Here Comes Mongo

Well, one of my favourite lines in "Blazing Saddles" is where two settlers are talking about a cure for anthrax being developed by Louis Pasteur. Suddenly one of them sees Alex Karras' inhumanly powerful thug arriving in town and intones "Never mind that shit, here comes Mongo!"

We have stories going around about Obama and Clinton camps throwing invective. We have an attractive American Idol contestant with scads of photographs showing her defiling war memorials and engaging in oral sex. We have a dead playboy playmate with mass confusion over who fathered her child.

But...here come Mongo.

In the person of James Cameron, the award-winning filmaker of "Titanic", who is unveiling a documentary in which he claims to have DNA evidence that the entirety of Christendom is an elaborate hoax. That Jesus died, not on the cross, but after marrying Mary Magdalene and producing at least one child. That the last two thousand years of Western Civilization has been based on a lie.

For further info, you can check out the article on Time.com about the crypt of Jesus and His family. The case is flimsy. I'd love to see the supposed DNA evidence Cameron has. DNA evidence proving what? That some guy's body they found in a crypt in the Middle East is of Middle Eastern descent? That would be shocking! Gasp!

You know, I don't believe that Jesus' life and death and resurrection were a hoax. I don't know Cameron's motives or beliefs and I really don't care. He's spending his money to present his beliefs, that's pretty much protected speech under the US Constitution.

So forget Anna Nicole Smith, and Hillary and Obama, and Antonella Barba...here comes Mongo for a media storm.