{"id":9079,"date":"2010-11-11T08:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T08:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/11\/religion-teabagging-irresponsi\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T08:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T08:44:23","slug":"religion-teabagging-irresponsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/11\/religion-teabagging-irresponsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion + Teabagging + Irresponsible Reporting = ROFLMAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7UAeSsvHhTg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Wow.  Just wow.  It just keeps going and going.  And going.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/that_rocket_was_probably_a_con.php#c2918590\">wfr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RT America broadcasts from studios in Washington, DC. We report on the other side of the story, not making any conclusions, but raising the unanswered questions.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to watch news reports, features and talk shows with a totally different perspective from mainstream American television. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like I said.  Irresponsible.<\/p>\n<p>The woman speaking is a scientoligist. So are these people, according to one source on the internet (which may or may not be accurate*):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> John Travolta &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Chick Corea &#8211; influential American jazz pianist and composer<\/li>\n<li> Brandy (Norwood) &#8211; R&#038;B singer, actress<\/li>\n<li> Tom Cruise &#8211; actor, movie star<\/li>\n<li> Nancy Cartwright &#8211; voiceover artist best known as voice of &#8220;Bart Simpson&#8221; on The Simpsons<\/li>\n<li> Jason Beghe &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Xavier Deluc &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Jason Dohring &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Michael Fairman &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Geoffrey Lewis &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Christopher Masterson &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Danny Masterson &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Haywood Nelson &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Eduardo Palomo &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Jeff Pomerantz &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Patrick Renna &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Giovanni Ribisi &#8211; (a.k.a. Vonni Ribisi) actor<\/li>\n<li> Michael D. Roberts &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Bodhi Elfman &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Jason Lee &#8211; actor and professional skateboarder<\/li>\n<li> Kirstie Alley &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Mimi Rogers &#8211; actress (2nd generation)<\/li>\n<li> Anne Archer &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Jennifer Aspen &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Catherine Bell &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Erika Christensen &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Jenna Elfman &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Katie Holmes &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Kimberley Kates &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Juliette Lewis &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Priscilla Presley &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Leah Remini &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Marissa Ribisi &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Michelle Stafford &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Karen Black &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Kelly Preston &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Kate Ceberano &#8211; actress and musician<\/li>\n<li> Judy Norton-Taylor &#8211; actress and musician<\/li>\n<li> Lisa Marie Presley &#8211; singer; daughter of Elvis Presley<\/li>\n<li> Billy Sheehan &#8211; rock and fusion bass player<\/li>\n<li> David Campbell &#8211; musician<\/li>\n<li> Dave Davies &#8211; musician<\/li>\n<li> Isaac Hayes &#8211; musician<\/li>\n<li> Nicky Hopkins &#8211; musician<\/li>\n<li> Mark Isham &#8211; musician<\/li>\n<li> David Pomeranz &#8211; musician<\/li>\n<li> Rob Thomas &#8211; musician<\/li>\n<li> Patrick Warren &#8211; musician<\/li>\n<li> Edgar Winter &#8211; musician<\/li>\n<li> Beck &#8211; singer (a.k.a. Beck Hansen)<\/li>\n<li> Carina Ricco &#8211; singer, actress, composer<\/li>\n<li> Gloria Rusch-Novello &#8211; singer, writer, composer<\/li>\n<li> Karen Nelson Bell &#8211; producer, director and musician<\/li>\n<li> Robert Zoller &#8211; author<\/li>\n<li> Floyd Mutrux &#8211; screenwriter, director, producer<\/li>\n<li> Terry Jastrow &#8211; TV producer and director<\/li>\n<li> Peter Medak &#8211; film director<\/li>\n<li> Carl W. Rohrig &#8211; (a.k.a. Pablo Roehrig) painter<\/li>\n<li> Franca Cerveni &#8211; radio and television announcer<\/li>\n<li> James T. Sorensen &#8211; photographer<\/li>\n<li> Keith Code &#8211; motorcycle racing instructor<\/li>\n<li> Megan Shields &#8211; physician and author of health books, incl. Arthritis: The Doctor&#8217;s Cure, etc.<\/li>\n<li> Chaka Khan &#8211; singer<\/li>\n<li> Sonny Bono &#8211; singer (&#8220;Sonny and Cher&#8221;), U.S. Representative<\/li>\n<li> Mary Bono &#8211; widow of Sonny Bono; U.S. Representative<\/li>\n<li> Heber Jentzsch &#8211; President of the Church of Scientology<\/li>\n<li> Ernest Lehman &#8211; screenwriter of The Sound of Music<\/li>\n<li> Greta Van Susteren &#8211; host of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren new show on FOX TV<\/li>\n<li>REMOVED<\/li>\n<li> David Miscavige &#8211; important Church of Scientology religious leader; chairman of the board for Religious Technology Center<\/li>\n<li> Jim Johnson &#8211; owner and founder of Mr. Jim&#8217;s Pizza chain<\/li>\n<li> Lee Purcell &#8211; actress, Big Wednesday, etc.