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.
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.
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.
Thanks.
If you compare Lenin to Mother Theresa you are a serious nutcase. Somehow I suspected as much. Thanks for the proof.
You are very wise. We all say dumb things when you're young and stupid.
So this makes it okay to forget your manners?
Wait a second he's not. He bashed Farenheight 911 but he's a left winger alright.
YES! Thank you!
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."
I wasn't the one who compared Mother Teresa to Lenin!
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 .
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.
I'm not dumb or stupid. I just fell for Christopher Hitchens.
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?
Are you sure you want an 18 yo's world view? Thanks I'll pass...
Penn and Teller? Why would anybody watch those two disgusting, and very unfunny, air wasters? They should consider the source.
No. I don't want to take care of Lepors!
Wow that's a real whopper of a mistake but oh well. We all make mistakes.
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.
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