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Oh please look at the tragic press release for Bill Donohue’s new-ish book, Secular Sabotage. Not one person—not a single graphic design intern, or PR guy, or someone at the publisher’s office—had any objection to including this blurb. Chilling. (Thank you to Wonkette Informant “Dan T.”) [Catholic League]
11:09 AM
on Thu November 5 2009
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Actually, I’m more inclined to believe that they’re all secular commie Satanists who think Donahue is a total fuckface loon and got a little snicker of joy at making fun of him without his realizing.
not a single graphic design intern, or PR guy, or someone at publishing office
Is the answer that everyone knew, everyone got a good laugh over it and everyone knew the people they’re selling to won’t know the difference?
Someone has gone full retard.
It doesn’t matter how many Christian presidents you’ve had, once you let one Muslin in - game’s over.
It’s straight to H-E-double hockey sticks for you, Colbert.
Nice Colbert blurb.
Is it irony if someone fails to detect irony, or would that be called anti-irony?
At any rate, Irony Detection FAIL.
They really do think he’s one of them, don’t they?
Proof that we have someone on the inside. HEY! MOLE! Kick in some Groucho Marx and Hitler quotes for the next release!
I guess he should delete the blurbs from other noteables:
I. P Nightly
Mike Hunt
Heywood Jablowme
“I don’t want anything to do with this frog-lookin’ motherfucker.” — God.
What if Colbert is really one of them, and he’s having us on?
This is tragic.
Only way that could be better is if it also got printed on the dust jacket.
I’ve heard the argument from wingnuts that they believe Colbert is actually a wingnut pretending to be a comedian pretending to be a wingnut. It boggles the mind, but these are the same people who equate a loss in NY23 as a win. i.e. they are retards.
Shameless (and effective) pandering to get interview and plug on the Colbert Report. Well done!
I think they know who he is and think that THEY’RE being ironic. Look at the Catholic League’s front page, in the right-hand column.
Yep, it’s hard to believe a known homophobe like Donahue would accept a blurb from an obviously gay man, even if he is in the (transparent) closet.
Oh wait, the Medved quote wasn’t the irony you’re referring to, was it?
It really is a wonkette-worthy review, if nothing else.
southerngeek: Yes, and when Meghan McCain isn’t on twitter she has Autocad up because she’s designing the new particle accelerator that will be more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider.
Jeebus, their website even has a linky to Stephen Colbert’s quote. This has got to be an inside job.
http://www.catholicleague.org/colbert.php
Well done, sneaky intern!
PREVED MEDVED SEZ IMPORTANT BOOK/MAN IS IMPORTANT
The Catholic League is neither Catholic nor a league. It’s one sad bastard typing on a computer at home all alone.
southerngeek: I’m going to stop looking around on that site — he’s got a whole page of links defending famous Nazi apologist Pius XII. Also, every time I look at Donohue’s mug, my testicles retract.
This just PROVES Colbert is really a conservative and has all the libtards fooled. Wake up, sheeple!
What amuses me most is that Stephen actally trademarked the “In-God-We-Trust-Mobile”.
“Like the man himself, the book is feisty, controversial, impassioned, and important.”
If it’s true that a book can really be “like” a person, then that book is also a fuckwad.
Does anyone else get the feeling that Colbert’s persona is taking on a life of its own, Hyde-style?
Well, if Michael Medved, erstwhile movie reviewer (”I give it three & a half buckets of popcorn!”) says it’s an important book, who am I to argue?
I am convinced there is nothing Colbert can’t do. Why, he got Dennis Kucinich to come out as a magic elf! Obvious, yes, but he caught the sly little bugger, didn’t he?
southerngeek: That’s just too strange. I don’t see the Catholic League as an entity that appreciates irony.
Their website guy has already handed in his two weeks notice and is having a little fun before the new job starts?
Min: I like the image of those darned secularists “cutting the break cables.” We’re not stopping the IGWTMB, it’s actually barreling faster and faster down the metaphor freeway….
“A wonderful blurb… Truly insightful… A pithy summary of the material in the book.”
-TGY
He must be talkin’ about me and the “JEW XING” signs I put on church lawns.
waaaaaaaaaaah i want some prejean gossip!
Dude actually went on the Colbert show and maybe it was just the sweat pooling between his fat rolls but he somehow looked self-aware enough to realize that everybody in the audience hated him. Some interns are gonna have to say a shitload of Hail Marys.
When you cut the break cables in the pope mobile does the idiot light come on?
Lascauxcaveman: As others mentioned, the Catholic League is really just Bill Donahue, all alone. And the man has no sense of humor; hell, he considers insults to a cracker to be a hate crime. He probably did think the blurb was real; it’s the kind of thing he’d say.
Overheard at Ted Kennedy’s funeral: “‘Ten Commandments Catholics’ don’t GET Colbert like the ‘Beatitudes Catholics’ do.”
