The Political Whore

How stupid are we as a nation? CNN interviews author Rick Shenkman, in this clip posted to YouTube on June 15.

• Nick of time: Congress acts to remedy the mortgage crisis.
• Alan Greenspan: “We are on the brink.”
• A new documentary on Lee Atwater has conservatives crying foul.
• The IRS opens an investigation of local firebrand Bill Keller. The preacherman cries “Romney!”
• Oh good, Imus is shooting his mouth off again. I had gone months without hearing moronic, racist drivel.
• Bet you don’t know how much oil there is in the world. Turns out, no one does.
• George Carlin’s final interview, a wide-ranging, bittersweet affair, pops up on the Psychology Today’s website. Plus: HBO plans a Carlin marathon and WBAI looks back at history.
• The Mullet drops his cushy ESPN job to become coach the Lightning.

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Well, our good friend/televangelist Bill Keller is at it again. Long a foe of Oprah Winfrey, Keller unleashed an attack on Winfrey’s new (and insipid) prime time television show, Oprah’s Big Give, this week, according to the Christian Newswire, accusing her of …

… selling the equivalent of “spiritual crack,” as she pushes her New Age teachings on millions of unsuspecting followers. Keller has been warning the subscribers of his Daily Devotional for years about entertainment icon Oprah Winfrey and how she uses her TV program to promote every New Age philosophy in the world, like the very popular book and DVD last year, “The Secret.”

Keller, who called Oprah, on Neil Cavuto’s FOX News program last Friday, “the most dangerous woman in the world,” and has been quoted in the national media as labeling her a “New Age witch,” states that her current commitment to use her vast entertainment resources to promote New Age teachings that do nothing for people but make them feel good for a moment just like smoking crack, will be responsible for leading millions of unsuspecting souls to hell with these false teachings.

Keller, who did a short guest stint on Howard Stern’s Sirius satellite radio network last year, also had some unkind words for Sirius’ potential merger partner, XM:

Earlier this year, Oprah began teaching a year-long course on her XM Satellite radio channel, “A Course in Miracles.” This very popular New Age course sounds Christian but clearly is NOT. A Course in Miracles is allegedly a “new revelation” from “Jesus” to help humanity work through these troubled times. This “Jesus”–who bears no doctrinal resemblance to the Bible’s Jesus Christ–began delivering his channeled teachings in 1965 to a Columbia University Professor of Medical Psychology by the name of Helen Schucman.

Her latest venture in New Age teachings will be a 10- week seminar over the Internet beginning Monday, March 3rd, when Oprah and best selling New Age author Eckhart Tolle will be teaching his new book, “A New Earth, Awaking Your Life’s Purpose.” Millions have already signed up for this 10-week web cast that will lead them away from Biblical Truth and faith in Jesus Christ through Tolle’s perverted spiritual teachings.

Keller told his 2.4 million Daily Devotional subscribers that, “Oprah is now trying to be the spiritual guru to this nation. Sadly, she is being used as a tool of satan to lead millions of souls to hell with her false teachings.”

I pretty much feel the same way about Oprah, just without any of the Biblical stuff. (Video of Keller on Fox here.)

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