What a way to attack a church!!

[Turtle Dove]

This news came from Houston Texas @ the Airport

It appears our famous Christian heros,"Joel & Victoria Osteen" (of the largest Church "Lakewood Church" where set to go on a sking trip to Colorado. When approaching their seats, they where wet. According to ABC News in Houston,TX "Victoria Osteen got into an argument about how the seats should be cleaned, banged on the cockpit door then had to be restrained. The family was then taken off the plane by the FBI"

According to Fox News (BTW,The Fox News Studio is a cross the street of Lakewood Church) said that was false. Victoria Osteen never acted that way nor was she restrained.Everyone blew it out of porportion.

You know what is really sad? This huge, popular church does nothing bad. Yes Joel Osteen is everywhere, but he's the greatest Pastor since his daddy, John Osteen. And if people are gonna be idoits and lie to try to TRY to ruin Lakewood Church's rep with something like that...then whoever spreaded rumors is a real idoit.

I live in Houston, i watch Lakewood cHurch, I stand loyal to my pastor...I wanna punch the jerks who said that stuff.

[Kid Icarus]

Ya know, I had a long drawn out reply to this about various counter points and what not, then I realized something better suits this:

[Anarky]

And what does that story tell us? Do not badmouth people. And it's the same for priests, Hollywood superstars or your average Joe. And everyone who does this should think about his actions and how he or she would like it, if the same thing happened to them.

It's the same thing with paparazzi, stalkers and all those other obsessive people out there.

[Turtle Dove]

Yah but how stupid- rumors suck! Alot are saying ,there was no need to get the FBI involded.Now if these 2 had bombs on them..I'd worry.

But at least they are safe-that is more important!

[Anarky]

Yeah, they might be safe, but what about the millions of average people who suffer the same crap every day? They don't have a huge fanbase to back them up, they don't have expensive lawyers to file charges and they can't even do anything against that sort of behaviour.

And one of the worst things is, that people who are constantly badmouthing others even dare to call themselves "The good guys" or even "joking". That behaviour is not only sick, but also immature and pathetic. Hypocrites.

I have seen so many incidents like that and yet I'd hope that people'd learn...

[Kid Icarus]

Also keep in mind that Fox is an extremely biased right-wing media outlet. In order to keep that comment fair: Left-wing media does the exact same thing, on diffrent subjects.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Originally Posted by Gwgtrunks

Also keep in mind that Fox is an extremely biased right-wing media outlet. In order to keep that comment fair: Left-wing media does the exact same thing, on diffrent subjects.

If the story is false, the story is false. The fact that FOX News reported it doesn't invalidate what they say.

[Kid Icarus]

Doesn't Fox broadcast their show as well?

FYI, it's not just Fox. I don't trust any media outlets.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

News stories that turn out to be false can be quite devastating to people. Remember Richard Jewell?

If you don't, during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, somebody had set off a bomb which killed a man. Richard Jewell was a law enforcement officer who was on the scene and was accused of planting the bomb to gain publicity for himself. The accusation was completely false and he was exonerated after an FBI investigation, but it made life hell for him. (The real bomber was found and arrested years later, having fled to live in remote mountains.)

[Anarky]

Originally Posted by Gwgtrunks

FYI, it's not just Fox. I don't trust any media outlets.

Which is a good thing, I might add. The media is constantly disinformting us. If you want to know how, then read Chomsky's "Media Control" or compare today's society to the Proles from 1984.

[Turtle Dove]

This was a simple post- why is it getting blown out of proportion? ! The point to this was ABC TOLD A FALSE STORY and believed a few people who wanted to save Contintal Airlines. FOX got the correct story.

In the end, all this over a wet seat- this jerk of a woman just had to clean the seat as she would for any passenger. But because it was a celebrity- she decided to be an idoit and help cause trouble.

[Anarky]

Originally Posted by Turtle Dove

This was a simple post- why is it getting blown out of proportion? ! The point to this was ABC TOLD A FALSE STORY and believed a few people who wanted to save Contintal Airlines. FOX got the correct story.

In the end, all this over a wet seat- this jerk of a woman just had to clean the seat as she would for any passenger. But because it was a celebrity- she decided to be an idoit and help cause trouble.

Whew, good thing that our precious celebrities are fine. Unlike the average people who suffer way more, because they don't have anyone "important" backing them up-

But at least Joel and that other person are fine. Let's go on bashing our neighbours!

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Originally Posted by Anarky

Which is a good thing, I might add. The media is constantly disinformting us. If you want to know how, then read Chomsky's "Media Control" or compare today's society to the Proles from 1984.

Um, for the record I find Noam Chomsky less credible than any news outlet. He's a known liar in his own right. But that's another subject, which I doubt the moderators want discussed here.

[Sewer Bull]

Why are the last 13 posts in "The New Cafe" thread, instead of "Current Events" section?

[Edit: Good question, so I moved it. --Krang]

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by Turtle Dove

of the largest Church "Lakewood Church"

Ya know what... all these years I thought Lakewood Church was set in ya know...Lakewood..I thought it was a local show (since I live in Lakewood, Washington). Huh...oh well...don't watch it anyways. *shrugs*

But why the frak was her seat wet anyways??? I would have just sat down elsewhere. Let somebody else deal with it.