[Vision2020] FW: NYTimes.com Article: Op-Ed Columnist: A Bunch of Krabby Patties

[Carl Westberg]

More on the dangerous homosexual agenda being promoted by a sponge.          
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                    Carl Westberg Jr.




>Op-Ed Columnist: A Bunch of Krabby Patties
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>January 23, 2005
>  By MAUREEN DOWD
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>I should have known.
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>I can't believe I thought he was just an innocent little
>sponge wearing tight shorts.
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>What in the name of Davy Jones's locker would a sponge be
>doing holding hands with a starfish or donning purple and
>hot-pink flowered garb to redecorate the Krusty Krab if he
>weren't a perverted invertebrate?
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>Before this is over, we're going to find out that SpongeBob
>is the illicit spawn of the Tampa shock jock Bubba the Love
>Sponge. Who knew SpongeBob would become as fraught as the
>cover of "Abbey Road"?
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>It took Dr. James Dobson, the conservative Christian leader
>and gay marriage opponent, who claims the president's
>re-election was more a mandate for his ideas than George
>Bush's, to point out the insidious underside of the popular
>cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants. It takes a sponge
>to brainwash a child.
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>Holy Abe! Dr. Dobson outed SpongeBob at a black-tie
>inaugural fete last week for members of Congress and
>political allies. He said that a "pro-homosexual video" -
>starring SpongeBob, Barney, Jimmy Neutron, Winnie the Pooh,
>Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy - was set to go to
>elementary schools to promote a "tolerance pledge,"
>including tolerance for differences of "sexual identity."
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>Hoppin' clams, as they say in Bikini Bottom, the den of
>epicene iniquity where SpongeBob lives. Nothing good can
>come of tolerance.
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>Dan Martinsen, a spokesman for Nickelodeon, where SpongeBob
>beats the pants off the competition, was flummoxed: "It's a
>sponge, for crying out loud. He has no sexuality."
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>Dr. Dobson has done the country a service by reminding us
>to watch out for the dark side of lovable but malleable
>sponges. He inspired me to fish through the president's
>Inaugural Address with a more skeptical eye.
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>Mr. Bush's epic pledge to support democratic movements and
>institutions in every nation and to end "tyranny in our
>world" may seem wildly pie-in-the-sky, given that the Iraq
>vortex has drained our military.
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>Although his incendiary speech about "the untamed fire of
>freedom" has been widely interpreted as a code-red warning
>to both foes and friends, I wonder if the president knew he
>was literally promising to stamp out undemocratic
>governments across the globe, which would include some of
>our top allies. He probably thought it was a fancier way of
>repackaging the Iraq invasion, not as a failed search for
>W.M.D., but as a blow for freedom (a word used 27 times)
>and liberty (used 15 times).
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>I wonder if W. is surprised that people took it literally.
>The Bushes don't always understand that they're being held
>to their rhetoric in major speeches. (Read my warships.)
>For such a brass-knuckled vision, the president's delivery
>was curiously unemotional.
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>Some of the same advisers who filled Mr. Bush's brain with
>sugary visions of a quick and painless Iraq makeover did
>mean the speech to be literal; they are drawing up military
>options for the rest of the Middle East. Once again, the
>lovable and malleable president seems to be soaking up the
>martial mind-set of those around him, almost like ... a
>sponge.
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>SpongeBush SquarePants!
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>We can only hope that Dr. Dobson doesn't pick up on the
>resemblance. SpongeBob, as his song goes, "lives in a
>pineapple under the sea/absorbent and yellow and porous is
>he!" SpongeBush lives in a bubble in D.C./absorbent and
>shallow and porous is he!
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>SpongeBush ensnared the country in a whale of a mess in
>Iraq because he guilelessly absorbed the neocons' dire
>warnings about Saddam's weapons capabilities and their rosy
>assumptions about Ahmad Chalabi's leadership capabilities.
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>Dick Cheney is a gruff Mr. Krabs taskmaster to SpongeBush,
>but SpongeBush is crazy about him anyhow. W. trustingly let
>his vice president make the worst-case scenario about Iraq
>a first-case scenario.
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>Mr. Bush might have thought he was just blowing pretty
>bubbles full of lofty ideals about freedom and liberty in
>his speech, but Mr. Cheney and the neocons seem intent on
>filleting Iran and Syria. (Doesn't Richard Perle remind you
>of the snarky and pretentious next-door neighbor to
>SpongeBob, Squidward Tentacles?)
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>The vice president told Don Imus that Iran was "right at
>the top of the list" of trouble spots, and that Israel
>"might well decide to act first" with a military strike.
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>Even if he's a little light in the flippers, SpongeBob has
>brought children good, clean fun. SpongeBush has brought
>the world dark, endless fights.
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/opinion/23dowd.html?ex=1107587070&ei=1&en=2fa8eed74d570709
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