• February 8, 2012

The devil wears Prada.Monstrous wingnut Joseph Ratzinger somehow became pope a few years ago — this is because of ancient Catholic-Sith rules dictating that each “good pope” must be followed by a “loathsome beast.” But Ratzi is unique even among the Sith Popes, for he is the first Bishop of Rome to be an actual Nazi, for Hitler, in Nazi Germany. Jesus, talk about your breaking of historical barriers …. Obama’s got nothing on this creep! Anyway, Ratzinger comically lived up to expectations by supporting actual Holocaust-denying fellow wingnut bishops, and now he’s in Israel kissing ass, but luckily nobody believes his evil horseshit.

Every now and then, the curtain is pulled back a bit and we see that while all right-wing extremists are dangerous idiots who basically occupy the same thug/creep position in any troubled political system, there is an old-school division between, say, the European fascist Aryan-Nationalist types and the wingnut Israeli right. For example, the former tried to exterminate the latter. Irony!

So, the Israeli far right is doing everything it can to disrupt and destroy the visit of “Pope Benedict.” A bigshot rabbi is urging everybody to avoid the old creep, because of the Sith Pope’s personal antisemitic history and the Catholic Church’s longtime policy of torturing and murdering Jews in the various Inquisitions and Crusades, along with Pope Pius’ quiet support of Nazi atrocities against Jews. Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports that “Ultra-nationalist legislator Michael Ben-Ari called a meeting of the activists to plan ways of ruining the visit,” which we hope involved classic knucklehead pranks such as letting a bunch of noisy goats loose in the reception, or hiring a blimp to circle the area with the flashing message “Ratzi is a fag.”

Ben-Ari, who is no doubt one of the more terrible people in the entire Middle East, is nonetheless providing lots of material for Ratzinger haters everywhere:

Ynetnews reported Knesset Member Michael Ben-Ari of the National Union party said the parliament should state its position on the Catholic spiritual leader, who he claimed “is an anti-Semite, was a member of the Hitler youth and returned a Holocaust-denying bishop to the church.” He also said the pontiff continues to blame the Jewish people for the killing of Jesus.

Well duh! If that wasn’t true, it wouldn’t be in that Mel Gibson movie about the Mayans, now would it?

Anyway, Ratzi’s now fouling up the various Holocaust memorials in Israel, which is sort of like Darth Vader visiting the Alderaan Memorial, the end.

The pope in the Middle East [Financial Times]

{ 153 comments }

space stout May 11, 2009 at 1:12 pm

I will be having nightmares from that pic and even the alt-text can’t save me. What an evil little man. Yikes.

Noonan May 11, 2009 at 1:12 pm

That’s it. This post did it. You can’t attack il Papa like that. I’m never reading Wonkette again.
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I’ll have my secretary read it to me.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 1:12 pm

King Leer?

Monsieur Grumpe May 11, 2009 at 1:13 pm

Santa?

sezme May 11, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Are we sure he’s not secretly British? The teeth…

memzilla May 11, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Is that a swastika in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Anonymous Office Zombie May 11, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Good pic, but needs more Blingee.

Monsieur Grumpe May 11, 2009 at 1:17 pm

I’d go on a rant about what a jerk the Poop is but too tired from yelling at telemarketers all morning.

JadedDIssonance May 11, 2009 at 1:17 pm

I still don’t get why teh jews get blamed for killing teh jeebus. Didn’t he “die” to “save” all teh pope-lets from their “sins?”

ihasasad May 11, 2009 at 1:17 pm

issssn’t he preciousssssss?

ManchuCandidate May 11, 2009 at 1:18 pm

No, it’s Emperor Palpatine.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 1:19 pm

[re=313236]JadedDIssonance[/re]: Being crucified was actually plan B.

ihasasad May 11, 2009 at 1:19 pm

[re=313236]JadedDIssonance[/re]: depends on which gospel you read.

nmmagayar May 11, 2009 at 1:20 pm

Seig Papa!!!1!!

