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Viacom's Showtime Slanders Mother Teresa
NewsMax ^ | 5/25/05 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 05/25/2005 4:57:31 PM PDT by wagglebee

When shareholders of media conglomerate Viacom show up for their annual meeting tomorrow, they'll face the wrath of Catholic League President Dr. William Donahue over a shocking Showtime episode that slandered the late Mother Teresa and her order of nuns in the vilest of terms.

According to Donahue, who plans a press conference in front of the hotel in New York City where the Viacom meeting is being held, an episode of Showtime's Penn and Teller show "Holier Than Thou” was a "Nazi-like assault on Catholicism, and on the person the show calls "Mother F***ing Teresa.” Showtime is owned by Viacom.

Stormed Donahue, "In the 12 years that I have been president of the Catholic League, I have never witnessed a more vicious attack on Catholicism than what appeared this week on the Showtime program, ‘Penn and Teller.’ The episode, ‘Holier Than Thou,’ was a frontal assault on Mother Teresa and her order of nuns, Missionaries of Charity (as well as Gandhi and the Dali Lama).

"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. And that is what happens here: comedy quickly morphs to vitriol. Indeed, as the show progresses, the level of anger becomes palpable and the degree of distortion becomes mindboggling. This is no comedy—it is Nazi propaganda right out of the Leni Riefenstahl school of filmmaking.

"The Mother Teresa that the world has come to love and revere is made to look like a cruel, exploitative, self-serving nun who ripped off the poor. We are told that Mother Teresa intentionally let the poor suffer, providing neither beds nor bathroom facilities. ‘She had the f***ing coin and pissed it away on nunneries,’ says Penn. As for the nuns who worked with Mother Teresa, they are referred to as ‘f***ing c***s.’

"It does not bother me when they call me ‘Catholic Boy’ on the show (though the term ‘Jew Boy’ would never cross their lips), nor does it concern me when they talk about ‘f**ers like Bill Donohue [who] only see good in her.’ But when they mock the Catholic Church’s teaching on the meaning of suffering, and when they say of the poor that ‘They had to suffer so that Mother F***ing Teresa could be enlightened,’ then they are behaving like monsters.

"We will mail a tape of select portions of this broadcast to many interested parties, including the bishops. And we will hold a press conference tomorrow outside the hotel where Viacom is holding its annual stockholders meeting. They haven’t heard the end of this yet.”

Donohue, who will be joined by some Catholic League staff members, said he will answer any questions following a few remarks. He promised that copies the Catholic League news release on this subject, "Mother F***ing Teresa—Courtesy of Viacom,” will be distributed to Viacom shareholders as they enter the hotel.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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To: LauraleeBraswell
Because no one is perfect not even mother Theresa and especially not me.

Mother Teresa would be the last person to say she was "perfect".
But if she were hungry she still would offer her last piece of bread to another, including you LLB, despite the mistruths you erroneously choose to believe about her.

You're better than this, kid. Look into the facts of the matter and quit trying to deny that on this earth there are indeed very holy people.

101 posted on 05/25/2005 6:27:20 PM PDT by jla
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Note and advice: Don't fall for Christopher Hitchens's intellectual elite Oxford accent and his sometimes-falling-in-line with conservatives. He has an agenda, and it's not pretty. Just look at his eyes... They're like Oliver Stone's.


102 posted on 05/25/2005 6:27:55 PM PDT by AshfieldK
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To: wagglebee

Thanks.


103 posted on 05/25/2005 6:27:56 PM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: wagglebee

If you compare Lenin to Mother Theresa you are a serious nutcase. Somehow I suspected as much. Thanks for the proof.


104 posted on 05/25/2005 6:28:07 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: wagglebee

You are very wise. We all say dumb things when you're young and stupid.


105 posted on 05/25/2005 6:28:36 PM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: LauraleeBraswell
I'm Lauralee, I'm 18, I'm not part of the Christian Right, I've never touched a gun, and I live in Left Wing Liberal New York.

So this makes it okay to forget your manners?

