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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:08 PM
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James Dobson resigns as Focus on the Family chair
Source: AP

DENVER (AP) - The Associated Press has learned that James Dobson has resigned as chairman of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family.

Jim Daly, president and chief executive officer of the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based ministry, said Friday that Dobson will continue to host the organization's flagship radio program and speak out on moral issues.

The departure of the 72-year-old Dobson as board chairman is part of a succession plan. He founded the group in 1977.

Dobson began relinquishing control of the group six years ago by stepping down as president and CEO.


Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96K28PG2&show_article=1



He wants to spend more time with his "family"?
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:10 PM
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1. Gives him more time to beat small, defeneless dogs
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:12 PM
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9. or perhaps watch shows starring highly absorbent sea creatures.
:rofl:
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The Unknown Derelict Donating Member (79 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:13 PM
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10. Or perhaps....
Edited on Fri Feb-27-09 01:16 PM by The Unknown Derelict
...he wants to spend more time 'rehabilitating' Ted Haggard. :sarcasm:

Didn't he say it "could take 4 to 5 years"? :rofl:
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Rashel Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:54 PM
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29. I'll bet he's going to run for office. Maybe the GOP's next attempt to find a leader.
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JaneQPublic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:17 PM
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13. And to take showers with his son. (nt)
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:23 PM
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51. To show his son whar a real man looks like
Yet another :wtf: moment from Dobson, along with the torturing pets and caning infants.
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norepubsin08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:41 PM
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26. I took great offense when he did that!
I happen to have grown up with wiener dogs...they are smart and very loyal to those who love them, but can be very stubborn and nasty to those they perceive as a threat. Mine were wonderful!!!
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:11 PM
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2. I guess now he can focus on his own damn family!
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:11 PM
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3. once these nasty old men move on to the other side, these organizations will dissipate
and slowly lose their voice - I pray for an ushering in of open thought and compassion - something that his FOTF corporation does not participate in...

Matthew 7:20 "Therefore, by their fruits you will know them."
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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 03:15 PM
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41. these organizations will dissipate
Only to be replaced by others just like them.

There is no shortage of power hungry charismatic religious crusaders and the dupes who follow them.
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HillWilliam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 04:52 PM
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50. Or in the case of right-wing nutcult religion
By their own fruitloops shall ye know them... jessayin'
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Veritas_et_Aequitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:11 PM
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4. Hopefully this will be the beginning of their disintergration. nt
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tanngrisnir3 Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:11 PM
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5. So it wasn't fucking young boys, or methpiping his way to SpaceDixie?
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:11 PM
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6. dammit, I was hoping for some kind of scandal!
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:11 PM
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7. GOOD!
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T Wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:12 PM
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8. What sexual perversion is going to come to light very soon? These assholes never retire
voluntarily from their pulpits of hate.
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Mist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:57 PM
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31. Hmm, announced before the weekend to damp down whatever the scandal is? nt
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prostock69 Donating Member (365 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:59 PM
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OMG! You are probably right! They are preparing for something n/t
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curlyred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 02:04 PM
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33. Firtst thing I though was; who/what did he have sex with?
these guys are all the same.
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The Wizard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 04:14 PM
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49. He was probably
fucking Travis the Chimp.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:14 PM
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11. The empire he built will not long survive him
The younger generation might be able to run it day to day but lacks his fervor and charisma.

Eventually it will start to sputter and die, nothing left but looting and finger pointing.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:15 PM
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12. Run, little wiener dogs, run! He's coming for you!
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47of74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:18 PM
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14. I heard that and right away this began playing in my head....
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 03:05 PM
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39. That's funny. This is what began playing in mine...
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keroro gunsou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 03:20 PM
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42. i can't read italian
or music. please enlighten this unwashed mass.
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:19 PM
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15. They caught him showing his peepee to his kids in the shower?
Beating his dog to show the dog who's boss?

I knew some of that shit would come back to bite him.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 02:32 PM
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36. Lol. That was my first thought, too. I guess we'll find out.
What horrible man he is. There but for the grace of god.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:22 PM
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16. So is he going solo now? Usually that is what happens when the founder leaves the group.
He's probably looking to stir up more shit than he already has.
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DollyM Donating Member (837 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:32 PM
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20. I remember the days when he was a child care expert . . .
I bought his books, listened to his tapes, he actually wasn't half bad as a child psychologist. But it seems like that wasn't enough for him and he started going off on these weird political tangents and the child care books went by the wayside. At that point, I stopped reading his materials because, well, what was the point. It was like he tried to be an expert is something all of a sudden that he didn't have the training and background to do and it just all came across as very fake, futile, and ranting. I have been very disappointed in him since he went political. I think there are things that are callings and he was good at his calling of child psychology. When he wandered into politics, where he was not good and not prepared, it showed up and made him look like a buffoon. I wonder if he has finally realized that he did not have the calling for politics and he needed to quit while he was behind. Look at Ted Kennedy, you want to talk about a calling for politics, the man has has brain tumor and is still out there working away in politics.
Dr. Dobson needed to have realized his limitations and stuck with what he was good at instead of making himself look foolish in the field of politics.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:36 PM
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23. Yeah exactly.
Edited on Fri Feb-27-09 01:37 PM by Initech
I can appreciate people wanting to try new things but if they're good at something they should stick to it. When they try something they're bad at, usually makes it them look like idiots, and that is especially true in Dobson's case.
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Rashel Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:59 PM
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32. I'm thinking that's just why he may be leaving, to get MORE into politics.
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DollyM Donating Member (837 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 10:01 PM
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53. gosh, I hope not!
eom
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:23 PM
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17. I guess the scum-sucking religious right orgs aren't
pulling in enough bucks these days. The economy, you know. Folks aren't quite as willing to click that big DONATE button just now.