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 1:21 pm

[re=313235]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: I never yell at telemarketers. They’re only trying to make a shitty living pimping for some rich pricks who would never dream of actually speaking to one of us.

lawrenceofthedesert May 11, 2009 at 1:22 pm

I could never understand: one hand, “vow of poverty;” other hand, entire Liberace luxury lifestyle (and I do mean “entire”). Heraclitian Tension of Opposites? Do as I say? Arrogant hypocrite?

snideinplainsight May 11, 2009 at 1:22 pm

Great moments in holy-land-touring history:

“I can never forget old Godfrey’s sword now. I tried it on a Moslem, and clove him like a doughnut. The spirit of Grimes was upon me, and if I had had a graveyard I would have destroyed all the infidels in Jerusalem.”

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

JadedDIssonance May 11, 2009 at 1:23 pm

[re=313240]Custerwolf[/re]: I mean, spreading eternal hope and goodness and lovingness of one’s neighborness is good and all, but teh jews are as guilty as the rest of us. Our crime? Not knowing a good thing when we had it.

[re=313241]ihasasad[/re]: I keep referencing the Jerry Falwell Limited Edition ™ “Jews Are People Too Let’s Save Israel From Teh Muslins” Bible. New Slim-Line Reading.

ChernobylSoup May 11, 2009 at 1:24 pm

This is a guy who thinks getting AIDS is fitting punishment for being born in Africa.

Get me Sinead O’Connor’s agent; I have a little project for her (this time involving the real thing rather than just a photo).

Sofia! May 11, 2009 at 1:25 pm

We miss you Juan Pablo II….

The Schadenfried PAC May 11, 2009 at 1:26 pm

He looking a little “NOMish” in that pic.

Sofia! May 11, 2009 at 1:28 pm

We miss you Juan Pablo II…..

Yes You Can Own A Piece of History May 11, 2009 at 1:29 pm

This post should provide plenty of good ‘letters to the editor’ material.

sati demise May 11, 2009 at 1:32 pm

Oh yea, the ‘condoms spread AIDs” Pope.

ihasasad May 11, 2009 at 1:32 pm

[re=313246]JadedDIssonance[/re]: Well then, there’s your problem! I learned early on from a bumper sticker that the King James is the One and Only B-I-B-L-E …yes that’s teh book for me!!

gjdodger May 11, 2009 at 1:32 pm

This is the initial salvo of Bentdick’s campaign to have David Duke elected Prime Minister of Israel.

x111e7thst May 11, 2009 at 1:33 pm

That picture make me want to scrub my eyeballs with ground glass.

V572625694 May 11, 2009 at 1:34 pm

Can’t really let the idea that J2P2 was a “good” pope pass without noting that he was an enemy of women everywhere, made all the priests get out of politics (including the liberation theology types in Latin America), and generally a total Papist.

[re=313243]Custerwolf[/re]: [re=313235]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Actual frequent dialog that expiates my guilt in yelling at telemarketers:

Me answering phone: “This is V572625694.”

Telemarketer: “May I speak to, uh, V572625694, please?”

Me: “If you’d listened to me when I answered, you’d know that you already are.”

Telemarketer: “Whu.”

Me: “What do you want.”

Telemarketer: “Can I speak to the person in charge of buying copier paper?”

Me: “What’s the name of the company you’re calling?”

Telemarketer: “Uh [looking it up], V572625694 & Company.”

Me: “When you call V572625694 & Company, and V572625694 answers the phone, don’t you think you already are talking to the person in charge of buying copier paper?”

Telemarketer: “Uh….wanna buy some copier paper?”

slithytoves May 11, 2009 at 1:34 pm

John Paul was the good pope? Ahem, he let Ratzinger run crazy with his 16th century view of the church in the Office of the Inquisition. He encouraged the Nazi, fer chrissake. JP II may have had political savvy, and he may have been popular, but he set the stage for the way the church is today. I have friends who lost their jobs b/c of JP, and I did, too. I think I’ll skip the canonization.

Cape Clod May 11, 2009 at 1:34 pm

Is that creepy old guy still alive? I thought he got the nod to molify the Opus Dei crowd, with the understanding that he was only going to live for a few months. Shouldn’t he be back in Rome, burning Ron Howard and Tom Hanks in effigy?

nestor May 11, 2009 at 1:35 pm

needs more Star Wars references

Colander May 11, 2009 at 1:36 pm

Skeletor?

Monsieur Grumpe May 11, 2009 at 1:38 pm

[re=313243]Custerwolf[/re]:
But these were Vatican telemarketers!

