Mark Morford: 'Age of Obama' Brings Global Decline of Tangible Evil


Last year columnist Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle turned himself into a national laughingstock with his comical claim that Barack Obama was some sort of "enlightened being," a messianic Lightworker. Here is an excerpt from Morford's "Lightworker" column that gives you a taste of his worshipful unintentional humor:

Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul. 

Although such Obama worship was widely mocked, it now appears that Morford has returned to the comedy stage with yet more praise of the "Lightworker" in today's sanity-challenged column in which he claims that the "Age of Obama" has caused evil to be on the wane. First Morford reminds of the time when evil predominated in the world during the nasty Republican era:

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Remember the good old days? When the air was thick like curdled paste and the days were long like sad, lonely sighs and evil -- sweet, dependable evil -- was like some sort of predatory perfume salesgirl and we were all trapped in the same apocalyptic department store?

It used to be so easy. Every day, every headline, every pronouncement or misunderestimation from Dubya brought a new opportunity for your colon to clench and your breath to turn sour and the universe's skin to crawl. A single glance at Karl Rove and you were instantly swarmed with visions of tiny worms eating through the flesh of a sweet little bunny until it turned black and rotten and Rick Santorum. You had but to utter the words "Trent Lott" in the presence of children and the screaming wouldn't subside for three straight days. Remember?

Oh, what a time it was. Evil was everywhere. Evil was a our global modus operandi, our de facto worldview, the way we brushed our teeth in the morning. Hell, evil was so prevalent, there was an entire axis of it. We had evil tyrants and evil dictators and evil mullahs, all lighting their Cuban cigars with a burning American flag, each hell-bent on out-eviling each other in some sort of wacky game of Pin the Tail on the Cheney.

Yes, evil prevailed back in those bad old days but now, in the Age of Obama, such evil is on a steep decline. Hallelujah, Brothers and Sisters! Praise be to The One!

But now, well, not so much. The Age of Obama has brought both a terrific upswelling of general positivism and a concomitant grand lightening up/toning down of outrageous verbiage and ranting extremism among the hotheaded-dictator set, and with it the strangest thing of all: an apparent global decline in overt, easily identifiable flameballs of tangible evil. 

See, the tyrants of the world have been humbled by the "integrity" and "preternatural calm" of the Lightworker:

And the evil tyrants? Struggling for relevance, mostly. Saddam's long gone, Kim Jong-Il is a batty coot, Iran's Ahmenijhad's bark is far worse than his bite, and even harmless thugs like Castro and Hugo Chavez are stunned to humble reverence by an American president who abides no such childish bulls--t and exudes actual integrity and preternatural calm. 

The way Morford paints it, you almost expect the world's tyrants to drop to their knees in Obama's presence and collectively shout: "WE ARE NOT WORTHY!!!"

Of course, just because evil is on a steep decline in the world in the "Age of Obama," Morford warns that we must still be on guard for it here at home due to the lingering existence of conservatives:

For Americans, evil still has to hit closer to home to make itself known. We must be able to reach right out and touch it (or, in the case of the GOP and its wild fetish for homosexuality, reach out and deeply fantasize about it). So, where to look? Wall Street? AIG? Right wing extremist fanavtics/O'Reilly Factor fans opening fire in abortion clinics and churches and Holocaust museums? A little. 

I hate to break it to Morford, but James W. Von Brunn, who opened fire at the Holocaust museum, wrote that he hated "neocon" O'Reilly.  But who am I to toss inconvenient facts in front of Mark Morford when he is on one of his rants?

How about religion? Strange to watch the Mormon church make a play for its little share of evil, by way of its sad, ferociously homophobic love of Proposition 8. It was a valiant try, but they have a long way to go before they can even approach the astonishing achievements of the Catholic church. 

Yeah, how about religion? Like a religion that worships Obama as a Lightworker. Or would that be better classified as a cult?

Morford concludes that despite the benevolent influence of the "Age of Obama" there is still plenty of domestic evil left for him to continue his Hate Week rants:

Hell, we still have Monsanto, ConAgra, Halliburton, Exxon, Archer Daniels Midland, Yum! Brands, Wal-Mart, most of the coal industry, Tyson meats, Fox News and the everpresent Catholic church, plus a few dozen others who will happily stop at nothing to maintain their long-standing evil empires, no matter what that damnable do-gooder president says. Isn't that reassuring? 

