Ummm, no. No, we wouldn’t.

Frozen Tex on December 3, 2007 at 6:36 PM

Last time I checked, not too many Christians were demanding Andres Serrano’s head - literally.

GT on December 3, 2007 at 6:37 PM

I’m sure there’s more than one teddy bear out there named “Hay-Seuss”, especially in Texas…

HerrMorgenholz on December 3, 2007 at 6:38 PM

No.

LtE126 on December 3, 2007 at 6:40 PM

Whoopi is the voice of reason here. Again.

baldilocks on December 3, 2007 at 6:41 PM

Agree with “greggriffith” . . . I’m freaked out by the View and its moronic content.

rplat on December 3, 2007 at 6:41 PM

A commenter recently posted a picture from a Zombie photo essay of a San Francisco street event in which some group was selling sex toys modeled in the likenesses of Jesus, Mary, and other religious icons. Sex toys. Since the religious sex toy vendors are apparently still alive and not living in hiding for fear of being attacked and killed by angry rioting Christians or imprisoned by our “Christianist” government, I’d say that’s ample evidence that a teddy bear named Jesus would not bring a similar response to the Sudanese reaction to Mo the teddy bear. If Christians can tolerate Jesus sex toys with nothing more than a strong feeling of disgust and maybe a few shouted words, I’m pretty sure a Jesus teddy bear would hardly even merit a glance from most Christians. In fact, I think they’d probably sell well in Christian retail stores.

aero on December 3, 2007 at 6:42 PM

Jesus teddy bear here

bnelson44 on December 3, 2007 at 6:43 PM

I’m guessing no.

Slublog on December 3, 2007 at 6:44 PM

saint kansas on December 3, 2007 at 6:41 PM

Ah, it was you who posted the link to the Zombie religious sex toys photo. Kudos! Excellent case-in-point.

aero on December 3, 2007 at 6:44 PM

aero on December 3, 2007 at 6:42 PM

Excellent point.

baldilocks on December 3, 2007 at 6:45 PM

http://www.onlinediscountmart.com/jesus-figurines.html

My website has been burned down by christians countless times :rolleyes:

lorien1973 on December 3, 2007 at 6:46 PM

In fact, I think they’d probably sell well in Christian retail stores.

Yup, give it a beard, long hair, and a blue and white robe and you’re all set.

Frozen Tex on December 3, 2007 at 6:48 PM

And who can forget the great Hallmark Riots when Ty introduced Blessed, the praying bear Beanie Baby?

saint kansas on December 3, 2007 at 6:52 PM

Say what you will, the extreme level of outrage by the Muslim extremists accomplishes its goals.

And - I talked to a minister friend of mine the other day who said that a couple of Sundays ago a dude came into her church, as as she greeted him on the way out, he introduced himself as Jesus Christ, on a tour of his churches to make sure they were living up to his ideals. He was serious. And, he’s still alive. So, I think we’re cool.

nailinmyeye on December 3, 2007 at 6:52 PM

Actually, I’m pretty sure the ACLU would be freaking out if a teacher in a public school allowed her pupil to name a teddy bear Jesus. Separation of church and state, after all.

I must have missed all the Christians who rioted over the Da Vinci Code, the crucifix submerged in urine, the Virgin Mary covered in dung, and the chocolate candy Jesus.

The spirit of “Radical Christianity is just as dangerous as radical Islam” lives on at the View.

Hawkins1701 on December 3, 2007 at 6:53 PM

Barbara: Just because we’re having this conversation there, that proves it could be an issue here.

Good thinking, girlfriend!

MayBee on December 3, 2007 at 6:55 PM

Barbara better watch out, or George Bush is going to make her wear a burqua and have her stoned to death if she doesn’t comply.

aero on December 3, 2007 at 6:56 PM

OOpS! Just because we’re having this conversation ***here***

dangnabbit

MayBee on December 3, 2007 at 6:59 PM

Don’t the women in America deserve better than these four idiots each morning?

greggish on December 3, 2007 at 6:59 PM

Yeah, in the schools I went to as a youth we often would give teachers the lash or stone them for things like that.

Sometimes they would make us watch as the religious police gang raped them prior to letting us stone them.

But that is just they way we are in America. We must defend our faith at all costs.

Oh wait that wasn’t me and it wasn’t here.

TheSitRep on December 3, 2007 at 7:01 PM

Pam on December 3, 2007 at 6:52 PM

The human name analogy doesn’t apply to the situation, since Muslims manifestly name their kids Muhammad all the time without incident.

baldilocks on December 3, 2007 at 7:04 PM

It’s true Babs! It’s True! Christians would be freaking out!

