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Kathie Lee Disses Pagans on "Today Show"

Wednesday July 2, 2008

Categories: Celebrities

Kathie Lee Gifford is back on TV, hosting the fourth hour of NBC's mammoth hit "Today Show." This week, she's been asking audience members trivia questions about marriage and weddings. One of the questions was about why people traditionally wear rings on the fourth finger, and the "C" answer choice mentioned pagans. Kathie Lee decided to insert her own opinion into the simple reading of the answer choices, mentioning that pagans were "nasty" and "bad." Clip is below.

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clifford cozzens
July 16, 2008 5:37 PM

ok first of all yes someone dose make those remarks about Christianity her name is Kathy lee griffin really close he hates all organized religion and at a resent awards show she openly said suck it jesus and she didnt apologies now did she? im also a wiccan myself and i feal she did no harm in saying what she said it was just a joke how dare you attack her like that you people call your selvs pagan but you don't even know im sure you all sit in your little groups a bash christianity well you just need to grow up its the real world and we all live in it . BLESSED BE

Jonathon
July 20, 2008 11:07 AM

Lee,

the christian faith is identicle to judaism and islam... they're each based on archaic, hate-filled storybooks written by a bunch of arrogant, hateful biggotted old men. the best that can be said is the new testament has the decency to at least feign decency and with its thin veneer of 'love'. Of course, nothing can disguise their obession with blood sacrifice.

Just like yours, the pagans made up their religion based on a collection of earlier myths... the difference being they CELEBRATE their creativity, while christians and muslims claim absolute knowledge and authority... so there's no suprise the KLG said what she did. Christian humility is a facade over arrogance surpassed only by islamic fundamentalists.


Annikki
August 1, 2008 8:54 AM

I saw the original broadcast, and as a woman raised in the pagan faith, I was enraged. I am not a typical viewer of The Today Show, in fact, I was with my mother and sister, and mom happened to be watching the show. At first we were laughing at the fact that the 'losers' of the cute little wedding quizzes were subject to Kathy Lee's awful singing (the 'prize' was her latest CD) and that laughter turned to 3 angry pagan women. I personally think that as a community nation wide,we proud pagans should flood the network with letters, emails and phone calls demanding an apology, and perhaps a pagan show guest to educate the very clueless Kathy Lee.

Now, blessed be!

judi Davies-Webb
August 5, 2008 7:02 PM

I did not see the show as I live in the UK.....But I also am outraged by the comments made by the airhead. I am also a pagan and have been for most of my life. Maybe she should find out a little about us before she calls us bad, evil or anything else. We believe in and respect the earth, sun, moon and nature, if we call ourselves pagan or wicca it is because we believe in something that was around thousands of years before christianity.......I mean this earth we inhabit today and that we are caretakers of for generations to come.
Blessed be and may the blessings of thr God and Goddess be with you for now and forever.

Raevan
October 7, 2008 7:00 PM

I just came across this and all I can say is the woman is a dolt. Plain and simple. I have burned out lightbulbs brighter than Ms. Gifford. Yeah, I was irritated by it, but as a Pagan I really see no more reason to give power to her words by flying off the handle. She made a stupid comment, she's a stupid person. One day Karma will bite back in a big way.
Peace,
Raevan

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