YouTube screenshot: Victor Marx, GOP Candidate for governor of Colorado, during an interview with 9News reporter Kyle Clark, June 2026.
You can’t believe everything you read in the newspaper. Especially, in the Los Angeles Times. Or any newspaper published in California, for that matter.
Heck, can we believe anything at all these days?
But I want desperately to believe that Victor Marx can exorcise demons. Because he might be elected our next governor here in Colorado.
I’m pretty sure our current governor, Jared Polis, is not able to exorcise demons. At least, he has never made that claim publicly. He’s good at vetoing legislation, however. Which is an important related skill.
GOP voters selected Mr. Marx last month as their candidate of choice to run against Democrat Phil Weiser, who’s been serving as Colorado’s Attorney General for the past eight years. The closest Mr. Weiser has gotten to exorcising demons is suing the Trump administration. Like 65 lawsuits so far. Most of his lawsuits, that have been successful, were filed jointly by a bunch of state attorneys general.
If that bunch of attorneys general had been able to exorcise demons, we’d be way ahead of the game right now.
I’m using the word “bunch” because I don’t know how many we’re talking about. But definitely, more than one.
But the LA Times published a story about Victor Marx actually exorcising demons, and they mentioned that Mr. Marx had been interviewed by Kyle Clark, a controversial journalist connected to 9News in Denver.
I watched that 30-minute interview on YouTube. The interview took place prior to the primary election, and Victor Marx was not yet the chosen Republican candidate. But now he is, thank goodness.
Mr. Clark wanted to find out exactly how this candidate for governor casts out demons. Or rather, Mr. Clark was pretending to want to know how the process works. It was pretty obvious that what Mr. Clark actually wanted was to trick Victor Marx into saying something stupid and embarrassing himself.
I’m a journalist myself, so I know how journalists work. It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
The interview actually started off with questions about the claim, posted to the candidate’s website, that Mr. Marx and his team of operatives had rescued 45,000 women and children from threatening situations. Turns out, that was a fictional number posted by an overly ambitious website designer, without Mr. Marx’s permission.
“It was corrected as soon as we knew,” the candidate explained.
Mr. Marx would not give an exact number of women and children rescued, for security reasons, but he did offer a ballpark estimate. With a smile.
“We’ve never actually put the number out, for security reasons, and we don’t have a need to. I would say, it’s more than one, and less than a bunch. Our desire is to protect those that we have [rescued].”
There’s that useful word again. “Bunch”.
Speaking for myself, I’m all in favor of rescuing a bunch of women and children from threatening situations. And Mr. Clark gave the impression that he feels the same way. Which means that all three of us support the whole rescuing idea.
Naturally, there are certain bad people in the world who don’t want women and children rescued, and some of them might live in Colorado. I would be delighted to have a state government that can successfully rescue women and children. Because I don’t think the federal government is going to do it.
Different strokes for different folks, right? Like, I seriously doubt the Colorado state government is going to build a ballroom, for example.
I think the most important thing that Mr. Marx could do for us, if he wins the November election, is perform exorcisms. Cast out the demons.
Quite a bit of the 9News interview — about 5 minutes — focused on the exorcism process, but it turns out that Mr. Marx doesn’t like to use the word ‘exorcism’ to describe his process for freeing people from demonic oppression. Which, to hear him describe the process, sounds like he simply prays for the demons to leave, and they leave.
He said he can do this over the phone if necessary.
He has referred to himself as “a reluctant exorcist” but that was just a little joke. He’s really just a well-meaning guy who knows how to pray.
But the LA Times wanted to use the word ‘exorcism’ in their article a few days ago. Repeatedly.
So don’t believe everything you read in the news.
Especially here in the Pagosa Daily Post.
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. You can read more stories on his Substack account.