It's just very important and very important to me.
I want to have a lot of people have it.
You have to have it for your heart, for your soul.
All Americans need a Bible in their home, and I have many.
Not only is Donald Trump a fraud, he's also gaslighting everyone
in American society.
I'm not against fundamentalist religion.
My opinion is that the people who have this basic faith have been victimized by
the guys who abuse them through the media.
The great Frank Zappa saw through this eons ago.
I am not at all persuaded that so-called homosexuals or homosexuals
because of a biological problems.
There may be a very few, but there's so many that have been made
homosexuals because of a coach, or.
On the ghoulish Pat Robertson.
When the lie's so big, as in Robertson's case, that sinister face behind all
the Jesus hurrah could result in the end, to a worrisome trend in which every
American not born again could be punished in cruel and unusual ways
by this treacherous cretin who tells everyone that he's Jesus best friend.
- Wow. - Zappa had many, many thoughts.
My wife has become a real problem.
She has no respect for me as the head of the house.
She insults me.
She even went as far as stretching her hand to beat me.
I've lost my self confidence.
Her words hurt so much and she refused to talk through our problems.
Please tell me what I can do.
Well, you could become a muslim then you could beat her despicable behavior.
But it didn't just consist of his anti-Muslim rhetoric, notes Zappa.
It seems.
That the people who are fond of what he has to say
haven't looked past the the front to see what is really going on behind the screen.
What's going on behind the screen.
I happen to think that he is worthy of investigation for two things.
One, involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal.
Yes.
Is this because at the time he saw Oliver North at the airport?
And no.
Not because he saw him at an airport, because he actively promoted
the whole business on his television ministry, some ministry.
First of all, he's got videotape of himself reviewing contra troops.
Now, suppose you want to review the contra troops.
How do you find out where they are? Who do you call?
Say, get me down there with a TV crew.
My theory is this that he has been involved with funding for the countries
he's been promoting the whole cause.
Now, one of the things that made my eyebrows go up and down was,
remember during the contra hearings, you had the three people on there testifying
that the people who donated you had cause.
Right? The lady and the other guy.
Right, right.
Well, the results of what he described bear a very close resemblance
to Pat Robertson's idea of how to win in Nicaragua.
Sounds like the same thing to me as he promoted on his show.
It was what Robertson, a televangelist, sold to his followers on his show that
Zappa wisely makes a point of bringing up. I want to talk.
A little bit about how much our family respects and admires Paul Weyrich.
I want to be like Paul Weyrich when I grow up.
Paul Weyrich has been called the main architect of the religious right.
- Here he is in 2005. - Those people were not active in politics,
and I served as sort of a coach to get
them active in the political process.
He also co-founded conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the
Free Congress Foundation, and he managed to galvanize the evangelical vote around
a man who wasn't even an evangelical.
- God bless America. - Thank you.
Does that feel familiar?
Because a similar thing happened in 2016 with the election
of President Donald Trump.
Two Corinthians. Right.
Two Corinthians 317. That's the whole ball game.
Is that the one? Is that the one you like?
I think that's the one you like, because I loved it.
On the construction and relationship of the religious right.
Do you think this country is turning right?
No, I think that the media is turning right.
And I think that many of the people who get into office have gotten in there
by wearing a, you know, a pseudo middle of the road kind of a costume, and then
lean toward the right when they find out that the right is paying the freight.
Once they get into office, I let's let our minds drift back to the early days.
Right before Reagan made his big run, there was a deal made between the
fundamentalist right and the Republican Party literally purchasing the platform.
If you stick to prayer in school on here, if you stick the abortion on here money,
the land of milk and honey will flow in your direction is that it is
so wealthy and it is so protected.
There's so much money involved.
And I think that it has been the ruination of the GOP.
Not a lie was told. Here it is accurate.
Conservatives realize where their bread is buttered religious fanatics who demand
not a separation of church and state, but a bonding of the pair.
Speaking of this is a man who Republicans adore yet is responsible
for the decay of the United States.
We have to connect these issues and understand that it's not a San
Francisco issue like homelessness exists.
There's 62,000 shelter beds in New York City.
