The Media Research Center was unusually quiet about the Super Bowl this year. It had nothing to say about Usher as the halftime show, despite years of screeching about previous halftime shows, and it didn’t even repeat its complaint about the singing of the “black national anthem” before the start of the game. This is largely due to the reduced role of sports blogging at the MRC — the mysterious Jay Maxson mysteriously disappeared last April, and John Simmons is apparently no longer permitted to post at NewsBusters (his last post there appeared in October), though his work still appears at the MRC’s right-wing rant site, MRCTV. Thus, with no other apparently controversy it wanted to talk about, the MRC was reduced to discussing this year’s religious-themed ad — but not in the way it defended a similar ad last year. Back then, the MRC defended the ad while failing to disclose that they were funded by a right-wing foundation known from anti-LGBTQ and anti-contraception activism, while insisting the ads were merely about “having childlike faith and loving your enemies.”
Jorge Bonilla started a Feb. 13 post by defending this year’s ad, which featuring people washing the feet of their enemies much as Jesus did, which included Joy Reid snarking about foot fetishes:
Bitter racist Joy Reid was joined by John Fugelsang for a few minutes of light blasphemy and literal ignorance of Biblical proportions in an unfunny segment that brightly illuminates the left’s outright contempt for persons of faith.
[…]Prior to writing this item, I was fully and blissfully unaware that FeetFinder is an actual thing related to foot fetishism. I wasn’t about to click any further than the basic Google search, so I still don’t know whether Reid was talking about an app or a website. Nonetheless, she tried to make a funny by suggesting that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has a thing for feet. Would Reid make such a joke while discussing Muhammad? We don’t know for sure, but probably not.
Reid then tosses over to Fugelsang, who is the living embodiment of the “I have nothing but contempt for your backwards Christian beliefs” meme. Fugelsang routinely shows nothing but contempt for people of faith, but insists on Scripture in an attempt to shame them into his side of any given argument- a Biblical application of the appeal to authority fallacy.
And as is often the case with Fugelsang and Bible verses, he has no idea of what he is talking about.
[…]As to the controversial “He Gets Us” ad, Fugelsang loves the fact that it may trigger conservatives but ultimately hates it because it is funded by people who engage in Wrongthink. Fugelsang’s contempt for people of faith rages on, enabled by Joy Reid.
Bonilla was silent on the fact that the ad did, in fact, trigger his fellow conservatives, due to images of a woman’s feet being washed outside of a “family planning clinic” and a white police officer washing the feet of a black man. And he wasn’t going to point out that he clearly believes that anyone who’s not as right-wing as he is is committing the offense of “wrongthink.”