JAWN'S JUICE PREVIEW: A Pious Prince by Mr. Jawn Murray (Washington, DC)


Prince
(Nov. 4, 2003) Pious Prince: My friend C.J., a columnist in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, is the one who broke the hilarious story about the artist known again as Prince and his recent door-knocking Jehovah’s Witness pitching. A bunch of outlets picked up on the story, including Rush & Molloy of the New York Daily News, and failed to credit C.J. For those who missed the story or didn’t hear me report it on the Doug Banks Morning Show, I’ll recap it for you.
A few weeks back, Prince was out proselytizing for Jehovah's Witnesses on a Sunday afternoon in a town called Eden Prairie, Minn. Prince visited a woman, who preferred to be identified only as Rochelle, said, "Door bell rings. My husband runs upstairs and says, 'Prince is at the door!' I said, 'No way.' " Even though this was an inopportune time, they let in the man who introduced himself at "Prince Nelson" and another man.” She was speaking of famed bassist Larry Graham of Graham Central Station.

"This is Sunday at about 2 p.m. And it's the night of Yom Kippur,” remembered Rochelle. “My first thought is 'Cool, cool, cool. He wants to use my house for a set. I'm glad! Demolish the whole thing! Start over!' Then they start in on this Jehovah's Witnesses stuff. I said, 'You know what? You've walked into a Jewish household, and this is not something I'm interested in.' He says, ‘Can I just finish?’ Then the other guy, Larry Graham, gets out his little Bible and starts reading scriptures about being Jewish and the land of Israel. They stayed for about 25 minutes. Left us a pamphlet."

Prince didn’t offer any autographs or anything. “He was very kind,” Rochelle added. “We watched him leave. Outside is a big black truck with a woman, long dark hair, in the front seat and they left." The woman met the general description of Prince's supposed wife, Manuella. Rochelle seemed perplexed that Prince didn't seem to stop at any other houses in her neighborhood. "They go door-to-door. Walking. He wasn't walking. He was driving. It was so bizarre. You would have just laughed," she said.

Rochelle also admitted that the perfect esprit d'escalier came after Prince left. "If I showed up at Paisley [Park], would you let me in your front door to talk about Judaism," she pondered.

Just when C.J. was done reporting on Symbolina, as she calls the flamboyant singer, she was bombarded with e-mails and calls from Jehovah's Witnesses who explained why Prince visited a house in Eden Prairie, then got in an automobile and left. They explained that Prince was probably visiting an address that had been missed earlier. "Well, looking at your picture, I'm going, 'Cute,'" said a caller named Greg. "Please remember that Prince is just the messenger trying to give out information, along with Mr. [Larry] Graham. Apparently you thought it was funny. I don't get it, but you should get this: God does not like ugly, and he's not too crazy about cute, either. Check yourself."

If God doesn’t like ugly, I wonder what he thinks of Prince writing that song “Billy Jack Bitch” about C.J.?

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Keep in mind that Jawn always write gossip articles about everybody(not just Prince) he's like the journalist version of Wendy Williams.

Harlepolis said:

um, who's wendy williams?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

The female Howard Stern Shock Jock radio personality,,,she's famous in the New York area and she has a show in VH-1.

Harlepolis said:

ohhh...

I just love articles like this where the author takes quotes and turns them around at the end leaving those they quote defenseless. Trash.