We must all welcome Bitch Ph.D. to the ranks of bloggers who have twisted Bill Donohue’s panties. Congratulations!
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We must all welcome Bitch Ph.D. to the ranks of bloggers who have twisted Bill Donohue’s panties. Congratulations!
Shorter extremist religious cleric: “Help! A rude woman and a gay man are oppressing me by blogging the Democratic Convention!”
Is Bill Donohue actually condemning her for linking to images that she found offensive… of BALOON DEPICTIONS OF JESUS?
How can I get on unka Bill’s list of shame myself? Can I just say I find balloon depictions of jesus offensive too? Will that do, or must I be a lapsed catholic?
I once ate a communion wafer without being a catholic (I was a kid at the time, and didn’t know why the rules should be any different at one christian church from another). Will that do?
Teh stoopid, it burns:
(emphasis mine).
yeah, uh. i’ll side with her. balloon-jesus is WAY more disrespectful.
I find it very funny that Bill thinks one of those balloons “has a penis.” The only one that even looks like it might be interpreted that way is the crucified one, and that’s pretty dang obviously a loincloth to my eyes.
I think Bill has some Freudian, homoerotic wishful thinking going on.
Who cares what Donahue types on his blog,does anyone actually read that?
The guy is so irrelevant,its not even funny!
In other news,a bag of rice has fallen over in China….
A quick off topic before we go back to laughing at Donohue,
I’ve now got the final episode of “Richard Dawkins, The genius of Charles Darwin” linked to my blog for anyone who is interested.
who the hell uses the word “Nix”?
It went out of style once everyone got sick of it during Watergate…
Bugger, no RSS from Bitch Ph.D
thats a real bitch. now I have to rely on my poor memory :-)
Will somebody please yank Bill-O’s chain and tell him the Pope has made cross-dressing socially acceptable?
wazza,
I read “nix”,and it seemed a bit strange in the context,but I didnt think it unfamiliar.
Then again,to me “nix” means nurse-initiated-xray LOL
Can I be next Mr. Donohue?
Ok oK!
Why did Jesus cross the road???
(drum-roll) Wait for it…WAiT for it!
BeCaUse he WaS NAilEd tO A CHICKEN!!! (Snare Cymbal CRasH!!!)
(I will sit and wait for my write-up with patient glee)
How does one affix a Crown Of Thorns on those things?
(And Jezus #2 from the top forgot to tuck in his inflator.)
Cute press release, you can almost feel the raging spit coming through the screen. Oh, and mr. done-a-Hugh? ..|.,
Holy crap, they actually DID use the word nix. Not just once, but twice. I know you guys mentioned it, but I just couldn’t believe it.
Well Billy boy, I find you offensive.
And also, that one Jesus sure looks like it’s got a dangling penis to me. Loincloths just aren’t typically round and sausage like in appearance. No, I take it back, I see the loincloth one. This is different. Second picture from the top, the Jesus bent over, apparently bearing the weight of the cross. As well as some major dongage.
I didn’t notice that until it was brought to my attention though. On my own I noticed that some of the Jesii looked kind of zombie-like. The use of layers of horizontal balloons to make a chest makes it look like some of them have exposed ribs, or else like their skin has been removed and I’m looking at layers of muscle.
Basically, I’m seeing something quite different than what apparently was intended.
The comments on that balloon picture site are classic. “he is risen” jokes referring to the hot air ballon Jesus, commentary about the holy cock, even a biblical helium pun.
Bill Donohoe seems to have only two emotions, which are intertwined: anger and censoriousness. And that tells you all you need to know about him.
Atheist Chaplain,
Click the little orange “XML” button on her site.
As for the story, I do not honestly understand what they’re upset about with Bitch Ph.D.’s blog. She’s saying that she thought those balloons were offensive. Is it the ornery little kid on her front page (I always thought that picture was hilarious), or is it her disgust at the church’s anti-abortion stance? This just seems like a really, really absurd fit of insanity from Bill. The eucharist thing, I could understand that, even though it was stupid…but this? It just makes no sense!
