Major League Baseball Prevented Another 9/11, Says Value Voters Speaker

[meegbear]

Bryan Fischer of the conservative Christian group the American Family Association floated an interesting theory about why there hasn't been a "Muslim attack" since Sept. 11 during his speech before the Values Voter Summit on Saturday.

"By God's blessing, we have not been hit by a Muslim attack since 9/11," Fischer said. "I suggest that in part, we have Major League Baseball to thank. You remember that the week after 9/11 Major League Baseball converted the seventh inning stretch from the singing of 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame' to the singing of 'God Bless America.'"

"Now 'God Bless America' is not just a song, it is a prayer. When we sing that we are inviting God to bless America, to stand beside her and to guide her through the night with a light from above," Fischer said.

"So for one brief, shining moment every night, Major League Baseball has converted our stadiums into cathedrals in which tens of thousands of ordinary Americans lift their hearts and voices as one and ask God to watch over and protect the United States," Fischer said.

"Ladies and gentleman, I think that those prayers have been heard and they have been answered," Fischer said.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/fischer_mlb_fans_singing_god_bless_america_during_7th_inning_stretch_have_prevented_another_911.php?ref=fpb

[no_hypocrisy]

1. That's quite a stretch of logic.

[RC]

18. Logic? Where did you get that from?

There ain't no logic there. It is someone's reality challenged fantasy. You know, your typical republican.

It would seem to me, that would invite another attack.

[Initech]

37. These people are black holes for logic.

To properly convey any logic in this guy's (or bigoted douchebag's) thought process would be to make one's head explode.

[Blue_Tires]

2. But when the Mets win it all again it will be armageddon, baby!!!

:nuke:

[NMMNG]

3. That man is batshit insane

Among other things.

[marmar]

4. Sounds like he took one too many foul balls on the head.

:crazy:

[LeftofObama]

5. What a f*ck*ng loon! n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

6. I'm going to throw up. n/t

[mwb970]

7. This is SO stupid I'm not even going to comment on it. /nt

[COLGATE4]

8. Obviously the shit doesn't fall far from the bat...

[Bucky]

9. Also there's been a lot of growth in the porn industry since 9-11. Does God like porn?

Let the facts decide.

[rfranklin]

10. Only if they sing God Bless America while...

doing the deed.

[Bake]

16. I'm pretty sure you could find that on the internet ...

Just sayin' ...

:hi:

Bake

[Ikonoklast]

41. Nope, it's The Gays.

Since more states are seeing the light now and more and more Gay people can get married, DADT is going the way of the Dodo with DOMA soon to follow, I'd have to say That Teh Gays have forestalled any terrorist attacks on our nation, through their strength of will and fortitude.


I want the AFA to send each and every Gay person in this country a certified letter thanking them for their service to our nation.


Along with two tickets to the baseball playoff game of their choice.

[Lucky Luciano]

11. Does he realize that he just said that in public? He has no clue how much he humiliated himself.

Fucking Moron.

[customerserviceguy]

19. Nope, he doesn't feel that way at all

There are a lot of people out there, you can't spend more than the first thirty seconds with them, and you know their religious persuasion. They make sure they make reference to their invisible sky-father as quickly as possible.

When they get in a group of the like-minded, they always try to outdo each other for the prize of "Most Pious". I guaran-damn-tee you he got an awful lot of amens to that. It will just reinforce him for his next really stupid observation.

[MFrohike]

12. So.....

Prevented another 9/11 but not Katrina, an economic meltdown, two floundering wars, and the reemergence of overt American racism? I was going to be really sarcastic, but the scale of it took the wind of out my sails. The guy's a moron.

[rurallib]

13. so what about november to april?

not many baseball games then.
except in latin america. places like venezuela. does chavez have the venezuelans singing 'god bless america?'

[Ian David]

14. It makes more sense than believing BUSH kept us safe. n/t

[Scuba]

15. Fischer clips: "Hate everyone".....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44738360

[Javaman]

17. Raising iguanas saved us from another 9/11

Okay, crazy, right? Stay with me here.

all the people who had and were raising iguanas all prayed really hard so another "9/11" wouldn't happen. So I thank them.

:banghead:

I also have this great anti-tiger rock. I have carried it all my life and have never been attacked by a tiger. Regardless of the fact that I have never been in an area inhabited by wild tigers. That's besides the point. I haven't been attacked!!!

