And just when I was coming to terms with the fact that I’ve really slacked on my plan to meditate more and learn not to kill houseplants.  Crap!  The DNC NeoPagan/Eastern Spirituality enforcers are out in force!

Quick, help me tack up this string of Tibetan prayer flags!

OMG that was amazing. I’d read the post in question.

Bitch Ph.D. was clearly saying “I’m not the world’s best Catholic, but even I find the depiction of Crucified Christ as a balloon animal to be offensive.”

Donohue’s response: “OMG her site is an anti-catholic hate-a-thon!”

Proof that his adherents are either 1) illiterate, 2) have the reading comprehension of your average 6-year-old, or 3) so completely self-assured that no one is ever going to call them on their headhunting that they aren’t even trying to formulate a cogent argument anymore.

What a well-researched article - they read the most recent post at Bitch, Ph.D. and moved on immediately to write this pointless demand.

On the home page of Bitch Ph.D. there is a picture of two children: one of them is shown flashing his middle finger.

Um, what? His? So what?

I think she has a 6-year-old or thereabouts and he’d probably resent the comparison to Donohoe.

Pecking party time!

To say “this particular right-wing theocratic asshole has the reading comprehension skills of a six-year-old” is not the same thing as saying “a six-year-old has the reading comprehension skills of a right wing theocratic asshole.”

Square is a rectangle, rectangle is not always a square, etc, etc. etc.

That’s all well and good, but the bigger issue is that, right now, an obese ignoramus is trawling the upper 50s of Manhattan anxiously waiting for his mobile to ring. Which network will take him into their air-conditioned studio first?

Followed later this week by: Will the DNC once again cave to this shill with a moribund mailing list?

Proof that his adherents are ...

Adherents? Beyond his office staff and a few old ladies cowering from the world behind their lace curtains, he doesn’t have anyone worthy of being called adherents.

Enablers and funders are another matter of course. Whatever else you might say about the MSM and the Catholic Church hierarchy, they’re not illiterate.

I’m guessing the DNC will cave within 48 hours or so.

Amanda really ought to start a pool (bragging rights only)

X-axis: first network to feature The Voice of American Catholicism after press release issued

Y-axis: number of hours (in increments of 24) after press release issued before target organisation caves to The Voice of American Catholicism.

This just in!  John Edwards demands that Donahue be obeyed!
(Details at 11.)

Joking aside, this is pretty standard for Donahue.  This isn’t about the blogs/bloggers in question.  This is about being an Opus Dei attack dog for the GOP.  Sadly, he still gets airtime as a Catholic spokesman even though he is pretty much a GOP shit-disturber.

A spanking! A spanking!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtcSYPjJbgg

Hang on.  The DNC just announced that it was surrendering to Donahue, France, the Vikings, and the kid that took their lunch money in high school.

And Alice who runs the Sally Ann truck. 

And you.

Y’all should start a Targets of Donohue organization. If you got more than tfive people as members, you’re officially larger than the Catholic League of Koo-Koos…

This is what happens when you give in to a bully. Or as Digby has repeatedly stated over and over, there’s no point in accomodating conservative complainers because they aren’t acting in good faith. Give an inch and they’ll demand a mile. Give the mile and they’ll attack you for not giving the inch. And I too expect the DNC to cave in 48 hours or less, and issue some statement about how BPhD’s statements don’t reflect the values of blah blah blah… Even though she’s been accredited as a journo and not as a party member.

Is there any kind of ideological litmus test for acccredited blogs?  Powerline? Red State?

For no reason other than to be a completely shit-disturbing asshole, I think before I die I’m going to go to a Catholic Mass one last time, I will go to Communion, and when I get my cracker, I’m gonna bust out a can of EZ Cheese and slather it on that bland cardboard tasting thing and then eat it.  Then I’m gonna wait for the reaction and bask in it, because whatever it is, it will surely be awesome.

