The cowardly and lying Pastor Rick Warren bails on ABC 'This Week' Interview at last second

[TeamJordan23]

Warren bails on "This Week" interview

Instead of explaining contradictory statements over his actions regarding California's Prop 8 on same-sex marriage, Rick Warren went with Plan B today: he didn't show up for a planned interview on ABC's "This Week."

"For those of you tuning in this morning expecting to hear from Pastor Rick Warren, we were, too," said host George Stephanopoulos at the start of the show. "But the pastor's representatives canceled moments before the scheduled interview, saying that Mr. Warren is sick from exhaustion."

Added a cool but surely unhappy Stephanopoulos: "We hope he recovers quickly."

As Mike Allen detailed in Playbook yesterday, Warren oddly argued on Larry King last week that he “never once … gave an endorsement” to the controversial ballot measure when there's video evidence of him arguing for its passage.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0409/Warren_bails_on_This_Week_interview.html?showall

[saltpoint]

1. Well no wonder Warren is exhausted. All that divisive and intemperate

and anti-intellectual propaganda just wears a guy out.

[Ian David]

2. Rick "Man-on-Pizza" Warren completely McCained on George Snuffleupagus. n/t

[Bunny]

3. Krugman was disappointed by the no-show, too.

<snip>
A missed opportunity on This Week
So I was all ready to talk about Rick Warren on today’s panel, only to learn that he had cancelled out at the last minute. The show replaced him with pirates, plus an extended roundtable. But I think they should have done what the British show Have I Got News For You did when a guest failed to show: they replaced him with a tub of lard, addressed throughout the show as the Rt. Hon. Tub of Lard.
<snip>

The Rt. Hon. Tub of Lard! :rofl:

[Starry Messenger]

4. Well, he's a lying gasbag.

That's what they do.

http://www.saddlebackfamily.com/blogs/newsandviews/index.html?contentid=1502

Here's the video of him doing the "non-endorsement" in case anyone hasn't seen it. I sent it to Larry King last week.

[ruggerson]

6. Remember when us DU'ers found the paragraph on his church site that prohibited gays from membership?

The media picked up on it and Saddleback promptly scrubbed it.

[Starry Messenger]

9. Yep.

That's why I downloaded a copy of the video in case he gets any other bright ideas. :D I love Firefox plug-ins.

[ruggerson]

5. Since he's been caught publicly in a lie

I imagine that will just increase his importance in the evangelical community.

[Wickerman]

7. Motion sickness from all that crazy reversal of opinon and spinning

more like.

[Ikonoklast]

8. Don't all these hypocrites self-destruct in the end?

I guess they think that no one can find evidence of their lies, and when confronted with them, lose even more credibility by lying even more.

If there was no money in the religion scam, guys like Warren would all be selling ShamWows on the tube to idiots.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. He's a proven liar

and we will no hear a word about the 'redefinintion of false witness' or any criticism from any of his political promoters or congregants, none of whom give a rip about the truth. They embrace a liar, they will overlook his lies, they will never seek forgivness for their political hatred that could only be sold by lies, and the damage they have all done to families they smugly judge, while they pay a liar millions to lie.

Will even a word be spoken by any from the 'faith community' against this man's proven lies? Of course not. They are fine with lies. They admire liars.

[SpiralHawk]

11. What would Jesus do?

Would he have made up a story and lied to avoid having to tell the truth?

Or would he have been too busy eating ham and chocolate eggs to even bother?