I could never support any candidate who puts his or her religiosity forward as something that qualifies them to hold office. Christianity has had two thousand years to solve the world’s problems, and yet the Christian churches have created far more problems than they’ve solved. No theocracy was ever a bastion of human rights and intellectual freedom. So . . . I’ll pass on this guy.
His religiosity COMPLETELY aside, the man LIES THROUGH HIS TEETH! That interview was so saturated with mendacity, I wonder if any truth survived the event.
Marx needs to be outed by a major news outlet (no offense, Hemant!).
I know a couple of Dem candidates who are both pastors/ministers. Both are great people, and I'd be happy with either of them serving. They do discuss their faith perspectives, and use that to show why they'd be far better than the ministers the Reich-wingers have.
There are still Christian denominations that don't put forth a belief in theocracies. And many of them actively support separation of church and state. But they aren't as loud and well funded as fundies.
The same god authorises rape, mass murder, ethnic cleansing and land theft, so US Marines like Marx should feel right at home serving that god. See: invasion of Philippines 1898.
"The Reluctant Exorcist" sounds like a Don Knotts movie with Knotts playing a hyper-nervous priest who makes everything worse when he tries to summon demons out of people.
Yes. But someone should have sat him down and explained a few facts of life to him: He might have got away with having some dodgy claims in his CV if he were standing for the elections in Little Hamptonshire district borough council, but not if you're playing with the big boys.
If this idiot had ever watched anything other than The 700 Club, he would understand that interviews can sometimes be adversarial, and sometimes downright confrontational. Apparently he didn't know that.
And there was a price to be paid for his ignorance.
Ignorance - that’s a good word. Ignorance, meaning not knowing.
But - it’s just basic common sense that if you’re planning something you get yourself educated and also get yourself some good advisers. Especially when it’s something like standing for governor. That’s big league stuff, you’re playing with the big boys.
Pisspoor preparation … he deserves to fall flat on his face.
Reminds me of the time Ben Shapiro was exposed to real debate techniques, from a journalist who was a professional. He is a right winger in the UK but whiny Ben did his usual Gish gallop and it didn't work! Ben then threw a tantrum, accused the guy of being liberal, and pouted, Andrew Neil calmly gutted and filleted him. As he flounced out like Scarlewtt O'Hara, Neil fired the closing salvo, "Thank you for your time and showing that anger is not part of discourse in American politics."
Guys like Shapiro and even Charlie Kirk have little idea what a REAL debate looks like. I STILL would have loved to have seen a clash between either Charlie or Ben and someone like Aron Ra or Matt Dillahunty.
I was struck — in the 10 minutes I watched — how he frequently looked up and to the left before replying to a question. I vaguely recall something in Psych 101 fortysome years ago about what it might mean if someone looked up and to the left rather than the right but alas, I no longer remember the specifics. One of the directions might have been more abstract and the other more concrete. If that is true — and that’s a huge “if” — looking up and left might be the abstract as in “what kind of BS will work here” as opposed to the concrete as in “here’s the names of 5 countries we did something in”.
Anybody else getting phony Tim Ballard/Operation Underground Railroad vibes from this doofus? His whole schtick is a crock. Apparently, the current fad in right-wing christianity is to claim you're some kind of Winter Soldier on a mission to rescue women and children from trafficking. But every time, every damned time, these claims fall apart when a good reporter like Kyle Clark sticks the tiniest pin their bloated claims.
I'm not the least bit surprised this obvious fraudster is the republican frontrunner for governor of CO. Being a liar, a cheat and a conman is a prerequisite for republican candidates these days. After all, look who they've got at the top.
Marx is a hardcore MAGAt who supports a sexual predator who was friends with a child trafficker/pedophile and is quite possibly a child molester himself if one of his then-underage victims is to be believed.
Isn't there something rather delicious in a party who calls everyone who's even mildly in favour of a public safety net 'marxist' now putting forward a person called 'Marx'??
I doubt we'll ever see the last priest or the last king. What we might see someday is a time when both of them have been made irrelevant. Sadly, I suspect that day is a long time coming.
Ha, remember Ian Plimer? Before he sold out and become a climate change denying moron, he coined the term "Gishing", in honour of a creationist by the name of Gish (I forget his first name). It means to lie about a lie after you get caught out about the initial lie.