Jimmy Groove, if you look at the second “Balloon Jesus”, it most definitely looks like his penis. As much as I enjoy the Donahue bashing, this thought isn’t far fetched, nor was it his own… Just check out the comments below all the “Balloon Jesus” suffering on a cross FUN!
At the bottom of the article is this email address: info@demconvention.com . Maybe we minions and ilks should contact the convention organizers to counter emails calling for the expulsion of Bitch Ph.d. and Towleroad for the horrendous crime of “offend[ing] Catholics.”
Clinteas,
Interestingly Donohue who most certainly has a very inflated opinon of himself probably believes he is far more important and offical than any of these damn bloggers. He doesn’t communicate his little rants and opinions with posts and threads, but with “News releases”…
If one looks at google trends and compares [PZ Myers] and [Bill Donohue] one can see clearly who gets more interest :
http://www.google.com/trends?q=PZ+Myers%2C+Bill+Donohue&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2008&sort=0
lmao….I like how the Catholic League puts a link to Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust on their main page.
http://www.kobrascorner.com/opine/wafers-donohue-catholic-league.php
Hey Bill Dumbohue, read that!
(Normally I’m above link dropping, but I think it’s appropriate right now.)
Man, the Catlicks are seriously into repressing free speech. Donahooey is scary, but he would have been even more scary a few centuries ago when they still had the power to kill people who dared speak against them.
Bill Donohue wrote: “Several who commented on this image made patently obscene comments.”
Expletives = bad. Death threats = fine.
I’m beginning to think that this gurgling nitwit Bill Donohue’s only reason for living is to be offended and call for boycotts and people’s jobs.
I mean, what fucking century does this bleating little tool think he’s living in?
Man… If I had a bar of soap and a sweatsock…
I smell convergence.
Yeah that definitely looks like a penis in the second picture. It could just be an illusion, the camera angle, etc. But if it is, I don’t know why that’s shocking to Donohue. Weren’t all victims of crucifixion naked at the time?
It’s funny that Donohue criticized something BitchPhD criticized. I guess they’re agreeing?!
I especially love the headline “Democrats MUST Nix Offensive Bloggers”. DO AS WE SAY! DO IT NOW! *yawn*
“Loincloths just aren’t typically round and sausage like in appearance. “
Just how to you make something with balloon twisting that ISN’T round and sausage-like?
I think you are giving him too much credit, I think “Ridiculous” is more appropriate than “scary”.
If one looks at this graph, both on Search Volume Index or on News Reference Volume, one can see clearly that over time, less and less people are paying attention to the old guy and the catliklig, everytime he issues one of his fatwas, he makes himself look more and more ridiculous, just like an air baloon ready to burst.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Catholic+League%2C+Bill+Donohue&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Why, when I see the word nix, do I always think of pig latin, and a stooge using it? Ixnay on the Assphemy-blay!
Donohue is kinda like Moe, isn’t he?
Christianity: Our God is hung like a balloon animal!
hey, this google trends stuff can be fun!
http://www.google.com/trends?q=anal+sex%2C+Bill+Donohue&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2008&sort=0
http://www.google.com/trends?q=pustule%2C+Bill+Donohue&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2008&sort=1
http://www.google.com/trends?q=bozo+the+clown%2C+Bill+Donohue&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2008&sort=1
http://www.google.com/trends?q=atheism%2C+Bill+Donohue&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2008&sort=1
Bitch Ph.D. was one of the first blogs I ever read regularly when I first discovered the online world of blogging, even before this one. I’m so proud!
P.Z., this comment seems to me to reflect a gloating immaturity on your part that is hardly worthy of a professional or a scientist. Hooray for you – you are so superior!
#34:
Donohue doesn’t deserve humility; and if PZ showed Donohue humility, Donohue would take advantage of it any way he could.
I think I’ll start a website where I issue “press releases” about things I think suck.
Listen up, world! Here’s an important press release: I think Bill Donohue is a cock!
Neither functions as a responsible media outlet and both offend Catholics, as well as others.
Where do I write if I’m perpetually offended by Bill and his god?
su·pe·rior (sə pir′ē ər)
adjective
1. higher in space; placed higher up; upper
But look at that picture :
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/31/pzm_london_lg.php
Isn’t it absolutely clear that PZ is superior to the river Thames ?
