One of the central components of the work we do here at Right Wing Watch is listening to various radio programs and watching videos produced by an ever-growing army of Religious Right activists. And among the most unpleasant chores in this process is the regularly viewing of Rick Joyner’s daily “Prophetic Perspective on Current Events” broadcast, since Joyner generally spends the entire program mostly talking in circles without ever actually saying anything while simultaneously insisting that what he is talking about is vitally important.
Joyner fancies himself to be something of an expert on history, despite the fact that he doesn’t really know what he is talking about, and he is convinced, based on a two-day long vision he had several decades ago, that the demonic forces responsible for Nazism in Germany are now trying to take over America. Thus, we end up with clips like this from yesterday’s program where he declares that liberals and gays are “useful idiots” being used by the Devil to bring America down and who, once they succeed, will immediately be wiped out by the very forces they helped to bring to power:
We should probably point out that it was not Marx, but rather Lenin to whom the phrase “useful idiot” is generally attributed.
