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Videos of the Day: Bill Maher Attacks The Pope & The Response

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Next to 30 Rock and with the end of The Wire, Real Time with Bill Maher is the funniest and best show on television. But, until this week, few people knew of its existence (Friday nights on HBO)... now, as we've seen several times over the years (note the above Steve Irwin costume), Maher's ratings are jumping due to a controversial moment... 

 

 

Is he right? We agree with most of the first video, although in his response, Maher says that if the Pope was the CEO of a Daycare Center chain that was found to be corrupt, he would go to jail. We seriously doubt a CEO would ever go to jail because his employees were convicted of crimes. Hell, it's never stopped the Republican Party...

 

Previously: Next To That Whole Hitler Youth Thing, Pope's Passover Diss No Big Deal 


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Simon said:

He is spot on with all of what he says, he's man enough to retract the Nazi thing, but makes the point that so many of us think.

Why does the church continue to get away with what it does?

April 21, 2008 7:53 PM

nederick said:

Maher gets in trouble for this sort of thing and the church continues to get away with everything, Simon, because certain institutions--structures built up on ancient stories--have developed huge followings made up of people for whom the Church has given ultimate earthly meaning.  So when you criticize the church, or America, or whatever made up idea people hold arbitrarily dear, you by extension insult and threaten the foundation of their lives.  You take away their mental security, their sense of identity.  People get understandably psycho when their identities are threatened--they think, on an irrational level, that they might dissolve.  That's my pseudopsych take on it, anyway.

April 21, 2008 8:40 PM

lawstonfound said:

Maher didn't say a CEO would go to jail 'cause his employees were convicted of crimes. He said a CEO who was caught covering up the crimes of his employees would be locked up.

April 21, 2008 9:10 PM

Allan said:

In reality, the rate of sexual abuse of minors among priests is no greater than that of coaches, scout leaders, band directors, public school teachers and many other groups that have access to youth.  It would also be interesting to see what is the rate of sexual abuse of minors of people in the entertainment industry.  Why don't we hear jokes about these groups?  The answer is sad and obvious.  Anti-Catholic bigotry is the last acceptable prejudice in America.  

April 22, 2008 5:20 PM

paulhavlak said:

Hey, I'm a former Catholic, and my childhood pastor is one of those posthumously convicted of pedophilia.  I remember being weirded out by private conferences in the rectory without having any context to realize why it was weird.

What stands out about the Catholic priesthood is not that kids got molested, but that when the priests were found out, the bishops covered for them so that they could molest again and again.  <em>That's</em> what's criminal about the Church.  And as Maher points out, Ratzinger was right in the middle of that ass-covering conspiracy.

I ain't bigoted towards the slaves, sir.  Just the slaveholders.

April 22, 2008 10:26 PM

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