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4/26/2011

Scary Larry O’Donnell: Jesus Favored a Progressive Income Tax

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 8:36 pm



Liberal atheists are so cute when they pretend to be pious.

“While Jesus may not have specified specific tax brackets, he was the first recorded advocate of a progressive income tax.”

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

I love the way Scary Larry phrases that. Jesus may not have specified specific tax brackets — but then, you know, maybe he did. You just don’t know for sure.

I could get all serious and spend time seriously refuting O’Donnell and his pious nonsense — Jesus told his followers to give all their money to the government, Larry? Really?! — but that would totally miss the point. He’s putting on a show. People mock Limbaugh for being a mere “entertainer” — but he believes what he is saying 100 times more than Scary Larry.

I have but one thing to say to the right Rev. O’Donnell.

Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.

49 Responses to “Scary Larry O’Donnell: Jesus Favored a Progressive Income Tax”

  1. well then Jesus was confuzzled

    happyfeet (760ba3)

  2. as i said to JD about the issue, you know most ministers in chistianity limit themselves to at most a 10% tithe.

    The taxman is not so beneficient…

    Aaron Worthing (73a7ea)

  3. From the lips of children

    Anga2010 (7cae31)

  4. Jesus wasn’t confused. He wanted people to give up all their material interests in order to follow Jesus. It’s something no one fully succeeds at. It has absolutely nothing to do with democrats forcing us to give the government money. That’s not charity to the poor in any way.

    What’s really sad about this video is how O’Donnell tries so hard to judge Rush as a bad Christian and beat conservatives over the head with the bible. All this bible thumping and hatred of people who actually are quite charitable. I recall Rush donating a huge sum of money to the Marine Corp Law Enforcement Association charity. He’s been pushing charity for many years. I don’t hear Rush do much bible thumping. Sure, he criticizes ‘liberals’ all the time, but does he claim to reinterpret Jesus’s words into a demand about some political theory it clearly didn’t authorize?

    If Rush does that, it’s so infrequently I’ve never heard it.

    The truth is that conservatives wouldn’t listen to Rush much if he were just bible thumping and judging people on a dogmatic basis. That kind of argument is boring. O’Donnell is boring. He can’t very well claim to be satirizing anyone, either. He’s just a boring unbeliever who pulled a hateful card that has been played thousands of times in the past, and never worked then either.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  5. Geez. This is who MSNBC replaces Olbermann with?

    Dumb and Dumber.

    Dana (4eca6e)

  6. From the lips of mental children

    Comment by Anga2010

    –Ftfy.

    Aaron Worthing (73a7ea)

  7. I agree with Dustin. Far to often when the left attacks the right they expose their ignorance about what the right thinks, says and does. They have feelings and beliefs about what the right is, but they are ignorant of the truth.

    tyree (84087f)

  8. No h/t ? 😉

    JD (318f81)

  9. O’Donnell, the man who HATES Mitt Romney BECAUSE of his Mormonism (and what a shocka! that his other favorite target is Beck) is the poster child for saying, “The New Civility? F*ck that!”

    Icy Texan (fb7f2c)

  10. Scary Larry should demonstrate his fealty and leadership by donating all of his monies to the government.

    JD (318f81)

  11. Somebody needs to remind Scary Larry of all the trouble Obama had putting together a cabinet because he couldn’t find liberals who did not cheat on their taxes.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  12. What tax rate did Barcky pay at?

    JD (318f81)

  13. 7.I agree with Dustin. Far to often when the left attacks the right they expose their ignorance about what the right thinks, says and does. They have feelings and beliefs about what the right is, but they are ignorant of the truth.

    There was a study recently in which conservatives were better able to understand and express the arguments of their liberal opponents — while liberals were less able to understand or explain conservative arguments, opting for straw-men and the like. Alas, I can’t find the link.

    aunursa (a2a019)

  14. You know what gets me about these people? They could easily say, hey, I think that we should all give more in the way of taxes, and I will lead the way.

    But they don’t. The superrich do that kind of thing sometimes, or have dodges that make it look that way. But I have never heard of a celebrity saying, hey, I think we all need to pay more taxes. So I just kicked in an extra 500K to the Treasury.

    They want other people to do it, while maintaining their own cozy little situation.

    I say: lead by example. Scary Larry needs to put his tax forms out there, and he needs to voluntarily increase his contribution to state, federal and local taxes by a hefty percentage. Because he ain’t poor.

