{"id":6775,"date":"2012-05-14T10:07:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2012-05-14T10:07:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T15:07:19","slug":"third-eagle-of-the-apocalypse-outs-obamas-homosexual-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2012\/05\/third-eagle-of-the-apocalypse-outs-obamas-homosexual-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Eagle Of The Apocalypse Outs Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Homosexual Past&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock for the past week, then you know about President Obama\u2019s groundbreaking announcement that he supports gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Well, naturally William Tapley, aka The Third Eagle of the Apocalypse, aka the Co-Prophet of the End Times, decided that he needed to weigh in on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tapley, Obama\u2019s support of gay marriage stems from a past, possibly\u00a0incestuous, \u201chomosexual encounter\u201d which Tapley claims Obama describes in his poem \u201cPop\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Because obviously that is the most rational conclusion one can make about a poem written by a teenage Obama about his grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s Tapley\u2019s exegesis of the poem followed by the text of the poem itself so you can decide for yourself what Obama \u201creally meant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, there should be no debate that William Tapley continues to earn <a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=3380\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">his place on Anderson Cooper\u2019s <em>Ridiculist<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obama&#039;s Homosexual Encounter With &quot;Pop&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GMgGrVNb3AY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left\">And here is the text of the poem in question\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cPop\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken<\/em><br>\n<em>In, sprinkled with ashes,<\/em><br>\n<em>Pop switches channels, takes another<\/em><br>\n<em>Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks<\/em><br>\n<em>What to do with me, a green young man<\/em><br>\n<em>Who fails to consider the<\/em><br>\n<em>Flim and flam of the world, since<\/em><br>\n<em>Things have been easy for me;<\/em><br>\n<em>I stare hard at his face, a stare<\/em><br>\n<em>That deflects off his brow;<\/em><br>\n<em>I\u2019m sure he\u2019s unaware of his<\/em><br>\n<em>Dark, watery eyes, that<\/em><br>\n<em>Glance in different directions,<\/em><br>\n<em>And his slow, unwelcome twitches,<\/em><br>\n<em>Fail to pass.<\/em><br>\n<em>I listen, nod,<\/em><br>\n<em>Listen, open, till I cling to his pale,<\/em><br>\n<em>Beige T-shirt, yelling,<\/em><br>\n<em>Yelling in his ears, that hang<\/em><br>\n<em>With heavy lobes, but he\u2019s still telling<\/em><br>\n<em>His joke, so I ask why<\/em><br>\n<em>He\u2019s so unhappy, to which he replies\u2026<\/em><br>\n<em>But I don\u2019t care anymore, cause<\/em><br>\n<em>He took too damn long, and from<\/em><br>\n<em>Under my seat, I pull out the<\/em><br>\n<em>Mirror I\u2019ve been saving; I\u2019m laughing,<\/em><br>\n<em>Laughing loud, the blood rushing from his face<\/em><br>\n<em>To mine, as he grows small,<\/em><br>\n<em>A spot in my brain, something<\/em><br>\n<em>That may be squeezed out, like a<\/em><br>\n<em>Watermelon seed between<\/em><br>\n<em>Two fingers.<\/em><br>\n<em>Pop takes another shot, neat,<\/em><br>\n<em>Points out the same amber<\/em><br>\n<em>Stain on his shorts that I\u2019ve got on mine, and<\/em><br>\n<em>Makes me smell his smell, coming<\/em><br>\n<em>From me; he switches channels, recites an old poem<\/em><br>\n<em>He wrote before his mother died,<\/em><br>\n<em>Stands, shouts, and asks<\/em><br>\n<em>For a hug, as I shink, my<\/em><br>\n<em>Arms barely reaching around<\/em><br>\n<em>His thick, oily neck, and his broad back; \u2018cause<\/em><br>\n<em>I see my face, framed within<\/em><br>\n<em>Pop\u2019s black-framed glasses<\/em><br>\n<em>And know he\u2019s laughing too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock for the past week, then you know about President Obama\u2019s groundbreaking announcement that he supports gay marriage. 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