Frank Schaeffer appreciation thread

[Juche]

His stuff on Maddow is great. His honesty and bullshit detector are sorely lacking in our mainstream media. I don't get to watch Maddow much (I usually get his stuff on the PV forum), so I'm checking out all of Schaeffer's vids over the past few months.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPwGV1h4lW8&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E1SLJgATvM&feature=related

[csziggy]

1. He is terrific and takes no prisoners

It is refreshing to see someone who has no hesitation saying exactly what he thinks about the religious whack jobs and their insanity.

:applause:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Absolutely

[Janice325]

3. Please add me to the Frank Schaeffer appreciation train.

The guy is truly amazing. It's been ages since I've seen such passion and lack of bullshit or pomposity.:thumbsup:

k&r

[mzmolly]

4. .

[EFerrari]

5. And he's a great speaker, too.

:kick:

[grantcart]

6. Frank is the real deal

[Joe Bacon]

7. Thank you Frank!

Add me.

[BadGimp]

8. He speaketh the truth

[abq e streeter]

9. a brave, honest and intelligent man

[BeyondGeography]

10. Bless him...He wrote one of the most stirring pieces ever about Obama

A timeless bit of political, cultural and character analysis after his speech on race:

Senator Obama has a problem: the hardening of the American heart, the closing of the American mind, the shriveling of our souls, the shrinking capacity of our imaginations, our jaded senses, the seen-it-all attitude that makes us into sneering voyeurs too mean spirited to save ourselves.

...Obama is the chef who opens a new restaurant and serves honest good and beautifully prepared food made of the most wholesome ingredients only to have the food critic pan his offerings as "all too ordinary." "Where," asks the seen-it-all jaded bored critic, "are the calf's brains marinated in truffle-soaked baby duck's testicles?"

Obama offers civility in the midst of a drunken national bar fight. Obama speaks in complete sentences, well-turned paragraphs, offers thoughts with intellectual depth, nuance, humility and compassion. Obama is a reasoned essay cast before sound-bite swine who seem ready to tear anything that falls into their sty to shreds.

By providence or blind luck, we are being given a second chance. In Obama our founders appear once again stepping from the mists of time to offer a wayward great, great grandchild an opportunity for redemption. But everything is turned on its head. Good is called bad. The greatest things about Obama are used against him, decency and transparency are mocked.

...Obama is worth fighting for. He is worth losing old friends for. History has thrown America an unlikely lifeline. Do we have the decency, the sense, the last glimmer of sanity needed to open our hearts to change?

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/this-good-friday-let-us-n_b_92645.html

[Doctor_J]

16. Excellent read. I missed that during the campaign.

Nice link

[SpiralHawk]

19. Excellent

the k and the r

[JohnnyLib2]

11. Yes! More, please.

[PoiBoy]

12. "The election broke their brains..."

Frank Schaeffer quoting Bart Simpson on Democracy Now and The Rachel Maddow Show...

:hi:

[optimal-tomato]

13. He brings a sledgehammer to the religious right.

And he swings it in wide arcs.
Prisoners are never taken.

...Damn, this thread is making me realize how awesome he is.

[Shallah Kali]

14. I am very glad his warnings about how dangerous the radical right is finally getting near-MSM notice

These aren't laughable loons but serious people who really DO want to take over America and have been making slow inroads for years from school boards on up to getting Palin as VP nominee and all around rabble rouser.

[Faux pas]

15. I've found a new hero-Tell 'em like it is Frank.

[StopTheNeoCons]

17. He really let loose on Rachel's show, he is a big asset...n/t

[donco6]

18. I remember him when he was a fundie.

It's kinda amazing to see his transformation.

His father, Francis, was not the whacko nutcase type you see so often today. I admired him in many ways. The book "L'Abri" really started pulling me out of fundamentalism and got me to begin thinking for myself. It still took a long time, but it was a start.