vovat | Stop doing that crime! (Reply)

Last night,

bethje and I watched a whole bunch of stuff she had taped over the course of the past few weeks. This stuff included:

A special on skinheads. At one point, one of them claimed that Hitler said he would rise from the grave in spirit. Now, I'm no Hitler expert, but that really doesn't strike me as something he would have said. As incredibly distrubing as the devotion that so many people had toward him during his lifetime was, I don't think he was deified back then, was he? And speaking of deities, one of the skinheads was praying to Odin.
A special on the KKK, which had some interesting information about the group's history. It's really messed up how accepted their ideas used to be, but that goes without saying, doesn't it? One thing they mentioned that I don't recall hearing much about in the past is how the Klan claims that they want to protect women.
A special (notice a trend here?) on cocaine, including a fair amount on how Freud once saw it as a miracle cure.
A clip of Bill O'Reilly discussing Rush Limbaugh's recent run-in with Customs, in which he was very careful not to say that the drug Rush had was Viagra. One of his guests spilled the beans about halfway through the segment, though.
A preacher telling kids how, if Jesus could endure the crucifixion, they can endure being mocked for throwing out their secular CD's and refusing to watch movies with their friends. (The "God does not want you to have outside interests" philosophy has always baffled me, but I see mentions of it every once in a while.) During his sermon, key words (like "crucifixion," "endure," and "spit") flashed up on a screen behind him.
An episode of Kids Against Crime, a public service program from the mid-nineties that they show on the religious station even though it doesn't mention God. (That preacher probably would have warned kids against watching it, due to its secular nature. :P) This is one of the most padded shows in existence. There was a brief clip of Hulk Hogan and Mr. T promoting it, which they played three times. And footage of kids in a classroom being directed by Meadowlark Lemon to say things like, "You guys don't have to do that crime" was played twice. Unique footage for this episode included a juvenile court judge who repeated himself a lot, and special guest appearances from Todd Bridges and Hammer (during the period after he'd dropped the "MC" from this stage name).