Or did you have anything else in mind ?
Gee, Dan @ #34, what’s got your panties in such a twist? The fact that Bill Donohue makes a fool of himself every time he issues another press release? That’s not PZ’s fault.
Is it that those of us who read PZ’s blog think Donohue is a complete idiot, and aren’t afraid to say it? That’s pretty much Donohue’s own fault for being such a douchebag. (Which is to say: Mostly useless and potentially dangerous…)
…or are you just bothered by the fact that PZ is willing to take to task a man who thinks death threats are appropriate, as long as you’re a Catholic?
…or maybe you’re a bit jealous that PZ, an intelligent, successful person, doesn’t spend his life afraid of an imaginary sky-fairy and his holy army?
…or is it just that you don’t understand the ridiculousness of Donohue’s “outrage”?
So Dan, tell me which it is. I could use a laugh.
Kate, Donohue has never advocated death threats as far as I know. However is a ‘scientific spirit of inquiry’ I will be willing to look at the evidence of such comments if you will direct me to them.
I am not at all jealous of P.Z. – I just find that his comments toward those with beliefs that are different from his own to reek of self satisfied smarminess. He is a scientist for Christ’s sake. Surely, you wouldn’t expect this type of behaviour in Galileo, or Darwin.
Are you laughing yet?
I don’t think it’s a case of choosing which is more offensive. Both the “toys” and the act of desecration are truly abhorrent and I agree that perhaps Dr. Donahue could have condemned both rather than just the aptly named blogger.
I wonder how Obama would feel about the content of the aforementioned blogs?
Well, I’m not laughing as much as I’m chuckling over my morning coffee.
I suppose, though, that you don’t quite get what’s so funny about your reply… Then again, you seem to think scientists are automatons instead of actual human beings with emotions and lives outside of their work. That alone gives me a very good idea about what your problem is, and it’s *isn’t* PZ’s post.
Dan,
you know, I absolutely and truly believe, that once a Spaghetti (not gluten free) has been cooked for precisely 666 seconds, and I say “noodle doodle doo” to it whilst wearing a special robe and cap, it really becomes the creator of the universe we live in.
What most of you are fundamentally misunderstanding about Donahue are his motivations. The religious angle is a facade. Bill Donahue is about getting conservative Republicans elected. That’s his 1 goal. I can guarantee you he is not currently picking over the haystacks of the bloggers covering the REPUBLICAN convention. This is nothing but an attempt to use the cover of religious outrage to hurt Democrats and rile up his crypto-fascist base. Bill Donahue is about politics and politics alone. That is his end. He just uses religion as the means.
I love that Donohue thinks that one of those balloon creatures shows Jesus with a penis. I guess you see what you want to see.
Or “Bill Donohue is loud”.
Dan, #40: I just find that his comments toward those with beliefs that are different from his own to reek of self satisfied smarminess.
Hmm. I find a similar attitude among the anti-atheists, yet I still manage to avoid commenting on the attitude and attempt (not very skillfully, I admit) to deflate the attitude by countering the content of their posts. I figure that if no one can rebut their arguments, then maybe they would be justified in self-satisfaction and smarminess.
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Surely, you wouldn’t expect this type of behaviour in Galileo, or Darwin.
And Newton was a ass. So it appears that what attitudes and behavior one exhibits in one’s personal life (including, perhaps, a privately maintained blog) is a separate issue from one’s credibility and success in one’s professional scientific career, yes?
Dan:
Galileo ‘Eppur si muove’, as he sat down after being forced to recant his heretical theories under pain of punishment by the Office of the Inquisition.
Darwin in his autobiography: “I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so, the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother, and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.”
Maybe not quite with PZ’s style (and Monty Python had not yet come among us to give us the tablets with the Gumbies on), but pretty good kicks in the slats nontheless.
“Bill Donahue is about politics and politics alone.”
I think you give him too much credit. It is more about his ego and his wallet.
First I think Dan should explain why he has the superior attitude that anyone should give a flying fuck what he thinks.
