Real Profits for False Prophets
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 18:21-22 (King James Version)
Rook asks the question: Why Should We Listen To Them?
As I see it, we need some old time baseball play-by-play announcers to provide the individual statistics for the pundits. You know – “Coming to the mike is Ralph Smerdly. Smerdly hasn’t been right in 239 appearances, but the producers think he’s due.”
The same people keep writing op-ed pieces and appearing on the news shows, but the editors and producers aren’t telling their audience anything about these “experts.” If you are really an “expert” shouldn’t you have some successes to show for it? Shouldn’t you have a list of your “greatest hits”?
If your last accurate prediction was that Dick Nixon was a crook, why are you still on the air or editorial page giving opinions? Why don’t we get some people who are right, and not simply on the Right?
2 comments
Oh my! A link as well as inclusion of some Biblical elucidation.
When in doubt, hit them with the Book. They think they’re G-d’s gift to the world, but G-d doesn’t seem to agree.
Also this is a Rant, a category stolen from you.