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.
Be nice.
18 is old enough to know to keep your mouth shut if you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
I'm not going to be a liberal and I'm going to say I'm sorry. Because no one is perfect not even mother Theresa and especially not me.
You're right, and I have defended her in the past. It's actually good that she asks questions.
But, she shouldn't be granted any leeway when she makes such ludicrous and false assertions as she is doing here.
That doesn't mean anyone has a right to ridicule her, but we do have an obligation to correct any fallacies she purports.
Yes, Texasgal. Yes.
Just out of morbid curiosity, what do they do to him to keep him preserved?
The ice water running thru Hillary's veins
umm Christopher Hitchens? Can I help it?
Hey Peti,
You forgot to ping me, but I agree with you. She makes me sick too.
Maybe Lauralee would like to drag her "over rated" ass to Calcutta and take care of lepers.
Perhaps if you occasionally set aside your youthful defiance and looked for people of virtue to pattern your life after you would become a better person. And I am not saying this to be abrasive, I am saying this because I too was young once and would say asinine things merely for effect with no thought of the consequences.
Bump.
Didn't Princess Diana die at around the same time?
Agreed.
Damn right.
Honestly don't remember. I'll have to look it up.
Perhaps you should read some of Jack Chick's comic books, then you could criticize all Catholics.
LOL. Thanks, but I really am curious about what keeps Lenin preserved.
Wait Christopher Hitchens is right wing!
Princess Diana died about a week before Mother Teresa.
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