Yes, it is "reassuring" that Mark Morford can continue his psychotic rants against conservatives in the future even though they have become increasingly formulaic. We need to be entertained by his unintentional comedy. Hey, Mark! Tell us about the wonders of the "Lightworker" again! We need the laughs.

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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Wow.  Time to get off the

Wow.  Time to get off the lithium and look out the window once a while, Marky.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Movie

And then there was that "harmless" little movie about President Bush being assassinated a while back. It simply goes on and on and on to infinity

The left/MSM defense back then: "Well it's just a movie"

Helen Keller could recognize the blatant hypocricy of these liars and yet it still appears that the majority of the American People cannot.

What in Hell is wrong with us and are we not going to awaken before it is to late?

I INTENDED TO POST THIS IN THE NEXT PIECE BELOW AND SOMEHOW IT ENDED UP HERE AND MAKES NO SENSE IN RESPONSE TO THIS ARTICLE. I'M SORRY! 

cvg, No, We will sleep through the ending..

Movie-like, is how this nation is run now.

Bad guys whack good guys, and because good guys are good , they come back in the last 10 minutes, ( usually defying, all science) to finish off the bad guys.

Breaking the infrastructure in this nation is getting easer and easer every day. There is No coming back from that EVER.

Silly me, we have evolved now, all a person needs now is air and rainbows, breathe, yes breathe in good, again. Humming is optional.

cvg, Your comment fits here, just fine...

Reagan VS Carter and 0bama

Something's missing, PJ

I saw no mention of the rainbows and unicorns that precede the Lightworker's appearance....how can we be in fruitloop land without rainbows and unicorns?

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

You're mixed up, B....those

You're mixed up, B....those don't come before him, they come after him.....that's what he will bring to us if we follow his ways....

Everything will be both hunky AND dorey....

Anyone who hasn't seen this needs to hop over to Michelle Malkin's website....she's been having a poster contest for Obamacare....

Be sure to click on the "yesterday" link to see Round One also.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Thanks for straightening that out

Because I'm really, really disappointed about not seeing the rainbows and unicorns.  How long do you think it will take, hmmm?

<edit>  OMO, that link is the BEST I've seen in eons!

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

The Light worker

Do not be making fun of the Light worker..., I think I've noticed a slight decrease in flatulence since he assumed the mantle of "Dear Leader of All the People"

<sarc off>

'Wallets Surgically

'Wallets Surgically Removed' was my favorite...although I got a kick out of all of them...

What's sad is I fear this is coming...one way or the other before the mid-term election.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

I'll bet Morford's life is

I'll bet Morford's life is replete with conveniences and luxuries that came to him courtesy of the work of Monsanto, ConAgra, Halliburton, Exxon, Archer Daniels Midland, Yum!
Brands, Wal-Mart, most of the coal industry, Tyson meats, Fox News and
the everpresent Catholic church.  Liberals never seem to have the courage of their convictions.

On the other hand, I'll bet he adores Hormel's support of NAMBLA.  After all, love is a good thing, and they have "Love" right in their name.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

So Healthy Choice

So Healthy Choice (ConAgra) frozen dinners are evil? Who knew?  Damn, this guy is one sick puppy. 

depends on your definition

depends on your definition of evil - this guy's using the satanic dictionary i believe

Palin/Prejean 2012

And the evil tyrants?

And the evil tyrants? Struggling for relevance, mostly. Saddam's long gone, Kim Jong-Il is a batty coot, Iran's Ahmenijhad's bark is far worse than his bite, and even harmless thugs like Castro and Hugo Chavez are stunned to humble reverence by an American president who abides no such childish bulls--t and exudes actual integrity and preternatural calm.

 Saddam was hung through the actions of George Bush, and would still be alive if Obama had gotten his wish.

Kim Jong-Il was always a batty coot, but now is a nuclear-armed batty coot.  Congratulations, Lightworker; we are now one step closer to a Two-Sun San Francisco!  (that's not a good thing, by the way...)

Castro is dying because, among other things, nationalized healthcare kinda sucks.  Who knew?

Hugo Chavez is not harmless, because of the outsized economic force Venezuela can project through their oil exports -- and his knack for making Obama look like a buffoon.