[Tom Ripley]

20. Who knew that prayer had copyright protection?

[KamaAina]

21. What's a "Muslim attack"?

Is that like a heart attack? A spread attack in football? "Mars Attacks"? What? :shrug:

[nichomachus]

22. It's like a Big Mac Attack

[MisterP]

23. no prayer is that bouncy

[MilesColtrane]

24. Fischer probably thinks Harry Caray brought 9/11 on us.

Every time Caray said, "Holy Cow!" it was an intercession to Vishnu, a false god.

This angered the real Sky Daddy into sending crazed Saudis to attack us.

[ellie]

25. Yeah, okay.

[Scout]

26. not in Comerica Park in Detroit they don't sing God Bless America....

at least not last year and this year.

Seventh inning stretch is Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

:puke:

[hifiguy]

44. As it should be.

Anything else is pretentious claptrap. I instantly tune away from any game at which they televise the singing of GBA. The national anthem before the game is more than sufficient.

And the kook referenced in the OP needs Thorazine. Now.

[Scout]

46. agreed

just to be sure, my puke smiley in previous post was puking on the GBA singing, not on the Take Me Out to the Ballgame singing :hi:

[hifiguy]

47. I assumed that much!

:hi:

[Angry Dragon]

27. ...........

:popcorn:

[Worship Money]

28. So, that means

God refused to protect all the people who died because they didn't sing a ridiculous song. Or, that he would have allowed further disaster BUT for people singing this song.

Can these people be serious? The question is only party rhetorical. This is insulting and poisonous bullshit, beyond the obvious stupidity. This is in the same vein of those urban legends that "tell" of a woman who would have gotten raped in some alley except that she prayed and received a guardian angel, while another woman gets raped an hour later.

How about it being OUR turn to be insulted and offended over this stuff? It's so ironic that the fundies are the same crowd popping off about treason and insults and offense, and yet they spew more bile that fits those categories than ANYONE.

[Gemini Cat]

29. WTF?

That's one of the funniest things I've ever read. MLB has done a lot of great things, but that's not one of them. Where do these stupid fucks come from!?

[Politicalboi]

30. He should work on

Bachmann's campaign.

[Initech]

31. WTF is he smoking and where might I obtain some?

[LeftyMom]

48. You can definitely get some at AT&T park during a Giants game.

It helps to cover up the smell of the garlic fries.

[dembotoz]

32. in milwaukee we sing roll out the barrel--does that mean we pray for beer????

[Ikonoklast]

43. In Milwaukee, that prayer just might get an answer.

With your team's luck, you'll probably get boxed wine instead.

[DRoseDARs]

33. I think the victims of the anthrax attacks would beg to differ ... if they weren't dead. n/t

[RoccoR5955]

34. WTF is this guy smoking?

I could use some of it once in a while!

[nichomachus]

35. Maybe they should play God Bless America

before every airplane flight. Then we could disband the TSA.

Also, I wonder if this Christian dickwad knows that God Bless America was written by Irving Berlin, who was Jewish.

[Warren DeMontague]

36. It also has prevented many a premature ejaculation.

Just sayin'.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. ...no one? ....no one?

C'mon. I was rather proud of that one.

[jmowreader]

38. When do they plan to demand the National Anthem be changed?

The part of the poem "The Star-Spangled Banner" that we sing does not contain one single reference to God. As a Christian Nation that's totally unacceptable, if you ask me, so you KNOW when the baggers finally seize control of the government they're going to change the Anthem to something written by a proper Christian and not that Jew Irving Berlin--hell, he doesn't even have a proper American name!

President Bachmann's first act in office will be to sign an executive order changing the National Anthem to Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA."

Which is a very minor item on the list of reasons not to vote for Michele Bachmann...and if that list gets any longer we're all going to have to buy larger forklifts to move it.

[Taverner]

40. Huh?!?!?!?!?!

This is flat out batshit crazy

[Initech]

42. Ok can someone tell me why we're not making fun of this?

Come on he's quoting the song verbatim, almost Shatner-esque:

""Now 'God Bless America' is not just a song, it is a prayer. When we sing that we are inviting God to bless America, to stand beside her and to guide her through the night with a light from above," Fischer said."

:rofl: :crazy:

[NoGOPZone]

45. The Mets haven't been to the World Series since the season before 9/11

Surely, this is the result of Major League Baseball changing the seventh inning stretch song.