The funny thing is that Bitch at least claims to be Catholic. She’s not one of those godless liberals – she actually believes in Donahue’s brand of fairy tales. Bill should watch who he criticizes.
I’m always laughing every time Billy Donohue issues yet another internet fatwa. The man is an unhinged, gibbering, little garblemouth of irrational, half-cocked hatred and paranoia.
Aside from that, you’re a cute little concern troll, but you really have no business or right telling PZ or anyone how to conduct themselves. The fact that you somehow consider yourself in possession of the sole license to do so is fucking comical beyond description.
I bet Donohue’s blood pressure is freakin’ remarkably high – I’ve never seen him display any emotion other than foaming, apoplectic rage. He kind of reminds me of those uakari monkeys…
Uh, Bill, Jesus did have a penis…
And he used it, every day!
“…but you really have no business or right telling PZ or anyone how to conduct themselves….”
Now I’m laughing because this is exactly what I think P.Z. is doing when he bothers worrying about what the non-scientific world believes.
To me P.Z. has made a god of his own ego, and sacrifices his own dignity in order to feed his god.
Most of the comments supporting P.Z. seem to me to be from impressionable young people – probably students.
Think for yourselves minions!
Donohue is just the Catholic Rush Limbaugh. He gets paid to pander to the fringe elements of society.
Although a side benefit for him is an outlet for his incoherent perpetual rage against everything.
We all have to eat and pay bills. Unlike Donohue, many of us have just chosen to do it by providing something useful and worthwhile.
Dang, Dan. I like how you’ve extrapolated “a guy posting about a silly press release and people agreeing” into “hordes of minions worshiping the P.Z. God-Ego”. That’s some serious professional-grade exaggeration there.
Ask yourself, is PZ a member of the non-scientific world as well as the scientific world?
How does PZ’s being a scientist disqualify him from having an opinion of the world in which he lives?
If you continue your petty, arrogant call for PZ to censor himself, you’re only going to prove to us all what a colossal, fucking idiot you really are, Dan. The fact that you can’t grasp this, yet still manage to write a coherent sentence, is really astounding.
Dan,
You’re right, one shouldn’t worry about what people believe, like those who believe that a cracker can become the creator of the universe and that this cracker-god told some people 2000 years ago that homosexuality is an abomination or who somehow have gotten into their head that a woman who’d want to abort would make the cracker who created the universe unhappy.
‘We’ really shouldn’t worry about all this nonsense.
*points upward* I’m pretty sure my nick by itself is enough to raise Donohue’s blood pressure. The guy will flame out from an aneurysm any day now.
But, just in case more is needed: When Jesus called Peter his rock, he was really talking about Peter’s peter.
Bill Donohue protesting bloggers’ press credentials, now that is a FARK!!! Someone needs to point out to him, again, that the Papal Asshat has protested Bill Donohue!
He is a scientist for Christ’s sake.
And…what? Scientists have to have their personalities surgically removed, or perhaps submit themselves to the Vulcan discipline of Kohlinar to have their emotions purged?
Surely, you wouldn’t expect this type of behaviour in Galileo, or Darwin.
I wouldn’t? Why not? Why do you just assume that famous scientists must be dour, humorless fellows with no egos? Did you ever go to a party with them? Chat with them over dinner?
I really don’t get this idea that a scientist’s personality must be reflected in his or her professional writings.
To me P.Z. has made a god of his own ego
Projection from the guy who thinks it’s his prerogative to tell all scientists everywhere the proper way to behave themselves.
Nah… If you want to get Bill all bent out of shape, just remind him that Jesus wasn’t a Christian.
Seriously. Saying that is like tapping the glass on a fish tank. They just get all wigged-out gonky, and it’s a lot of fun to watch.
And, well… On the odd chance that doesn’t work, then just tell him that he’s devoted his life to a piece of Israeli yard art, and he’d probably get better results worshiping an old refrigerator in someone’s front yard in the Ozarks.
Dan,
you’re absolutely right, a country where people believe such really weird unscientific things such as a cracker transforming itself into the creator of the universe, and who use these beliefs to deny basic human rights to homosexuals or pregnant women, surely doesn’t exist.
Must be a complete figment of the imagination you know.