106 posted on 05/25/2005 6:29:02 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (Gov'ments 7 Branches: Executive,Legislative,Judicial,Bureaucracy,Lobbies,Political Parties,Media)
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To: AshfieldK



Wait a second he's not. He bashed Farenheight 911 but he's a left winger alright.


107 posted on 05/25/2005 6:29:37 PM PDT by LauraleeBraswell
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To: AshfieldK

108 posted on 05/25/2005 6:30:33 PM PDT by Selkie ("There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent)
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To: Selkie

YES! Thank you!


109 posted on 05/25/2005 6:31:23 PM PDT by AshfieldK
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To: LauraleeBraswell
anyone who has an uncorrupted body. Although, Lenin has an uncorrupted body so I don't know what the heck is with that.

Ah, Lenin's body was embalmed and preserved. The saints whose bodies are "incorruptible" were not. Big difference.

Let me give you a little advise one of my elders gave me when I was 20 years old and on a soap box:

"Stop embarrassing yourself by display your juvenile ignorance for all the world to see."

110 posted on 05/25/2005 6:31:38 PM PDT by GipperGal
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To: sgtbono2002

I wasn't the one who compared Mother Teresa to Lenin!


111 posted on 05/25/2005 6:32:00 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: LauraleeBraswell
You come on this thread, insult a great selfless Woman who devoted every day of her entire life to others. Then you answer no questions with any facts to back up your harsh conclusion. Unbelievable. She's a celebrity, or was. That's all You sure don't know about how she spent her life.

From a website, A tribute to Mother Teresa, her life and the legacy she left behind. "It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."

She dedicated every day of her adult life caring for "The dying, the cripple, the mentally ill, the unwanted, the unloved" and she loved every minute of it because she was loving, she was cleaning, feeding "Jesus in disguise". Yes, she fed them, sheltered them, cleaned their wounds, but what is more important she made them feel good, loved, wanted, she gave them back their dignity that poverty had taken away from them and even if they died they died with a smile on their face....somebody loves them, somebody cares for them .

112 posted on 05/25/2005 6:32:11 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)
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To: Alouette
Penn & Teller mock religion

One of them, the big one, is an atheist, I've been told. Might explain the lack of reverence. Never like them before, and sure can't stand them now.

113 posted on 05/25/2005 6:32:14 PM PDT by mupcat
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To: cyborg; wagglebee


I'm not dumb or stupid. I just fell for Christopher Hitchens.


114 posted on 05/25/2005 6:32:33 PM PDT by LauraleeBraswell
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To: wagglebee

I am not religious but I cannot imagine anyone, Jew or Gentile, believer or non-believer mocking Mother Theresa. Who does one have to be to escape the wrath of these pigs?


115 posted on 05/25/2005 6:32:38 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
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To: AshfieldK

Are you sure you want an 18 yo's world view? Thanks I'll pass...


116 posted on 05/25/2005 6:32:44 PM PDT by texson66 ("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
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To: wagglebee

Penn and Teller? Why would anybody watch those two disgusting, and very unfunny, air wasters? They should consider the source.


117 posted on 05/25/2005 6:33:23 PM PDT by sweetliberty (Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.)
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To: GipperGal


No. I don't want to take care of Lepors!


118 posted on 05/25/2005 6:34:03 PM PDT by LauraleeBraswell (I will never again read another thing by Christopher Hitchens!)
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Wow that's a real whopper of a mistake but oh well. We all make mistakes.


119 posted on 05/25/2005 6:34:16 PM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: GipperGal
Well, I can only speak for myself, but at 18 I know I made some pretty outlandish remarks.
But more importanly, how do you think a Gipper Gal should be reacting to our bright, albeit sometimes naive, teenage friend here?

Let's not discourage, or worse, alienate these youths. Miss Braswell post a lot more good than she does bad.
And at least she knows who Mother Teresa is. I'd venture to bet the majority of kids her age do not.

120 posted on 05/25/2005 6:35:39 PM PDT by jla
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