Until this week it’s been a conceit of News Hounds [okay, me] to treat Brad Stine—the right-wing, religious, comedian who appears weakly weekly on Fox and Friends—as an amiable doofus, who rarely knows what he’s talking about despite being used as an expert on everything.  That ends today.  On this morning’s Fox and Friends—the happy-talk-agit-prop-table-setter for The Fox “News” Daily Memes™—Brad Stine went so far over the line that it’s time to ask Fox “News” whether it embraces his comments, or whether they sink to the level of, say, Hank Williams, Jr., who crashed and burned with his over-the-top criticism of President Obama.  

Stine was no help to himself or the Foxy Friends, who were in the process of trying to perform Republican Rehab on Rick Santorum’s recent comments about President Obama’s “phony theology.”  Stine, the former carny, waved his arms wildly while his rubber-faced, meth-head persona made things a whole lot worse.  Within 3 minutes Stine spewed all of the following hateful statements, the context for which is in the video below the jump:

“We’ve been dealing with the Christian, uhh, Obama thing for quite some time because Jesus said he was the way.  He was the way you get to heaven.  Obama said back in ’08, “Listen, I’m a Christian, but really who gets to decide who gets into heaven?”  Yannow, I’m thinking, maybe Jesus!!!  I mean, if you’re Christian maybe we need to go that direction!!!”

“If Santorum doesn’t want to question his [President Obama’s] Christianity, I will!”

“Listen: If Santorum can be slammed for living like a Christian, then why can’t Obama be slammed for faking it?”

“He [POTUS] says that people that are rich needs to have their money taken from them and given to somebody else.  That breaks the 8^th Commandment.  You’re not supposed to steal!!!  He actually believes people with more stuff than other people: it’s not good.  That’s coveting!!!  That’s breaking the 10^th Commandment.  He’s not doing what he’s supposed to do.  You’re actually supposed to live it [a religious life] like it’s real and he’s not really—You see Liberals are not really good with Christianity because it’s [sic] intolerant.  They actually make you change your beliefs whether you like it or not, [imitates baby voice and wrings hands] even if it hurts your feelings.  Christianity doesn’t work very well with Liberals.”

SD: [Rick Santorum clarified and said,] ‘I believe that Barack Obama is a Christian.’
BS: Yeah, I mean, I’m just saying if ya don’t live like that I don’t know that that’s exactly true.  I don’t think he is [a Christian].  But listen, if I’m wrong—if he actually wants to admit like we all do here on tee vee, who are really Christians that Jesus is the only way to get into Heaven, I will apologize.  I will give one-thousand dollars to a charity of his choice, but I’m not holding my breath because if I did, I’d die.  But the good news is, I’d go to Heaven because I really believe in Jesus. 

COMMENT: Somehow I doubt it, Circus Boy.  I am sure there’s a certain level of Hell (not that I share your fantasies) reserved for hypocrites like you.  As you attacked the religious faith of the President of the United States of America—and proudly boasted of your own (one of the 7 Cardinal Sins, as I recall)—well—I am at a loss for words.  Matthew said it a whole lot better than I ever could:

Judge not, that ye be not judged.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

If you are as outraged as I am about Brad Stine’s statements, join me in demanding that Fox News stop using Stine as a pundit on the air.  You can contact them at [email protected] or [email protected]. [Video below]