Glad to see Towleroad was on Bill’s radar screen as well… Andy Towle’s a good blogger whom I read regularly — well, I’m one of The Gays, so it’s on the Agenda — and I’m happy to see him getting the press. If Bill Donohue hates you, you must be doing something right!
Please oh please PZ, if you can, just post one or two offending sentences from BD’s site so i don’t have to soil myself by going over there to read it. Yuck. Now I have to take another shower.
I think it’s important to clarify that when Donohue says “one of these images shows Jesus with a penis” what he means is “one of these images shows Jesus’s penis“. After reading Bill’s description I kept looking through the pictures expecting to see Jesus either standing next to or holding a giant penis. The last picture comes close but I think its just a fishing rod.
I hope this helps.
There are many things about Donohoe that I just don’t understand. Applying reason to the analysis of his activities is like trying to square root -1.
So he is offended by someone being offended by a picture of a balloon Jesus with a penis? Does that mean he approves of depictions of Jesus with phallic acoutrements? With enough passion to care what someone he’s never heard of before thinks of it? (Or does he simply like ballons, what with all that rubber and latex and such?)
By the way, how does one nail a balloon jesus to a cross without it going “pop”? Would said “pop” be a rational explanation for the resurrection myth?
Was Jesus well hung ? Surely being a God, he must have been hung like a horse.
I wonder if there’s an opinion poll somewhere about that.
No, I think it was for the money and the trophy wife.
Dan @ 40:
I’m pretty sure this is an inaccurate description of PZ Myers’ career motivation.
Methinks the man has another problem
“The writer then objects to some children’s toys on the grounds that they are more offensive than desecrating the Eucharist. The toys are actually balloons that have been made to depict Jesus in various poses, including a crucified Christ; one of these images shows Jesus with a penis.”
I mean seriously- is that why he is so upset, Jesus has a you know what…Did he expect Jesus to be without one?
With god/jesus being the great phallus in the sky, would it not be more accurate to claim that a horse is hung like Jesus?
Craig #50 “….First I think Dan should explain why he has the superior attitude that anyone should give a flying fuck what he thinks.”
Thanks Craig, I realized that if I change “Dan” to “P.Z.” you have managed to succinctly, if crudely, to make my own point concerning a scientist who insists upon pontificating(note the Catholic irony in choosing this word)
on areas that he seems incapable of understanding.
Okay, so he is an atheist and doesn’t hide this fact – so what? If he has not had, or is incapable, of having the same sorts of religious experience that others of his own species have had – why assume that billions of believers are wrong and his view is “real”?
I would actually have the same problem with a ‘professional’ artist making snide & derogatory comments concerning scientific theories and scientists in their blog. I would feel inclined to ask them why they feel a need to deride scientists and science on their blog. Especially a blog posted by an ‘artist’ on “ArtBlogs.” (Pharyngula is hosted by ScienceBlogs)
So yeah, I do wonder if P.Z. has made a ‘god’ of his own ego – he seems to have a need for affirmation. After all he has links to his MySpace, and Twitter, and Facebook, and so on… right on the upper right of this blog.
Anyway, if you can’t see the irony in the fact that supporters of P.Z. get angry at the slightest offense that they imagine being done to their ‘hero’ & yet trash Catholics for getting upset over offenses made against their beliefs by P.Z. and others – I cannot help…..
I cannot make the ‘blind see & the deaf hear.’
He was hung like this. *stretches arms out*
/rim shot
Knowing the way the Dem Party has turned out – a bunch of craven spineless tools who stand for nothing other than appeasement to loud-mouth bigots – I would not be surprised in the least if the convention did indeed nix these bloggers.
Borrowing one of the minion’s shorthand techniques.
Shorter Dan:
blah blah blah pz made a god of his ego blah blah
Damn but you are tedious.
Physician, heal thyself.
What I would NOT find offensive would be a balloon Donohue. I picture his penis as an airless balloon hanging from his fat torso all limp just like his arguments. He is a douchebag of the highest order.
Thanks, PZ!
I’m completely amused at Donohue’s crappy research skills. I mean, there’s *way* more offensive stuff on my blog. Tsk, tsk, Bill.
