Chuckie Watch 38: Chuckie's still got the *Passion*

And Chuckie likes it. What ole Chuckie don't like is hearin' folks criticizin' ole Mel's movie: Irresponsibility.

One thing about reading Chuckie, Regnery Press political hack and would-be Nashville Guru of Patriotic Correctness, is that you can see some rightwing ways of argument in their really elementary forms. The Rush Limbaugh Oxycontin crowd seems to be especially fond these days of making up straw-man arguments and then scornfully shooting them down.

For instance, Chuckie's got him a Jewish friend. And this here Jewish feller is "a very worldly and educated man" who "was convinced that upon seeing the movie [The Passion] some people who would go out and start burning synagogue." (No, those aren't my typos. It was Chuckie that left out the "there are" in that sentence. And Chuckie either meant a synagogue or he thinks "synagogue" is plural. You get used to this stuff reading Chuckie regularly.)

Then Chuckie rants for a bit and says:

Ok, we’re well into the release of the movie and where is the anti-Semitism? Or more importantly why hasn’t the media done anything to let the world know that it didn’t materialize? Why can’t they interview the same bunch of alarmists who started this fallacy in the first place and ask them what happened?

Now, Chuckie's mystery Jewish friend is the only person I've heard of who promoted this particular "fallacy" that people would rush out of the theater and burn synagogues. Or burn synagogue, however Chuckie wants to say it. And if nothing happened, that's not really news, now is it ... oh, never mind.

Where is the anti-Semitism? Well, Chuckie, I kind of think you wouldn't know it if you saw it.

Chuckie goes on with some mystical rambling that is worth checking out if you want to marvel at the product of Christian fundamentalist end-time pop theology.