Where is the Catholic League when you need it? I’ve talked a lot about how political discourse on the right has degenerated into infantile know-nothing personal attacks, with even John McCain now walking the path cleared by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. But one of the worst practitioners of this dark art is surely Jerome Corsi, who wrote the attack book on John Kerry four years ago, spreading the lies that eventually destroyed his campaign, and who now has appeared on cue with a new book on Barack Obama that again focuses on personal attacks.
What does this have to do with our old friend Bill Donohue? Well, Mr. Corsi is well-known for making outrageous anti-Catholic comments. Take these samples:
CORSI: “So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the laywers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that’s probably about it.”
CORSI: “Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn’t reported by the liberal press.”
Of course, he’s not a fan of other religions either. Islam is a “worthless, dangerous Satanic religion” of “ragheads” and a “virus”. And consider some of his other outbursts. John Kerry is “anti-Christian, anti-American”, a “f*ing commie” who is “practicing Judiasm”. Bill Clinton is an “anti-American communist” and his wife is a “b*tch”, a “fat hog” and a “lesbo”.
And yet this fool is taken seriously by the media. Talk about a cultural decline. But one expects more from Bill Donohue, right? Eh, no. Donohue issued a statement in 2006 describing Corsi as “someone who once made anti-Catholic quips for which he has long apologized.” Case closed. A very different response from the way he hounded the Edwards campaign for hiring bloggers who made anti-Catholic comments in a very similar tone. The truth is blindlingly obvious: Donohue is not a defender of Catholics against defamation, but a Republican operative who selectively exploits anti-Catholicism to further his partisan ends. Just look at his latest news releases: the Democrats have “religion problems” (remember 2004 when he lauded the faith of George Bush and denounced Kerry as a religious charlatan?), and senator Casey is a phony. Oh, he does mention an anti-Muslim book though– criticizing the editor for refusing to publish it. Does anybody today still take the Catholic League seriously today?
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