Rick Warren Pizza Story Shocking Update

December 22, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Media 

As Los Angeles Metblogs reported, the normally very reliable Rawstory.com picked up this column’s “Rick Warren Likens Gays To Pizza” story as real. They’ve since removed the link but RS reader’s comments dealing with the gays-to-pizza controversy remain.

Now I’m not saying that the Pizza column wasn’t fact-based, nor am I saying that Warren doesn’t have a closeted obsession with pizza, but the fact  remains that Rick Warren’s rationale for backing Prop 8 by comparing gay marriage to a pedophile’s desire to marry children or brothers marrying sisters is just as irrational as likening gays to pizza.

In October, West Hollywood officials felt the need to offer a public disclaimer concerning this site’s story on their possible ban of Sarah Palin drag queens in their Halloween parade.

Why? I know it sounds absurd, but it wouldn’t be a surprise and considering the political climate such a possibility might be real.

I, in fact, issued my own public apology because, #1. I didn’t want to hurt West Hollywood’s parade attendance, and more important #2. I couldn’t think of any other idea for a column that day.

For you kids who are looking for a well-unpaid career in the satire biz, you might want to consider the Warren pizza story as a nice template on how satire works at its best. Pointing out the absurdity imbedded in the truth that, while not necessarily hysterical, it is close enough to the truth, that it could actually be fact. That, ladies and gentleman, is the power (and sometimes confusion) of satire.

Of course, in many cases, you’d have to be an idiot to actually believe it to be the truth. But enough about talk radio.

Bam!

See what I did? I added on the well-heeled caveat that idiots believe talk radio and then I mixed it into a dissertation on satire, making it somewhat challenging to figure whether I was being truthful or pulling your chain…which, if you believe talk radio, is exactly what I was doing.

See, I did it again.

But the point is, forget having a man of the cloth who is supposed to unite rather than create mythological analogies, fears and differences between people being fertile grounds for satire, the idea that such a man who flourishes in these gaps in logic is the right person to represent the Almighty or Barack Obama on January 20th, is in the least, absurd.

Steve

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One Response to “Rick Warren Pizza Story Shocking Update”

  1. Ken Werlein on June 9th, 2009 10:48 pm

    Funny, you say “man of the cloth” when he’s all about wearing Hawaiian shirts to appear just like everyone else.

    ~Ken (from KenWerlein.com)

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