http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/04/the-ballad-of-rapert Comments On: The ballad of Rapert by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
What is there about the small minds of small people? The smaller the mind, the loonier the idea they embrace, the more fervently they clutch it, the crazier they (and their ideas) become. It's better to nip these folks and their ideas in the bud. Don't give them a running start.

I'd probably like Jason Rapert as a person. I'd love his bluegrass music. I'd even like his country gospel and his Holy Ghost preachin' until he (inevitably) elevates himself and his beliefs, just as Lucifer did (a "Luciferic complex", I call it) above the Most High.

How does he do this, you ask? Very simply. By "hearing" from the Lord that which others do not hear. By (thinking he has) a "direct" hotline to the Lord's mind. By being especially "chosen" for a work in politics, usually (and I see it here) with grandiosity. By then arrogantly presuming to impose his special and most "righteous" religious views on the rest of us.

We've seen it before in others far more skillful than Jason Rapert: this toxic brew stewing at the intertwining of religion and politics. It is dangerous whether it is Islamic fundamentalist or well-meaning evangelical Christians with a political agenda that they, in the grandiose legends of themselves in their own minds, confuse with that of God Almighty.

Maybe even God cannot save us from His zealots who do not answer to Him anyway but to the master in the other direction.
Posted by Cliff Jackson]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:57:21 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by RYD]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:21:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
1) he was intentionally 'dumbing down' for his FAUX Propaganda quality audience; those folks are dumber than dogs**t and he was playing to his audience (like fishing- successfully- with dung balls for bait)

2) the man believes himself to be the Messiah; he just doesn't know when to sit down and shut his pie hole

3) he hasn't a clue how government works, the relationship between the federal and state government, and what that document called the "U.S. Constitution" is and what it means

A prediction- sometime in the future we'll see in the news that RAPErt has taken the church crowd for millions of dollars with a Ponzi scheme or gambled away their retirement funds.

Yoohoo, Saline, Ev, I'm receiving death threats for my posts on the blog. Whatever shall I do?
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:13:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Grumpy Grizzly]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:32:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
Question- do you see yourself at the center of the universe?
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:43:37 -0600 Arkansas Times
If Moses were here today, he'd kick Jason in the balls and tell him "Let my people go!" If Jesus came back right afterwards, he would heal Jason on the spot and then kick him in the balls again, saying "Get thee behind me Satan." Mohammed would just laugh in his face and thank him for ruining the reputation of Christianity. Buddha would approach Jason with that stinking probe and say "Let's do unto him what he wants done unto others and see how he appreciates cosmic justice."

Jason is an ugly, a bad, a cretinous, a lying, faux Christian. The sooner he is removed from doing further evil in this world, the better off all of us will be. Conway: do not re-elect this raving asshole again.
Posted by Jake da Snake]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:59:42 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:56:31 -0600 Arkansas Times a troll bonus of paid by the word but caps each count as a word?

If there's one thing our Republic brethren know....You don't leave money on the table but it should be said that RPA and Koch Bros don't put much money on the table, only what is essential to get the necessary song n' dance.
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:08:11 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:47:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
Or has he negotiated a troll bonus of paid by the word but caps each count as a word?
Posted by Citizen1]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:38:43 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mountaingirl]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:36:25 -0600 Arkansas Times "We're more popular than Jesus..." I think was the spark to the torch for Southern radio station owners.
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:15:54 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Robert Addison]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:59:21 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:07:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
Rapert, on the other hand, goes off the rails with "Moslems" and "Prayer Breakfasts" and "Ramadan" and the rest. As Ramsey pointed out, this was 10 minutes after any discussion of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Rapert was clearly ranting about religious minorities at a rally where no one else was even discussing religion.

THERE is your context.
Posted by Infamous Amos]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:57:48 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mountaingirl]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:51:05 -0600 Arkansas Times http://youtu.be/qDVJbBZ-G_8

Rapert quotes only, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever," and goes on to suggest that Jefferson didn't support a separation of church and state, and that any such separation is not grounded in "laws" like the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. (That the Declaration was not a "law" does not seem to slow Rapert's rant down as uses the remainder of the spoken part of the clip to rail about the evils of abortion and how abortion makes him "tremble" for his country. Because he's just like Thomas Jefferson!)

In reality, the quote from Jefferson comes from the 1781 Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII: Manners, in which Jefferson, suggesting that slavery might ultimately lead to the downfall of the U.S., wrote: "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!" Jefferson spent the entire passage talking about the inherent evils and flaws of slavery; it had nothing to do with church-state separation. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library…
Posted by Infamous Amos]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:30:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
If you knew me, you would know I am about as far from "sheep" as it gets and you are one of the few people who have ever accused me of following the crowd. I form my own opinions on all matters. Just ask my husband!

News is on in our home about 12 hours a day, we have 5 computers, 3 i-phones with multiple news apps plus a "breaking news" alert, 3 vehicles with satellite radios programed to news stations, we subscribe to 5 magazines and one daily national newspaper..... so I don't think I am quite as uninformed as you might insinuate.

I have watched this video multiple times and I come to the same conclusion each time.

You and I disagree on this matter. No need to make it personal.
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:25:25 -0600 Arkansas Times
It could be a waste of ear candles. I suspect the problem goes deeper, like into the frontal cortex.
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:24:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
Maybe you need some minority folks to tout besides certified lunatics like Herman Cain and Allan West. They don't give you tolerance cred. They prove that crazy people are welcome in your party and considered heroes. I don't know enough about Tim Scott to judge. I will say a black republican from South Carolina sets lots of bells ringing.

Romney lost the women's vote by 16%. He lost the black vote by 89%. He lost the Hispanic vote by 47%.

Your national leaders have smelled the coffee and are trying to find a way to get you, Rapert, and others like the two of you to put a sock in it.
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:16:54 -0600 Arkansas Times http://youtu.be/PLrp_W3UhZk
Posted by Infamous Amos]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:16:45 -0600 Arkansas Times http://youtu.be/1iEwD7rohZg
Posted by Infamous Amos]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:12:31 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:08:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
RAPERT JUST TALKED ABOUT POLITICAL POLICIES IN HIS SPEECH AND NOT RACE. Why don't you do some homework and not act like sheep like the other liberals on the Ark Times blog?
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:53:53 -0600 Arkansas Times
As I was watching Rapert’s now infamous “pander to the white folks” rant again today on the KTHV noon news, it occurred to me that he looked very comfortable and well-rehearsed with these words, which probably means this is not an isolated situation.
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:37:05 -0600 Arkansas Times