The Campaign That Keeps On Giving
Father Michael Pfleger's meltdown sermon was fascinating on a lot of levels. I couldn't take it seriously as a slap at Sen. Clinton from the pulpit simply because it was such a portrait of insanity. Offensiveness is deliberate, but this was a man going bonkers in public. You wouldn't be insulted by a loony street person spewing invective while hurling his own feces at passing traffic, you'd know he was deranged. Sane people wouldn't do that. Likewise with Pfleger. I noticed he's now "apologized" for his lunacy. An apology is meaningless in this case. How in the name of all that's holy can you apologize for that kind of over-the-top craziness? If he truly regretted what happened he'd have himself committed.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:34 AM
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I am not so certain that the Reverend Pfleger is deranged as much as he is misplaced. What I witnessed on television was not so much mental meltdown but what stand-up comics call “flop sweat.” The pastor seems to have wandered into Chicago’s leading Afro-American church thinking it was open mike night at a nearby comedy club. After all, it takes as much courage for a white man to play black in front of blacks as it took the sainted Richard Pryor once upon a time to play God as a WASP in front of an all-white audience. The laughter from the congregation heard off-camera seemed a combination of general amusement and embarrassed confusion. “What in god’s name is that lunatic honkie doing in our church?” Yes, I believe Pfleger career as a man of the cloth is finis, but his climb to fame as a stand-up is not.
Quite right, prof. The parody of the black preacher was another one opf those levels of fascination I was talking about. Now that you mention it, I can see him with his own sitcom.... um.... Pfleger?
Great cartoon, John C.
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