Army of Dog

Just when the Jeremiah Wright story seemed like it might die for a while, the Rev. Otis Moss III compared media coverage of the Wright controversy to lynching. I don’t want to sound egotistical, but it’s almost like Reverend Otis woke up on Easter morning and said to himself “What’s the most hopelessly retarded thing I can utter today so that Brett has something entertaining to write about following an otherwise slow Easter weekend? I know, I’ll compare reporters asking about my predecessor’s prestigious ‘God Damn America’ sermon series to racists hanging black people in the South fifty years ago. Cuz their like the same thing anyway.”

In a sunrise Easter sermon, Rev. Otis Moss III never mentioned Wright by name, but implied that his mentor, who has delivered sermons in which he likened the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan and declared it damned for its “state-sponsored terrorism,” is facing the same challenges Jesus did.”No one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching,” Moss said.

“The lynching was national news. The RNN, the Roman News Network, was reporting it and NPR, National Publican Radio had it on the radio. The Jerusalem Post and the Palestine Times all wanted exclusives, they searched out the young ministers, showed up unannounced at their houses, tried to talk with their families, called up their friends, wanted to get a quote on how do you feel about the lynching?” he continued.

Seriously, this actually makes me want to go to church in the hope that ministers all across the country will collectively realize that they can say almost anything and still be less crazy than this stupid bastard.