Couldn’t Happen To A Shallower Idiot
Deepak Chopra — owned:
[Via Jonah]
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July 29th, 2010 at 9:53 am
That guy in the red shirt is my hero.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:03 am
You think he would have saw that comming…
July 29th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Anyone know who the other people on the panel are? I like the guy sitting next to Chopra; he seems to “get” it and finds it funny. That blonde woman, though–sheesh. She looks like one humorless true-believing bitch.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Is it my imagination, or did that fly completely over Chopra’s head?
July 29th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
“Is it my imagination, or did that fly completely over Chopra’s head?”
That’s what’s funny about it to me. The guy next to him is laughing, the audience is getting it, and Chopra’s sitting there either not getting it at all (which is how it looks to me) or gamely smiling on, trying to maintain his benevolent-guru persona despite the fact that he’s just been made a maughingstock.
July 29th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Man in Red Shirt is Man of the Year.
July 29th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
I mean, maybe somewhere Godel is smiling, but we have no way of determining that.
July 29th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Bilwick1, I thought as much, but I wasn’t sure. You’d have to be pretty clueless to miss it, but I guess Chopra is as clueless as his followers.
July 29th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Dude, u cannt make funny of one of the stars of publik TV like that. NPR is gonna get u.
July 29th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Nicely done – I’m envious. Although it is always more fun when those gotcha questions happen to someone else.
July 29th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Oh man, pwned. Nothing is sweeter than hoisting some pompous self important idiot on their own petard.
July 29th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
When I saw this title, I was hoping for a post on Rep. Rangel-D.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Bilwick1: The show was a Nightline debate on faith. One of the panelists (to the right of the gal) is Mark Driscoll. He’s a pastor @ Mars Hill in Seattle. You should be able to find the show on the Mars Hill website.
July 30th, 2010 at 3:02 am
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July 30th, 2010 at 4:11 am
Thanks, boxty. I’d be interested in seeing the aftermath. “Huh? What happened? Did that guy just make fun of me? Hey, Fat F*ck in the Red Shirt, don’t p*ss me off. I’ll meditate and make an earthquake destroy your house!”"
July 30th, 2010 at 6:45 am
That video was a thing of beauty. Guy in Red, I’d like to buy you a beer. Deepak looks baffled like he’s trying to figure out why everyone is laughing. I take it he doesn’t get laughed at a lot but he deserves to be. Well deserved ridicule is a great way to deflate pompus egos.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:13 am
Late to the party, but that was excellent.
August 2nd, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Also late to the party, who was the woman shooting hate beams at everyone?
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:49 am
@CptNerd:
According to the Mars Hill website: “This ABC Nightline debate happened at Mars Hill Church’s Ballard campus, and featured Pastor Mark Driscoll and Annie Lobert debating the existence of Satan with Deepak Chopra and Bishop Carlton Pearson.” The debate took place (or was aired) on March 26, 2009.
The opening 20 seconds of the video mention that Annie Lobert is a “former prostitute”, and Bishop Pearson is “a so-called heretic”.
I didn’t watch the whole thing, though it’s only 21m25s on the Mars Hill Church website.
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:52 am
Incidentally, fate led me to click on the time bar on the video to advance the thing, which landed me smack dab at 14:18, which ironically enough is where Deepak starts going on about how belief is a cover-up for insecurity, using electricity as his first example.