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Colbert Lampoons TN Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey For Calling Islam A Cult (VIDEO)
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TPM reported this week on Tennessee Republican gubernatorial candidate and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, who described Islam as a "cult" that may not count when it comes to religious freedom.
On his show last night, Stephen Colbert took a look at the Tennessee Republican primary race, and was taken aback by Ramsey's comments: "Yes. He just called Islam, the world's second largest religion, 1.5 billion people, a cult."
"Him, not me," Colbert was careful to clarify. "I believe Islam is the one great and true cult, praise be to Allah and the Nikes he wears. All glory and honor to the comet that hides his spaceship."
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creo13
July 29, 2010 10:44 AM
You know this is some funny stuff when even Colbert can't keep a straight face during his skit, I mean, report.
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July 29, 2010 11:16 AM in reply to creo13
Someone call 911 for me. I think I laughed so hard that I hemorrhaged something.
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July 29, 2010 11:21 AM
Well, it is a cult. And so is Christianity, and so is Hinduism, and so is Sikhism, and so is Mormonism, and so is Scientology... all religions are cults, they're just called religions because they're bigger. Small religions are cults.
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toddincabo
July 29, 2010 1:21 PM in reply to George
yep
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fivetonsflax
July 29, 2010 11:22 AM
Mr. Marceaux seems to have something wrong with him. I guess I can't really appreciate the humor in making fun of the mentally handicapped. Sorry to be a wet blanket.
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OhioMan
July 30, 2010 7:12 AM in reply to fivetonsflax
He put himself out in public as a candidate for office. We can make fun of him as much as we want!
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July 29, 2010 11:25 AM
Please win Marceaux.com. This would be worse than Alvin Greene.
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RobertSeattle
July 29, 2010 11:28 AM
George: Cult + 100 Years = Religion
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July 29, 2010 12:25 PM in reply to RobertSeattle
Exactly. Well, cult + 100 years + your followers not being killed by the other cults = religion.
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mythbuster
July 29, 2010 1:33 PM in reply to George
Cult + 100 years + your followers not being killed by the other cults + you start a TV Network that calls everyone else a cult = religion.
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Ugg the Repug
July 29, 2010 3:59 PM in reply to RobertSeattle
Beat on rock to make thunder stop = caveman larval religion
Beat on womens, gays, brown people, children, otherwise believers = Fully developed religion
Har har halleluah.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:33 PM
Wow, another progressive defending Islam...nothing new here...see ya!
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susanthe
July 29, 2010 1:49 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Freedom of religion means you're free to be a Christian!!
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 2:03 PM in reply to susanthe
Are Muslims free to establish Islam as the official state religion?
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SeattleJoe
July 29, 2010 12:50 PM
Cults are protected by the first amendment in any case.
Why do Republicans hate the Constitution so much?
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Joekuh
July 29, 2010 1:04 PM in reply to SeattleJoe
Because it fights against everything they stand for?
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rhallnj
July 29, 2010 1:05 PM
Modern Republicanism strongly smacks of cultism, in fact.
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glblank
July 29, 2010 2:40 PM
Now we know what happened to Brian Doyle Murray.
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JerseyCurmudgeon
July 29, 2010 9:16 PM
From "Soapdish" (1991) -
Montana Moorehead: YOU - promised me you would get rid of Celeste. WE WERE BOTH NAKED AND YOU PROMISED! NAKED!
David Barnes: Hey! We were never naked.
Montana Moorehead: Well, we could have been!
"Well, we could have been!" is the new standard of Republican thought.
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OhioMan
July 30, 2010 7:11 AM
I swear, every single clueless, brain-dead, inbred idiot in this country becomes a conservative. They have a total lock on morons! And with the moron voting bloc getting larger with each passing year, perhaps they are onto something!
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