Happy Hour Vid: Is Doritos Mocking Christians? (The Atlantic Wire)

Doritos ad: 'God obviously has a sense of humor, he gave us the Democrat party'
"God obviously has a sense of humor, he  gave us the Democrat party," quipped Lars Larson, a syndicated radio host and Fox News contributor. Larson took the shot at Democrats as he slammed  a Controversial Doritos ad that is taking heat for allegedly mocking the  Catholic Church, being anti - Christian. Megyn Kelly made the point that if anyone did an ad, like the Dorito ad, mocking Islam, there would be a deafening outcry from the Muslim community.  In the ad, a priest is ag...

Foxs Megyn Kelly Hosts Doritos™ Versus Catholic Church Debate
Beloved munchie product Doritos has declared war on the Catholic Church- or so some devotees are interpreting their latest commercial, which depicts priests substituting the crispy corn snack for the Eucharist, and giving a sort of Doritos Communion. The ad, produced for the Super Bowl, didn’t quite make the cut,  but that doesn’t mean it’s not riling up the faithful. The idea for the ad, as Megyn Kelly explained to her audience on America Live today, was that the Church...

Video: The obligatory fan-created Doritos Super Bowl ad mocks Christian rite clip
Note well: This isn’t an ad that Doritos is running in the Super Bowl, just one that they posted on their website (and refused to remove) after a fan submitted it for their contest with Pepsi. The bad news? Even to an ex-Catholic like me, it feels cheap. Blasphemy in defense of principle, like free Speech, is welcome; blasphemy in the service of humor can be fun. Blasphemy to sell bags of Cool Ranch chips? Eh. They have every right, but aside from Richard Dawkins and maybe Hitch, whoR...

Doritos Pulls "Anti-Christian" Ad
The "Jesus tastes like Doritos" ad I mentioned a couple of days ago has been pulled from the Super Bowl advertising contest and Fox News is delighted. Labels: advertising, religion, silliness New! Share this on Facebook: Share ...

Does 'Psshh' mark the spot for Super Bowl glory? Orlando man hopes so
"Psshh" – pass it on. You might help an Orlando man get his commercial featured during the Super Bowl. Brandy Gill made a commercial called "Zero Calories? Psshh," and it's now one of 10 finalists in the Crash the Super Bowl Challenge. The Psshh spot cost $30 to make. Gill, 36, directed his co-workers over a lunch hour, and co-worker Wes Sumner shot the commercial. "It took about an hour to shoot, and we did the editing in an hour on my Mac," Gill said. "Start to finish, we were done in t...

Doritos Ad Offends Christians
In what may be another ad campaign gone awry, Doritos is featuring a new Super Bowl advertisement in which a priest, searching for ways to return to the church, has a supposedly brilliant idea: Replacing the host wafer with a Dorito. While the denomination of the church is unclear, what is clear is that most Christian denominations consider the host to be a big portion of communion and might find the commercial, titled "Feed your flock!", insensitive. A spokesman for Frito-Lay told The Examiner ...

FTF?
Are Pepsi and Doritos mocking Christianity? Frannie Boyle of the Student Free Press Association has the story: One of ten finalists in their Super Bowl commercial competition entered a blasphemous little clip called “Feed the Flock.” In the commercial, a parish priest decides to start distributing Doritos and Pepsi products instead of Holy Communion in order to increase mass attendance. This commercial is not meant to be taken seriously, but I hope those running the competition under...

Did Nancy Pelosi Speak Too Long During Boehners Ceremony? Brit Hume Thinks So
Fox host Megyn Kelly and her viewers were wondering whether it was customary for the outgoing Speaker of the House to give a Speech during the swearing in ceremony for the new Speaker? Fox’s senior analyst Brit Hume was on hand to provide his historical perspective that he remembered past Speakers only provided very brief comments, if they spoke at all. However, the trailblazing first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi had other plans. Pelosi gave a lengthy Speech where she thanked ...