Accordion-o-rama May 11, 2009 at 1:38 pm

What a lovely smile! He must have been watching the flaying of a Sodomite.

TGY May 11, 2009 at 1:38 pm

Um, no. You can’t pin the Nazi/Anti-Semitic tag on him. There are lots of other tags available, however. Just not that one.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 1:40 pm

[re=313272]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Say no more.

JadedDIssonance May 11, 2009 at 1:40 pm

[re=313266]nestor[/re]: I thought Star Wars(tm) was originally modeled after the great Papist/Lutheran Wars of the Printing Presses. You can’t make new references to what was already frameworked, you’ll hurt someone.

WIld Turkey May 11, 2009 at 1:44 pm

Stop the Presses!

Dateline: Middle East.

Religious whackjobs hate different religious whackjobs.

space stout May 11, 2009 at 1:45 pm

[re=313248]ChernobylSoup[/re]: WIN

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 1:45 pm

[re=313262]V572625694[/re]: Having a last name that’s easy to mispronounce is one of the fastest ways to weed out those calls.
Do you know how to say Abele?

RoscoePColtraine May 11, 2009 at 1:46 pm

What’s with all these STAR WARS references? I thought we should be promoting the much sexier star TREK right now. Does Wonkette no longer care about teh sexy?

Lascauxcaveman May 11, 2009 at 1:46 pm

Jeeze louise anyway. Kill a few millions Jews an’ everybody’s up in ya grille alla time.

Just chill out, Israeli rabbis, a’ight?

JadedDIssonance May 11, 2009 at 1:46 pm

[re=313258]ihasasad[/re]: I stand ALONE on teh WORD OF GOD…and now it has shoeprints on it.

hobospacejunkie May 11, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Not all Germans back then were true believer Nazis, just the notorious SS, who took an oath to Hitler and had all kinds of silly ‘sacred’ ceremonies, and the brainwashed Hitler Youth.

Now what branch was Ratzi in?

El Pinche May 11, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Now that he switched his swastika iron-on patch to a crucifix, sure! It’s like switch hats!

x111e7thst May 11, 2009 at 1:50 pm

[re=313236]JadedDIssonance[/re]: I jebus died to save all the people from their “sins”, why were the chinese only told the “good news” in the 16th century.

edgydrifter May 11, 2009 at 1:50 pm

It wants the meat. The MEAT. Lick the meat. Eat the meat. Fondle the meat!

V572625694 May 11, 2009 at 1:50 pm

[re=313283]Custerwolf[/re]: If it were Eye-tralian, it’d be something like “Ah-beh-leh.” But it doesn’t sound Italian. Auf deutsch it’d be ah-buh-luh, but it ain’t that either. That’s all teh furriner-talk I knowz. Help?

[re=313284]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Plus some of us oldsters aren’t believers in STAR WARS except as a giant wallet-vacuuming enterprise aimed at indoctrinating kids. Kinda like the Catholic Church. Or every other organized religion.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 1:50 pm

Why do so many Israeli names sound like something you’d hear playing a record backwards?

freakishlystrong May 11, 2009 at 1:51 pm

That’s Bea Arthur, right?

Accordion-o-rama May 11, 2009 at 1:53 pm

[re=313288]allainjules[/re]: You have any pictures of Benedict playing rugby?

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 1:53 pm

[re=313291]x111e7thst[/re]: St.Peter wasn’t sure there would be enough chairs to go around.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 1:53 pm

[re=313295]freakishlystrong[/re]: Wash your goddamned mouth out with soap.

ManchuCandidate May 11, 2009 at 1:54 pm

[re=313293]V572625694[/re]:
But a lot less kid touching and more self abuse (judging by the only Science Fiction convention I attended.)

Joshua Norton May 11, 2009 at 1:54 pm

Hey dude. I love the dress, but your purse is on fire.

chascates May 11, 2009 at 1:54 pm

Looks like a recruitment poster boy for senior Nazis.

NewSpence May 11, 2009 at 1:55 pm

Personally, I suspect the Spanish Inquisition.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 1:56 pm

[re=313293]V572625694[/re]: No, the Italian – DeMartino – is Mom’s. Abele is pronounced ‘able,’ as in ready willing and.

McGomer May 11, 2009 at 1:57 pm

I saw the potato.