Buh-bye, now Jimmy!
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pattmarty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:24 PM
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18. Good bye and good riddance, jag off!!!!
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lynnertic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:30 PM
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19. uh-oh, what'd he do now?
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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:34 PM
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21. He doesn't have a direct line to Obama like he did with Bush
so he just gave up. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:36 PM
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22. Time for "Focus on James Dobson".
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gbate Donating Member (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:38 PM
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24. Good riddance, you old SOB!
.
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marshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:41 PM
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25. I wonder what he has his sights set on now?
I'm sure he'll surface again.
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vinylsolution Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:44 PM
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27. Good f**king riddance....
Edited on Fri Feb-27-09 01:51 PM by vinylsolution
.... with love and kisses from all of us here at EvolveFISH.com and TheLiberalStore.com

Can we please have our city back now? A smidgin of normality would make Colorado Springs liveable again.

We're all going out to get riotously drunk, and celebrate.... and we urge a liberated Nation to join us






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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:48 PM
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28. His method of encouraging heterosexuality in young boys was a classic.
As Dobson's theory went, fathers occasionally appearing naked in front of their young sons will make the boys value masculinity, and will prevent them from becoming effeminate.
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 02:58 PM
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38. oh no
Are you serious?
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 03:46 PM
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45. Serious.
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PatGund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 04:01 PM
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46. Yep!
http://web.archive.org/web/20051005221241/http://www.family.org/docstudy/newsletters/a0021043.cfm

"Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger."
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 10:28 PM
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54. Not only to appear, but to SHOWER with them.
The advice proposed that fathers take their sons into the shower with them where "the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger"

http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/James_Dobson#Shower_controversy
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 11:03 PM
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55. that would suck if it wasn't bigger...
Well for the dad anyway, funny for everyone else. :)
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 04:11 PM
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48. EEEEeeeeeeeeewwwwwwWWWW!!!!! Just sayin'.
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platanoman Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:55 PM
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30. great
didn't know he was still alive
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 02:06 PM
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34. The only honorable thing for him to do now is commit hari kari.
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keroro gunsou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 03:26 PM
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43. you want him to
become a crystal goose?

well that's ONE way for reading hari kari

i think the term you wanted was harakiri or seppuku... either way, it's a good job change for him. the world needs more geese.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 03:37 PM
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44. LOL. Okay, thanks for the correction.
So maybe Japanese isn't my strong point. :)
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 02:16 PM
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35. One of the worst persons in the world...EVER.
Ain't nuttin' xtian bout dat dar dobson.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 02:32 PM
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37. Can only hope this means money is drying up -- ????
Dobson is a stench, anyway now -- too well known.

But, more so, hoping for a scandal -- we could use another good Republican-perversion

scandal--!!!

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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 03:07 PM
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40. He may be out of the chair, but he's still its biggest ass.
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LiberalLovinLug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 04:08 PM
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47. It doesn't end with Dobson
I'm sure a storm of backstabbing, cut-throat maneuvering is going on at this moment behind the scenes at FOTF.

Another will rise to take his place....newer....stronger.....and charged up with a full tank of hot air.



"the future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves." John Connors

We must keep vigilant brothers and sisters, because more arrive and attack every day
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 07:40 PM
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52. Don't let the door hit ya...etc.
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Synicus Maximus Donating Member (828 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 11:12 PM
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56. Apparently he will keep broadcasting
his radio show. They say that he has just given up his place as COB so he won't have anything or at least less to do with the daily operations.
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 12:14 PM
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57. here's a story about james dobson, pat puke-annon and the rest
back during reagan era, john mcglaughlin had pukeannon and james dobson and some other tapeworms on the show discussing eating the life outta planet earth, and Time magazines 'man o the year' candidates for 1984 and after lots the usual rightwing hooey, Pukeannon advised that 'Willie Horton' be the one, as he'd effectively got people to think reagan somehow won the '84 election against the hippie dippy weatherman(?) or was that Satan In ALL his Glory? Whatever....anyway, a while after that, i was listening to the dobson show on radio, and he suddenly brought up the 'man of the year' mcglaughlin show when the different candidates were discussed. Dobson mentioned the names, then said Pat Puke-annon made an 'off the wall' suggestion (ie Horton)! So, in the guise of a precocious teenage rightwinger, born-agin to boot, very innocent and eager, I wrote dobson and told him I'd seen the 'man of the year' mcglaughlin program and understood from watching it that the panel on Mcglaughlin show were very embarrassed at the 'willie horton' smear on Dukakis, (mr hippy dippy weatheman?) which ruined the democratic party's campaign, and did dr dobson think we righties were so stupid that the basic racism and snake-in-the-grass tactics we republicans always use to win might be very annoying to the LORD, who knows exactly what's going on, and ...well 'shame on you' dr dobson i wrote to him, with the addendum that i no longer believed anything in the news because the rightwing christian side always seemed to lie and constantly committed outright larceny in the news reports misleading the electorate blah blah blah....dobson wrote back by hand that he understood my distress blah blah blah, but 'god's will be done' and keep up the blah blah blah....
fukking hellbound devil
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