I had an acquaintance tell me on the phone that she spoke to a psychic type person over the phone and how amazingly she knew things (search engine, anyone). I’m glad she couldn’t see me rolling my eyes over the phone…..or did she? 😳😂
Years ago the local newspaper had an article about a local "pet psychic". The credulous scribbler who wrote it swallowed the whole pack of bullshit without a question. ("Your <dog/cat/goldfish> misses you when you're at work!) The "psychic" also did readings over the phone. My eyes rolled so far that I could see my frontal lobe.
"In short: There’s no universal number for “a bunch.” For most everyday uses, think 5–10 for people, 5–7 for bananas, 10–15 for kale leaves, and 60 sprigs for basil as common examples."
Anyone aspiring to serious political office knows that they've got to go through their public history and especially their social media and correct anything. They should by now know that not only serious journalists but also the opposition will crawl through everything, the opposition because they're looking for useful dirt and the journalists because they're looking for a story.
Also, anyone aspiring to serious political office should know to do some media training, so that they're prepared for some hard questions. Anyone serious about aspiring for office would sit down with their team and work out some responses for some of these hard questions. Yes, they might then sound rehearsed but that's better than sound utterly surprised by a simple question.
In Marx's case, it's going be tough going for him to get any rational adult to take his religious beliefs seriously. Especially that exorcism nonsense.
We can just leave all that exorcism nonsense aside, he’s just such an awful candidate. Why did he include all those claims in this campaign biography, did he not expect someone to go and make some checks? Or would that be ‘persecution’?
Victor is the kind of guy who thinks he can assert something and get it accepted without question. He clearly doesn't understand that no amount of belief makes something a fact. James Randi said that, and he was on point when he did so.
Gummo was hilarious when he performed with his brothers onstage.
And Zeppo was a riot. Once when he and a friend were in Zeppo's car, his friend was laughing so hard that he fell out of the car (luckily, the friend was unhurt).
I could never support any candidate who puts his or her religiosity forward as something that qualifies them to hold office. Christianity has had two thousand years to solve the world’s problems, and yet the Christian churches have created far more problems than they’ve solved. No theocracy was ever a bastion of human rights and intellectual freedom. So . . . I’ll pass on this guy.
His religiosity COMPLETELY aside, the man LIES THROUGH HIS TEETH! That interview was so saturated with mendacity, I wonder if any truth survived the event.
Marx needs to be outed by a major news outlet (no offense, Hemant!).
Deeply religious people always seem able to rationalize excuses for their lying.
Because the foundation of their existence is a lie.
Which billions of dupes (Marks) choose to believe.
Mass delusion is alive, well and living in Colorado.
Yeah they call it "Lyin' fer Jesus".
GMTA!
Plenty of precedent for that:
https://ibb.co/qLFqRt4w
"Lying for jesus" really is a thing.
It has begun to seem to me that major news outlets get their leads from people such as our Hemant.
Entirely possible!
To be fair, it’s how I first found this blog.
Persecution!
Oh, boo-hoo! Tell Victor to either suck it up or find another line of work!
Persecution is the goal. Be like Jesus!
I know a couple of Dem candidates who are both pastors/ministers. Both are great people, and I'd be happy with either of them serving. They do discuss their faith perspectives, and use that to show why they'd be far better than the ministers the Reich-wingers have.
There are still Christian denominations that don't put forth a belief in theocracies. And many of them actively support separation of church and state. But they aren't as loud and well funded as fundies.
Talarico & Warnock 👍
Pathological liar lies without cessation. Tell me again exactly how religion makes one a better person.
Marx should re-read his bible. His god despises liars.
The same god authorises rape, mass murder, ethnic cleansing and land theft, so US Marines like Marx should feel right at home serving that god. See: invasion of Philippines 1898.
Should remind them of the spectacular Charlie Foxtrot that was Vietnam.
A "reluctant" exorcist?
"The Reluctant Exorcist" sounds like a Don Knotts movie with Knotts playing a hyper-nervous priest who makes everything worse when he tries to summon demons out of people.
"Now Andy, I'm telling you Opie is possessed by a demon and we've got to nip it! Nip it in the bud!"
Spot on!
I've watched way too much of the Andy Griffith Show in my lifetime 😁
Shades of The Reluctant Astronaut. That's exactly the kind of thing Don Knotts could carry off in spades!
As a veteran of Knotts movies as a kid, I can see it/hear it clearly in my head. :)
I do. Knotts, Tim Conway, Bill Bixby...
A happy memory.