RoscoePColtraine May 11, 2009 at 1:58 pm

[re=313285]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Two groups the world should learn to leave alone: Teh Jews and Teh Brits. Brits because, hell, did you see that crazy evil mother-fucker Edward the Longshanks in “Braveheart?” And, oh yeah, I know that was a movie, but he was an actual person who was all MEAN like that. And these Brits haven’t mellowed out at all since then. The Jews, because these people eat stuff like ‘borscht’ and ‘gefilterr fish.’ Turns you all mean and crazy when your diet consists of such things. They’ve also had alot of shit dumped on them over the past couple thousand years, too.

Lascauxcaveman May 11, 2009 at 1:59 pm

[re=313262]V572625694[/re]: [re=313243]Custerwolf[/re]: Here’s my polite and uplifting response to the telemarketer wage slaves: “You need to talk to your boss about a raise, because they are definitely not paying you enough to do this stuff.”

Subversive in a couple of ways: they either take that as a more polite version of “GET A REAL JOB!” or, they hear that from a couple of people like me and start to think, “You know, I really do deserve a raise,” and even tho they ain’t gonna get it, it creates a hassle for management.

V572625694 May 11, 2009 at 1:59 pm

[re=313304]Custerwolf[/re]: I love these little clues. Don’t think I’m not assembling a little dossier.

slithytoves May 11, 2009 at 2:00 pm

[re=313301]Joshua Norton[/re]: I don’t know why that’s cracking me up , but it is.

Cape Clod May 11, 2009 at 2:03 pm

[re=313295]freakishlystrong[/re]: No, he reminds me of John Lithgow in “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.”

tehbenton May 11, 2009 at 2:03 pm

Whilst we’re bullshittin’, what fresh hell is this? Priests having sex with women?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/11/florida.priest.affair/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

“The Rev. Alberto Cutie”

And yes, he is. Also.

JadedDIssonance May 11, 2009 at 2:03 pm

[re=313291]x111e7thst[/re]: They all looked scary. Plus, all the Moslems got in teh way. Must Save Teh Holy Laands!

Lascauxcaveman May 11, 2009 at 2:03 pm

[re=313289]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Personal historical note: my German teacher in Jr College was an ex-brownshirt (his family fled Germany in ’41, when he was 14 years old).

When discussing his experience, he’d say, “I didn’t really know what a Jew was; had never met any Jews. But, boy, I sure hated them.”

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 2:05 pm

[re=313309]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Now that’s some honest grass roots action I can stand behind.

x111e7thst May 11, 2009 at 2:07 pm

[re=313294]Custerwolf[/re]: Yiddish loanwords that made it into the language?[re=313300]
ManchuCandidate[/re]: The only sci fi convention I ever attended was came to a premature close when some dumb fuck S decided to hang his M from a sprinkler pipe. The pipe tore, the room flooded and the cops shut the shit down. Good times.

JadedDIssonance May 11, 2009 at 2:08 pm

[re=313321]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: holy shit.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 2:08 pm

[re=313319]tehbenton[/re]: That’s him? Get the frock out of here.

Anonymous Office Zombie May 11, 2009 at 2:10 pm

[re=313263]slithytoves[/re]:
Yeah, JP II was pretty much the Regan pope i.e., a hard-core, conservative, right-winger and former actor who somehow charmed people enough to distract them from how he was regressing the RC church back to pre-Vatican II backwardsness.

RoscoePColtraine May 11, 2009 at 2:11 pm

[re=313325]x111e7thst[/re]: I laughed at that without even understanding what the guy’s “M” was.

Zorg May 11, 2009 at 2:11 pm

According to Malachi’s List or some such prophetic thing, isn’t Ratzi supposed to be the last Pope, the one denominated by Malachi as “Religeo Depopulata?” Or, do we have to wait for a few more Vicars of Christ to come up in the list?

ihasasad May 11, 2009 at 2:13 pm

[re=313287]JadedDIssonance[/re]: You squished the word of God? Lego Jesus is NOT going to be happy.

