Student Advisor, The Sword
Readers probably do not want to see the NY Post article, but here it is.
Wisconsin Lutheran College's prestigious student newspaper, The Sword, editorialized that critics missed the point of Adam Lambert's cutting edge performance at the American Music Awards. Denouncing humorous critics who cannot understand a a clever parody, The Sword went on to state:
Repression and censorship have made it difficult but not impossible for us to watch our favorite video. Lucky for us, someone put it on a server so we can watch through a "dark tunnel," as they call it. Far from putting people off, it has done wonders for recruitment at two schools. Before we got very few future fashion designers, ballet dancers, gossip columnists, and flower arrangers. Now they are swarming both campuses.
Among we journalists, parody is an essential art form. You take the essence of a performance and make people smile by taking it to a new level. A truly awesome performance will make people laugh, especially when they imagine the shocked frowns of troglodytes blogging in their pajamas. If I was him, I would download more of the same. Parody is art. This here newspaper itself is a parody of student journalism, an art form.
---Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Critics Pan Adam Lambert's Witty Parody: Adam Rais...":
If you didn't have so many double standards, people might actually take you serious (sic - seriously modifies a verb). And those that do are as delusional as you are.
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GJ - The alleged quote is a parody of The Thword. I was just waiting for a humorless, illiterate MLC/WLC supporter to sling some more mud.
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dk has left a new comment on your post "Critics Pan Adam Lambert's Witty Parody: Adam Rais...":
you dun joked me 'teach'!
That was funny.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Critics Pan Adam Lambert's Witty Parody: Adam Rais...":
How can these people expect to be taken seriously as "journalists" when they don't even know the rules of the language they are using (and abusing)?
Reply-These people you are referring is Pastor Jackson since the THWORD did not write this "atricle" (sic!). Your readers are very smart Pastor since they cannot see that this was obviously a parody.
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GJ - My readers are very sharp and they have a sense of humor. My critics do not know the language they are using and abusing. What shocks Hollyweird, though, is defended by two WELS colleges. I have not seen an apology posted at either skul. Maybe I missed it.
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Parody is an art. Apparently grammar is not:
"Among we journalists"
Try "Among us journalists"
"If I was him"
Two strikes on this one. Try "If I were he"
How can these people expect to be taken seriously as "journalists" when they don't even know the rules of the language they are using (and abusing)?
If you didn't have so many double standards, people might actually take you serious. And those that do are as delusional as you are.
"Adrenaline is crazy and sometimes things just happen," he told FIC after praise-worship scheduled on Sunday night to bleed off vulnerable area members. It's uncertain when the dance choreography was altered to include the controversial move.
"We had this great dance number totally staged. It's an emotional praise song about power and BaptiMethoCostal Word-Faith prosperity achievement, and I was just doing the lyrics justice," he told FIC. "My intention was not to try and create a controversy. But if a controversy ensues, then so be it. I could use the dough."
After the performance, a pricey female assistant hit the Twittersphere to say, "All hail freedom of expression and artistic integrity and adieapheromone, or whatever that big word is."
It's all just the latest in the pastor's attempts at titillating audiences by pushing boundaries, something that he has been keen to do since coming out as a non-confessional pseudo-Lutheran "Kingdom worker" after the "Regaining Momentum" conference went down in flames.
He has yet to comment about the way his performance was edited for broadcast on the LCMS flagship program, "Crime of Distaste," but he did tell FIC -- before the Daystar re-broadcast aired -- "If it's going to be edited, then, in a way, that's discrimination. I don't mean to get openly political, -- I mean, um, like we like to keep political wet work in the dark -- but, but Joel Olsteen, John Hagee, and that EWTN nun weren't edited. I'm just like them, only not as popular."
He went on to add, "It's a shame. Church entertainers have been risqué for years. Honestly, there's a huge double standard . . . We need to be more relevant, more relational, more real. It's 2009, it's time to take more risks. We've been well trained to take note of our culture, and we can respond to our changing world. It's about entertainment. People want to be surprised. It's too bad that people are so scared. I could use the dough. Did I already say that?"
...a dictionless, grammarless one...
you dun joked me 'teach'!
That was funny.
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