Televangelist is all smiles as he takes ownership of a brand new 3 million dollar private plane.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail:  

Controversial televangelist Kenneth Copeland was all smiles on the tarmac near his Fort Worth, Texas mega church as he took delivery of his new $3million Gulfstream V private jet. 

'This is a big deal, this is a big plane' he says in a video posted on his ministry's website, before grinning into the lens and asking viewers, 'do you see this? do you see this? I hope so, you bought it. You and Jesus.' 

Copeland, who is the head of the Kenneth Copeland Ministries and has his own TV show, bought the jet off Tyler Perry.

Kenneth Copeland isn't the first mega minister to ask his flock to pay for a private plane. 

In 2015, Reverend Creflo Dollar raised funds to buy a $70million G650. At first his request for $300 donation from each follower was met with outrage. Later the church decided that the plane was necessary for Creflo's ministry work. 

And in 2016, Copeland and fellow televangelist Jesse Duplantis defended their use of private planes on Copeland's TV show 'Believer's Voice of Victory'. 

On that show Copeland called flying commercial getting in 'a long tube with a bunch of demons'. 

"Hey, are you looking at this? Do you see this?  I hope so, you bought it. Ha ha ha."

Any rational person would see this asshole giddily making those remarks and think he was mocking his supporters for allowing him to waste their hard earned money on a private plane, but the people who send him money will just keep right on sending him money.

I sometimes get a little blowback for suggesting that faith in religion is what helps people like Sarah Palin and Donald Trump gain influence and power, but right here you have exhibit A.

Here is a guy, at least as full of shit as Donald Trump, and he has convinced low information TV viewers that he talks directly to God, and that God wants him to live a life of luxury on their dime.

You can safely bet any amount money that the people who bought him this plane, also pulled the lever for Donald Trump in 2016, and will eagerly vote for him again in 2020.

Apparently Trump is using that brand new helipad the taxpayers bought him in Mar-a-Lago to land his private choppers.

Trump-branded private helicopter lands on new Mar-a-Lago helipad built for Marine One https://t.co/ZaIIkGIR8I pic.twitter.com/pV8NvAYjqs

— The Hill (@thehill) April 9, 2017

Courtesy of The Hill: 

A Trump-branded private helicopter was spotted at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Saturday, landing on a helipad that was built last month. 

 The blue and white chopper with "Trump" in bold red letters landed on the newly completed helipad on Trump's private resort, the Palm Beach Daily News reported. 

The pad was built to allow the president to travel on Marine One from Palm Beach International Airport to his resort without blocking traffic — though the new travel plan will not change Secret Service-mandated closures surrounding Mar-a-Lago. 

President Trump was not in the helicopter when it landed Saturday, and has not yet used the new helipad for his weekend travel, according to the Palm Beach newspaper.

So wait, Trump is not even using the helipad to go back and forth from Washington to Florida, but it IS being used by his private helicopters to shuttle others to his resort?

Fuck this asshole who treats the presidency like he is the monarch of all he surveys!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I know, I know, "How is this helping to elect Hillary Clinton?"

Next couple of posts I promise.

Here is that ABC News report showing Sarah Palin arriving in Alaska and doubling down on blaming Track's military service for his domestic violence arrest.

Here is what the  dimwit says starting at the 2:15 mark:

"My family is no different than other families that are dealing with some of the ramifications of war. And just really appreciate people who will support our troops and make sure that they are treated better than illegal immigrants for one."

ABC then reports about the SarahPAC e-mail asking for more money so that she can keep traveling and " endorsing anti-establishment candidates who will not play politics as usual."

It kind of sounds to me as if ABC News is not buying the Sarah Palin mooseshit.

By the way Palin's remarks are so ridiculous and out of line that even the White House felt the need to chime in: 

White House spokesman Josh Earnest, asked about the comments at a news briefing on Thursday, said the instinct of many people is to "make light" of some of the rhetoric on the campaign trail, particularly from Palin. 

"The fact is domestic violence is not a joke. Gun violence is not a joke. Problems with addiction are not a joke and the ... sacrifices that many of our men and women in uniform make, for our safety and security, are not a joke." 

Earnest said while the fodder may come easy, "in this case, the issues that she's talking about are quite serious and are certainly issues that we take quite seriously here."

And everybody SHOULD take PTSD seriously.

But just like Down syndrome, if Palin can use it to deflect criticism, then she WILL use it to deflect criticism.

Televangelist explains that flying on private jets is necessary because you can't talk to God on those "demon filled tubes" they call commercial flights.