AnFearBolg May 11, 2009 at 2:14 pm

omfg that article is so blasphemous. When my brilliant government changes the law the Wonkettes are so fined €100,000 by multiples of many.

http://news.google.ie/news?pz=1&ned=en_ie&cf=all&ncl=d-DzcSde4V4ukxMqjwuScAo63uvpM

omfg I am blasphemous for saying omfg. I can haz lenience?

prophet1195 May 11, 2009 at 2:15 pm

Sure the Pope’s not George Bush III starring in the, “Mosquito Coast”?

snideinplainsight May 11, 2009 at 2:15 pm

I felta fish once – I can’t say it was that much fun. For me. I never asked how the fish felt.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 2:16 pm

[re=313339]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: We need to have a beer together sometime.

RoscoePColtraine May 11, 2009 at 2:17 pm

[re=313344]AnFearBolg[/re]: Just become a protestant. Then you can say “fuck the pope” all you like.

snideinplainsight May 11, 2009 at 2:17 pm

Having said that, if the Pope knew what I was thinking right now about the Hayden-Harder rollergirl there, well, I’m sure he’d never let me be an altar boy again.

pdiddycornchips May 11, 2009 at 2:19 pm

The Pope is in Israel? This begs the question, who’s more infallable, the Pope or an Israeli woman?

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 2:19 pm

[re=313344]AnFearBolg[/re]: You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

jagorev May 11, 2009 at 2:20 pm

I hope he does one of those prayers for the Holocaust dead. You know, the one where they ask the Virgin Mary to intercede and make sure they get saved in the afterlife? Jews love it when you do that for them.

x111e7thst May 11, 2009 at 2:22 pm

[re=313339]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Some sadist hung his masochist

RoscoePColtraine May 11, 2009 at 2:26 pm

[re=313358]x111e7thst[/re]: Thanks! But it was still funny even not understanding everything. BTW, why didn’t you just spell it out in the first place?

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 2:26 pm

[re=313349]snideinplainsight[/re]: Last I checked on her she was still smoking, so apparently you were quite satisfying.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 2:27 pm

[re=313358]x111e7thst[/re]: That’s how my mind filled in the blanks.

4tehlulz May 11, 2009 at 2:27 pm

[re=313356]jagorev[/re]: The Pope is a Mormon?

Actually, that would explain a lot.

Joshua Norton May 11, 2009 at 2:28 pm

[re=313344]AnFearBolg[/re]:

So how much are 100,000 “E” thingies in real money?

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 2:30 pm

[re=313356]jagorev[/re]: I’ve come to the realization that any belief in an afterlife is just another form of procrastination.

zenferret May 11, 2009 at 2:34 pm

[re=313356]jagorev[/re]: So who will win in the battle of the gods, Mormon Jesus or Nazi Pope?

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 2:34 pm

[re=313365]4tehlulz[/re]: He refuses to believe in the Mormon church and claims the name Joseph Smith is just a hotel desk pseudonym for horny old pedophiles.

zenferret May 11, 2009 at 2:35 pm

[re=313370]Custerwolf[/re]: I was getting around to that. Someday.

snideinplainsight May 11, 2009 at 2:37 pm

Hey! Why don’t we get the Mormans to mormify the Pope? That would clean up a lotta loose ends right there! They already got Hitler and Anne Frank!

It’s like a big party in some Tori Amos song about the afterlife! All they need is Shari Lewis and Lambchop!

up_yer_snufflegus May 11, 2009 at 2:37 pm

He kinda looks like good ol’ Bilbo eying up ‘the precious’.

Bruno May 11, 2009 at 2:42 pm

Hey pope dude, those red prada shoes are sure to covert the heathens

Joshua Norton May 11, 2009 at 2:44 pm

So get down upon your knees
Fiddle with your rosaries
Bow your head with great respect
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect

Make a cross on your abdomen
When in Rome do like a Roman
Ave Maria, gee it’s good to see ya
Gettin’ ecstatic an’ sorta dramatic an’
Doin’ the Vatican Raaaaaag

mrpuma2u May 11, 2009 at 2:44 pm

[re=313366]Joshua Norton[/re]: I believe it works out to about 45,000 quatloos.

as the world burns May 11, 2009 at 2:47 pm

The Devil…lives in Rome
The Devil…cloaked in robes

RoscoePColtraine May 11, 2009 at 2:51 pm

[re=313392]Joshua Norton[/re]: Rachmaninoff.

x111e7thst May 11, 2009 at 2:54 pm

[re=313362]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Not sure. I think that’s how we made fun of it at the time.

