The Erickson Report, Page 5: Two Weeks of Stupid: Clowns and Outrages [the Clowns]

Two Weeks of Stupid: Clowns and Outrages [the Clowns]

Now for our regular feature, this is Two Weeks of Stupid: Clowns and Outrages. And we start, as we most commonly do, with the Clowns.

This first one is not so much a Clown as a con, and I suspect the real clowns here are the people who fall for this - but then again, I feel sorry for them.

Anyway: Paula White, TV preacher and pastor of the City of Destiny megachurch in Apopka Florida and Tweetie-pie's personal spiritual advisor (yes, that's true), was preaching at the King Jesus church Supernatural Ministry School in Miami early in February.

During that appearance, she told her followers that the way to God was to send her church money, the more the better, so much so that they should skip paying their electric bill in order to do it, because by paying your bill rather than sending that money to her, you are, in her words, "saying spiritually that 'power company, I have now established a spiritual law that puts you first, so, power company, save my family, deliver my drug addicted son, kill this cancer in my body.'”

I wonder if she's considered that if all these people don't pay their electric bill, they won't be able to watch her on TV?

Paula White: clown. Evil clown, but clown.

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Next up: On the March 5 edition of Chris "I'll never be my dad" Cuomo's CNN show “Cuomo Prime Time,” Nina Turner, a co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, got into it with Hilary Rosen, a political commentator for CNN and an unofficial Joe Biden surrogate.

Turner said that Sander's policies are “in the spirit” of Martin Luther King, who, quoting Turner, “warned us - us being the Black community - about white moderates,” referencing King's famous "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." (Look it up and read it even if you already had. It is still a remarkable document.)

Nina Turner - Chris Cuomo - Hilary Rosen

In response, Rosen claimed - incorrectly - that King actually referred to the "silence" of white moderates and subsequently told Turner that she - i.e., Turner - doesn't have the "standing" to invoke King.

That as you would expect caused such a major reaction, enough that Rosen apologized on Twitter. This was her apology, in full:

On air Thursday I said my colleague @ninaturner didn’t have standing to use MLK Jr. That was wrong. I am sorry for saying those words. Pls no need to defend me and attack angry black women. They have standing. I always need to listen more than I talk. We rise together.

Which required Rosen to apologize again, this time for the racist trope "angry black women."

Okay, you say something offensive and stupid enough that you have to apologize, that's not good. When you have to apologize for your apology - yeah, you're a Clown.

As a footnote, Sanders called on Biden to apologize to Turner for Rosen’s remarks. Discussing that with Mehdi Hasan, a columnist at The Intercept, during his show on Friday, Cuomo noted that Rosen doesn’t work for the Biden campaign; she has just endorsed him.

Hasan responded by saying “A lot of the ‘Bernie bros’ who are accused of using bad language, they don’t work for Bernie either, but the media and a lot of the Democratic candidates insisted Bernie take responsibility for them. So why the double standard?"

Which is a really good question - except that, if you think about it for a moment, it pretty much answers itself.