Trial Set For Liberal Radio Host Bernie Ward On Child Porn Charges

NBC11 ^ | 1/24/08

[yldstrk]

Typical Dim. Self first.

[factmart]

How come I never heard about this!

[Anti-Bubba182]

Creepy!

[Williams]

They highlight his being a former priest, but he hates the Catholic church, he is a disgusting far left wing pile of garbabge.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

His defense attorney...has contended the case stems from an "error of judgment" made by Ward when he spent a few days looking at pornography images and exchanging images with other adults when doing research for a book on hypocrisy.

Dang. If Larry Craig had used that excuse, his "wide stance" wouldn't be public knowledge. Send his sorry ass to prison for 50 years and then ask him how he's doing.

[ari-freedom]

Bernie Ward

[South40]

Cue the ACLU.

[SierraWasp]

Exactly!!!

[AndyTheBear]

His defense attorney...contended...exchanging images with other adults when doing research for a book on hypocrisy.

The part about exchanging images is news to me. I don't remember his lawyer acknowledging that back when the story first broke.

Seems harder to square with the just-doing-research explanation.

[informavoracious]

If only priests could marry, they would have a healthy sexual outlet. I’ve heard Ward’s self-righteous, ultralib anti-religious ‘Godtalk’ - his hate-spewing oracle of blasphemous codswallop. I think he was once in seminary, but not sure he actually took final vows. There’s more to this than meets the eye else KGO’s legal staff would’ve gotten it swept under the rug.

[Wil H]

How come I never heard about this!

Duh! Because he's a liberal, and besides, there are no such thing as sex crimes in San Francisco - just epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases

[going hot]

...when doing research for a book on hypocrisy...

That bag of scum should know all about hypocrisy. He was a no talent talk show host in sacramento, followed rush after rush's local show, was a puke then, is one still.

[TCats]

This guy was already a disgusting piece of human excrement and his actions in this matter leave me at a loss for words to designate him even lower than that position. Unfortunately, this trial is in San Fran and, having lived there for some years, I can attest that this behavior is not that much out of the mainstream in that Liberal Nivana.

[I see my hands]

"The government has seized a moment in someone's life and treated him as though he were a lifelong predator, when even at worst he was someone who was involved for a matter of days."

Does someone become a horse thief after they steal a horse or would only a horse thief steal a horse?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

If only priests could marry, they would have a healthy sexual outlet.

Priests aren't driven to pedophilia because they can't have a healthy sexual outlet. Instead, pedophiles are drawn to the priesthood because they already can't engage in the only sort of sex that appeals to them. Any vocation that forces it's members to give up normal sex is going to draw all sorts of people who don't want to engage in normal sex.

[agere_contra]

That’s not quite it, with respect.

The Priesthood, like the teaching profession, is “targetted” by paedophiles because people in such jobs have increased access to children. That’s really all there is to it.

[Lizavetta]

"Doing research"

I think I'll "do research" on meth and go buy some and possess it.

And then I'll "do research" on some heroin and go buy and possess some. In the name of research, don'tcha know.

After that I'll go "do research" on a myriad of other ILLEGAL ITEMS and then when the cops descend on my home I'll just claim I was "doing research".

[Marie2]

“If only priests could marry. . .”

Ward is married with four kids, so I don’t think a “sexual outlet” was the problem.

[MtnClimber]

Bet this story disappears tomorrow.