Pat Boone: The FCC should punish blasphemy

Posted by | April 22, 2016 08:57 | Filed under: Media/Show Business Politics Religion

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Pat Boone came on radio with me Thursday night to express his disgust for Saturday Night Live’s parody of “God’s Not Dead 2” in which he appears.  He called for government to crack down on blasphemy.

COLMES: Would you like the FCC to declare a show like Saturday Night Live or any other show can’t do that kind of humor?

BOONE: You cannot do blasphemy, yes.

COLMES: You would like the FCC to make that deceleration?

BOONE: Yes!

COLMES: And be punished and fined in some way if they did that kind of humor?

BOONE: I sure do, I do. And I would say at least 90% of the American public would say “Yes, I agree.” And if the public doesn’t have any say about it, it’s the public airwaves.

COLMES: So what should be the punishment then if the FCC says we’re not going to allow this, what would be the proper punishment?

BOONE: Lose license, just like any other law. If you disobey the law, you’re punished for it. And you lose the ability to keep doing it.

COLMES: Well, the show doesn’t get a license, but broadcast stations do. So it’s the stations that would suffer.

BOONE: It’s the network, or whoever is responsible for the shows there should be regulations that prohibit blasphemy. It’s hard to determine exactly what obscenity is, what blasphemy is. But to call God by some profane name, I think that anybody with a rational mind would agree that’s blasphemy.

COLMES: So for calling God a “boob man,” there should be a punishment for that, or “God is gay.”

BOONE: I certainly do.

Boone also continues to push the myth that President Obama was not born in the United States:

BOONE: Detective Mike Zullo in Arizona, who is part of Sheriff Arpaio’s posse, was sent to Hawaii…I have seen all the data he came back with. It is documented, it is in a sworn 15-20 page affidavit, and a lawman does not swear on the authenticity of what he has presented without knowing that it is accurate. And he has all the accurate proof, and when he presents in a press conference in Arizona, the press just yawns and turns away.

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112 responses to Pat Boone: The FCC should punish blasphemy

  1. Suzanne McFly April 22nd, 2016 at 09:01

    Ugh, God takes a pure genius that brought a beautiful purple light to the world and leaves this jerk who spreads no joy what so ever.

  2. Carla Akins April 22nd, 2016 at 09:15

    Ah, Pat – just keep pumping your fist and yelling at those kids to get off your lawn.

  3. Obewon April 22nd, 2016 at 09:26

    Constitutionally and SCOTUS illiterate, birther BOONE: I sure do, I do. And I would say at least 90% of the American public would say “Yes, I agree.” Trump / Palin’16 theocrazy now

    A lead story in the November 1983 issue of Hustler Magazine featured a “parody” of an advertisement, modeled after an actual ad campaign, claiming that Falwell, a Fundamentalist minister and political leader, had a drunken incestuous relationship with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued to recover damages for libel, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Falwell won a jury verdict on the emotional distress claim and was awarded a total of $150,000 in damages. Hustler Magazine appealed.
    SCOTUS ruled: Yes. In a unanimous opinion the Court held that public figures, such as Jerry Falwell, may not recover for the intentional infliction of emotional distress without showing that the offending publication contained a false statement of fact which was made with “actual malice.” The Court added that the interest of protecting free speech, under the First Amendment, surpassed the state’s interest in protecting public figures from patently offensive speech, so long as such speech could not reasonably be construed to state actual facts about its subject. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1987/86-1278

    • Larry Schmitt April 22nd, 2016 at 09:31

      To Pat Boone, the Flintstones is a documentary.

    • mistlesuede April 22nd, 2016 at 09:53

      LOL!

    • Dwendt44 April 22nd, 2016 at 10:58

      The only problem with the above picture is that the bible is the hardest book of all to read.

      • InChains May 5th, 2016 at 12:01

        Only if you’re interested in consistency, realism, and subject matter that keeps you interested.
        If you’re into poorly-edited, badly-translated, self-contradictory, over-the-top historical fiction with entire chapters dedicated to lineages & other forms of monotony, the Bible is great!

  4. Larry Schmitt April 22nd, 2016 at 09:27

    Hey Pat, take your god and shove him up your a$$. Is that blasphemous enough for you?

    • fredoandme April 22nd, 2016 at 10:16

      that ought to do the trick, larry.

    • Budda April 22nd, 2016 at 10:32

      I was thinking along the lines of; screw your god and blow it out your a$$.

  5. Mensa Member April 22nd, 2016 at 09:35

    Pat Boon’s schlocky rip-offs of great R&B songs deserves punishment.

    • Larry Schmitt April 22nd, 2016 at 09:42

      Play his version, and then Fats Domino’s, of “Ain’t That a Shame.” It will leave you shaking your head.