(Also, the RSS feed, for whoever mentioned upthread that there isn’t one, is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/BitchPhd . I have no idea why RSS readers don’t automatically find it anymore.)
May angels bless Bill Donohue, and fuck him in the ass with a two foot penis.
“Squeal!”
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=25058
Dan I’m sorry but you have failed to show where PZ does not understand. All you’ve done is come here and say he doesn’t understand but still have not given us any reason why you think so other than you think he is smarmy and has a big ego (oh shocker a professor with an ego!!! Call the press).
Demonstrate why he is wrong.
Dan Capital@#25:
::fascinated:: Yes, go on?
Well that is true. You are a moron who writes boring personal attacks because you can’t think of anything intelligent, interesting, and on topic to post.
No one cares what you think about PZ.
#43 – Negentropyeater – fnord & fie upon you! Thou shalt not give away the secret spell of the universe to the minions and Ilk. Doom on you.
*dodo wink*
Thanks Raven! for pointing out that I am a dumb troll, who is a moron who writes boring personal attacks because I can’t think of anything interesting to say…. I guess, “dumb troll” and “moron” aren’t boring personal attacks. I guess I was taking the P.Z. minon’s comments that seem to advocate a ‘freedom of speech’ in blogland seriously. I thought that I was on topic since the topic is the “twisting of Bill Donahue’s panties” and I was commenting on why I thought it is ridiculous for a ‘scientist’ of the caliber of P.Z. to care.
Yes an you also said
What is he incapable of understanding?
Quick, someone make balloon Jesi for dan and that hardworking Pete fellow. They’re obviously feeling all left-out.
And when you get yours, guys, rub ’em on your hair and stick’ em on the wall. Let’s see whose stays up longer.
Winner gets a balloon Bill Donahue.
It occurs to me that a balloon Cthulu wouldn’t be beyond a good balloon-twister’s skills.
I take “fascinated” to mean you aren’t really familiar with this device? Supposedly, if you put the bar of soap in the foot of the sock and then repetedly swing it really hard at your victim’s body you can do considerable damage without leaving a mark, or maybe it is you can inflict considerable pain without doing any real damage, something like that.
I may regret saying this, but I’ve set up an RSS feed for the Catholic League website, since Bill either lacks the technical skillz to set one up, or can’t be buggered to.
Contact me for the source code, if you want it.
The only way to remain panty twisting free, is to go regimental.
#86:
Just because you have the right to say whatever you want doesn’t mean we won’t criticize you for it.
It appears to me that the problem Donohue has with the balloon Jesus’s is “one of these images shows Jesus with a penis. Several who commented on this image made patently obscene comments.” He doesn’t care that Jesus is depicted with a penis, he is upset that there are “obscene” comments about it. What a sad little man he is.
The only way to remain panty twisting free, is to go regimental.
I thought the phrase was “go commando”. :-)
Is Donohue claiming that Jesus had no penis?
Was Jesus the model for Ken dolls everywhere?
octopod@83
Haven’t you ever done hard time, son? Tsk. Kids are so ignorant these days. Drop the bar of soap in the sock. Tie a knot in the sock as close as possible to the soap. Grab the loose end of the sock. Swing once, hard, and apply the soap to your enemy in midswing, just behind the ear.
Prison blackjack.
Dan@74
Nor can you make sane people see your own hallucinations. Do you have any corroborating evidence for your Desert god or his kid?
I can’t take Bill Donohue seriously. Every time I read some new stupid thing he has written I get about halfway through and then just say “fuck him… who gives a fuck what he thinks.” Then I go back to having a pleasant day.
SteveM – Guess it depends on where the True Scotsman is from. Everyone I’ve met in Clan Fraser says regimental. :)
Wouldn’t that be animal cruelty? I mean, I don’t think the forelegs can even physically bend that way…
DING DING DING! We have a winna! Got it in one!
Yeah. That’s pretty much the point: doing what other people tell them without thinking for themselves let’s people like Donahue lead them by the nose. That’s what religion is for.
Here’s an online contest I’d like to see; who can get Bill Donahue the angriest?