Actually… I’m gonna take that a step further - I’m gonna find Bill Donahue’s specific church, and I’m going to go to Mass while he’s there and make sure that I’m just in front of him in line, and then I’m gonna have my EZ Cheese cracker, because I think the man will literally have a massive aneurysm right in front of me, and that would be neat to see.

Two things are very disturbing about this request. First, the implication that the Democratic National Committee is a theocracy, something like the Vatican West. Second, the implication that Jesus lacks a penis, or is anyway unmanly. I think that’s uncanonical.

Did anyone doubt that Donohue was going to try for another couple of scalps the next time it was convenient for his Republican masters? The man is a ratfucker, not a Catholic. And the news channels will probably invite him to be a commentator on every night of the Democratic convention because of this press release.

And Donohue doesn’t care what Bitch, Ph.D. actually wrote. He knows that none of his followers are going to bother to go there and take a look because they’re too busy fainting about it being called “Bitch,” and showing a picture of a child making an obscene gesture.

@DTG in STL : Loving, loving LOVING the EZ cheese. Seriously man, I would throw myself between “Justifiably Homicidal Bill” and you, just to protect your awesomeness.

If we both survive the encounter, maybe we can crash St. Peter’s in Rome during Mass, and receive Communion from the Pope. Two words: Communion Dip.

Another suggestion for DTG - if I recall, Communion wine generally lacks flavor and kick. 
I suggest you break out a forty of St Ides to wash down your Cheez Wiz Communion dip.

DTG, that’s a bad idea.

With its aggressive blandness, its utter lack of anything resembling a flavor, a communion wafer would merely wreck the aroma, the nuance—nay, the very integrity—of EZ cheese.

It would be a culinary marriage destined for D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

And as we all know, that’s a sin.

WOW.

I thought I had seen it all, but I nearly fell out of my chair laughing my ass off when someone forwarded this to me… it’s a post on some Catholic message board in which a dude states that he ejaculated on a Jesus cracker and he’s wondering if he’s destined for hell now…

http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=261989

God I hope Billo D. finds out about this one and blows a gasket.  Somehow I think the guy who started the thread is yanking their chains and they don’t even know it, but it’s a funny as hell (though rather disturbing) anecdote…

The DNC should take a moment to officially denounce the Catholic League. Something along the lines of:

“We are committed to protecting the all of the rights set forth in the first amendment, for all people. Included in these rights are the freedom to worship or not worship, and the freedom to express oneself. In their latest attempt to bar those would would peacably assemble at the Democratic National Convention, the Catholic League is not only attempting to inhibit the free speech rights of these bloggers, but is using their faith as a blind from which to launch singularly partisan attacks. In doing so, they undermine those Catholics and other people of faith who wish to worship privately, as protected by the constitution. We condemn this thinly-veiled attempt at dragging Americans’ faith into the political arena in such an obvious and cowardly manner.”

What really sticks in my craw about this is that you know that Donohue and his ilk are the sort of people who will scoff when they hear reports about Mosques being bombed, or Korans being desecrated.  They would reply “well, they can’t expect to hide weapons and militias in their Mosques and be safe there behind their religion.” This is exactly what he’s doing. He’s using his “religion” as a shield to hide behind while he carries out indisputably partisan hitjobs.

What an assbag.

Because the DNC always takes its cues from the Catholic League cause that’s so a source of votes and funding for them.  snork!

“MP, I think it’s 4) Completely assured that Catholicism is just a fancy anti-choice/anti-woman political movement.”

This one is going in the back pocket for the next time AM slides from behind the Barista station and attempts an entre into respectable life.

PDQC, given the fact that the RCC has inserted itself into political issues involving divorce, abortion, and birth control in democracies throughout the world throughout the years, why would you need to put AM’s restatement of this obvious fact in your back pocket?

It’s well-known to anyone who doesn’t play with their cerebrum,knows a little history, and can tell chalk from cheese, as my great-grandfather might’ve said.

attempts an entre into respectable life.

Yes, you do seem to know about attempts, but as a practitioner, not an observer…....................