<\/li>\n<li> Michael Wiserman &#8211; Predator 2, etc.<\/li>\n<li> Gary Imhoff &#8211; actor; Thumbelina, etc.<\/li>\n<li> Manu Tupou &#8211; actor and acting teacher; Hawaii<\/li>\n<li> Dror Soref &#8211; director; The Seventh Coin, etc.<\/li>\n<li> Amanda Ambrose &#8211; singer, vocal teacher<\/li>\n<li> Milton Ketselas &#8211; one of Hollywood&#8217;s most successful acting teachers, who heads the Beverly Hills Playhouse<\/li>\n<li> Jim Rogers &#8211; celebrity producer, manager (ex-husband of Mimi Rogers)<\/li>\n<li> Linda Blair &#8211; actress best known for The Exorcist<\/li>\n<li> Arnaud Boetsch &#8211; tennis player<\/li>\n<li> REMOVED <\/li>\n<li> Sharon Case &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Glenn Zottola &#8211; trumpeter<\/li>\n<li> Andrew Loog Oldham &#8211; writer<\/li>\n<li> Dick Zimmerman &#8211; celebrity photographer<\/li>\n<li> Jeffrey Tambor &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Eddie Deezen &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Corin Nemec &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Anita Mally &#8211; actress, screenwriter<\/li>\n<li> Julia Migenes &#8211; opera singer<\/li>\n<li> Lightfield Lewis &#8211; actor, director<\/li>\n<li> Charles Lakes &#8211; Olympic gymnast<\/li>\n<li> Laura Prepon &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Helga Wagner &#8211; jewelry designer; dated Prince Charles and Sen. Ted Kennedy<\/li>\n<li> Deborah Rennard &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Sofia Milos &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Placido Domingo, Jr. &#8211; singer<\/li>\n<li> Robert F. Lyons &#8211; actor and drama teacher<\/li>\n<li> Carolyn Judd &#8211; ad writer and producer<\/li>\n<li> Paul Haggis &#8211; screenwriter, story editor, TV producer<\/li>\n<li> Josele Garza &#8211; racing car driver from Mexico<\/li>\n<li> Lenny Macaluso &#8211; musician, songwriter, producer<\/li>\n<li> Phillipe de Henning &#8211; racing driver, fashion designer<\/li>\n<li> Milton Katselas &#8211; acting teacher, director<\/li>\n<li> Maxine Nightingale &#8211; singer<\/li>\n<li> Mario Feninger &#8211; composer and concert pianist<\/li>\n<li> Jeffrey Scott &#8211; script writer, grandson of Moe Howard<\/li>\n<li> Pamela Roberts &#8211; actress, clothes designer<\/li>\n<li> Elena Roggero &#8211; Italian singer, songwriter<\/li>\n<li> Karen Nelson-Bell &#8211; producer<\/li>\n<li> Lamia Khashoggi &#8211; wife of wealthy and famous Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi<\/li>\n<li> Noelle North &#8211; dancer, voice-over actress<\/li>\n<li> Misha Segal &#8211; composer<\/li>\n<li> Andrik Schapers &#8211; singer from Netherlands<\/li>\n<li> Cass Warner &#8211; writer<\/li>\n<li> Jason Lee &#8211; actor (&#8220;Chasing Amy&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li> Michelle Stafford &#8211; actress (&#8220;The Young and the Restless&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li> Denice Duff &#8211; actress (&#8220;The Young and the Restless&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li> Lynsey Bartilson &#8211; actress (&#8220;Grounded for Life&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li> Tom Fair &#8211; (a.k.a. Tom Feher) lyrcist for the 60s rock group the Left Banke<\/li>\n<li> Moon Martin &#8211; rock star; &#8220;Bad Case of Lovin&#8217; You&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> Clive Clerk &#8211; actor, singer<\/li>\n<li> Jim McMullin &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Michael Wiseman &#8211; child actor (&#8220;Predator 2&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li> Ludwig Fisher &#8211; actor and artist<\/li>\n<li> Ryan Paris &#8211; singer, musician<\/li>\n<li> Michael Schnitzler &#8211; violinist<\/li>\n<li> Peter Winsnes &#8211; actor<\/li>\n<li> Eric Sherman &#8211; director<\/li>\n<li> Peter Schless &#8211; composer, synthetisist and producer<\/li>\n<li> Diana Venegas &#8211; beauty queen; Miss Venezuela; lace-gowns boutique in Beverly Hills<\/li>\n<li> Jackson Sousa &#8211; Hollywood celebrity trainer<\/li>\n<li> Michael Sellers &#8211; concert pianist<\/li>\n<li> Susie Coelho &#8211; actress<\/li>\n<li> Hans Gunter Arenz &#8211; race car driver<\/li>\n<li> Fermin Sanchez &#8211; race car driver<\/li>\n<li> Kit Carson &#8211; motorcycle racer<\/li>\n<li> Al DiMeola &#8211; jazz musician<\/li>\n<li> Janet Greeson &#8211; owner of Diet Centers<\/li>\n<li> Willie B. Wilson &#8211; oil billionaire<\/li>\n<li> Tony Morales &#8211; drummer with the Rippingtons<\/li>\n<li> Hossam Ramzy &#8211; North African percussion ensemble leader, played with Peter Gabriel<\/li>\n<li> Amanda Rice &#8211; (formerly &#8220;Raven&#8221;) stripper; previously Kiefer Sutherland&#8217;s girlfriend <\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adherents.com\/largecom\/fam_scientologist.html\">source<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, hell, I might as well throw this in too:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vJB2Woe5zeQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>*If you are on this list, and are not a Scientologist, refer to the link above to locate the source and let them know.  You can also let me know and I&#8217;ll take your name off the list.  Or, you can threaten legal action against me, and then you&#8217;ll get my form letter to all people who threaten me with their lawyers, and your name will remain on the list until I hear from said lawyer, and am convinced that it is a real lawyer and not just you pretending to be your lawyer .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Just wow. It just keeps going and going. And going. Hat tip: wfr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2mr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}