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Title: If Imus Had Called Mother Teresa a “Ho” He’d Still Have a Job
Source: Taki's Top Drawer
URL Source: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/articl ... esa_a_ho_hed_still_have_a_job/
Published: Apr 20, 2007
Author: F.J. Sarto
Post Date: 2007-04-20 15:04:48 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 261
Comments: 5

In case you were planning a career as a nasty, mean-spirited shock-jock, who makes his living using his media pulpit to slam people who mostly can’t (or won’t) fight back, here’s a handy tip: Stick to attacking our culture’s designated pinatas. Working-class whites, Southerners, all white Protestants (but especially Evangelicals), stay-at-home moms, and Mormons are all safe targets. In most circles, Arabs and the French are fair game, too.

Feel especially free to trash Catholics, of course. The admirable Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights has highlighted the extent of the double standard applied to the defamation of Christians and of other groups in the U.S. League president Bill Donohue commented on the way Catholic bashers are treated as compared to Don Imus:

“Two years ago, Penn Jillette (of the comedy team Penn and Teller) went on Showtime calling Mother Teresa ‘Mother F—king Teresa’ and called the nuns who worked with her ‘f—king c—ts.’ Showtime is owned by Viacom and that is why I wrote to its chief, Sumner Redstone, to register a complaint. He wrote back extolling the merits of ‘artistic freedom’ and ‘tolerance.’ Last year, on Viacom-owned CBS radio, Jillette said Mother Teresa ‘had this weird kink that I think was sexual,’ compared the saintly nun to Charles Manson and said she ‘got her [sexual] kicks watching people suffer and die.’ Again, nothing was done about this.

“In 2005, Bill Maher went on HBO at the time of the death of Pope John Paul II and said, ‘For those who could not make the funeral, the Vatican has asked that in lieu of flowers, just stop touching your d—k.’ He also said that the whole story of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the Resurrection was ‘grafted from paganism’; he ended by mocking the death of the pope and the upcoming conclave. The letter I received from HBO said that ‘it’s a free country, and people are free to say silly things—even on HBO.’

“Right before Easter, the Catholic League protested the chocolate Jesus with his genitals exposed that was to be shown in the art gallery of the Roger Smith Hotel in midtown Manhattan (located on street level, the public was invited to eat him). Air America radio co-host Cenk Uygur, writing on ‘The Huffington Post,’ said, ‘So is the argument that Jesus didn’t have a d—k? Or were people offended because it was too big? Too Small? Too immaculate? Not immaculate enough?’ Regarding Imus’s remark, Uygur called it ‘derogatory and insulting.’

“Similarly, Joan Walsh on http://Salon.com said the chocolate Jesus was not ‘a big deal,’ and advised people not to go see it if they didn’t like it. She has now called on Imus to be fired. Even New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg said ‘don’t pay any attention’ to the chocolate Jesus, but he now finds it necessary to brand Imus’ comments ‘repugnant.’

“In other words, Catholic bashing is humorous and an exercise in liberty. Racism is awful. Bigotry, then, is neither good nor bad—it just depends who the target is.”

I couldn’t have put it better myself.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

it just depends who the target is

bump it

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-04-20   15:08:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Ada (#0)

Yes, the dual standard applies here.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2007-04-20   15:09:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Ada, lodwick, Jethro Tull (#0) (Edited)

Hyperbole. Opie & Anthony staged a sex act in the Catholic Cathedral of St. Patrick and lost their jobs for 5 years.

Sounds like the professional victim Catholics are jealous at the professional Black race victims over their publicity.

"The desire to rule is the mother of heresies." -- St. John Chrysostom

Destro  posted on  2007-04-20   15:10:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Ada (#0)

“In other words, Catholic bashing is humorous and an exercise in liberty. Racism is awful. Bigotry, then, is neither good nor bad—it just depends who the target is.”

bump

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-04-20   15:11:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Ada (#0)

In other words, Catholic bashing is humorous and an exercise in liberty. Racism is awful.

Sharpton and Jackson are the new Inquisition.


I've already said too much.

MUDDOG  posted on  2007-04-20   15:12:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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