Why I remember in the 80’s how so many Christian folk like myself organized to kill the band Jesus Jones (after we bought lots of their albums) just cus’ they named themselves that!

Oh wait. No we didn’t.

Never mind.

Teddy on December 3, 2007 at 7:05 PM

What would be a riot is if some dude named his website after Allah.

pedestrian on December 3, 2007 at 7:07 PM

Isn’t it interesting how Barbara can’t wrap her brain around the fact that Gillian Gibbons WENT TO JAIL for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed?

She can. She’d just rather talk about similarities than differences.

Allahpundit on December 3, 2007 at 7:08 PM

Say’s all that there has to be said concerning these women.

mjkazee on December 3, 2007 at 7:21 PM

The human name analogy doesn’t apply to the situation, since Muslims manifestly name their kids Muhammad all the time without incident.

baldilocks on December 3, 2007 at 7:04 PM

Actually it does because Babs asked if Christians would be upset…But that does kinda bring up a good question..if it is blasphemy to name a bear this, why is it okay to name a person after Muhammad? They take their Muhammad to the nth degree so it seems rather odd to me.

Pam on December 3, 2007 at 7:23 PM

Isn’t it interesting how Barbara can’t wrap her brain around the fact that Gillian Gibbons WENT TO JAIL for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed?
She can. She’d just rather talk about similarities than differences.

Allahpundit on December 3, 2007 at 7:08 PM

Nonsense.

She’s an idiot. It’s not the naming the bear Jesus that sets off “religious” people. It’s naming the bear Jesus and covering it with feces or immersing it in urine that tends to be irritating. Then again, if that is to be tolerated by “religious” people in the name of free speech, then Mohammed the bear is going to have get on board as well.

drjohn on December 3, 2007 at 7:29 PM

Oh, for Mohammad’s sake …

P.S. I just decided to rename a certain body part. Since high school it’s been Pedro. Or, more accurately, El Pedro Grande.

What can I say? My girlfriend in high school was an eternal optimist with a serious vision problem.

Anyhoo … the little big guy is now officially Big Mo. For Mohammad, of course. Already got the beard. I’m thinking of making a little big turban for him to wear. Maybe a little explosive belt, too. You know, for special occasions.

Oops, gotta go hit the head. Time to drain Big Mo.

Chew on that, you teddy-bear-hating fascist freaks. Okay, don’t chew on it exactly. Cuz that would hurt.

C’mon, Big Mo. Let’s go do our business.

Professor Blather on December 3, 2007 at 7:31 PM

C’mon Bawbwa… You know as well as any of the rest of us that when a kid names a teddy bear “Jesus” in America, George Clooney’s production company in association with Viacom’s MTV Films rushes to make a snarky movie about it:

The scene opens with a framed oversized portrait of George W. Bush and an American flag in the background, a group of 20 gap-toothed blond 5th graders with wildly-exaggerated rural Southern accents worship a teddy bear they named Jesus in the gym of a suburban right-wing Christian school in a generic flyover state. From this first scene, the movie establishes that the bad guy in this story is the collectively rigid and stupid mindset shared by the psychopathic Christian school administrator (played menacingly by David Strathairn) and over-the-top ignorant parents (couples played for big laughs by David Koechner & Missi Pyle and Dax Shepard & Ana Faris) that blindly force their children to attend the town’s Christian school for the sake of tradition.

The protagonist in this show is the young, incredibly attractive, and open minded new 5th grade teacher (Rachel McAdams). The townspeople have many misgivings about this new teacher who just moved to the generic flyover state from a coastal city after a divorce–a sin to the Christians. They really hate the new teacher because she is quick to expose the wacko Christians in town as the hypocrites they always are. Even though the sinner divorcee teacher isn’t making many friends, the matronly and wise waitress (Debra Jo Rupp) at the throwback 1950s-era diner reminds townsfolk that everyone deserves a second chance to start anew in their heartland WASP paradise because “that’s what th’ Good Lawrd cuhmannded us ta foller in His Gospulls, y’all.”

Of course, the star pupil in the new teacher’s class is the precocious, dark-haired, and very sensitive outsider boy (Nathan Kress) who enjoys reading post-modern poetry and prose six grade-levels above the ignorant brainwashed Christian classmates at school. This adorable moppet has a single parent dad (Jesse Metcalfe) who–as it just so happens–is the son of the Christian school administrator, former star athlete, and all-around shining star in the community until the day his wife was killed two years ago in a drowning accident. That’s when this town’s prodigal son lost his faith in a cruel and randomly-violent God. However, the single parent finds love and copious amounts of steamy sex with the divorced teacher. After a couple of scenes where the Christian townsfolk decry the sins of fornication (even though the Missi Pyle/Dax Shepard characters are having a secret extramarital affair), dancing, and dangerous book learning that doesn’t involve The Bible, the teachable lesson is learned by all in the Third Act.