In short, way2go -- Barackie, you're doing a heckuva job...taking credit for stuff you could not possibly have achieved.

Obama is a dandy

He is with urgency building new bridges to sleep under.

He is accelerating the list of prospects to sleep under them.. Kinda a pre emptive move to reduce crowded sleeping spots under bridges.

Evil on the wane???? How

Evil on the wane????

How does this square with the  increase in violence that they are predicting  now that Obama is President?

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

The Left cringed whenever the word "evil"

was used, yet, they hurl it around with reckless abandon.

This kind of nonsense from this terribly lost soul...

This kind of nonsense from this terribly lost soul could drown us.

Couldn't Read It All...

...as I did not want to spew coffee all over my keyboard and monitor as I puked from the outrageousness of Morford's words. And, to think he and others like him believe it is conservatives who have their heads in the sand.

--

We already have term limits. They are called elections. We can & should vote out those who do not represent & serve us! - Me

 

wow... THANKS

I didn't know that us who are deeply religious could not be spiritual.

Pass the Kool-aid please

Wow...frothing at the mouth, kool-aid snorting leftnut hysteria has run amuck!! And the sad thing is, idiots like this get to vote.

The sad thing is that a

The sad thing is that a paper (San Francisco Chronicle), any paper, would waste ink on such lunacy. But the paper is just as nuts as he is.

It's strange, isn't it, that at least some people subscribe to such nuttiness and read it every day.

I'd reather be waterboarded.

It's San Fran...

Where the new-age rhymes with sewage.

Here's the target audience, at the "Beach Impeach" event (check out the fruits and nuts in their tinfoil hats, literally waiting for the mothership, about half way down the page).  I love that website.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Oh barf

Good grief--what blather. I will never, ever, not ever, ever "see the light." My kid says I am so immune they could make a vaccine out of my blood.

I wonder what woud happen

if Miss Morford ever had to actually work for a living.

The Left was counting the seconds

until W was out of office; now that he is, they cannot shut up about him.

Messianic or Apostolic?

Great article on the Bamster's religious status:

"Not that Obama considers himself divine. (He sees himself as merely messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.) But he does position himself as hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him where ignorant armies clash by night, blind to the common humanity that only he can see."

Obviously a Krauthammer article, who else can write like that?

Barack Obama Surveys the World: http://www.washingtonpost.com

Hey Morford...

Thanks for proving that stupidity, ignorance, and evil are not mutually exclusive. The only 'spiritual' feeing I get from Barry is that I know evil dictators when I see them, and he is one of them. In four months he's turned a semi-free country into the National Socialist States of America (or, as one of my associates in the military points out, "he's done in four months what al Quaeda couldn't do in 15 years").  Things are only going to get worse from here, and we'll see more and more of this 'lightbringer' tripe as we get closer to the nutjob end-of-the-old-world date in December 2012.

And to think these people consider themselves the intelligencia, the literati, and the elite ruling class. I think I just threw up a little...

Ooooh-"Lightworker" Gotta

Ooooh-"Lightworker"

Gotta new nick for The One...cool!

Are these people really so mentally and emotionally gone that they believe this tripe, or is it merely ideologically-inspired propaganda?

Or both?

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

Liberal Tropes are a good

Liberal Tropes are a good thing.  The more intensely the loons believe in them the more glaringly obvious it becomes to the rest of the public that people like Moford are disconnected from reality.  That's the problem with liberal agendas, Utopia is not a real place.  Normal people have their feet firmly planted on the ground, it takes a true believer to levitate to Utopia.  The greater the distance off the ground Moford gets, the greater the disconnect is observed.  What Moford is doing is called "Splitting", he is creating a myth of perfection, over idealizing, to set Obama up on the pedistal of worship. 

Krauthammer made an interesting remark the other day on FNC, he admitted he once was a liberal in the 60s but the mass death of Cambodia and the liberals ignoring the genocide committed by the Communists forced him to rethink his beliefs.  It is the disconnect that is needed to convert a liberal to a conservative.  The greater the disconnnect, the greater the opportunity to question the inconsistencies of the agenda.  Liberalism is a cult whose followers have little self confidence and self worth this is why self righteousness is big among liberals as it manufactures a false sense of being, Moford belongs to the sect called the Obama cult.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

Remember, the reality show

with the obnoxious British guy from San Francisco who looked down his nose at the woman from the Mid-West and people kept saying that he was not typical of the people from San Francisco.

