Comments on: The Dishonest Oklahoma Baptist Messenger Makes Headlines

By: Jason Kearney

Jason Kearney — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:39:46 +0000

I’m just finding out about this, and honestly, I am floored. Not surprised though. The BM has not been a newspaper for years. It has slowly turned into a propoganda piece to keep the flock blind, blissfully ignorant, and to encourage them to keep sending in those checks.
Nothing will come of this, because the powers that be will continue to claim that it was an error, and anything beyond that is very difficult to prove.

By: R. E. Cooper

R. E. Cooper — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:31:38 +0000

It probably constitutes a forgery, which is a criminal offense. I suspect some agressive DA could make a case for prosecuting the perosn who did it.

By: Mike Kear

Mike Kear — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:59:12 +0000

I love how the BM calls this an “oversight and error.” I commented on The Lost Ogle yesterday, “If the deception was done purposefully then it is not an error, but a lie. NewsOK.com said in their article, ‘The Baptist newspaper printed Kern’s proclamation and attached part of an old proclamation signed by Henry, making it look like the Democratic governor endorses the language in the document.’ That doesn’t sound like someone accidentally misspelled a word or something. It sounds like a deliberate lie in order to deceive the gullible.”