    Since it isn’t a problem.

    Simon Jester (08af0a)

  15. Aunursa – there is evidence of that in almost every thread in the last week.

    JD (318f81)

  16. “While Jesus may not have specified specific tax brackets, he was the first recorded advocate of a progressive income tax.”

    Always nice to hear the perspective of borderline psychotics.

    Dave Surls (906734)

  17. There was a study recently in which conservatives were better able to understand and express the arguments of their liberal opponents — while liberals were less able to understand or explain conservative arguments, opting for straw-men and the like. Alas, I can’t find the link.

    Sounds too good to be true, yet it sounds like what we have all experienced here, doesn’t it?

    Patterico (c218bd)

  18. I got to see Larry at the hair salon a few weeks ago. It took me a while to figure out it was him.

    MayBee (081489)

  19. Is he a flouncy Poofter in person, MayBee?

    JD (318f81)

  20. “I got to see Larry at the hair salon a few weeks ago.”

    MayBee – Who’s hair was he cutting?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  21. Scary Larry, the Lefty Fairy has accomplished something that many people would have thought impossible:

    He has managed to make Olbermann look like the sane member of that network’s parade of clowns.

    Icy Texan (fb7f2c)

  22. Sounds too good to be true, yet it sounds like what we have all experienced here, doesn’t it?

    I browsed through the beginning of a book by George Lakoff, a Berkeley professor, in which the author was attempting to explain to his (presumably) liberal readers how conservatives think. And while some of his points were pretty accurate, I found myself shaking my head back and forth more than once, thinking “No, that’s not how the conservatives whom I know think.”

    aunursa (a2a019)

  23. Lackofff is a jackoff. That is all.

    JD (318f81)

  24. What would Jesus Cut?

    Quote: “In the Christian faith, the individual is commanded to love his neighbor as himself … (and) to act charitably and to help others… Nowhere in the Bible does God command Caesar to do a damn thing.”

    Fritz (ac48cc)

  25. In the book I referenced in #22, Lakoff suggested that all conservatives think like James Dobson and Fundamentalist Christians. Lakoff explained that conservatives follow the model of a strict authoritarian father who teaches his children obedience and discipline.

    From this he explained to his liberal readers that all conservatives think like this…

    “It is immoral to give people things they have not earned, because then they will not develop discipline and will become both dependent and immoral.”

    “What you have to do is reward the [prosperous] people … with a tax cut, and make it big enough so that there is not enough money left for social programs. By this logic, the deficit is a good thing.” [his emphasis]

    “Are conservatives against all government? No. They are not against the military … homeland defense … the current Department of Justice … There are many aspects of government that they like very much. They are not against government subsidies for industry. Subsidies for corporations, which reward the good people — the investors in those corporations — are great. No problem there.”

    In foreign policy, he explained that conservatives view the world as composed of adult nations (i.e. industrialized) and child nations (developing or undeveloped). Conservatives believe that we should “tell the children how to develop, tell them what rules they should follow, and punish them when they do wrong.”

    At the end of reading this I was just laughing.

    aunursa (a2a019)

  26. Mr. O’Donnell failed to supply the quote in context. In verse 41, Jesus said:

    “But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.”

    Worth only a few cents.

    The widow in question gave all she had. It was not taken as Mr. O’Donnell (and Mr. Obama) would assert.

    No, Larry, YOU need a bit more education in what Jesus said. But then, it’s so easy to take everything out of context.

    You do it all the time.

    navyvet (db5856)

  27. ___________________________________________

    Far to often when the left attacks the right they expose their ignorance about what the right thinks, says and does

    But look at all the liberals who aren’t even honest or accurate about themselves. I’m referring to the ones who call themselves “progressive” instead of liberal, and who can easily characterize something or someone else as “ultra-conservative” but rarely as “ultra-liberal.”

    The worse, most deluded thing of all about such people is their belief that leftist preferences and emotions emanate from a place of 100% authentic kindness, generosity, intelligence and sophistication.

    Mark (411533)

  28. “or you can follow the path of the damned, the choice is yours…”

    I don’t remember that bit in the IRS tax code.

    BTW, sign me up for the damned.

    Fritz (ac48cc)

  29. I ordered that book, aunursa. Looks interesting. Lakoff will get a percentage of the penny I paid, I suppose, but none of the $3.99 in shipping. I can live with that.