The catalyst is when the single parent’s incredibly smart moppet is pushed down a well that the other kids tell the sensitive pacifist youngster is “th’ HELL that Gawd made fer them that don’t buhleeve in Him like yewwwwww.” The big city teacher uses her logic to determine the ignorant Christian thug kids are lying about not knowing what happened to the star pupil. She easily tricks them into revealing the sensitive star pupil kid is down an old well. Because none of the thug Christian kids are smart enough to remember exactly where the well is located and the Christian townsfolk are boycotting the Internet because of “that dumb ol’ liar Al Gore” and heard one of the Google founders is “some kinda Jew or something,” they want to use a divining rod to find the well. Fortunately, the new teacher is much more open minded and effectively uses her Apple Mac + iPhone to access the town’s municipal records stored online in a Federal database to find the well. A caravan of townsfolk led by the teacher and concerned single parent arrives just in time to see the child slowly sinking into the muddy waters of the well.

The Christian townsfolk all look into the well, gravely say: “There’s only one thing we can do in this situation,” and immediately fall to their knees; loudly praying for God to magically lift the kid out of the well. Then child’s single parent dad jumps down the hole to create unnecessary tension in the scene. For extra dramatic effect, the audience sees a quick flashback to remind them that the reason why the single dad’s wife is gone is because the dead wife drowned two years ago…

In the midst of all this adversity, the open minded coastal city teacher acts fast and uses her science to build a pulley system to get both the sensitive child and single parent dad out just before they drown. One impassioned star-making speech later by Rachel McAdams’ character later, all of the Christianist wackos have their minds opened to reality, everyone becomes the best of friends, and Sweet Reason prevails.

In America, if you name a teddy bear after a religious icon and you’re automatically assumed to be a frickin’ wingnut moron that must be ridiculed with all the subtlety of an atom bomb in front of an audience of 200+ million via the mass media.

That’s how we roll in Hollywood, Bawbwa. You oughta know that by now.

ScottMcC on December 3, 2007 at 7:32 PM

The only one to really make an insane point in this clip was Barbara Walters. She wanted to somehow equate the events in Sudan with the fact that some people would take offense in the United States to teddy bear named Jesus. This is the moral equivalent of being a truther.

Joy actually made a lot of sense.

thuja on December 3, 2007 at 7:34 PM

Also speaking of Jesus … this morning on our local news, they had a show about somebody who saw an image of Jesus - or maybe the Virgin Mary? - at the bottom of a rusty muffin tin.

An unwashed muffin tin. Off with their heads.

No joke. I Mohammad you not.

Professor Blather on December 3, 2007 at 7:35 PM

are they having a contest to see which one of them is the most stupid? I’m going to start naming my turds…Walters, Goldberg…and so on

Ropera on December 3, 2007 at 7:37 PM

My guess is if a school teacher named a classroom teddy bear “Jesus”, it would be the ACLU freaking out.

MayBee on December 3, 2007 at 6:52 PM

Exactly.

Emilie H. on December 3, 2007 at 7:38 PM

Awww Man!

She’s found us out.

It’s because of all the Jesus’ in Mexico that we hate illegals.

Dang, and I thought we were getting away with it.

BobH on December 3, 2007 at 7:40 PM

I could be wrong,maybe even out of touch,being stuck
way up north,near the upper part of Lake Superior,but
this is got to be the most vicious Liberal media hunting
season on “Christians”,maybe even worse than Roman period.
Between CNN’s hit pieces,and the view,and it now seems
Baabaa WaaWaa is the leading cheerleader,what an asset on
the War on Terror,Bin Laden can only dream to have Baabaa
WaaWaa on his disinformation team!.

It’s gotta be said,trying to elevate Christian’s to that
of these animals,Islamofachist’s,as the same,or even worse
is sickening,un-American,and especially “WE SUPPORT THE
TROOPS”—-”LIBERAL MEDIA”,and the Liberal Democrat media
team,are going to hammer this Republican Religion isn’t
good for America,(If cnn uses this phrase,please don’t
blame me),I think it’s time for some gut’s,and let’s get
Seperation of Church,and the godless Liberal media
seperated!

canopfor on December 3, 2007 at 7:44 PM

Their fears are misguided. Objections, if any, would be from people as shallow as those on the View.

No joke. I Mohammad you not.

Thanks professor, this will be my new slur.

Zorro on December 3, 2007 at 7:47 PM

if it is blasphemy to name a bear this, why is it okay to name a person after Muhammad? They take their Muhammad to the nth degree so it seems rather odd to me.

