We're Purty Stupeed

The Germans were told the Jews were cunning, rat-like in apearance, dirty in body and in mind, and trying to subvert both society and individual's morals. While evangelicals aren't being portrayed that bad....YET....it gets worse every year. Have you noticed how we are always portrayed in film and on TV? Out of all the programs I've seen on the three networks (CBS, NBC and ABC) as well as PBS, here is what evangelicals are like:

-We barleee got out of thurd graid
-We all live in a small rural town in the South
-We don't look too bright when you see us in our church services; we seem to be in a trance
-We are mostly middle aged
-We are both white and black but no Asians, Hispanics, Native American Indians or Middle Eastern people
-We definitely are in the lower middle class or below; or at the most - the lower part of the middle class
-We all follow the Christian Right and do exactly what they tell us to do. We are all against homosexuals, lesbians, the transgendered (well, we are so stupid we probably don't know what that last word means); and abortionists. We want them out of the country.

The only exception to this, kind of, was Bill Moyer's American Citizen episode on "Evangelicals and the Environment." Bill Moyers is quite liberal so I was surprised to see him be this fair. Of course the subject matter was in liberal topic territory so perhaps that was why. I don't know.

I would love these TV reporters to go to Long Island, NY; Cambridge, Massachussets, some of the really wealthy areas of Los Angeles county, Ca; Scottsdale, AZ and other well-to-do places where there are evangelical churches. But they won't go because then the evangelicals might look good.

At least its It's just the media portraying us this way and not the government - at least NOT YET.