I do. He was in "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo."
Isn't it a Monthty Python sketch?
Which of the Gumby segments?
The head.
Brain specialist? Bashing himself in the head with two bricks?
(I honestly can't remember a Gumby sketch with the name Poly being evoked)
Amazing reporting and good on the reporter for being prepared.
But why wasn't he prepared? He or his team should have anticipated at least some of the questions and figured out what to respond.
Amateur.
He’s too used to having audiences who believe everything he says.
Yes. But someone should have sat him down and explained a few facts of life to him: He might have got away with having some dodgy claims in his CV if he were standing for the elections in Little Hamptonshire district borough council, but not if you're playing with the big boys.
If this idiot had ever watched anything other than The 700 Club, he would understand that interviews can sometimes be adversarial, and sometimes downright confrontational. Apparently he didn't know that.
And there was a price to be paid for his ignorance.
Ignorance - that’s a good word. Ignorance, meaning not knowing.
But - it’s just basic common sense that if you’re planning something you get yourself educated and also get yourself some good advisers. Especially when it’s something like standing for governor. That’s big league stuff, you’re playing with the big boys.
Pisspoor preparation … he deserves to fall flat on his face.
"Common sense ISN'T."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Reminds me of the time Ben Shapiro was exposed to real debate techniques, from a journalist who was a professional. He is a right winger in the UK but whiny Ben did his usual Gish gallop and it didn't work! Ben then threw a tantrum, accused the guy of being liberal, and pouted, Andrew Neil calmly gutted and filleted him. As he flounced out like Scarlewtt O'Hara, Neil fired the closing salvo, "Thank you for your time and showing that anger is not part of discourse in American politics."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3CtduQWt4c
Guys like Shapiro and even Charlie Kirk have little idea what a REAL debate looks like. I STILL would have loved to have seen a clash between either Charlie or Ben and someone like Aron Ra or Matt Dillahunty.
It would have been ... INTERESTING.
That part..
They are used to performing for low info people who just want to hear simple lies.
He figured “the Lord would provide” answers.
I was struck — in the 10 minutes I watched — how he frequently looked up and to the left before replying to a question. I vaguely recall something in Psych 101 fortysome years ago about what it might mean if someone looked up and to the left rather than the right but alas, I no longer remember the specifics. One of the directions might have been more abstract and the other more concrete. If that is true — and that’s a huge “if” — looking up and left might be the abstract as in “what kind of BS will work here” as opposed to the concrete as in “here’s the names of 5 countries we did something in”.
Christian bubble privilege.
Kyle is always prepared. It speaks volumes about his team that they let him do the interview.
I bet Marx rescued and killed no one and simply made the whole thing up to try to get into politics, don't you think?
Or to fleece the rubes, of course.
Anybody else getting phony Tim Ballard/Operation Underground Railroad vibes from this doofus? His whole schtick is a crock. Apparently, the current fad in right-wing christianity is to claim you're some kind of Winter Soldier on a mission to rescue women and children from trafficking. But every time, every damned time, these claims fall apart when a good reporter like Kyle Clark sticks the tiniest pin their bloated claims.
I'm not the least bit surprised this obvious fraudster is the republican frontrunner for governor of CO. Being a liar, a cheat and a conman is a prerequisite for republican candidates these days. After all, look who they've got at the top.
Marx is a hardcore MAGAt who supports a sexual predator who was friends with a child trafficker/pedophile and is quite possibly a child molester himself if one of his then-underage victims is to be believed.
So, again, just like Tim Ballard.
I suspect that Victor has a vivid and active fantasy life. 😁
So do I but I use it as fodder for writing novels instead of ripping people off like this fraud. XD
The guy who tried to rape all the women helping him on assignments? Absolutely. He sounds just like his phony ass.
Bingo! That's him!
Isn't there something rather delicious in a party who calls everyone who's even mildly in favour of a public safety net 'marxist' now putting forward a person called 'Marx'??
I prefer Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and Gummo. :)
"Say da secret woyd, the duck comes down, you win a hundred dollahs..."
Back when a hundred dollars was worth something.
I'd be so tempted to use 'Charlie' as a taunt if I were one of his opponents.
But it's likely to go over the head of many of the locals, I hear the American education system isn't that great ....
You lost me - what's the connection between Karl Marx and Canada?
This makes sense.
Poly and Gumby?
Pokey and Gumby? :)
And that is your Minimum Daily Requirement of Iron-y for today!