Eric Simpson: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Christian Understanding Of Grief
There is a somewhat aging caricature of masculinity that turns weeping into a source of shame, as though someone who cries lacks courage or the integrity to hold himself together. On the other side of the gender line, the caricature is of the hysterical, emotional and irrational female, who weeps senselessly and at anything. However, aside from the flawed notion of the Stoic male repressing emotion, or the implied sexist assumptions of the out-of-control woman unable to contain herself, grief ...

Colson at Rick Scott prayer breakfast: civic duty before government
Rick Scott and Jennifer Carroll were raised up in the prayers of Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy at Florida A&M University on the morning of their inauguration, then Christian conservative writer and former Nixon White House aide  Chuck Colson turned the spotlight on everyone else. “Pray for the Governor. This is a big day for him. But don’t expect him to have all the solutions,” said Colson, who advocated that citizens renew a sense of civic duty, c...

Chasing the dragon. Straight into Hell.
A group of Evangelical decry the Environmental Movement as “The Cult of the Green Dragon”: “Around the world, Environmentalism has become a radical movement,” Christian Talk Show radio host Janet Parshall said in a promotional video for the series. “Something we call the ‘Green Dragon.’ And it is deadly. Deadly to human prosperity, deadly to human life, deadly to human freedom. And deadly to the gospel of Jesus Christ.” But when Murfreesboro enviro...

Russell Pearce Versus J.T. Ready in Dennis Gilman's New Video
Pearce vs. Ready: The Dennis Gilman video Who's more credible: Arizona's best-known neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, or state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce? Watch Dennis Gilman's latest, and you be the judge. In it is some never-before-seen footage of Pearce endorsing Ready for Ready's 2006 Mesa City Council run. I obtained the footage from a confidential source. It was part of some pro-Ready campaign material handed out to folks back in 2006. I've already exposed Pearce's presence at Ready's bap...

Pope brings toys, books to kids in Rome hospital
Pope Benedict XVI, center, delivers his blessing during his weekly general audience, in Paul IV hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI has brought stuffed animals, books and candy to Children with spina bifida who are being treated at a Rome Hospital. Benedict brought the gifts to mark Epiphany, when Catholics believe the three kings brought gifts to the newborn Jesus. Benedict told the Children and their families that he wanted to be like the kings and give the childr...

Pope brings toys, books to kids in Rome hospital
ROME - Pope Benedict XVI has brought stuffed animals, books and candy to Children with spina bifida who are being treated at a Rome Hospital. Benedict brought the gifts to mark Epiphany, when Catholics believe the three kings brought gifts to the newborn Jesus. Benedict told the Children and their families that he wanted to be like the kings and give the Children gifts to show his love and affection. The children, many in Wheelchairs, gave Benedict little statues of the three kings and som...

Parishioners hold out in shuttered church
By order of the bishop of Camden, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Malaga should be dark and silent, its pews empty, its doors locked. But on Tuesday, a small band of parishioners sat huddled in its unheated sanctuary, praying a defiant rosary on the first full day of a vigil they hope will keep their tiny Gloucester County parish open. "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners . . . ," a dozen voices recited in unison. They say they will not leave until Bishop Joseph Galante r...

Chris Kelly: Buck McKeon's Mormon Holy War in Afghanistan
California congressman Howard "Buck" McKeon is the next chairman of the House Armed Service Committee. He doesn't have any Military experience - he spent the Vietnam era on a Mormon missionary retreat and a twenty-nine year quest (1956-1985) for a BA from Brigham Young - but he did bankrupt his family's western wear company, so he knows how to order shirts no one wants. You can see why he's the perfect man to oversee America's Trillion-dollar defense Budget. Granted, he's a coward a hypocrite ...

Muslim World League declares jihad against cinematic depictions of Muhammad
I don't know what they're talking about. What cinematic depictions of Muhammad? For years I've tried to interest filmmakers in a movie version of my book The Truth About Muhammad. I think it would make a great movie, but everyone I've spoken to about it values his head more than the prospect of a great movie. Free Speech Death Watch Alert: "Islamic Group Declares War on Religious Films," by David E. Miller for the Media Line, January 5: An international Islamic organization has declared war o...

