This post is two days late, especially since Bobby Jindal is getting his ass thoroughly whupped (by conservatives as well as liberals) for his “animatronic” rebuttal to Obama’s speech.

But, for the future, whenever anyone murmurs about Jindal for president, let’s remember his bizarre 1994 story, in the New Oxford Review, about watching a college exorcism.

From the original post last year:

Highlights include: His sexual tension with the possessed woman (“we had been very careful to avoid any form of physical contact in our friendship”), her freaking out (“Over and over, she repeated “Jesus is L..L..LL,” often ending in profanities”), and theories as to how she came to be possessed in the first place (“Susan’s roommate, the daughter of a Hmong faith healer, had decorated the room with supposedly pagan influences… Susan, who had experienced visions and other related phenomena as a child, thought her intense flirting with guys and straying away from God had led to this punishment”).

Shout at the devil, Bobby Jindal.

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....

14 replies on “Better Late: The Jindal Edition”

  1. all i know is after boby jindal came to me through my tv the voices have stopped which is more than brendan kiley ever did for me

  5. One passage jumped out at me in the full story:

    I have always been a closed and relatively unemotional person and needed to know that my best friend felt that I at least could love her, due to some very strong remarks made two years before by my former girl_friend (hardly an objective source), I was beginning to doubt that I had the capacity for feeling.

    Interesting… given how forced Tuesday’s speech was, he definitely came across as someone who doesn’t have a natural emotional connection to other people.

  7. Oh god, this guy. I haven’t even watched the full speech yet because I can only take it in small pieces.

    After this schmuck and Micheal Steele, did the GOP already cycle through all of their minority leadership?

  8. A bit of sympathy for the devil, if you will… I went to a neighboring high-school and bright first-generation Asian and Indian kids were a dime a dozen at Baton Rouge High.

    Consider for a moment, the hurdles to overcome when a brown-skinned foreign kid raised Hindu wants to be a Republican. Not just a Republican, but a LOUISIANA Republican.

    In that light, I see much of this as pandering. Granted, it’s over-the-top pandering. Pandering that jumps the shark in so many ways… but pandering.

    Pandering SO hard that it encompasses one’s entire being.

    This is the sad desire to fit in. The need to belong.

    That said, please, let’s view poor Piyush Jindal as a man possessed, who goes to extreme and embarassing lengths to garner attention and approval.

    I would recommend a circle of registered Democrats reading passages from “The Audacity of Hope.”

  11. What I find amusing, perhaps even encouraging, is that “Bobby” Jindal and Sarah Palin are not the Republicans’ back-benchers – this is their first-string, their starters. THIS is the best the modern Republican party can produce.

    Ha ha!

  12. Aah @8 (and 10): but he IS a christian dork. He converted from hinduism to catholicism in high school. Also apparently rechristened himself after Bobby Brady. Does that qualify as a shark jumped?

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