      • fredoandme April 22nd, 2016 at 10:16

        boone’s version of that is so embarrassing it makes me squirm.

  6. Mensa Member April 22nd, 2016 at 09:37

    Pat could always move to a country with blasphemy laws — Saudi Arabia and Iran come to mind.

    • Larry Schmitt April 22nd, 2016 at 09:40

      But as a Christian he would be less then welcome.

      • Fed up April 22nd, 2016 at 10:12

        His problem

      • InChains May 5th, 2016 at 11:57

        Maybe Uganda?
        Oh, but it’s full of those brown people he doesn’t like…

  7. Buford2k11 April 22nd, 2016 at 09:42

    I just don’t know how Alan can do it…I mean, these people that Alan talks to are incredibly….???? I don’t how to say it nicely…fucked up?….and they continue to have a voice in our society…Thanks Alan for showing us how these guys are really not good for the United States, and our society in general…

    • Mensa Member April 22nd, 2016 at 09:48

      I agree but I get tired of Al Doflerson (sp?).

      I feel like his calls are poisonous and hurtful. If light is a disinfectant, it doesn’t seem to be working on him and his message.

      But, I still defend his free speech rights.

      • Buford2k11 April 22nd, 2016 at 09:53

        This isn’t really about free speech…but it is about Ideas…Policy…and the truth…I am saying that, yes, you have the First Amendment, but we don’t have to listen…and those who have the microphone needs to be more selective on who they have on to spread the propaganda and lies…

        • Mensa Member April 22nd, 2016 at 10:05

          I agree — but I do listen to Al’s calls. I’m too lazy to turn off the volume, I guess.

    • mistlesuede April 22nd, 2016 at 09:50

      Alan has the patience of a saint. :)

      • Larry Schmitt April 22nd, 2016 at 10:11

        But he still gets the hate on his Twitter feed, because they don’t have the brains to turn off a show they can’t stand.

        • Hirightnow April 22nd, 2016 at 10:36

          You know better than that; these people want to be angry, they want to be enraged…because they’re very afraid now that the fascist muslim who has usurped the White House is ruining everything that America once stood for they’ve figured out that they’re irrelevant.
          They need their anger, to counter their fear.

  8. Foundryman April 22nd, 2016 at 09:48

    Pretty much explains why we have to purge the jesus freaks from our government before it’s to late.
    This type of censorship and laws would only be the tip of the puritan iceberg.

    • InChains May 5th, 2016 at 11:56

      We’d have the ultra-conservative Christian (or Pharisee, really) version of sharia law.

  9. mistlesuede April 22nd, 2016 at 09:53

    Is he trying to say that Faux “News” passed on the birther crap?

  10. William April 22nd, 2016 at 09:54

    The FCC should punish no talent idiots with cheesy wigs. https://www.youtube.com/embed/a9aBeRVToGk

    • Larry Schmitt April 22nd, 2016 at 10:13

      Who screw up R & B classics like Good Golly Miss Molly and Ain’t That a Shame.

    • Roctuna April 22nd, 2016 at 10:39

      Is this blasphemy? Naked in front of a bunch of nuns, with a sheep no less, in the closing scenes of Journey to the Center of the Earth. He should have been kicked out of the Screen Actors Guild for one of the worst performances ever.

      • fahvel April 22nd, 2016 at 10:51

        or given the ewe to take home.

        • clemans April 23rd, 2016 at 09:02

          how can you support animal abuse?

          • The Original Just Me April 23rd, 2016 at 12:46

            He is just using Woolen underwear covering it up. :+)

        • The Original Just Me April 23rd, 2016 at 12:44

          Why ? To add to his Flock ?

    • allison1050 April 22nd, 2016 at 11:28

      HAHAHAHAHA!! Thanks so much!

    • The Original Just Me April 23rd, 2016 at 12:43

      Now that is a Funny Looking Cowboy Hat.

  11. Fed up April 22nd, 2016 at 10:13

    He’s just an angry old white man like pat Robertson

  12. fahvel April 22nd, 2016 at 10:50

    any god that tolerates the likes of pat is a poop head god and probably a childe abuser (think abraham. oh, and all the starving children in the world) Sickos like boonie are the reason dumb god is abused and the abuse is well desrved.

  13. BillTheCat45 April 22nd, 2016 at 11:12

    Awesome, Boone is on board to make America into a Sharia Law country. The American Taliban hard at work.

    • clemans April 23rd, 2016 at 09:01

      it occurred to me in the middle of the night that is what the GOP Christians are trying to do here. I know it has been said in jest before, but last night I thought about it and that is really what they want to do. I wonder if religious fanatics are cyclical? Maybe the fanaticism there is just like here, but conservatives had too many laws here and were slowed down.

