God Trolls Glenn Beck

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

18 April 14

e's left the rails far behind again.

Bevin, Beck said, is "a guy I really, truly believe has been called by God. I really do. I met that guy and I was talking to him and I was like 'oh my gosh.' I mean, the Spirit jumps off of that guy. He's Founder quality and I'm talking to him and he left the room and I looked at Pat and I said 'do you feel that?' and he said 'oh yeah.' I said 'that guy's called from God.' This is a guy we prayed for."

Look, Matt Bevin serves the enormously useful function of making Mitch McConnell miserable. For this, I thank him. But, does god really call for people to go to cockfights? I will grant you that, back in the day, that was Founder quality entertainment, especially among those Southern planters.

In the United States, famous presidents who were lovers of the game were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln. It was socially acceptable and encouraged for a gentleman to have a flock of gamecocks and to be an expert on the sport. At one point, the U.S. became a center for cockfighting activities and events. Cockfights were even held in the committee rooms of the president. It is said that the fighting cock almost became the national emblem of the United States. It lost by one vote to the American Eagle. The sport declined when the Civil War began.

But Jefferson also wrote the Declaration Of Independence, had a library boasting almost 7000 books, and, well, never was known to confuse the basketball team at Duke with the basketball team at Kentucky. God may be good at calling folks, but He'd be a lousy bookie.