CorkPopper May 11, 2009 at 2:59 pm

[re=313354]pdiddycornchips[/re]: I LOL’ed

dijetlo May 11, 2009 at 2:59 pm

[re=313351]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Become a Lutheran. Even wingnut Jews respect the Lutherans when it comes to wild-eyed Pope hating. Suffice it to say if the Catholics want another hundred years war, Gods people say “Bring it”.

pdiddycornchips May 11, 2009 at 3:18 pm

I am not sure if the Wonkette congregation is prepared for the coming onslaught from William Donoghue and the Catholic Crusaders. When they get wind of this thread, we’re all going to be threatened with eternal damnation and/or litigation.

proudgrampa May 11, 2009 at 3:27 pm

That IS one scary picture.

[re=313355]Custerwolf[/re]: Yeah, that is pretty scary… I think censorship, even in this country, is not too far down the road. Jebus, they’re after Wanda Sykes for making a joke about Limbaugh. WTF – LIMBAUGH??? — he IS a joke.

qwerty42 May 11, 2009 at 3:29 pm

[re=313425]dijetlo[/re]: The Thirty Years War could be done in Wisconsin and Minnesota; civil war between the Germans then the Scandinavians and Poles get involved. Not sure about the French, Czechs, Hungarians and Italians, but I guess that means it would spread to Chicago. In which case, the Irish and South Slavs would be involved. that means it might mushroom. maybe not such a good idea.

dijetlo May 11, 2009 at 3:44 pm

[re=313473]qwerty42[/re]:I’m doing Gods work here son, step the fuck back.

pdiddycornchips May 11, 2009 at 3:44 pm

[re=313469]proudgrampa[/re]:

Wanda is my hero. I haven’t had this much fun since Sandra Bernhard cockpunched Anne Coulter.

dave666 May 11, 2009 at 3:47 pm

how do you crucify a no-armed jesus?

AnFearBolg May 11, 2009 at 3:50 pm

RoscoePColtraine: Protestants ain’t safe neither – ain’t nobody safe. We gonna sue us some Danish cartoonist, some Quaker Oats salesmen – them’s all blasphemy.

Custerwolf: Kiddin ya re what?

Other person – €100,000 is a lot of money. Once upon a time, in the before days, it was around $130,000. Now, because of your Wall Street, it’s $1.8 trillion.

If you can afford to blaspheme in Ireland you can afford to bail out the US. Not that you’d want to.

dijetlo May 11, 2009 at 3:51 pm

[re=313473]qwerty42[/re]:Sorry Dude, didn’t mean to ignore your well thought out point but the holy ghost was all up in me… I’m better now…except for the anal bleeding.

dijetlo May 11, 2009 at 3:51 pm

[re=313514]dave666[/re]: U-clamps

frumious_bandersnatch May 11, 2009 at 4:03 pm

No, no children, I know you’re trying to ‘elp! But me mind’s made up–and it’s going to be medical experiments for the lot of you.

proudgrampa May 11, 2009 at 4:13 pm

[re=313549]frumious_bandersnatch[/re]: I love that movie!

qwerty42 May 11, 2009 at 4:35 pm

[re=313526]dijetlo[/re]: oh cripes, not the feared anal crucifixion? Where did our Wonkette get that?

friendlyskies May 11, 2009 at 4:58 pm

Papa Ratzi vs. Netanyahu: no rules, no limits, no time outs…and only one will leave Jerusalem alive.

The winner? All of us. And of course, the Pay Per View people.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 5:08 pm

[re=313524]AnFearBolg[/re]: Censoring “blasphemy.” No wonder they call it Ireland, I’m pissed all the way over here. By the by, are you an Irishman – and if so can you please comment in an Irish accent?

proudgrampa May 11, 2009 at 5:40 pm

[re=313664]Custerwolf[/re]: If he sounds like any of these people, he’s not REALLY Irish:

http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/the-irish-and-oirish-in-film

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 5:58 pm

[re=313697]proudgrampa[/re]: Thank you for the link!

Numbat Dundee May 11, 2009 at 6:04 pm

The only thing I disagree with in this post is the implication that the last Pope was “good”. He wasn’t a Nazi is all.

donner_froh May 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm

[re=313262]V572625694[/re]: There have been no good Popes, just some who were not as bad as others. Alexander VI of the House of Borgia makes a lot of scoundrels look not quite so horrible.

