Bill Donohue is all sad now

Here’s Bill Donohue’s hilarious statement on John Edwards’ decision not to fire his bloggers:

February 8, 2007 

JOHN EDWARDS TOLERATES ANTI-CATHOLICISM 

Presidential hopeful John Edwards issued a statement today explaining why he is not firing Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan for making obscene and anti-Catholic remarks.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds as follows:

“John Edwards has apparently decided that there is more to be gained by aligning himself with the cultural left than by standing on principle and firing the Catholic bashers on his payroll. Had anyone on his staff used the ‘N-word,’ he or she would have been fired immediately. But his goal is to loot the pockets of the Soros/Hollywood gang, and they-like him-aren’t offended by anti-Catholicism. Indeed, they thrive on it.

“When Mel Gibson got drunk and made anti-Semitic remarks, he paid a price for doing so. When Michael Richards got angry and made racist remarks, he paid a price for doing so. When Isaiah Washington got ticked off and made anti-gay remarks, he paid a price for doing so. But John Edwards thinks the same rules don’t apply to him, which is why he has chosen to embrace foul-mouthed anti-Catholic bigots on his payroll.

“Edwards said today that ‘We’re beginning a great debate about the future of our country, and we can’t let it be hijacked.’ I have news for him-the Catholic League-not Edwards-will decide what the debate will be about, and it won’t be about the nation. It will be about the glaring double standard that colors the entire conversation about bigotry. 

“We will launch a nationwide public relations blitz that will be conducted on the pages of the New York Times, as well as in Catholic newspapers and periodicals. It will be on-going, breaking like a wave, starting next week and continuing through 2007. It will be an education campaign, informing the public of what he did today. We will also reach out to our allies in the Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist communities. They worked with us before on many issues, and are sure to do so again. What Edwards did today will not be forgotten.”

Ah — the “Soros/Hollywood gang.”  That’s the same gang about whom Donohue said the following:

Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.

Soros, of course, is Jewish, and according to Donohue so is everyone else in Hollywood.  Subtext, anyone?

It’s also extremely amusing that Donohue refers to Mel Gibson’s various anti-semitic tirades, since Donohue himself has loudly and proudly refused to criticize Gibson for those very same tirades, and in fact went after those who did:

On the August 1 edition of MSNBC’s Scarborough Country, William A. Donohue, president of the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said, “There’s a lot of people who have made comments which are bigoted who are not necessarily bigots,” adding that he is “concerned now about piling on.” Of those who won’t forgive Gibson, Donohue said: “Who gives a damn about those people?” Donohue then asked, “What kind of blood do they want out of this man?

Donohue is at best a hypocrite, and at worst … well, let’s not go there.  In any event, he’s right about one thing: what Edwards did today will not be forgotten.  Edwards stood up to the right-wing noise machine today, and good on him for doing it.  Let’s hope the other candidates do the same when they are in the wingnuts’ crosshairs (which, at some point, they will be).

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