The Blues Polygamist: Feedback about "Enquete Exclusive: Polygamie"

So it has been interesting reading the feedback from last week's "Enquete Exclusive".

Before I had a chance to see the show, I looked at some of the forums about the program. They were heated discussions about the Muslim problem in France. They scarcely even talked about the Mormon issue. In fact, any mention of Mormons was cursory. It got to the point where I thought that perhaps my family didn't have any significant part in the program.

Then I found all the tweets...

I just have to say - what do people do in this world? I live off grid, so I really don't know. Do people sit in front of the TV with laptops and talk about what they are watching? It sounds like many people need to get out of the house more.

The discussion forums - whereas they were argumentative - at least had some substance. The tweets were much baser. Not intelligent. Off the cuff remarks. And very mean-spirited. Which shows me that the French are not that much different from Americans. The comments were the same.

Every now and then, I get a perverse desire to punish myself by going to my YouTube clip. People still comment on it often all these years later. After tens of thousands of views and several hundred comments, I can still count on one hand the positive comments. There is the inevitable Christian who pontificates on how wrong polygamy is and that God hates it, even though the Bible is replete with God's prophets who were polygamous. But mostly it is the people who say how fat, ugly and creepy I am. And how did I ever get two women to marry me? Poor women! They must be brainwashed to marry such a fat, ugly person...

LOL! Well, guess what? I have to look in the mirror every day. I see how fat I am. I'm no Brad Pitt. And I have NO CLUE why my wives would want to be with me, much less stay with me. It mystifies me. And it frustrates me that - whatever message that I am trying to get across - is drowned by the fat. No one can hear what I am saying, because all they see is blubber.

It reminds me of that scene from "The Producers": "FAAAAT!!!!! FAAAAAT!!!! FAT, FAT, FATTY!" lol!

Anyway, the French comments were not much different. I won't even talk about the vulgar comments. But they seemed to clue in on everything. Many people commented on Martha's glasses, they made fun of the cooking - they even wondered if the cat that they showed was polygamous, too!

There were several comments about how I live with no electricity, and yet how is it that I have a Blackberry? Come on! I'm not Amish! There were people that criticized me for wanting to read before I go to bed. Okay, I get that one. I thought that was a stupid thing for me to talk about.

The funniest comment was, "How is it that this man has two wives when George Clooney doesn't even have one?"

Then several people started calling me "The Blues Polygamist". I didn't really understand that. Maybe it was the soul patch. But I like it. Maybe I should keep that moniker. "Moroni Jessop the Blues Polygamist."

A French scholar named Chrystal Vanel blogged a very interesting review of the show. He mentioned my family a bit. Keep in mind that it is translated from French:

"Besides the fundamentalist Mormon members of theU.S. fundamentalist church, the report mentions the "Mormons independent." No doubt the journalists, who already at the beginning of the story could not tell the full name of the U.S. Mormon church majority did they speak of "fundamentalist Mormons independents" who live their religion out of any group, any institution.

"Journalists we have therefore Moroni, who lives with his two wives and his children in Arizona, and we say it is the "first time an independent fundamentalist opens the door of his house." Well no, this is not the first time that Moroni opens its doors to television cameras, as evidenced by his blog:Moroni & Family's TV Experience ( http://moroni-family.blogspot.com/ ). In addition, the television channel France 2 we had already shown an independent fundamentalist Mormon family (with whom I spent a month in Utah / Arizona) during a report of Special Envoy in the late 1990s. And the M6 itself had presented an independent fundamentalist Mormon family in the exclusive investigative report on the Mormons (November 28, 2010).

"Moroni's second wife testified that polygamy is for her lifestyle choice freely without any constraint, since it is not from a polygamous family."

There was an excellent blog written by a French Mormon that I suggest you read here.

All in all, I am pleased with the results of the program. If I can reach one or two - and change their opinion about Mormon polygamy - then they can talk about how fat I am all they want! I hope you will all keep reading!