Posted on 09/07/2009 1:14:53 PM PDT by Publius804
Did Penn & Teller Set a World Record for Most Falsehoods in One Show?
Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League, has said, "Penn & Teller's Nazi-like assault on Catholicism that took place on August 27 will go down in history as one of the most vile, obscene programs ever aired in any nation." However, will the show also go down in history for airing the most number of lies, falsehoods, and misleading statements in a single half-hour show?
Not counting credits, the guilty episode runs less than 26 minutes. Here's a lie-by-lie list of the falsehoods that Penn Jillette and his guests aired in that time:
1. Before he became Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, in 2001, issued a "confidential order to every bishop" and "ordered the cover-up" of sex abuse.
As canon lawyer Ed Peters wrote years ago, the Vatican published Ratzinger's document in its official journal when it was first issued. Catholic press reported on the document in early 2002. The Vatican also posted the document on its web site.
In other words, nothing was ever "confidential." Not ... even ... close. As far as Jillette's wild charges of a "cover-up," keep reading.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Ping!
He looks like the quintessential self-fellating atheist "intellectual", down to the pony tail.
Cheers!
Jillette semed a whole lot more reasonable when he was on Beck a few weeks ago.
Maybe he’s a lapsed Catholic with a lot of pent-up resentment.
Anybody know?
The show Bulls++t is phenomenally on target about 90% of the time, hilariously and shrewdly so. But when it’s off, and wrong, it’s REALLY wrong. REALLY REALLY wrong. Too bad about this, it sounds like Penn succumbed to the usual cheap target of Catholicism.
The Catholics brought it upon themselves when they started that Vatican II crap.
Teller is lying? I didn’t even know he could talk....
Now Jillette Penn, you can’t get him to shut up, and often, his mouth gets WAY out in front of his thought processes.
Yep!
"Amalgam" meaning poisonous as in a mercury-containing alloy?
"Illusion" meaning "delusion" when modified by "amalgam"?
"Comedy" meaning a sick sense of humor like the Emperor's?
ditto that Vatican 2 was a big mistake...period.
Anything that pisses off that clown Bill Donahue is OK with me. The Catholic Church needs a better spokesman. I’ll take penn Gillette over Donahue any day.
Penn & Teller are still alive?
And the only reason it won is because the 0 has yet to give a speech less then 30 minutes long.
The guarantees are in Heaven.
Until then what is HE doing to help?
Seems to me he helps himself by attacking others.
In his case he is therefor correct. There is no God.
Glenn Beck has Penn Jillette on his TV program often.
A Libertarian WingNut
Why is it that the Leftist “intellectuals” appear to be so stupid? Their social doctrine is right up there with the Klan.
I saw a show they did on the myth of organic food. It would have been a good show, except it was laced with profanity, and they did a mockery of the last supper. At the end of this mockery, a woman took her top off and began dancing aroud. It’s obvious these guys are atheists and have no respect for religion.
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