Primitive blasphemy laws a curse on Pakistan
With the summer sun bearing down on the agricultural heartland of Pakistan, farm worker Asia Bibi dipped her cup into a communal water bucket to quench her thirst. According to various accounts, an argument immediately ensued as Bibi, a Christian, was accused by her peers of making the water impure. As she rose to her defense, Bibi was accused again of blaspheming Islam and insulting its prophet. After 18th long months in Prison, she was sentenced to death by a District Court judge who based his...

Today America Is Restored (Got Rid Of the Vagina Speaker)
Newly unearthed documents show the ACLU was founded by CommunistS in 1919. This fact is truly shocking because why would anyone want to overthrow Capitalism during the golden age of Child Labor? [The Daily Caller] Muslims are slated to show up in the next Narnia movie, where thanks to the PC police, they will capture the lion-Jesus and slaughter him Halal-style in some CGI fantasy-mosk to serve at KFC with tzatziki sauce and pita. [Big Hollywood] Amazingly, KFC’s haute-cuisine MAY be hal...

Liberals are completely deluded about Islam in Britain and the existence of sectarianism
The English Defence League in action (Photo: PA) Liberal Conspiracy has a post playing down a story about conversions to Islam, one which almost perfectly encapsulates the liberal delusion over Islam: But more striking is the generational change the survey reveals. While 76.3% of people say they were raised as Christians, only 43.7% of people now identify as such. The real story, when it comes to British religion, is the number of people converting to godlessness. And while 2.3% of people were...

Bernard-Henri Lvy: How to Save the Christians of the Middle East
Begin with the presidential? Strauss-Kahn, far and away the best Candidate? Fabius, who might come to the fore by default? The great cadaver, that, in the absence of desire or capacity to change, one will have to try to resuscitate? Start afresh this new year with the Sakineh affair and the cynicism of the judge-cops who multiply the sideshows, the orchestrated false confessions they intend to present as progress in the passage from death by stoning to hanging? Expatiate upon the double accusa...

Fee waiver plan 'may be dropped'
Does Rioting change anything? Student leaders say the government may drop proposals to pay first year Tuition fees for students in England qualifying for free school meals. Ministers expressed support for the plan ahead of the Controversial vote to raise fees to up to £9,000 a year. But NUS president, Aaron Porter, said the committee developing the proposal might now let universities choose how to support poor students. The government said the student support plan was still under discussio...

FL Bar Wants Stemberger Disciplined for Misconduct
You may recall John Stemberger, president of the Florida Family Policy Council, from his involvement a few years back as the Rifqa Bary saga was being played out in Florida, when he used short-lived role as Bary's attorney as an opportunity to recklessly sling allegations that her Muslim parents had ties to Terrorist organizations and that she had been physically and sexually abused by family members. The Florida Bar asked the state Supreme Court to discipline Orlando lawyer John Stemberger for...

"it wouldnt be a Republican majority if they werent taking an African-Americans voting rights away"
From David Dayen of Firedoglake, whose election coverage I enjoyed, comes what may be the first Race Card played during the Boehner era (emphasis mine): The new House of Representatives will be sworn in at noon today. We have a pretty good sense of their schedule of events for the first few weeks before the State of the Union address, and because the Senate is leaving town (another brilliant Democratic tactical decision), they will have Congress all to themselves. First we’ll have the ado...

Soccer Player Marvin Morgan Tweets Death Wish To Fans
Aldershot striker Marvin Morgan was suspended on Wednesday and fined two weeks' wages for a Controversial tweet he posted after the team's 2-1 defeat to Hereford on Monday. Morgan was taken out of the game and booed while walking off the pitch. After the match, Morgan tweeted "Like to thank the fans who booed me off the pitch. Where's that going to get you! I hope you all die." According to the Guardian, the League Two club called the tweet "completely irresponsible" and said in a statement ...