Haggard attempts comeback: "At this stage in my life, I'm a loser - a first-class loser."

[Bluebear]

:eyes:

In an interview with The Associated Press, Haggard did not rule out a return to public life or the pulpit. He spoke before he appeared before TV critics in Los Angeles to promote "The Trials of Ted Haggard," an HBO documentary on Haggard's exile after his confession to "sexual immorality" and fall as a top evangelical leader....

"At this stage in my life, I'm a loser - a first-class loser," he says.

Now back living in Colorado Springs, Haggard said Friday he hopes to build his business selling insurance and debt-reduction software and is considering marketing himself through a speakers bureau to share his story - "if the terms were right. I have to earn a living."

"If what I have is helpful to other people, then I want to make that available to them," he said. "If it's not, then I'm perfectly happy building my business." he says.

Now back living in Colorado Springs, Haggard said Friday he hopes to build his business selling insurance and debt-reduction software and is considering marketing himself through a speakers bureau to share his story - "if the terms were right. I have to earn a living."

"If what I have is helpful to other people, then I want to make that available to them," he said. "If it's not, then I'm perfectly happy building my business."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/REL_HAGGARD_COMEBACK?SITE=NVLAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

...'the people he hurt is the gay community, and he's never apologized to the gay community.' - Mike Jones, with whom Haggard had three year affair.

[WhiteTara]

1. nothing first class about that loser! n/t

[madeline_con]

13. You beat me to it.

:rofl:

[WhiteTara]

21. ...

:rofl: :toast:

[graywarrior]

2. Man, all you have to do is be a fuck up in public and you can make a fortune

Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, George W Bush, Haggard...they just keep comin' at us with no shame, no end in site. Unfuckingbelievable. I should cash in on my own loser status.

[madeline_con]

17. My own armchair psych session has caused me to conclude

that the average pseudo Christian in this country loves to hear stories of sinning and lying. They like to think these buttwipes are forgiven. They're so fucked up, they hope the same will happen to them. :evilgrin:

[Solly Mack]

3. Soy un perdedor. I'm a loser baby....

[madeline_con]

18. So why don't we kill them?

:headbang:

[Solly Mack]

20. I got no comment

but Beck did come to mind when reading the subject title

[lpbk2713]

4. So he's going from televangelist to late night infomercials

selling self-help CD courses.

Um. Is this really such a big career change? :shrug:

[mzteris]

5. still selling

schlock.

[Mugweed]

6. At which stage in life was he not?

That fuckwad has been a loser, no matter what class of loser, since day one.

[4 t 4]

8. Haggard no more of him - EVER!

we are moving forward there is no room for his kind anymore. Just ask our new President ?

[Mugweed]

22. I have no explanation for that.

People seemed satisfied that he left his church after that Rev. Wright thing. I, for one, asked why he needed a church in the first place.

[Forkboy]

7. Well, there's nothing for me to add.

[4 t 4]

12. Bless you nothing else to say-right ?

[Forkboy]

15. Some people write their own gags.

I clearly wasn't needed here. :)

[11 Bravo]

9. Third class loser at best.

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. "....and I'm not what I appear to be."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KynpC1e9I9E

[KamaAina]

11. Who knows? Maybe Rick Warren won't get to give the inaugural invocation after all.

Ted Haggard (Release 2.0) could present some pretty stiff competition, in every sense of the word! :P

[Wiley50]

14. Looking a bit Haggard these days, isn't he? n/t

[Divine Discontent]

16. pitiful schlep, thy name is Haggard!

Ted and Palin oughta start a church together, it'd be a smash hit!

He can park his insurance biz in the back lot that he can run out of a trailer, and she can walk around winking at all the knuckle-draggers in the congregation to get them to follow her out back to the kissing booth for some extra cash!

I laugh that he never came out of the closet, and instead, repressed it even more by just saying he was molested and that's what caused his 'illness'. :think:

[Starry Messenger]

19. His appearance in "Jesus Camp" cemented my impressions of him

as a third rate huckster and professional nodule. Glad to see he's showing me how right I was. :D