Simple name-calling would get boring after a while. What we’d need is some devilish creativity – digs against catholicism and the Vatican in such an unholy manner that Donahue would have to reach for the nearest alter boy for relief. Ultimately the results would mirror this:
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TDS-DobbsMeter.mov
The next time Donahue makes one of his pronouncements we should revisit this.
http://www.towleroad.com/2008/08/bill-donohue.html
Here is a link to Towleroad’s blog and their take on being dissed by Donohue who they say “spends most of his time using his office to attack free speech” which seems an accurate statement.
Donohue is a professional victim. He’s found screaming about anti-Catholic whatever pays very well. He’s also a neocon, but the market for that is overcrowded, so he concentrates on discovering anti-Catholic bigotry even where it doesn’t exist.
#104 – JoJo, so, this is his niche market?
No, we’re the folks who provide the raw material for the product he sells to his niche market.
JoJo, oh, you mean my very orthodox – raised by nuns – Catholic – abortion is wrong – don’t get divorced – mother is his niche market. I’ll have to make another trip to her house to throw out some more right-wing junk mail. I recall seeing some from the Catholic League.
At least she gives to the USO, an organization I like.
It is odd, of her five children she loves me the most and I am as queer as that proverbial $2.00 bill!
If anyone cares, PZ and Crackergate were a topic on EWTN’s “news” show “The World Today” with the as yet still closeted Ray Arroyo discussing anti-Catholicism with the bloated bloviator Donahue himself.
Audio here – 8/1/08 show
Just don’t expect much logic, reason, or an accurate depiction of events.
Offensive? Horribly ugly. Isn’t that offensive enough?
One of the comments about the pope from the Towleroad website that may have miffed Mr. Donohue:
He’s basically Liberace without the musical talent.
“The writer then objects to some children’s toys on the grounds that they are more offensive than desecrating the Eucharist.”
Perhaps he objects to the notion that there could be anything more offensive than cracker destruction?
Remember that Donohue’s somewhat successful jihad against Cosmo Cavallero centered on Chocolate Jesus having a big penis and was punctuated by Donohue’s repeated false claim that Cosmo “Wants you to eat Jesus!” The man’s got issues.
Mike, #67,
You have given me an idea for a comic. Jesus is out standing on the middle of a lake fishing while a park ranger is filling out a ticket saying, “Oh, the permit’s fine and all that, it’s just that too many people have complained about nearly running you over out here.”
negentropyeater, #69
“Was Jesus well hung ? Surely being a God, he must have been hung like a horse.”
Humpback actually.
How do you hang a horse?
Classic Catholic projection.
Hey, what’s this?
(mimes biting motions in front of palms of hands)…
…Jesus biting his nails!
As Dr Bitch herself says, the odd thing is that out of her whole site, he decided to get offended by a relatively innocuous post about toys. Maybe he’s keeping the really juicy bits for the next press release?
Donohue’s repeated false claim that Cosmo “Wants you to eat Jesus!” The man’s got issues.
Jesus can only be eaten in tasteless wafer form, making him delicious is a sin. (I suppose)
Alan Kellogg @115
Well, first you offer him a cigarette. Then ask if he wants a blindfold. “Any last words there, Mr. Ed?”
Etc.
For fuck’s sake, do you know anything about Galileo? He was widely known for his overbearing and sarcastic attitude:
“I have never understood, Your Excellency, why it is that every one of the studies I have published in order to please or to serve other people has aroused in some men a certain perverse urge to detract, steal, or deprecate that modicum of merit which I thought I had earned, if not for my work, at least for its intention. In my Starry Messenger there were revealed many new and marvelous discoveries in the heavens that should have gratified all lovers of true science; yet scarcely had it been printed when men sprang up everywhere who envied the praises belonging to the discoveries there revealed. Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.”
Apparently you just have to be dead like Galileo or Sagan and people will assume that you weren’t uppity at all. Just wait a hundred years and people will ask why scientists or atheists can’t be as eloquent and nice as Myers or Dawkins.
You have to wonder about someone like Bill Donohue who hates political correctness (and justifiably so), but then willfully practices it himself when it serves his own interests.
Nothing more than a self-serving hypocrite.