Scrappy Conservatives

"Maher’s obsession with the Catholic Church continues, only this time there is not enough material for him to use as a club, so he literally makes things up. His lies include the following statement: ‘When the—when the current pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul’s Dick Cheney—he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep the sex abuse of minors secret until the statute of limitations ran out.’
“A similar lie was floated by an angry ex-Catholic bigot, Rosie O’Donnell. The fact is that before he was named pope, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger had absolutely nothing to do with policing allegations of sexual abuse until 2002, after the scandal erupted that January. And he certainly never counseled bishops to keep sexual abuse secret—this is a bald face lie. Indeed, a week before Pope John Paul II died, he addressed the scandal by saying, ‘How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely’ to God.
“Maher also lied when he said the pope ‘used to be a Nazi.’ Like all young men in Germany at the time, he was conscripted into a German Youth organization (from which he fled as soon as he could). Every responsible Jewish leader has acknowledged this reality and has never sought to brand the pope a Nazi. That job falls to Maher."

What would happen if Maher did this to another religion or people of another race? HBO would have canned him immediately. Yet his vile crap is allowed to flow unchecked. It would be different if they allowed other people to oppose him; or allowed shows that showed religious people more positively. We are not deserving of that according to the schmucks who run HBO. I think we should email the man responsible for enabling Maher's tripe. That man is the HBO CEO Bill Nelson. His address is: bill.nelson@hbo.com

# posted by Jonathan Carpenter @ 4:40 PM