Iron-y poisoning is very painful.
Oh, BER-ROTHER! Lying liars lie even more when caught in their lies. And water is wet and it's a day that ends in "Y" and, and, and...
Someone tell me, please, when does it STOP? [Yeah, I know ... it doesn't]
It will stop when the last priest is strangled with the entrails of the last king.
Now that's the kind of bloodsport I'd like to see broadcast from the lawn of the White House.
With Trump as the last king and "choose-your-megapreacher" as the last preacher!
I doubt we'll ever see the last priest or the last king. What we might see someday is a time when both of them have been made irrelevant. Sadly, I suspect that day is a long time coming.
Hey! O like King Charles!
Ha, remember Ian Plimer? Before he sold out and become a climate change denying moron, he coined the term "Gishing", in honour of a creationist by the name of Gish (I forget his first name). It means to lie about a lie after you get caught out about the initial lie.
"CLARK: You also perform these exorcisms by phone. Are those just as effective?
MARX: They are."
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I had an acquaintance tell me on the phone that she spoke to a psychic type person over the phone and how amazingly she knew things (search engine, anyone). I’m glad she couldn’t see me rolling my eyes over the phone…..or did she? 😳😂
Years ago the local newspaper had an article about a local "pet psychic". The credulous scribbler who wrote it swallowed the whole pack of bullshit without a question. ("Your <dog/cat/goldfish> misses you when you're at work!) The "psychic" also did readings over the phone. My eyes rolled so far that I could see my frontal lobe.
"More than that, his responses suggest he’s not used to having to defend his own biography."
I suspect that if he does well enough in his campaign, the Repugs will make sure he has plenty of coaching.
He should have started his training by now ...
“ We’ve never publicly given the number out for security reasons. And we don’t have a need to. I would say it’s more than one and less than a bunch.”
It seems like Marx is quite a few tacos short of a fiesta.
How many tacos?
More than one and less than a bunch.
"In short: There’s no universal number for “a bunch.” For most everyday uses, think 5–10 for people, 5–7 for bananas, 10–15 for kale leaves, and 60 sprigs for basil as common examples."
I didn't see anything about tacos. 🌮🌮🌮
That’s because he is missing so many of them!!!
Why do I have to explain everything!!!!!
Is a short taco the same as a mini taco. Kwik Star has delicious mini tacos, and they come 6 in a bunch.
"CLARK: Giving a number would put people in danger?
MARX: Yes.
CLARK: How does the number put people in danger?"
Now this is your actual journalism, where follow-up questions that receive evasive answers show us all that these people are evil.
Anyone aspiring to serious political office knows that they've got to go through their public history and especially their social media and correct anything. They should by now know that not only serious journalists but also the opposition will crawl through everything, the opposition because they're looking for useful dirt and the journalists because they're looking for a story.
Also, anyone aspiring to serious political office should know to do some media training, so that they're prepared for some hard questions. Anyone serious about aspiring for office would sit down with their team and work out some responses for some of these hard questions. Yes, they might then sound rehearsed but that's better than sound utterly surprised by a simple question.
Amateurs!
In Marx's case, it's going be tough going for him to get any rational adult to take his religious beliefs seriously. Especially that exorcism nonsense.
We can just leave all that exorcism nonsense aside, he’s just such an awful candidate. Why did he include all those claims in this campaign biography, did he not expect someone to go and make some checks? Or would that be ‘persecution’?
Victor is the kind of guy who thinks he can assert something and get it accepted without question. He clearly doesn't understand that no amount of belief makes something a fact. James Randi said that, and he was on point when he did so.
It could be this is just a financial grift. Don’t know what made me think that.
This guy must be the Marx brother that nobody likes. I can’t understand why. He’s funny as hell. 🙄
His other brother Karl is a hoot also.
Funnier than Gummo?
Gummo was hilarious when he performed with his brothers onstage.
And Zeppo was a riot. Once when he and a friend were in Zeppo's car, his friend was laughing so hard that he fell out of the car (luckily, the friend was unhurt).
"If Marx ends up being the nominee, it could be the greatest gift Democrats could have asked for."
I feel like that's been said about someone else, not all that many years ago, possibly on the national level.
I might be forgetting how that all worked out, though.
My memory's not the best.
Ohhh, the grift and dishonesty in religion!!! I need to go grab a Rolaids!
You might want to get more than one! 😖