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.
And that's hypocritical Bull**it.
Would you care to go into details about this?
You are cordially invited to attend the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Viacom Inc., which will be held at the New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway (at 46th Street), Broadway Ballroom, 6th Floor, New York, New York at 2:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Thursday, May 26, 2005.
Holders of Viacom Class A Common Stock are being asked to vote on the matters listed in the attached Notice of 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Forget a sarcasm tag right ?
Wow, I don't provide those things either.
I guess I am disgusting too.
Enlighten me. Please. This oughta be good.
Showtime is the all gay all the time network, I am not shocked to find their work to be anti-Catholic and insulting, it is their trademark these days.
Only God performs miracles Mr. Hitchens.
Lauralee's About Me explains her views on Christianity.
::rolls eyes::
Maybe she wasn't THAT BAD although she's taken stolen money that she knew was stolen. Charles Keating- but she is absolutely overated and NOT a saint. She was no Pope John Paul! Can you name one miracle she performed?!
Dictator friends?
Mother Teresa did not crash planes into the Trade Center or Pentagon. The terrorists who crashed planes were saints?
Don't roll your eyes. I have allot of respect for Christians. Pope John Paul the Great is one of my favorite figures. Educated and Brilliant.
Mother Theresa was OVER RATED.
How long until you can legally buy a beer in the US ?
I believe 5,000 Catholics rioting and beating the hell out of Viacom stockowners would send a message. It worked for the Islamics who rioted about the Koran.
This Penn and Teller crap angers me, but I'd never consider instigating violence to defend the honor of my Church. Instead, I'll be sure to bring this Showtime incident up in every conversation that can concievably drawn in its direction. I'll also make up a bunch a stuff about them them that I 'heard somewhere.' Like maltreatment to animals, that Penn and Teller are married to each other, that Showtime once fired some guy for reading the Bible on his lunch hour...
Can you be certain the money was stolen? Did she claim to have performed miracles? As you claim to not to be a Christian, what then do you consider a saint? Why did JPII think so highly of her and take steps to canonize her if she was a "sham"? Who are the dictators in her life? If she wasn't "that bad" what did she do that was "somewhat" bad?
Mother Theresa was OVER RATED.>>>>.
Okay so in your opinion who are examples of well known people who are more worthwhile and saintly than Mother Theresa ?
People who don't believe in religion are so angry at people who do. Why is that? Jealousy? I don't know...it always amazes me the level of rage it illicits.
You are cordially invited to attend the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Viacom Inc., which will be held at the New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway (at 46th Street), Broadway Ballroom, 6th Floor, New York, New York at 2:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Thursday, May 26, 2005.
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