There's over 50,000in Chicago, over 40,000 in L.A.
This is a serious problem that's been around since Reagan cut the affordable
housing budget in the early 1980s, and we're all living Reagan's wet dream
of neoliberalism in America.
- He called it the Reagan Revolution. - Amen, brother.
So when Zappa was asked by Arsenio Hall his thoughts on homelessness.
Well, I have a suggestion.
It's probably not going to be very popular.
But I think that, you know, it's you can just take it
with a grain of salt, I suppose.
You have a bunch of people now who are homeless.
These are whole families of people who are homeless.
We never had this before.
We used to have hobos, we had bums, we had winos.
But we didn't have whole families with no place to live and nothing to eat.
And we got one guy to thank for it. And his name is Ronald Reagan.
These people who were in the street right now
with, you know, no life support system.
They're there because of something called voodoo economics.
Ronald Reagan leaves office with a big fanfare, and all of his
friends get together and buy him a $2 million house in Beverly Hills.
So this means he's not spending too much time
at the ranch in Santa Barbara anymore?
I think he ought to, at least since it's his fault.
Let them move to Santa Barbara and squat on the house.
He delivered, as always. Do you in.
Any way have any plans whatsoever
if reelected president to abuse power, to break the law,
to use the government to go after people?
- You mean like they're using right now? - A non-answer from a fascist, of course.
So I like democracy, not democracy.
If you're going to have government, let's find out what the people are doing.
Because in the real world, in the American world, people who work
in the government of your employees.
In addition, Zappa practically predicted our downfall as a country.
In the end, we do not answer to bureaucrats in Washington.
We answer to God in heaven. Christians are under siege.
We must protect content that is pro God. We love God.
And on this Zappa well, he predicted it as well.
I have this horrible fear that the United States could wind its way
toward being a fascist theocracy.
The cross converted into a symbol of fascism in the service of politics.
This is bad.
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Every time that I research Frank Zappa and every time I see as I am delving
very deep into the archives, all I can think of is this man is the equivalent
to the great Bambino Babe Ruth just lining up in the batter's box,
getting set and pointing towards the skies in the outfield, and just hitting
Dinger after Dinger after Dinger. This dude just delivered.
He was a different breed man, just a different kind of dude.
And there's a few things. The first is I will do a breakdown of his.
I mean, you call it a beef is what we would say now.
But his disagreements with tipper Gore, his disagreements with an entire movement
that wanted to censor words and music
and kids getting sent to camps because of rock addiction.
It's a whole spiel.
We'll get into it another time because it's very deserving
and worthy of a clip on its own.
And also the things that he said and the testimony that he gave, what I found
to be interesting, and then I'll move on in a second, is how he said, it's funny
how we believe in, you know, democracy and the First Amendment and freedom of speech.
Yet when it's under attack, why are there so many big name artists
that don't care to use their platform and their voice to create positive change
and fight back against censorship?
Which is a phenomenal point, because if there was anybody,
anyone at the time who was leading this entire movement, it was him.
Now, a few things.
The first is, and very important was when he said, I am not against religion.
But then he noted how there are so many major players that use it as
a political ploy, which is uncalled for.
Yet it is a tale as old as time, and we have seen it now
with the modern day Republican Party.
And this is through many, many years of what they have undergone and the wheels
being in motion to understanding that they don't really care about religion.
Some do, but a lot of them don't really care.
They just see it as an opportunity.
They just see it as a way for them to get in government and enact laws
to take more and more money from lobbyists and fortune 500 companies
to live a very luxurious, powerful life.
That is the trade off.
And all they have to say, as Zappa noted, is continually clinging to the cross,
continually clinging to Jesus, continually clinging to making sure
that there is no separation.
Excuse me, of church and state. Like there is a lot here.
I like that he called out Ronald Reagan over and over and over again.
There is no bigger face of evil in this country.
It could be argued, then, that man who is somehow, someway, who Republicans bend
the knee to when they consider greatest Republican presidents of all time.
That's who they really, really love. God bless Frank Zappa.
I hope he is resting in peace because his words are important now as ever.