From Lewis Black The A.V. Club (interview):AVC: Will politics and religion be separated like that again any time soon?Lewis Black may get me in trouble with Bunny.
LB: Between [Mike] Huckabee telling me his word is the word of God and Obama's pastor, who apparently has his own 24-hour channel now—
AVC: Jeremiah Wright.
LB: You put that guy on for 24 hours a day? I leave CNN on when I'm sitting there trying to get rid of e-mail, and he was on every eight minutes. Can you believe this is the news? It was just clips of him talking somewhere, and then him talking somewhere else… I've never seen anything like that. It will end up hurting Obama, because everyone says, 'Why did he stay in the church?' I can't imagine that anyone who was in politics would sit in a church where a guy was talking about that stuff on a regular basis. How many times did Obama go?
AVC: Maybe he was a Christmas-and-Easter guy.
LB: Kathleen Madigan said to me that if it were a Catholic church, it wouldn't have mattered, because no one would have been awake. And Hillary's telling me she's praying. I don't need that. I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track. Where are we going? I pick up the paper every day, and it's like, 'Are you kidding me?' And it means no one is paying attention to the issues. There's this watershed where the media is beginning to stop paying attention, and John McCain is saying things that are insane, that you can't allow a candidate to say. Every other day, you'll listen to him, and he'll say something, and you'll go, "What? Did he just say that? No, he didn't say that."
AVC: What was your reaction to the Pope's visit?
LB: The good news was that somebody who was completely irrelevant arrived in the United States and was made relevant again. It was stunning. I have friends who are Catholics, and half of them were like, "Well, it is the Pope," and the other half were like, "I've spent years trying to get away from that son of a bitch." My mother was literally apoplectic, because it's like voodoo. You might as well have had a guy from Haiti come over with bones around his neck and cut off chicken heads in front of everybody, and everyone just goes, "Woooo! Look at that! That's phenomenal!"
No honey.....Lewis Black might get you in trouble with
God though. He and the Pope are tight like that.
As far as I am concerned it's all peace, love, happiness
and a really good bbq sandwich. No one can be unforgiving
after eating a yummy bbq sammich.