Courtesy of the Bipartisan Report:  

On a recent episode of Believers Voice of Victory, Kenneth Copeland and Jesse Duplantis asserted that they need their private jets, with Copeland asserting a true minister cannot talk to God on a commercial flight: 

“You couldn’t have done that on an airliner. Stand up and say “What’d you say, Lord? Okay? No? Yeah? And the guy sitting over there, saying, “What the hell does he think he’s doing?” You can’t do that! No, no…” 

Copeland and Duplantis also claimed that a private jet such as the one owned by Oral Roberts is essential because it “protects the anointing.” 

But the essence of the message from Brothers Copeland and Duplantis can be summed up thusly: Demons are traveling on the commercial airliners we all use. Yes, demons. Copeland was babbling on about how it’s a “dope-filled world” when he finally declared he simply cannot, will not “get in a long tube with a bunch of demons.”

You know at the beginning of that video this Jesse Duplantis guy acts out a conversation that he claims to have had with God, as if there was NOTHING at all insane about such a thing. 

And apparently millions of people who tune in to hear this bullshit agree with him.

Holy shitballs the one time that I was standing in an enclosed space where a person suddenly started talking to God, I was in a mental health facility and the guy was having a psychotic break.

Our response was to keep him safe while he went through the episode and then to up his medication in order to control his outbursts.

We did NOT buy him his own private plane.

People are fucking idiots.

Conservative website, The Daily Caller, publishes interview with Tonight Show producer about extravagant demands by Sarah Palin. Inspiring Palin to shout "Fire up the Facebook!"

"Wait, we needed to hire a fucking plane to get you here?"

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

This week, The Daily Caller’s Jamie Weinstein published an interview with longtime Tonight Show producer Dave Berg, who has a new book out about his experience working with Jay Leno titled Behind the Curtain: An Insider’s View of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show. Included in the piece are some comments about Sarah Palin that the former Alaska governor is rushing to correct. 

“After the campaign, she had a book to promote, and wanted to do the show, but it was difficult to work out the logistics because she didn’t like to be away from her family for long periods of time,” Berg told Weinstein of Palin. “Finally, the only way we could get her to come to Burbank was to book a charter jet from Anchorage for $35,000. The jet was big enough to accommodate all of her family members.”

We have all heard of the outrageous demands that Palin has demanded in the past so of course this is not at all hard to believe. And it is even easier to believe since we covered it here at IM way back in June. (Scroll to the bottom.)

Of course hearing this infuriated Palin who quickly applied the whip of inspiration to her ghostwriter's back and she quickly pooped out this post: 

Guess the boys at The Daily Caller spent a bit too much time at the frat house and not enough time in their college library. (Or maybe it’s in one of their Jr. High tree forts where their leader gathers the boys to “report” their “conservative” issues.) Their claims about what I supposedly “demanded” of the Tonight Show are, in their frat boy terms, B.S. This is not the first time we’ve had to correct their sloppy “journalism.” Paraphrasing and dramatizing sure doesn’t fit into any fair and balanced image, especially from a little fella loving his title of FOX News Channel host. Maybe those bow ties are a bit too tight, bros. 

In contrast to your erroneous reporting (Hey! Come to think of it, this time it’s merely erroneous; it’s not your usual misogynist slant!), we loved visiting the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I had a blast on the show. Leno’s team was top notch, professional, and funny; and some even brought their families to work that day so they could meet mine. That was neat! Thanks for the memories, Jay! 

I’m looking forward to reading Dave Berg’s great new book “Behind the Curtain: An Insider’s View of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show.” Dave reached out by email to my team to share the following: “I consider Gov. Palin’s booking on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show one of the best gets I ever got. I had worked long and hard to book her, both during and after her vice-presidential campaign. She turned out to be a charming guest, who also did a killer standup, and her ratings won the night by a large margin. You can’t ask for more from a guest.” 

Thank you for the kind comments, Dave. Back at ya!

Okay well here's the thing, producers like Dave Berg deal with divas ALL of the time.

Just because he sent her a nice e-mail schmoozing her a little, which he probably does to all of the challenging guests, does NOT mean he did not think she was a pushy bitch.

And by the way the website that I sourced way back in June was the Hollywood Reporter.

So is Palin claiming that both the Daily Caller AND the Hollywood Reporter demonstrated poor journalism? Or is it possible that she is just pissed off that somebody let the world know that she is a pretentious celebutard, who is ALWAYS squeezing the very last nickel out of every public appearance.

Remember her family's motto:

"What's in it for us."