Pam on December 3, 2007 at 7:23 PM

One is idolatry; the other isn’t (I assume). Idolatry is one of the many things that is strictly forbidden by the ROP. Remember those ancient Afghanistan stone carvings destroyed by the Taliban?

This subject is merely one of the many things which the View women know nothing about. Christianity is another, for that matter (with the possible exception of Whoopi).

baldilocks on December 3, 2007 at 7:56 PM

ScottMcC on December 3, 2007 at 7:32 PM

Thanks for the pitch. It’s a go.

JiangxiDad on December 3, 2007 at 7:57 PM

Put a burka on them already…and take away their right to vote! It maddens me that their vote counts as much as mine! AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!

SouthernGent on December 3, 2007 at 8:02 PM

Allah, you need to get some righteous atheism going on, dude. You’re goin’ soft.

Jaibones on December 3, 2007 at 8:06 PM

It’s like they are programmed to try dig out an anti-American angle out of any story about the evils of Islam.

It’s the same mindset that blames America for all the suicicde bombings in Iraq.

uptight on December 3, 2007 at 8:12 PM

I usually ignore these segments but I just had to see someone try to say that Christians would get outraged (even near a Muslim outrage) for a teddy bear being named Christian by some teacher somewere.

With the non-riots and protest outrage garnered from the Mother Mary made of Elephant Dunn, or Cross is PISS, and the other thousand insane remarks or minor actions like (naming a teddy bear Jesus) that don’t even get noticed.

After seeing the clip,,, I thought Barbara Walters was supposed to be the smart one??

C-Low on December 3, 2007 at 8:16 PM

Aren’t there who knows how many millions of Muslims walking around right now named Mohamed?

How does that not insult the Mohamed?

Aren’t Muslims already insulting themselves?

Speakup on December 3, 2007 at 8:17 PM

Speakup on December 3, 2007 at 8:17 PM

See my comment above.

baldilocks on December 3, 2007 at 8:20 PM

Bowl of Stupid for each of these idiots.

Black Adam on December 3, 2007 at 8:23 PM

ScottMcC on December 3, 2007 at 7:32 PM

That is so full of win I don’t even know what else to say.

Bad Candy on December 3, 2007 at 8:37 PM

Wow, that was an incredibly stupid conversation.

First of all, no, there wouldn’t be protests, much less lashings, jail, and calls for putting someone to death. NONE of those things would happen, period. This isn’t a debate, this is fact. (Of course, a few nuts trying to react to the Sudan situation might make noise just to get themselves in the news. Westboro type a-holes)

Now, on to whether or not this could even happen. Most public/non-religious schools in the country (I would say “all”, but you know there are teachers who do dumb stuff like try to sleep with their students and don’t think they’ll get caught), would NEVER name a bear “Jesus” for fear of retaliation from anti-Christian atheist groups (like that asshat how flipped out over the pledge being said in his daughter’s class). It simply wouldn’t happen. That only leaves things like Catholic and other Christian schools, who in all likelihood aren’t going to name a bear Jesus anyway. But nothing would happen if they did, other than if a superior said it wasn’t okay, they’d probably be verbally told “don’t do that”.

But here’s the big thing. If my facts are right, Muhammed (or however it’s cool to spell it these days) is the most popular name on the planet, and obviously among Muslims. I believe I heard that a kid in the class was named Muhammed and that is why they chose the name. Regardless, it’s an extremely common name. So the comparison to “Jesus” doesn’t even make sense in the first place. It’s like naming a bear “John” in the western world. Not to mention that Jesus was “God” while, Mohammad was a “prophet”. Doesn’t matter, because there’d be no reaction anyway, but if the intention is to create an honest comparison, then you’d need to choose some important “prophet” from the Bible, rather than Jesus. Again, completely irrelevant though.

Either way, I’m still waiting for all the protests from outraged “peaceful” Muslims. We see them come out in NYC, etc. for their anti-Israel protests, etc. But when someone draws a cartoon, Newsweek lies about a Koran being flushed, or a child names a teddy bear Mohammad under a teacher’s supervision, and terror erupts, all those loudmouthed Muslims who claim to be so peaceful seem to have nothing to say.

RightWinged on December 3, 2007 at 8:48 PM

She can. She’d just rather talk about similarities than differences.

Allahpundit on December 3, 2007 at 7:08 PM

That’s a positive way to put it.

But yeah, I think the consensus is that no Christian would object; we’d be far more likely to encourage it.

I thought I heard Behar make one valid point though. I thought she was saying that people would object, but not Christians. On that she might be right. If a public school named their mascot Jesus the ACLU would have a case.

Esthier on December 3, 2007 at 8:55 PM