Letters to the Editor
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Molested...at 21?
I mean, I don't want to be all blaming the victim and shit, but at 21 you seem old enough to decide if you want to fuck a priest or not.
Personally the whole collar thing does nothing for me, but I could get into the nun habit
Damn...I just had to do that :-)
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Freeper?
The other bio tidbit to emerge is that he campaigned against the local police putting flyers in unlocked cars warning about possible theft. Thought this was ploy to do unlawful searches. Sounds like a paranoid, alright. Also like a Freeper, or the lead story from Matt Drudge's canceled radio show!
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I'm wondering...
Why War Room keeps throwing these Breaking News updates at us. Because it involved Clinton's office? I would expect this to scroll nonstop across MSNBC but I've come to expect different things from War Room. Just surprised is all, I guess.
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One Question
Interesting story, but I was wondering why the word "rape" is in quotes. It doesn't look like anyone is being quoted, and the fact that it's an alleged attempted crime wouldn't warrant the marks either. I hope that the writer isn't suggesting that one person sexually forcing themselves on another is only rape-like (possibly because it's between two men?).
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Following up
The word "rape" is in quotation marks because the complaint lawyers filed on behalf of Eisenberg used that word to describe that particular incident; they used the word "molest" to describe the other incidents they alleged.
As for why these "breaking news" posts are in War Room? War Room has always been a mix of news and analysis; when there's a lot of news breaking quickly, War Room tends more toward the former than the latter.
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I live nearby
I live aboout 5 miles from downtown Rochester, and almost went down there for the show. I thought it had "suicide by cop" written all over it, but I also know that the police around here generally are pretty even-tempered, and not likely to turn the downtown area into a free-fire zone. I decided not to waste the gas. I'm getting pretty tired NH stories in the news. It's always some nut job, like Carl Drega or Bode Miller's idiot cousin. Or that idiot freeper militia guy with the dentist wife, who doesn't think taxes apply to him. He holed up in his fortress/house for months before coming out. What I wouldn't give for a story about a giant pumpkin, or a piss stain on a mattress that looks like the virgin Mary. Something that doesn't involve some clown with a gun or a bomb or a fortress/house.
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You mention he's a convicted felon in the SIXTH paragraph?
And you do it almost as an aside? Oh, by the way, when he filed the lawsuit, he was a convicted rapist...
The headline is, "Alleged hostage taker filed molestation suit." Then the first five paragraphs are dedicated to the salacious details of a lawsuit filed by someone with a long history of mental illness, who just strapped road flares to himself, pretended to have a bomb, and took hostages. Does that give you any clues about his credibility? (And by the way, I agree with a previous letter writer -- no one is "molested" at 21.)
Then, in almost Columbo-esque fashion, in paragraph six, you mention almost on the way out the door that he's a convicted rapist.
I have no idea if this guy's suit had any merit, but logic--and the fact that absolutely nothing came of it, which is not the case with similar lawsuits--indicates that it's at the very least pretty dodgy. His felony conviction, on the other hand, is an actual -- oh, what's the word I'm looking for? -- FACT.
Yeesh!! How ironic that one of the headlines to the side of the story was Glenn Greenwald's piece about Michael Cooper demonstrating what real reporting is. Now if only someone could teach that to War Room...
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gradysu I disagree
(And by the way, I agree with a previous letter writer -- no one is "molested" at 21.)
Maybe he meant fondled as opposed to penetrated. And if he's mentally ill, he might have been childlike in his capacity for making sexual decisions when he was 21.
People with schizophrenia can have a very childlike affect and a childlike capacity for understanding sexual matters if they're not taking medication and they haven't had some kind of positive help with their socialization skills by family and/or psychiatric professionals.
Gee it sounds like a lynch mob in here.
I prefer Hillary's own cool and compassionate response. He's someone desperately in need of help, who sought it in absolutely the wrong way.
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I heard that he's a Michelle Malkin groupie
I was in a taxi tonight and the driver was listening to right wing talk radio and one of the callers said that this was a guy he knew from Michelle Malkin's Hot Air website's comments - always raving about priests, liberals and John Kerry, etc.
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Conflation of Catholic sex scandals and a nutcase in NH
Nice try...conflating some idiot in NH making headlines with a long history of mental illnesses and the ongoing catholic church scandals. You guys never miss an opportunity to stiff the RCC whether the claims have merit or not. This guy decided to blame the RCC for the fact that he was in prison by blaming his parish priest of sexual misconduct at the age of 21 nonetheless. And you guys printed it and gave it major prominence. It seems you were more intersted in trashing the RCC rather than reporting the events in NH.
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@ Rich_Gibson
If he was a congregant who sought counsel of that particular priest, then the priest is in the same position as a professional counselor or psychologist. We protect vulnerable populations from exploitation by authority figures.
However, all the facts are not in and I agree with the person who said it made more sense to lead with the rape conviction, which is a fact.
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Hm
Hm,hm!
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Prison sysem replaces mental health services
Y'all can poke fun all you like, but this man is an excellent example of how our prison system has replaced any semblance of mental health care in this country. Regardless of his political views, he sounds like a desperate, confused, and very sick person. So where does he get to go? Prison.