Tea Partier Calls C-SPAN, Worried His Prayers For Byrd To Die Got Inhofe Instead

Delightful. What are the chances that this is a hoax?

Yeah, definitely a hoax. "Our small tea bag group...". That's a lefty slander that I'm guilty of using. A Tea Partier, would have said "Tea Party"not "tea bag group".

Hoax or not what is particularly disgusting about this vid is the fact that Barrasso doesn't address and then admonish the caller for stating that he prayed 'for Byrd's death.' The caller may be a hoax, but the elected officials are not: Barrasso, Bachmann, Imhoffe, DeMint, Wilson, etc. It's just startling. And Barrasso looked like he walked of a Stepford Husband set.

I love this. I hope their pitiful prayers backfire.

Definitely not a hoax. I worked in Wyoming for part of the last election cycle. If you have a hard time believing this is real then let it serve as a wake-up call. Large numbers of people have this world view. At least they're still relying on prayer for wishes of death as opposed to more material means.

I think it was Senator Larry Byrd himself.

Fingerwill, I'm praying this is not a joke.

Gotta be a hoax since Tea Partiers won't call themselves Tea Baggers

And they say Neanderthals died out!!!!!!

How do these subhumans manage to remain alive on this planet?????

It's impossible to know if it's a hoax or not. I invoke Poe's Law: "It is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing." Conversely, real fundamentalism can easily be mistaken for a parody of fundamentalism because fundamentalism has no real boundaries.

But my money is on real. Those people are nuts.

But their concerns are justified. God(dess)(es) has been showing increasingly that s/he doesn't like having his/her/their name used in vain.

You will recall that God's response to the prayer that rain fall on Obama's acceptance speech was to drown out the first couple of days of the Republican convention. And, if I'm not mistaken, when Jerry Falwell called for a hurricane to smite Miami, a whole lot of fundamentalists in the Bible Belt found themselves thoroughly baptized instead.

Sadly as it may seem, I truly don't believe this to be a hoax.
I do believe that some people think/believe/pray like this and I feel truly sorry for them. They are being played so so hard by the GOP, being abused by the GOP really. The GOP doesn't believe that stuff - however they know their base, or at least that ultra-religious base, DOES believe that. And so they play to that.
The fact that 'one of their members' didn't show up should show to the caller that 'their members in Congress' are not like him, not at all.
He actually PRAYED FOR SEN. BYRD TO DIE. So much for 'pro-life'!
Truly, I do believe that Sen. Coburn was speaking to a certain segment of his constituency. And they believed him. Now they're terrified, mind you NOT Sen. Coburn!!, that they brought on something terrible upon 'one-of-their-own'.

Yeah, wish for someone to die - you never really knows who WILL die, will you?

Would Jezus pray for someone to DIE???? Would he???

Hoax

Paul Krassner was observed speaking into one of the last remaining pay phones on the planet, just when Jethro (ostensibly) called in,,,Barasso, though, is guilty of compassing the illness of a colleague and of being a hopeless putz, too boot

I'm not a christian, but I think it's absolutely reprehensible to actually pray for death or misfortune to befall anyone. I'm pretty sure Jesus supposedly said something about praying *for* your enemies.

We'll know they're christians by their love, right? (eyeroll)

"...and took Dr. Coburn's instructions and prayed real hard that Sen. Byrd would either die..."

What sick Fucks...

The teascrotums just found out what everybody else knew for a long time. Inhofe is braindead not dead. Let's face it he doesn't look that healthy, so you can't blame a bunch of retarded people having crazy prayers to kill people, to understand that can you? These are the same people who draw Hitler mustaches on pictures of black people.Do you expect them to know anything about anything?.
INBRED PUHLEEEZE!
When an inbred hillbilly prays for someone to die,God turns their testicles into raisens, so they can't have kids. Goats or otherwise.

It doesn't get much funnier than this. Comments are hysterical! Good to have a laugh. Probably a hoax/joke but still VERY believable. Can't you just see these old geezers taking attendance when then forget their own names half the time. Great SNL stuff; "who are we praying for again to die", "can we pray for someone else to die too", "will you all help me pray for my son-in-law to die, please, he doesn't let me take the children out". "I heard there are people praying for Sarah to die. "Let's pray for them to die first, because we all love Sarah". "Oh, so much praying to do,...what's my name."

I'm bad -- I prayed that Ronald Reagan would drop dead.

Maybe next it'll backfire when they try to pray the gay away.

Very funny stuff... jokes on the R's, they lose this one no matter what.

Praying for people to die. That's about as rightwing as it gets.

This is obviously a hoax. No one who belongs to the Tea Party movement would refer to it as a "tea bag" group. Tea bag & teabaggers are derogatory terms used by most of the people that commented on this article. It was probably some small minded person like most of those who commented here that made the call hoping to follow in the tradition of Obama and Democrats in smearing those who would dare oppose anything the Democrats or Obama propose.

It's important to understand that it is their beliefs is that cause their thoughtless and misguided behavior.
It's not IF you believe in God that matters - it's what you believe ABOUT God that matters.

Look at their behavior - and look at how they belive God behaves....it's the same thing.

This is why political solutions to Spiritual problems are elusive.
The behavior is caused by the belief.
Change the belief and you change the behavior.

For those so inclined....we need a new Spirituality.
One that recognizes that we are all One.
And that when you harm or deny others - you harm and deny yourself.

It was Criss Crocker.

And he was serious about Britteney, too!!

I be stickin da pins in da dolls dat look lak de Ri-chad Steele and de Ri-chad Cheney, but nuttin be happenin to dem - udder dat dem be gittin dummer and dummer! Be some big voo-doo happenin dere!

We forget, that as dumb as the teabaggers are in other areas, they, like most Republicans, have that lizard-brain sense about what's good politically and what's bad politically. Coburn's death wish, despicable as it was, was very, very good for us, and this seems like a clear, and very clever attempt, to engulf Barrasso in that as well. While it's true they *initially* called themselves teabaggers, they've since tried to drop that name.

A real tea partier calling in would've been much more likely to ask "how to kill the bill," to rant about the increase to the debt, or to complain about socialism. Even though a tea partier/teabagger might have *wanted* Byrd to die, they're smart enough to know that would play badly with everyone else.

This isn't a "hoax" so much as it was a very good political ploy by one of our guys, doubtless Southern, with at least a little acting experience and enough experience around wingnuts to know how they thank. (It's hard to fake cry in person, but not so hard to pull it off over the phone.)

reminds me of a "murder" in Kentucky from a few months ago...

I turned on Rush Limbaugh Mon. morning and he said he was having to do his show standing up because he had a pinched nerve in his back--at "C5." Apparently he had promised that they would be using a new video cam for the show, but said it wasn't ready yet--I'm thinking he didn't want to be shown. Anyway this is what has happened to Rush Limbaugh and we didn't even have to pray for it.

My sister attends a very small Baptist church in Lo