“Just imagine if a white guy is performing oral sex on a statue of Martin Luther King with an erection. Do you need to see it to know it’s ugly?”– president of the Catholic League, William Donohue.
Corrected quote, as if it makes a difference.
“If someone tells me that there’s a statue of Martin Luther King with an erection receiving oral sex, I don’t need to see it.” – president of the Catholic League, William Donohue.
Maybe someone can itemize all the ways in which that comment is offensive. I think it is a diamond mine.
Amanda Marcotte resigned from the Edwards campaign. Her reasons are understandable. But it hurts to see an homophobic anti-Semite like Donahue get himself another scalp. It just encourages him.
Meanwhile, Joe Klein is as wankerific as ever.
She did the right thing, even given that Klein is much worse than a wanker. I mean, he makes wankers look good.
Donohue is a super-prick and certainly does not speak for me. But I have a hard time believing he said THAT. Do you have a source?
Forget my question. I’m always annoyed myself when someone reflexively says “give me a link,” as if he’s my boss.
I searched Yahoo, and I see that this attribution is all the buzz over the Internets.
Asshole that he is, I still can hardly believe he said THAT. My instinct is that somebody made it up, and it has traversed the left blogosphere like a virus. But I can’t prove it. Hard to prove that kind of thing. I’ll look a bit.
I think it’s fair to ask for a source – I don’t think you asked impolitely.
Sourcing is very important in the blogosphere. We should be careful not to repeat something if it isn’t true, of course!
Thank you. As far as I can tell, based on the 15 minutes that is the maximum I can give this kind of thing tonight, the statement apparently goes back to a January 22nd article in Variety, available online.
The wording has gotten worse as the story has traveled about. Typical.
The original story seems rather vague and unsourced to me. Typical.
But he IS an asshole, so he probably DID say it. Of course.
(I really do think he’s an asshole. But I just don’t believe this one. I know a lot of super pious Catholics. They just don’t talk like that. But he’s an egomaniac and amateur Taliban leader. Maybe.)
Donohue is only half the problem. The cable news stations who hire him to “represent” Catholics–when he clearly does not–are the other half. (And as on Car Talk, there’s a third half…the Bishops who fail to stand up and say: “This man is not ours.”)
I am sad that Amanfa resigned especially after Edwards stood up for her but understand why. The Edwards blog and chat has been raided by the wingnuts and it has become almost impossible to have a decent conversation in the chat with other Edwards supporters. The minions of the likes of Donohue and O’Riely(sp)think they own the world and will follow these fools blindly no matter where it leads. I do not think most of America believes this type of bs but there are enough to get something rolling. They learned from their master Karl Rove and all of them ape the behavior of Rev. Fred Phelps.
Anyone with a brain knew that Amanda’s writings on Pendragon were dealing with the extremist of religion.
People like Donahue MAKES me want to put him in a cartoon strip.
It is like he is begging for it.
I fail to believe his nonsense that the Catholic Church is without sin AND the Church should be protected from critical speech.
I call bullshit on the whole thing.
I can hear Romney’s announcing from the TV in the other room. God, too much taxes(not enough debt), lets go surge, what a complete asshole. How can someone declare his candidacy by professing belief in every failed policy we have. I even heard the guy saying he and the Repuglicans can help Michigan rebound. The repug policies are why they need to rebound. The whole repuglican party is disfunctional. What nightmare will they nominate in 08′? Maybe this idiot?
One medium sized step backwards for the blogosphere.
The big problem with this is the lack of due diligence by the Edwards campaign. This seems pretty well acknowledged.
Beyond that, all contenders will think twice about hiring bloggers from now on. “John Edwards tried that and look where it got him.” I can hear it now.
Now, it may be that hiring bloggers to run blogs is the wrong approach. I, for one, figure that if you hire a blogger it would be better for them to help coordinate some strategic steps pf the campaign with already existent prominent blogs. Unfortunately, this is probably a bit too indirect for the control freaks that run national political campaigns.