It appears that Bobby Jindal is this month's Rand Paul. The media has this narrative that Bobby Jindal is somehow fighting the oil spill while it ignores the fact that he is one of THE MOST PROMINENT proponents of offshore oil drilling, and he has been a longtime apologist for the oil industry. Even now, no news organization is even mentioning the obvious fact that as congressman, Jindal sponsored the 2006 bill lifting the moratorium on offshore oil drilling or that his environmental appointees are members of the American Petroleum Institute.
Moreover, like Rand Paul's opposition to outlawing racial discrimination by private business, the media ignores some of the more eccentric views held by Jindal. Of course, he supports teaching intelligent design in public school. But, personally, here is Bobby Jindal talking about his experience with exorcism. That's right, Bobby Jindal has personally fought Satan.
Now maybe Bobby really doesn't believe all this crap. Maybe he is just pandering to the religious right the way he attacks the stimulus while also demanding more federal handouts. But, what if Jindal really is telling the truth about his beliefs?
Also, where is the media? Are they out to lunch the way they were with Rand Paul and his opposition to racial discrimination laws? I guess it does not fit into the corpoate media narrative of the moment.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-24/bobby-jindals-secret-past/
But as the country gets acquainted with the Bayou’s boy wonder, the stranger details of Jindal’s religious or personal background remain largely unknown, even among the Republican grassroots. How many Americans know that Jindal boasted of participating in an exorcism that purged the spirit of Satan from a college girlfriend? So far, Jindal’s tale of “beating a demon” remains behind the subscription wall of New Oxford Review, an obscure Catholic magazine; only a few major blogs have seized on the story.
Born in Baton Rouge in 1971, Jindal rarely visited his parents’ homeland. His birth name was Piyush Jindal. When he was four years old, Piyush changed his name to “Bobby” after becoming mesmerized by an episode of The Brady Bunch. Jindal later wrote that he began considering converting to Catholicism during high school after “being touched by the love and simplicity of a Christian girl who dreamt of becoming a Supreme Court justice so she could stop her country from ‘killing unborn babies.’” After watching a short black-and-white film on the crucifixion of Christ, Jindal claimed he “realized that if the Gospel stories were true, if Christ really was the son of God, it was arrogant of me to reject Him and question the gift of salvation.”
Jindal’s Hindu parents were non-plussed. “My parents have never truly accepted my conversion and still see my faith as a negative that overshadows my accomplishments,” he wrote. “They were hurt and felt I was rejecting them by accepting Christianity… I long for the day when my parents understand, respect and possibly accept my faith. For now I am satisfied that they accept me.” (In a subsequent interview with Little India, Jindal claimed his parents were “very supportive. They felt like it was important that I was embracing God.”)
During his years at Brown University, Jindal pursued his Catholic faith with unbridled zeal. Jindal became emotionally involved with a classmate named Susan who had overcome skin cancer and struggled to cope with the suicide of a close friend. Jindal reflected in an article for a Catholic magazine (called “Beating a Demon: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare”) that “sulfuric” scents hovered over Susan everywhere she went. In the middle of a prayer meeting, Jindal claimed that Susan collapsed and began convulsing on the floor. His prayer partners gathered together on the floor, holding hands and shouting, “Satan, I command you to leave this woman!”
While under the supposed control of satanic demons, Susan lashed out at Jindal and his friends. “Whenever I concentrated long enough to begin prayer, I felt some type of physical force distracting me,” Jindal reflected. “It was as if something was pushing down on my chest, making it very hard for me to breathe… I began to think that the demon would only attack me if I tried to pray or fight back; thus, I resigned myself to leaving it alone in an attempt to find peace for myself.”