Autochthon May 11, 2009 at 6:17 pm

The rollover should be: “Hello, Clarice…”

AnFearBolg May 11, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Custerwolfe: Ah shure begorrah top a de mornin to you ye’ll never get me lucky charms.

BTW I really am an Irish man. We do talk like that, all the time. Also like Tom Cruise in Far & Away – that’s a good guide really. Better still Julia Roberts in Michael Collins. Sounds like me own mammy.

tommyj7648 May 11, 2009 at 6:31 pm

George Washington on Israel

“A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.” ~George Washington Farewell Address

“The nation which indulges toward another habitual hatred or habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interests.” ~ George Washington

“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

proudgrampa May 11, 2009 at 6:48 pm

[re=313754]tommyj7648[/re]: Man, those Founding Fathers sure had it right, huh? Can’t we just bring them back?

Washington / Jefferson — 2012

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 7:02 pm

[re=313751]AnFearBolg[/re]: [re=313751]AnFearBolg[/re]: Do you reside in Ireland?

Thrillho May 11, 2009 at 7:12 pm

Oh horseshit. Check any newspaper at the time, check with any eyewitnesses at the time, check with the official record at Nuremburg, even check with the state of Israel, and you’ll find that Pope Pius XII did everything in his power to save Jews. Saved 860,000 of them, in fact, if the state of Israel is to be trusted. Eight hundred sixty thousand Jews saved, and people call Pius XII a collaborator because he had the good sense to not do something reckless and extroverted that would provoke a deadly and final response from Berlin?

Read up on what the guy actually did … granted, he didn’t ride a motorcycle to Berlin and punch Hitler in the chops (like he would have if he REALLY hated the Nazis), but for a guy armed only with a single missal, he didn’t do so bad:

http://www.catholicleague.org/pius/dalinframe.htm

Yes, that page comes from the Catholic League; but it doesn’t say anything you can’t confirm elsewhere, and if even half of it is true, it blows apart the notion that he was a collaborator. So once and for all, let’s quit tarnishing the good name of one of Hitler’s greatest foes, Pope Pius XII.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 7:24 pm

[re=313807]Thrillho[/re]: “for a guy armed only with a single missal”

Yeah, that was his first mistake. Fucking apologist.

hobospacejunkie May 11, 2009 at 7:32 pm

[re=313309]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: That is a fantastic story. Thanks for sharing.

hobospacejunkie May 11, 2009 at 7:42 pm

[re=313807]Thrillho[/re]: Thrillho doth protest too much. Pius was not terribly unhappy when the (partially catholic) Germans were kicking the shit out of the atheist Russians.

And if he was such a foe of Hitler why won’t the Vatican release all his papers from that period so historians can confirm what a great man he was?

Thrillho May 11, 2009 at 7:48 pm

Custerwolf: so are you in a position to refute anything in that article? Impress me.

Hobospacejunkie: historians can already confirm what Pope Pius XII actually did. I know you “heard” that he was a collaborator, it’s something that “everybody knows”, and you’re comfortable with “knowing” that too; but oddly enough, it used to be that people knew something very different. So what did Golda Meir said upon Pius’s death? I’ll let you look it up … if there’s anyone who knew who was a friend to the Jews, it’s Golda Meir, and she considered Pius XII one of the very few voices speaking out for the Jews during WWII.

Maxfretless May 11, 2009 at 7:54 pm

Calling Ratzinger a Nazi is counter-productive and inaccurate. He was a sixteen year old draftee who deserted the first chance he got as the war was ending. Agree or disagree with his statements and policies as Pope all you want, but he’s no more a nazi than I am a Republican because at 15 I kinda liked Reagan. God forbid anyone would hold me accountable for the poorly formed ideas I had when I was sixteen! On a side note, its interesting to realize that Pope Benedict XVI is the last world leader with real first hand wore-a-uniform experience of World War II. All we will be left with are “Saving Private Ryan” fans who buy all that “greatest generation” ballyhoo, while the people who actually remember what a terrifying disaster the war was will be gone. My Dad had just turned 18 when Truman dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. After four years of watching classmates come home in boxes he can still remember at 81 just how profound his relief was that he might not have to go.

hobospacejunkie May 11, 2009 at 8:20 pm

[re=313839]Thrillho[/re]: [re=313843]Maxfretless[/re]: Take your humorless catholic history lessons elsewhere. In case you haven’t noticed, this is a satirical blog, where we make fun of the news and newsmakers, not try to one-up each other with our historical knowledge. Either get funny or GTFO already, you’re boring everyone.

