Pat Boone and George Noory – Pushin’ for Hatred

Good ol’ Pat Boone was on George Noory’s Coast-to-Coast the other day, and Pat did kind of charm with his ol’ I’m just an aw-shucks kid routine. 

But then Pat went on to reveal something pretty telling.  He was struggling as best he could to attempt to point out that those without faith were unhappy—so he said that “psychologists and psychiatrists” (in Pat’s wisdom, things that start with ‘p’ kinda just go together like that) just, they all tended to commit suicide more than others.

Well, you could smell the smoke burning (could be a devil, no doubt) as he said that he heard one time that. . . .  Look, far be it from me to attempt to get into the hateful religious mind of Pat Boone.  I think what Pat started out to say was fairly simple enough, that people who had faith had a kind of beatified presence that made them immune to the tough and dark situations humans face.  This is if I’m being really, really charitable.

But Pat had to keep ‘er goin,’ and, well, wouldn’t you know it, right out there on George Noory’s Coast-to-Coast AM, Pat had to relate his joke about how a “mousey” (check George’s logs) woman went to a psychiatrist, and she complained “I feel so inferior.”  Gol’ darn’ if that psychiatrist (I thought he’d shot himself) didn’t say “you are inferior!!”  Yuk, yuk.  George Noory of Coast-to-Coast AM listened with rapt enthusiasm, as is recorded on his show.

On the one hand, you would like to think that religion—any religion—could be a force for good in this world.  You’d even like, just being white and being located somewhere on a gps and so on, to hope that that religion would be Christian.  That’s what you’d hope.  On the other,

Hope denied, howsabout just starting to act a little bit more humanely to those very close to you, religious or not?

Pat Boone made millions of dollars off of it; George Noory is making millions now, fostering hate; is there anyone out there willing to step up and say, hey, I’m willing to take one for the team and _give up_ a few dollars to make the world a better place?

You’ll never make as much money as George Noory, but when you die, your mind won’t be criss-crossed with the knowledge of the hate you’ve engendered.  If you really believed that you were going to live again, then wouldn’t you want to do something good now?

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coasttocoast.com George Noory advocates stopping foreign aid

Well, that's what he did just the other night, good ol' George.  George, of Arab descent himself but hosting a tea-party wacko show in the U.S., has to portray himself as a kind of avuncular "I'm on your side" kind of fatherly presence.  Putting on his best fake-plaintive voice, he wondered why the U.S. was spending so much to help out other countries when the U.S. itself faced such dire fiscal circumstances (never would've occurred to George that the corrupt U.S. banking system had led the charge towards kneecapping the world economy--maybe George was just pissed off that *he* didn't get the bankers' deal).  Of course, the U.S., in terms of western "democracies" (a club the U.S. joined quite a while after MLK was gunned down, making it just about the most recent "democracy" on the planet), is one of the tiniest givers of foreign aid in the developed world.  Most European and Scandinavian countries dwarf the U.S. in terms of humanitarian aid completely.  Hilariously, George's guest, an _astrologer_, either just didn't take the bait or was utterly clued out as she hastily scanned her computer (when you listen to this show, you can almost hear the clicking as the hosts and guests feverishly click through their computers trying to find defensive answers to calls that have been, nevertheless, pre-screened, the call delay times--but you can only pre-screen so much). The slow gaps, the references to breaks--anyone who has worked in radio can see the seams gaping on shows such as this. George's guest actually responded about how much the U.S. was spending on Afghanistan, say, and how much it was costing the poor U.S. to try to help those stupid Afghans.  Erp.  You can't even pre-screen your guests these days, even in a democracy!

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