      • The Original Just Me April 23rd, 2016 at 12:42

        The Republican Militia enforcing Their brand of so called Christianity. I think Hitler already did that.

  14. allison1050 April 22nd, 2016 at 11:22

    Oh My! He’s still alive? Who really cares what he says I know I don’t.

  15. DogsRgoodpeople April 22nd, 2016 at 12:17

    90% really pat ? let’s put the meter on that.

  16. Bunya April 22nd, 2016 at 13:19

    I’ll tell you what, Pat. If you show me proof that Obama wasn’t born in this country (BTW, Hawaii is a state), then I’ll believe in your imaginary sky fairy for which you have no proof exists.

    • InChains May 5th, 2016 at 11:54

      Doesn’t matter if Obama was born here, as his mother is a natural-born US citizen.

      By federal law, that makes Obama a citizen as well. The conspiracy theorists love to ignore that bit (because, as we all know, they have a shaky grasp on law anyway).

  17. Christopher Smith April 22nd, 2016 at 14:13

    This undead zombie is ALIVE? How disappointing….

    • whatthe46 April 22nd, 2016 at 14:28

      Ha! i’m actually watching a zombie movie right now. it’s so rated B.

  18. jybarz April 22nd, 2016 at 14:54

    Hey, you can Pat your Bone and no one would really care.

  19. Jack_Carter_USA April 22nd, 2016 at 15:05

    Wow, and I thought Boone was desperate for attention when he wore a dog collar.

    • George Kaplan April 22nd, 2016 at 21:53

      Was.

      Is.

    • InChains May 5th, 2016 at 11:52

      …Closeted leather daddy? That would explain a lot…

  20. bpollen April 22nd, 2016 at 15:50

    Funny, Pat, the same Amendment that guarantees your right to believe whatever damn fairy tale you want also guarantees everybody else’s right to deride, deny, ridicule, demean, dispute, and blaspheme against any and all elements of your fairy tale.

    You’re already on my shitlist for turning good music from black artists into soggy whitebread dreck.

    • George Kaplan April 22nd, 2016 at 21:53

      He was doing them a favor. He was making their music “accessible” to a larger White audience.

      (I once heard that argument, being delivered seriously, by a defender of that old practice)

      • bpollen April 23rd, 2016 at 01:52

        I don’t doubt it. Racism ain’t something new. Even Nazis had a problem with music from black artists (look up “swing kids” sometime.) They called it Negermusik. They didn’t mean it in any positive way…

    • clemans April 23rd, 2016 at 08:57

      I don’t worry about him much, the number of atheists today is second to the number of batshit crazy pretend-to-be Christians. When I first realized there was nothing that could be logically used in defense of any god I was afraid to say it out loud because somebody might hear me. Now lots of people admit they are non-believers and most of my friends who do believe just accept that I don’t. Although one of my friends is a minister. They have said they don’t worry about me because in actions, I am more Christian than any of the Christians they know……I have often wondered if that was a compliment or not…..

      • The Original Just Me April 23rd, 2016 at 12:38

        In reading all of Christ’s Teachings, I have come to the realization that Jesus was a flaming Liberal.

        • clemans April 23rd, 2016 at 12:55

          history tells us that as well, it was new to have one god, the first person who tried to teach that was one of the Pharaohs….but mostly the teachings of Jesus made him a liberal.

          Our founders were liberals too, men of science, truth seekers, they read philosophy, cared about protecting the environment, and pushed reading and new ideas…..they told us to “promote science and other useful arts”…….not very conservative….and they would hate the climate deniers.

          • The Original Just Me April 23rd, 2016 at 13:09

            John Adams was one of our outstanding Founding Fathers but he was the Birth-Right of the Conservative Movement in the U.S. He did offset the far leftest Folks in the Day which ended up giving us a Good Balance. Adams and Jefferson were at the opposite ends of the political Spectrum but had the Good Sense to be Best of Friends and work out their differences. That could Never Happen with todays Bat Guano Republicans.

            • clemans April 23rd, 2016 at 20:06

              did you get back safely? I went to the movies…..saw BOSS, it should have been better than it was. Others laughed.

              • The Original Just Me April 24th, 2016 at 10:26

                I got her water back on. It wasn’t as muddy there as it is at our place so that helped. This storm will pass in a few days then I’m going back to fix her irrigation problem. Oh Well, such is life.

      • bpollen April 23rd, 2016 at 19:12

        I’ve met Christians who appear to have had the positive aspects of their personality cauterized. But I have met others that were wonderful and caring human beings. I would guess that they were being as complimentary as they knew how.

        • clemans April 23rd, 2016 at 20:05

          that is a very nice thing to say, thanks

          • bpollen April 24th, 2016 at 05:56

            You are certainly welcome.

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