terrific. For gathering hard news, we all rely on the MSM. I know HE&OS can’t afford to have a Beijing Bureau.
I doubt that the NEA is quaking in their boots over home education. Growth has slowed dramatically, and it’s just a matter of time until the union organizes charters and the cybers.
And when was the last time a major studio released a G-rated film? Even the kiddie flick “Racing Stripes” garnered a PG.
Now the whole point of his column is that some type of Pentecostal movement (he never really says what kind) is going to sweep the Earth and sieze political power here. I’m not wishing him luck as I have a feeling I wouldn’t like his brand of theocracy “turn-back-the-clock” conservatism.
9 Responses to “EARTH TO JIM”
 Comment by Andrea R June 7th, 2005 at 6:55 am |
If it’s Pentecostal, it’s always about the second coming. They think it’ll happen any day now. It was the same thing I heard every Sunday even ten years ago. |
 Comment by Alex Haas June 7th, 2005 at 8:29 am |
The truly scary thing is that he may be right. There appear to be more radical fundamentalist pawns for the “turn-back-the-clock” people to manipulate than there are reasonable people to combat them. |
 Comment by Daryl June 7th, 2005 at 8:37 am |
Not really. Way before your time– Google “silent majority.” |
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Comment by Alex Haas June 7th, 2005 at 8:46 am |
The Nixon speech? |
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Comment by Daryl June 7th, 2005 at 9:19 am |
Yeah- Nixon (or his speechwriter) coined the term. In ’69 the anti-war movement was relatively small but LOUD. Nixon applealed to the “silent majority” of folks who still supported the war. I think the fundie turn-back-the-clockers are relatively small in number. They’re just loud. |
 Comment by Ian Lewis June 7th, 2005 at 10:15 am |
Actually, on just the one note, I bet the NEA is really scared of Home Schoolers. Although the growth may be declining, it is still growing in the places that the NEA is most concerned: well informed suburban-ites. The NEA has been losing influence for some time now. And, now, the most informed and most involved segment (Home Educators) are telling them to leave them alone. Vouchers in Milwaukee, Tax Credits in Arizona, and charters in California; they are very scared. Who knows what direction the Democratic party will go in 2008 and what influence the Teachers unions will have. |
 Comment by Izzy June 7th, 2005 at 11:37 am |
Political movement? Hmm. Pentecostals, as a group (I’m generalizing here), are typically apolitical or likely to throw in their lot with the statist wing of the Religious Right. This writer is the King of Las Vegas-style Hype. The sort that seems to ignore the reality of the persecuted church. |
 Comment by Adele June 7th, 2005 at 4:42 pm |
When the MSM starts gathering hard news again, if they ever did, let me know…they haven’t done so in my lifetime (in other words, at least since Nixon.) But maybe one man’s news is another man’s editorial (like one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter…) |
 Comment by Ken June 8th, 2005 at 12:44 am |
Major G-rated film: Polar Express was the last major one (happened to hear it on NPR on the way home this afternoon). |