    I think we need to know how the enemy thinks. Lakoff thinks he is teaching that to Democrats. I think he will be teaching it to Republicans!

    Patterico (c218bd)

  30. navyvet,

    Nor does that sound very progressive.

    These are the sorts of points I would make if I were inclined to take Scary Larry seriously. Which I am not.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  31. But look at all the liberals who aren’t even honest or accurate about themselves. I’m referring to the ones who call themselves “progressive” instead of liberal, and who can easily characterize something or someone else as “ultra-conservative” but rarely as “ultra-liberal.”

    From the perspective of those who are positioned on one end of the political spectrum, the middle of the spectrum appears to be the extreme opposite.

    aunursa (a2a019)

  32. “From the perspective of those who are positioned on one end of the political spectrum, the middle of the spectrum appears to be the extreme opposite.”

    Come now. I’m a hard core right wing crazy, but I can still distinguish the difference between liberal Democrats and Stalinist commies.

    Sort of.

    Dave Surls (906734)

  33. Come now. I’m a hard core right wing crazy, but I can still distinguish the difference between liberal Democrats and Stalinist commies.

    Liberal Democrats believe police should not use torture.

    Stalinist commies are certain that Stalin did not use enough torture.

    Michael Ejercito (64388b)

  34. “Liberal Democrats believe police should not use torture.”

    They’re odd birds. They recoil in horror if a terrorist responsible for the murder of thousands of Americans has his poor little head shoved in a bucket of water, but they’ll fry 100,000 Japanese with atomic bombs at the drop of a hat.

    Taken as a group, they’re hard to understand…or take seriously.

    Dave Surls (906734)

  35. I really don’t know why the Lord God on High, or His Son, would – or should – particularly care about what our tax system is.

    JEA (43ecb3)

  36. Hypocrit, thy name (this time) is Laurence O’Donnell.

    Rochf (f3fbb0)

  37. In NY the progressives are outraged over a school superintendent being a secret union buster.

    Their tears keep me hydrated.

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  38. 28.“or you can follow the path of the damned, the choice is yours…”

    I don’t remember that bit in the IRS tax code.

    BTW, sign me up for the damned.

    Comment by Fritz — 4/26/2011 @ 10:50 pm

    One point I think everyone is missing is that, to a liberal, government is their god. It’s what they worship.

    Steve (95c09f)

  39. Wow, the Blush LimpBlah is now a reverend, he can take his place next to the other flakes like Jim Jones, Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggart, (all silly jimmy’s), Ted Haggard, Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Franklin Gramham (son of Billy), John Hagee, and we can’t forget the rev. Mike Huckabee. Maybe LimpBlah next sermon will be about the scripture “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and give to God what is God’s”, found in the good book. But alas we probably hear more or the same lies that we heard today. He is such a windbag.

    montana (d10380)

  40. montana, Rush is not the one making the claim his politics are right because Jesus said so. he’s the one being attacked for his politics not being Christian enough. As usual, it’s democrats making that kind of claim.

    BTW, if you think Jesus was telling you that Ceaser is entitled to taxes in the Bible, you are sorely mistaken. That is not what he was trying to say; he was explaining that it was a false choice of idolatry.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  41. Dustin – save it. “Montana” would not know an original thought if it whacked him/her/it in the forehead.

    JD (318f81)

  42. Montana, is a troll, maybe a full bore orc, not particularly incisive, then again the likes of Wright, Phleger, Wallis, all Marxist leaners around
    Obama, aren’t the mainstream either

    narciso (79ddc3)

  43. montana – You think Jesus taxed people? Really?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  44. Daley – “Montana” doesn’t actually think.

    JD (318f81)

  45. “I really don’t know why the Lord God on High, or His Son, would – or should – particularly care about what our tax system is.”

    See the Commandment against stealing.

    Dave Surls (ee4c90)

  46. “You think Jesus taxed people?”

    He taxes me every danged day, even though he’s currently on the KIA list, and has been for about 2,000 years.

    For the life of me, I can’t master that damned love your enemies thing.

    Dave Surls (ee4c90)

  47. I always find it interesting when non-believers speak for Christ.

    I also find it interesting when believers do the same. Not because they may be right or wrong, but because it is not ours to decide.

    Ag80 (6134b7)

  48. Montana is so original.

    DohBiden (15aa57)


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