Saturday, December 02, 2006

Dennis Prager: Premature eJankulator of the week.


If there's one behavioural tic that defines the residents of Wankerville the world over, it's their unstoppable propensity to post the most inane opinions based on a bare minimum of actual research, and promptly make fools of themselves in the process (hence the name "eJankulator," in honour of Canada's Steve Janke who pretty much sets the gold standard here.)

Here in Soviet Canuckistan, Exhibit A would, of course, be the asinine, pants-wetting shrieking over this year's claim that Iran was going to force Jews to wear "badges," a story so hysterically inaccurate that the even the National Post ultimately apologized for printing the original accusations.

But wankery marches on, and the latest in the depressingly endless parade of premature eJankulators is one Dennis Prager, an American right-wing gasbag who was aghast when Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), a recently-elected Muslim, announced that he would take his "oath of office" on a Quran, not the Bible.

Prager, being the sanctimonious, Bible-whomping blowhard that he is, railed against this threat to American freedom and democracy and puppies, suggesting that Ellison had some kind of obligation to use a Bible instead.

Not surprisingly, Prager is back-pedaling furiously these days after someone pointed out to him that what he was suggesting was, quite simply, unconstitutional, which Prager would have known had he taken five minutes to read up on the subject first before making such a complete ass of himself in public.

Dennis Prager: Your premature eJankulator of the week.

6 comments:

Zorpheous said...

CC, you should make up an award and hand out a silver and bronze as well.

Anonymous said...

I think you have the name wrong at the beginning of the last paragraph... unless Elison is back-pedaling and choosing the bible instead.

CC said...

Whoops. Fixed.

Anonymous said...

From the Thinkprogress link:

In a show of support, the American Family Association has launched a campaign urging Congress “to pass a law making the Bible the book used in the swearing-in ceremony of representatives and senators.”

Wow. The stupidity snowballs, doesn't it? I guess someone will have to hit the AFA with a sledgehammer before it realises, even if the unconstitutionality here is disregarded, that forcing people to swear with the use of some kind of talisman they don't believe in at all would make such an oath null and void, if not legally, very much morally.

Idiots.

Scotian said...

"...that forcing people to swear with the use of some kind of talisman they don't believe in at all would make such an oath null and void, if not legally, very much morally." Ti-Guy

Which is why whenever I testify in court I use the affirmation and not the Bible since I am not Christian. Indeed, the stupidity of those that fail to understand the point of using the Bible is to make an oath that is considered binding by the person swearing the oath works only for those that believe in the Bible to begin with. For a Muslim it would be the Koran, and for a Jew would be the Torah. To someone not of the faith of the holy book in question to swear oath on it would not only not be morally binding one could well argue it is contemptuous and disrespectful to both the faith of the book and to the person being forced to swear upon it. Got to love the respect they show to their faith these so called Christians demonstrate at AFA.

Anonymous said...

Can I just point out that American Congresscritters do not, in fact, get sworn in on the Bible -- or any other book?