End of the world? Oh ... please
08.10.11
Distinctions between Mark Crutcher and Randolph Marcy run deep, but on the topic of the Texas Panhandle, the two men, rhetorically speaking, walk hand in hand.
Marcy, soldier and explorer from Massachusetts, ventured here in 1849 and later observed, “It is a region almost as vast and trackless as the ocean, a land where no man, either savage or civilized, permanently abides; it spreads forth into a treeless, desolate waste of uninhabited solitude, which always has been, and must continue, uninhabited forever.”
A century-and-a-half later, Crutcher, marketer and anti-abortion warrior, concurs.
Rising from the promised land of North Texas to defend maligned Roman Catholic priest Frank Pavone, Crutcher echoed the cavalryman last week in a video making the rounds on YouTube. Get the red carpet ready the next time, if ever, Crutcher wanders west toward the earth’s edge.
Principally, Crutcher’s beef is over what he considers unusual punishment being inflicted cruelly upon Pavone by his bishop, Patrick J. Zurek, who, among other things, dared to order the activist priest back to Amarillo. Cue Brando here: “The horror.”
Source: Amarillo.com