I know what funny is...
William Donahue is the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. William Donahue is an asshole. He's the fella who fills up our airwaves with bluster every time the subject of priests diddling young boys comes up. He's also the guy you may have seen in orgasmic delight when Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope.
Most of the time though, he's busy trying (unsuccessfully) to ban movies and TV shows. He tried it a few years ago with Kevin Smith's film "Dogma". He wasn't a fan of "The Last Temptation of Christ", either.
In his role of defender of the faith (and we all know what happened to the last one), Donahue appeared Monday on an episode of Penn and Teller: Bullshit! on Showtime. The subject was "Holier Than Thou", an expose of three religious icons: the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The other two being heathens that Donahue is sure is burning in hell, he focused on Mother Teresa.
But soon after the show aired, Donahue was distraught. He'd been made to look bad when the show broadcast and parsed his own words. Now he's trying to let the stockholders of Viacom how angry he is by slipping leaflets under their hotel doors.
Donahue said, "Like most Americans, I like parodies and have no problem, per se, with irreverent humor. But when humor becomes insult, that is a different story."
So he doesn't mind parodies and irreverent humor, it's just that when it's not reverent that he has a problem. He loves reverent parodies and reverent irreverent humor. You know, the kinds of spoofs that just acknowledge how great the subject really was or is.
Like I said, he's an asshole.
Most of the time though, he's busy trying (unsuccessfully) to ban movies and TV shows. He tried it a few years ago with Kevin Smith's film "Dogma". He wasn't a fan of "The Last Temptation of Christ", either.
In his role of defender of the faith (and we all know what happened to the last one), Donahue appeared Monday on an episode of Penn and Teller: Bullshit! on Showtime. The subject was "Holier Than Thou", an expose of three religious icons: the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The other two being heathens that Donahue is sure is burning in hell, he focused on Mother Teresa.
But soon after the show aired, Donahue was distraught. He'd been made to look bad when the show broadcast and parsed his own words. Now he's trying to let the stockholders of Viacom how angry he is by slipping leaflets under their hotel doors.
Donahue said, "Like most Americans, I like parodies and have no problem, per se, with irreverent humor. But when humor becomes insult, that is a different story."
So he doesn't mind parodies and irreverent humor, it's just that when it's not reverent that he has a problem. He loves reverent parodies and reverent irreverent humor. You know, the kinds of spoofs that just acknowledge how great the subject really was or is.
Like I said, he's an asshole.
posted by Joe Coughlin at
2:00 PM
1 Comments:
Brilliant post. You'd think that a man of the cloth would have some idea what the word "irreverent" means. But maybe I'm holding him to unreasonably high standards.
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Johnny, at 12:41 PM
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