Thrillho May 11, 2009 at 8:32 pm

HOBOSPACEJUNKIE SMASH!

hobospacejunkie May 11, 2009 at 8:36 pm

[re=313885]Thrillho[/re]: Now that’s more like it!

proudgrampa May 11, 2009 at 8:50 pm

Religion makes people do strange things. Some good, some bad. ‘Nuf said.

Bearbloke May 11, 2009 at 8:58 pm

I found a picture of Joey Ratz when he was younger and thinner

Bearbloke May 11, 2009 at 9:07 pm

[re=313910]Bearbloke[/re]: …and an official photograph of the College of Cardinals

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 9:52 pm

[re=313839]Thrillho[/re]: “so are you in a position to refute anything in that article?”

Yes, it’s called the missionary position. Next question.

Custerwolf May 11, 2009 at 10:04 pm

[re=313843]Maxfretless[/re]: You need to lighten up. Here:

Did you hear about the time the Pope went to Mt.Olive?
Popeye found out and beat the shit out of him.

A minister, a priest, and a rabbi walk into a bar together.
Bartender says, “Is this a joke?”

zhubajie May 12, 2009 at 1:29 am

Worst of all, from some points of view, Israeli Catholics are all Arabs!

Zhu Bajie

zhubajie May 12, 2009 at 2:41 am

[re=313258]ihasasad[/re]: Of course, Scotch Jimmie was queer as a three dollar bill….

Zhu Bajie

zhubajie May 12, 2009 at 2:43 am

[re=313263]slithytoves[/re]: He was more clever about rhetoric and timing.

Zhu Bajie

zhubajie May 12, 2009 at 3:19 am

[re=313294]Custerwolf[/re]: Because most of them come from Arab countries.

Zhu Bajie

decora May 12, 2009 at 8:56 am

dear Wonkette

please don’t write about serious topics.

thank you
the six million

Custerwolf May 12, 2009 at 10:37 am

[re=314051]decora[/re]: Sorry. You are way outnumbered.

Lazy Media May 12, 2009 at 11:04 am

[re=313254]Sofia![/re]: Fuck that guy. John Paul II was a rightwingnut cocksucker, too. The only thing he did was fight Communism, out of sheer self-interest (communists being atheists and whatnot). There hasn’t been a decent pope since John XXIII.

Zorg May 12, 2009 at 12:52 pm

Ooops! “Religio Depopulata” was the cryptic name of the Pope during WWI. Ratzi is “De Gloria Olivae.” The very last Pope ever, according to the prophecy list, is the next one, “Petrus Romanus.” Keep your fingers crossed, Wonketeers!

GreenHalo May 12, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Thrillho, you’re wasting your time. Correcting factual inaccuracies is a banning offense. Jesus, re-read the thread. The Pope is compared to a sci-fi villain, a Tolkein villain, repeatedly called a Nazi, excused for being a Nazi because (sing along with me) Germany nearly kicked Europe’s ass despite having only a couple dozen “actual” Nazis, is considered no more or less eeeville than JP2, is accused of eating (or possibly humping) human children, and invited to fight Bibi to the death in Jerusalem… and guess who gets called on a party foul for being tedious and tweenful? That big old unfunny butthole in the mirror, that’s who. Behold the world in a grain of sand.

When the Wonk’s on, it’s on. When it’s off, it crashes and burns right around comment 30. After a while you learn to distinguish between threads where the usual people say the usual things (give or take a box of wine) and the possibly interesting threads without even seeing who posted it or what the alt-text says.

jinxykb May 12, 2009 at 3:45 pm

Has anyone else seen Exit the King–with Geoffrey Rush? If the pop is in stripped pajamas he could be his understudy.

TGY May 13, 2009 at 11:38 am

[re=314657]GreenHalo[/re]: If we snark for snark’s sake without a modicum of truth, what worth is this site? Might as well go over and troll the Freepers for fun.

Joey Ratz May 14, 2009 at 8:06 am

[re=313910]Bearbloke[/re]: Um, what?

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