Bill Donohue Defended Bush Catholic Outreach Staffer Who Was Outed As Sexual Predator
During the 2004 presidential campaign, George Bush's Catholic outreach coordinator, 54-year-old Deal Hudson, was outed as a sexual predator for taking advantage of a drunken 18-year old while he was a professor. The National Catholic Reporter reported:
According to documents obtained by NCR, Hudson invited a vulnerable freshman undergraduate, Cara Poppas, to join a group of older students for a pre-Lenten "Fat Tuesday" night of partying at a Greenwich Village bar. The night concluded after midnight in Hudson's Fordham office, where he and the drunken 18-year-old exchanged sexual favors. The fallout would force his resignation from a tenured position at the Jesuit school, cost him $30,000, and derail a promising academic career.
Hey, half of the college experience is trying to get girls drunk so you can get a little, usually doesn't pan out anyway, but it's 100% inappropriate for a prof to do that with a newby freshman who don't know shit. It's similar to priests molesting altar boys. Hell, the Big Dog got impeached for less.
Yet at least one prominent right-wing figure came to Hudson's defense: the Catholic League's Bill Donohue (Surprise, surprise! My em.), who has spent the last several days calling for the heads of two John Edwards bloggers. Donohue ardently defended Hudson in a statement, even invoking the Virgin Mary in downplaying his sexual assault:
In a press release, Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League, minimized the charges against Hudson and attempted a joke at the Virgin Mary's expense. "Effective today," Donohue wrote, his organization had "a new requirement for all future employees: all candidates must show proof of being immaculately conceived, that is, they must demonstrate that they were conceived without sin."
The American Spectator reported later, "Responding to complaints, the Catholic League has removed the press release from its website."
I'm sure the 'complaints' were from Donohue.
This is the kind of asshole we are dealing with here, folks, and that's not near the worst thing he's said by a long shot, just that he said it in defense of a filthy old fool. Talk about "attack dogs"! Rabid ones. I know how we deal with rabid dogs where I come from. It's not pretty, but they don't bite anyone again.
Donohue needs to have his ass handed to him, along with many other wingnuts in the RS3M*. They need a rapid response, constant, factual hammer job. They need to be exposed for what they are so the world can see.
Candidates can only do it up to a point. It's a distraction from getting their message out and trying to popularize themselves to get elected. Also, they have to stick to the facts of the specific attacks in their rebuttal and can't get personal, unlike their attackers, who use any means.
And unlike us. I'm all for getting the personal goods on these pricks and shouting it from the rooftops. I'd just love to get the goods on some of the wingnut slimeballs' bedroom habits. Film at 11. That might be a little disgusting, but I'd do it for my country. Donohue himself probably doesn't do much in the rack besides sleep, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that he's a drunk.
When the light of day shines on these jerks, they'll go back under their rocks. The MSM won't do it unless it's about showbiz-type celebs, but we damn sure can.
All's fair in love and war, and this fer goddam sure ain't love.
Please pardon the rant, but this whole Sis and Amanda deal has me royally pissed off. The politicians and pundits can sling all the shit at each other that they want to. It's their game, it's what they do, it's their whole fucking lives. When they come down on two reg'lar gals to get at the guy they just wanted to help get elected, they're going way over the line as far as I'm concerned. It's like using a howitzer on a chipmunk. The ladies didn't sign on for that kind of abuse, don't deserve it, and probably don't have the experience or the killer instinct to defend themselves against it. They certainly don't want all the exposure and inquiry into their use of their own free speech and their private lives. I think I'm glad they saw the writing on the wall and got out of the cesspit.
I wish it had been me. I'da loved to go on one of the gasbag shows with Donohue. Or any wingnut asshole. I would like nothing better in this world than to create some 'must see TV' by knockin' the motherfucker on his ass live and on camera.
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