Perhaps the largest crowd of the three-day event is assembled in the Regency ballroom. A very attractive woman steps up to the podium, flanked by 15-foot Orwellian screens of her welcome visage. She proudly declares that at age twelve, full of burgeoning religious conviction, she began a life of prayer, telling God “If you are real I want to know you.”
That burning conviction has stayed with her ever since. As a woman she’s finally met someone who has helped her realize what it means to know God. “His is the voice I hear saying ‘they shall know you by your deeds.’”
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome Norman Lear! Founder of People for the American Way, Truth and Life! Okay, maybe the introduction was more humble than that, but it was effusive and delivered by Iara Peng, who heads up Young People For — that’s the full name, Young People For — an organization “empowering the next generation of young progressive leaders” and funded by Lear. Either way, the famed TV producer and liberal activist is here to offer up his “Reflections on God and Country from the Left.”
Still quick-witted and spry at 85, Lear gets right down to business, warming up the crowd with a few jokes fit for nightly news commercials. In Lear’s expert opinion, America is suffering from “a massive case of electile dysfunction. Let’s all say that together.”
“A MASSIVE CASE OF ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION!” the crowd barks back. Can the man get an “amen”?
“I’ll donate $1,000 dollars to any organization that thinks they can come up with a more accurate description for the predicament we find ourselves in,” says Lear. “We’re in deep sh**.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome Norman Lear! Founder of People for the American Way, Truth and Life! Okay, maybe the introduction was more humble than that, but it was effusive and delivered by Iara Peng, who heads up Young People For — that’s the full name, Young People For — an organization “empowering the next generation of young progressive leaders” and funded by Lear. Either way, the famed TV producer and liberal activist is here to offer up his “Reflections on God and Country from the Left.”
Still quick-witted and spry at 85, Lear gets right down to business, warming up the crowd with a few jokes fit for nightly news commercials. In Lear’s expert opinion, America is suffering from “a massive case of electile dysfunction. Let’s all say that together.”
“A MASSIVE CASE OF ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION!” the crowd barks back. Can the man get an “amen”?
“I’ll donate $1,000 dollars to any organization that thinks they can come up with a more accurate description for the predicament we find ourselves in,” says Lear. “We’re in deep sh**.”
~ from Liberal King Lear ~
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