"John Oliver: Televangelists" - Oliver Goes to Church ... His Own (video)

It's honest, it's brutal, but at first it doesn't tell you something you didn't already know.  Televangelists are the most vicious, cynical parasites on the planet.

What he will give you is detail on just how vile these bastards can be.  There are no exceptions here at the Rockhouse as even the benign ones are constantly asking for money.  There's been no aspect of this I've ever seen which is truly benign insofar as its only purpose is to provide spiritual comfort to those who cannot get out and find it any other way.

All of that is technical but what happens when Oliver goes to church for himself.  Better yet, what happens if he is the church.

It's always with purpose as he's an exceptionally bright guy ... but ... we know these guys are vile bastards and we should ...

(Ed:  take their water?)

Right.


However, blazing greed characterizes multiple endeavors and all have the same type of impact to the weak and the variable is the scope.  The televangelists reach millions and you see the profits they make but really they're small-change parasites, despite their pretensions with their little jets, etc.


The CEO of United took an eleven-million dollar raise last year while claiming worker salaries were excessive giving him no option but to send the jobs overseas.  Thousands of jobs were thus dispatched and a global ripple comes from United moving its operations.

Here, in America, it is devastation for the families of the workers who got tanked.  Elsewhere it's gravy and for the CEO most of all.  We submit this fellow is more destructive than the televangelists because of the ripple through the American economy from all of those lost jobs and the further reduction in the technical skills of the worker base in the country.  When those jobs do not exist, people will do something else.  When Wal-Mart is constantly expanding and technical jobs keep going overseas, you've got a problem.


We don't fault Oliver for his coverage of the televangelists as the piece was brilliant.  However, we don't care very much except for how they leech old people.  And that's why Reverend Sasquatch has been mocking them all these years.  He hasn't saved a soul yet but no-one sent him a dollar either.  They did buy some of his CDs, tho.  Praise Jesus.

Salt Lake City Library bought four of them, right to the heart of Mormon country.  That will crack me up until I die.  He shares a lot of Godly wisdom such as Betty Boop is going to Hell because she got a tattoo on her butt.  It's in Leviticus.  Ta, ta, Betty.

Praise Jesus and send money.  Reverend Sasquatch has been doing this for a long time but no-one sent him money.  He must be doing it wrong.  Time for another one.


(Ed:  you have nowhere to send any money)

Yes, I do see that may have been part of the problem.


(Ed:  and you do not have a number to call)

Well, actually, I do ... but the telephone is turned off because it doesn't work and I hate it.

But, yes, I take your point.  That could be a bit constricting of any cash flow as well.


But fear not, my son.  God will reveal an answer to how to drop big bucks in my lap.


(Ed:  what if he does not?)

Then, my son, verily we conclude, it wasn't supposed to fuckin' happen.