Judging by Mark Morford and Nancy Pelosi, he is typical.

Wasn't it a San Francisco crowd to whom The Lightworker referred to Pennsylvanians as bitter and clinging?

jessieH     This is

jessieH     This is getting rediculous. These people are saying anything they want about US. Where are the facts?

...And Global Rise of

...And Global Rise of Intangible Evil

Is "the one" Obama just ...

Is "the one" Obama just another typical crooked politician? It may appear so, based on the article at the web site listed below. If this is true, man are we in trouble.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Whats-behind-Obamas-sudden-firing-of-the-AmeriCorps-inspector-general-47877797.html

The evil this man brings is increasing not declining, at least not in this country. And I believe not around the world.

How people can be blind to Obama's evil is beyond me. When are these people going to wake up? God help us all.

Remember folks, Freedom isn't Free. It was bought with the blood and sacrifice of the men and women who are serving and who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.

For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.

Also remember folks, that the way to SUPPORT THE TROOPS is to support their mission. Anyone who says that they support the troops but don't support their mission is lying about supporting the troops. And if you want to know, yes I do have a dog in the fight, he is a United States Marine.

 

Ignorance

"Ignorance is the mother of devotion"

                                 Henry Cole, 1559

As true today as ever.

 

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

'Age of Obama' Brings

'Age of Obama' Brings Global Decline of Tangible Evil

Yep, sticking your head in the sand works every time.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Progressive Rapture - Doesn't Add Up

Morford is a sick human being, who desperately needs help from a true "lightworker." They would called psychiatrists by normal people.

Morford's rant also goes 100% against "progressive" thinking. According to them, there is no spiritual; there is nothing like a God or some type of divine being that would be in charge of all this. 

The way Morford paints it,

The way Morford paints it, you almost expect the world's tyrants to drop to their knees in Obama's presence and collectively shout: "WE ARE NOT WORTHY!!!"

Unfortunately, thanks to Obama's World Apology Tour, it's turning out to be the other way around. 

 

square wheeled media

If Obama called for SQUARE WHEELED CARS to reduce mileage, kooks like Morford would hail it brilliant.

Like so many libs, Morford worships a graven image (I don't mean the butt plug, Joe); and won't give it up easily, if ever.

 

 

neo-pagan Liberal hate-think from M.M.

Mark Morford, the minimal minion of moral darkness, with more of his mystical malarky.

Dude must be smoking the crack again or something.  Someone take his car keys and make sure all the sharp things are out of reach...

One more S.F. Chronicle columnist

 

That nobody reads much less pays attention to. Don't waste your time with him or the half dozen street people who read his drivel.  

Huh?

What does "deeply spiritual" and "spiritually advanced" even mean???

 "The Age of Obama has brought both a terrific upswelling of general positivism and a concomitant grand lightening up/toning down of outrageous verbiage and ranting extremism among the hotheaded-dictator set,  . . . "  No, they don't rant, they just launch missiles.

Somebody should contact Mr. Morford's doctor.  The man seriously needs his meds adjusted.

Dude

Step away from Obama's stash of crack and get off that stuff. Besides, he does not like to share..don't ya know.

"Remember the good old days?"

 

 " Remember the good old days?"

  I do indeed remember the good old days when education was a requirement before being employed in the media. Upon reading a very small portion of this tripe I noticed that within the first two sentences, he used the word "like" as a conjuction, the word "used" in place of Texas slang "yoost" and the first sentence was a run-on sentence and the second a sentence fragment. Not bad for a published journalist today, but a sad statement on the lack of education of those members of what was once known as a respectable profession.

 

"Whoppee, I'm a laughably stupid, low paid homo"

Well, what do you expect from a guy who wears a vibrating butt plug and woman's panties to work. His gayness transports him daily into a Wizard of Oz world where Dick Cheney and George Bush are evil flying monkey's, the Tin Man is searching for  testicals, the munchkins are easy, and everyone takes a break on the hour to take a colon cleanser.

Mark Morford says: "Whoppee, I'm the laughably stupid, low paid homo who replaced the laughably stupid airhead, Cintra Wilson, at the Chron!"