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Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat
Right-wing warmongers invent domestic threats to justify their agenda of wars and expansions of government power.
Glenn Greenwald [2007-09-13]

  • Follow the Donohue

    This guy says he's a "civil rights" leader, when he's really just an old windbag who was at the helm of the old-line "Legion of Decency" back in the days when it was disappearing. This is the same mob that lobbied for the Hayes Code in movies, and were able to ban movies and control the debate for many years. They lost credibility a long time ago. So Donohue goes to the Hudson Institute, and ta-da, the Catholic League is born! It's not a censorship organization, it has no connection with the old hierarchy (except it does), but it's a CIVIL RIGHTS organization. So what do they do? How is Griffin "defaming" Catholics? She's not. She's making a joke about everybody who accepts an award and says Jesus did it. Many of whom are fundie Protestants who used to really limit the civil rights of Catholics. It's not a serious diatribe, just a joke, people. You may not like this, but a lot of people find the ultra-religious funny. I know we should show more respect for your God-in-Chief, but really, we don't.

    I'll believe Donohue as civil rights leader when priests stop talking smack about atheists, which is obviously not going to happen.

    -- Jim H
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    Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:59 PM
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