Friday, far-left “comedian” Bill Maher released a clip from his defunct “Politically Incorrect” show from 1999 that show Tea Party darling Christine O’Donnell claiming to have “dabbled in witchcraft” as a teenager. What’s interesting here is that Maher clearly uses this as a form of “blackmail.” Ostensibly this seems to be to try to force her onto his show, but the actual purpose is obviously to damage her political career.
Hey, whatever, it’s what one expects from Hollywood… torpedo the chances of any politician that doesn’t fit their mold.
However, it’s the choice of blackmail subjects that surprises me: to Maher, and much of the Left that is getting off on this, having been involved with Wicca is a laughable idea. But would they have laughed as hard if O’Donnell had instead said that as a teenager she’d dabbled with Islam? Or Buddhism? Or Hinduism? Clearly, the Left hates Wiccans.
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Many of explored alternative religions. I even visited a Quaker meeting. Most girls in the 60s to the 80s “dabbled” in Wicca, if by that one means that they talked with some Wiccans, perhaps went to a gathering, or bought a book and discussed it with their girl friends. Wiccans never caused wars or killed for their religion. There are more important transgressiona. How may girls under 18 did Bill Maher fuck?
“Teat Party”?
Ooops…
She was telling the story to bolster her fundamentalist born-again cred.
It’s standard playbook, “I used to do a lot of awesome badass shit, drugs, fast women, satanism, motorcycles, but then I found JESUS and that is why you should come to my megachurch.”
She was a good few years behind the times though, the Moral Panic crowd had pretty well burned out on the Metal music puts Satanists in every daycare thing by the mid 80’s.
Pffft, she should go on. She can ask Bill Maher to explain this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094834/
Wow. This O’Donnell chick has the leftards terrified, its nearly as bad as Palin, only in the lower 48.
And Doug is right. Someone should answer for that piece of cinematic crap.
She seems to have a problem figuring out if she’s a dabbling in Wicca stuff or in Satanism. See talks about covens and witchs, then hops over to Satanic altars with blood on them.
Although the Satanists might view the Wiccans as fellow – if really wimpy – spirits, the Wiccans are really pissed off with her for equating them with Satanists:
http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2010/09/no-christine-odonnell-witches-are-not-satanists.html
What’s really interesting in her remark is something no one has mentioned yet.
She says she had this date with a witch.
Now, either she means a warlock, or this story has some _really_ interesting aspects about it that I want to know more about – especially what was on the menu at that “midnight picnic” they had on that altar. 😀
> She seems to have a problem figuring out if she’s a dabbling in Wicca stuff or in Satanism.
Probably because she “dabbled” in it no more than was required to nail some guy… if that far. She is, after all, a politician, and her anecdotes are not to be trusted.
Something else of interest to me… it seems that many of the same people who wanted to “Move On” from Clintons’ innumerable scandals while those scandals were still fresh, now want to dredge up some bit of teenage meaninglessness… that was *mentioned* eleven fricken years ago.
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“Probably because she “dabbled” in it no more than was required to nail some guy.”
Considering she said it was a witch, not a warlock, she was dating, can we be sure it was a guy?
Anyway, this will be complete poison for the religious right, where even toying with a Ouija Board can put you under Satan’s power, much less having midnight picnics on a Satanic altar on a first date…without, I will have you note, a chaperon being present at that hour of the night.
I like the part where she didn’t know it was a Satanic altar at the time…I imagine she thought it was a really cool dinner table with a funny star design thingy on it, maybe some blood stains here and there from poor cleaning after eating very rare steaks that were cut up with that silver dagger, or could it be maybe be red wine that got spilled from that silver chalice?…and the Lord’s Prayer written on it…apparently by someone who didn’t know it very well, as they got all the words backwards.
There’s the beginning of an entire Cherry Poptart cartoon story right there alone. 😀
I ended up with a wiccan roommate in the Air Force (circa 1990), and the term “witch” was used in a unisex fashion such as the word “actor” being applied to men and women alike.
Despite the wiccans’ claims they don’t proselytize, he gave me a book to read and attempted to foster some interest. I was a confirmed agnostic and saw it as alien as anything else. There’s a lot of sex and homosexuality wrapped up in it, according to the information presented to me, and it appears they tried to be gender-neutral to some degree.
Witch and warlock are not gender-related terms, and warlock has very negative connotations. It is generally used to refer to someone who betrayed a coven in some way (usually by turning them over to reglious authorities back when the church ran the show), and any wiccan who actually knows anything about the faith will get very annoyed with you if you use the term to refer to them.
As for O’Donnel, I’m surprised they’re going off about witchcraft. Them being the home of the “anything goes” moral relativists, I’d expect them to be utterly ambivalent about a few circle-gatherings and instead focusing on her odder conservative Christian views (masturbation, for example).
Witches around this blog, huh? I should have suspected that with all the cats…;-)
Anyway, the Huffington Post has peeled itself away from Lindsay Lohan’s drug problems long enough to note the pissed-off Wiccans:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/20/wiccan-community-upset-wi_n_731694.html
I think that O’Donnell must go on The 700 Club and allow herself to be weighed against a duck to set the Religious Right’s minds at ease about her.
Funny, Pat, the”religious right” you keep referencing are all racist Democrat a$$holes. Every single one of them. Why is that?
And spare us your fake a$$ed fake Eurotrash outrage. You spew Democrat Party racist talking points as if someone was shoving them up your a$$ with a broken broom stick. Try expressing your love and devotion for Marxist Socialism in your own words. We love laughing at that mentally defective sh*t.
I’m still getting a kick out of being described as “Euro-trash” despite the fact that my family on my father’s side emigrated to the US from County Mayo Ireland around 1845, and on my mother’s side from Cornwall, England around 1760.. as my grandmother was a member in good standing of the “Daughters Of The American Revolution” who always served “tea time” at 3 pm in North Dakota, because although it was 3 pm here, it was 4 pm out on the East Coast where the “civilized” people lived. 😀
And BTW, Brianna – having been a warlock around 30 years ago, I take that description of us as a personal insult.
Turn you into a newt if you don’t watch out. 😉
A “Witch” is a “Witch” no matter the gender, I don’t recall any of the various forms of “Wicca” that use the term for male. (Since I don’t speak Klingon, I can’t say for sure what their gender terms are if any 🙂 )
As for an “effect” if any of O’Donnel’s background far from hurting with the RR, (or the assumed “Republican-Base” if you will 🙂 ) anyone gets more milage out of being “born-again” if they profess to have “fallen” for some sort of “Satan-inspired” religion/cult/belief prior to finding the “true” way again. In O’Donnel’s case she seems to be (as noted) “distancing” herself from the statement which is rather odd given her overall attempts at presenting herself as a “Very-Conservative-Christian” candidate.
Pat: You may have been a “Warlock” @30 years ago but that doesn’t matter to the fact that the word originates (correction for Brianna BTW 🙂 ) from the Scottish-Celtic word meaning “oath-breaker” and wasn’t (and isn’t) applied by the practioners of witchcraft (or Wicca) but by the Church. Who first used it to label renegade, or outlawed priests who were accused of breaking their oaths of feality to the Church itself. Since “practicing witchcraft” and “Satan worship” were part and parcel of most denouncments the label became linked in general usage afterwards.
If you still feel insulted over this you may feel free to turn me into a Newt… I’ll get better 😉
(For those who are “missing” the point here, the “weighed against a duck,” “turned into a Newt” and “I got better” lines all reference Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Randy