I guess the TV up Donohue’s ass doesn’t show Comedy Central.
Who the holy hell is Bill Donohue, and why should anyone care?
The Catholic League sounds like a Mafioso “Super Adventure Club,” slobbering pederasts filled with spite and bile and covered by seborrheic keratoses and acrochordons.
Wait are you saying that there’s an pudgy and insecure white man who doesn’t like Obama? He’s the only one, right?
His next book is entitled Secular Subtlety
JMP: Just one guy? OK, I’ve been reading snarky political websites too long, because I’ve actually heard of the Catholic League. I mean, before today.
I’m starting my own league.
Unitarian Atheist Catholic Antichrist Easter Bunny League for the betterment of Mankind and some women too.
Send me your money please.
To blatantly rip off Isis the Scientist, in the name of civility and truthiness, do not Google “Bill Donohue is a rat fucker” over and over and click on this blog post so that future searches for him return this post about him fucking rats. Please. That would be unkind and we all know how important kindness is to Bill Donohue. Rat fucking is certainly not important to Bill Donohue. I do not think Bill Donohue fucks rats. Bill Donohue probably does not fuck goats either. Probably.
Monsieur Grumpe: UACAEBFBTOMASWT? Seriously?
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Unfortunately I am currently sans money, as I shamefully contributed to the half-breed Muslin socialist/anti-capitalist/Nazi/Kenyan/leader of the lizard people’s illegal campaign and God has smoted me by making me spend all my remaining money on porn and video games. I do have the one true copy of Nobama’s birf certificate, if that would do.
Lascauxcaveman: That’s because Donahue is very talented at getting his name in the news; usually for accusing someone of being an anti-Catholic bigot.
Balls!: How naive of them! Colbert is <actually a comedian pretending to be a wingnut pretending to be a comedian pretending to be a wingnut. Seriously though, those idiots have come up with more ways to fuck up a baked potato in the last twelve months than I’ve seen in my life - so keep up the good work, teabaggers! YUR NASHUN IS COWTIG ON YU!
germansteel:
How can a book be fiesty? Does it resist letting you open the cover?
WarAndG:
You know, that’s a good way to describe a division in the Church. Ten Commandment Catholics versus Beatitudes Catholics. Of course, both those groups think the Charismatics are bonkers.
The Cathoic League? Really? Does anyone know what the uniforms look like?
Rosemaryrules: Blue plaid jumpers for the girls and white shirt w/ gray pants for the boys. Oh and blue ties all around.
That’s because the charismatics are bonkers. Several years ago I was at the baptism for my niece, sitting next to my Mom when the Priest started SPEAKING IN TONGUES! What the hell! Afterwards my mother could only sniff: “I always thought being a Catholic meant never having to put up with that dogpatch nonsense.”
trondant: And when they join up with the media that keeps fucking that chicken, they’ve got a happy meal!
Haha, they actually have a separate link just for the colbert quote. Someone somewhere is clearly having fun: http://www.catholicleague.org/colbert.php
Only Bill? I thought the “League” was at least a phone booth crowd!
Maxfretless:
I was introduced to them when I was a teenager. I went to a Ladies Guild meeting with my mother, dragged along because I’d be helping to cook a luncheon to raise funds for cemetary upkeep. There was a speaker at the meeting and apparently the ladies didn’t know he was a Charismatic. He got up and talked about how he drank most of a case of beer then Christ spoke to him from a potted plant in the corner of the room. OMG, you should have seen the looks on the faces of the ladies in the room. They ranged from barely concealed shock to a look that says “heads will roll”. For my part, I found it the most entertaining Ladies Guild meeting ever, but I still got stuck cleaning and sectioning several cases of raw chickens.
Terry: Did Jesus talk to you from the giblets?
Terry: Jesus spoke to me also after imbibing a case of beer. He kept saying, “Get up off the fucking sidewalk, asshole.” It seemed very unJesus-like of him. Come to think of it, it might have been a cop.
Rosemaryrules: Hell, they probably would have done better than the National League.
mentioning Colbert is a good way to sort wingnuts in a crowd- the ones with an IQ above freezing dislike him, the other 60% think he’s O’Reilly with hair and on Comedy Channel to balance that commie Stewart.
Wait, wait. This is an accurate, non-ironic quote if the Katholic Leegue meant to quote “Stephen Colbert”, the wingnut pundit who is played by Stephen Colbert on “The Colbert Report.” The quote has just enough truthiness to have stemmed straight from the heart of “Stephen Colbert.”
Balls!: Ah. That explains the triple Colbert portrait over the fireplace on his set. The guy in the smallest portrait is Colbert the wingnut. The one in the middle is Colbert the actor, and the one on the outside is Colbert the wingnut character played by Colbert the actor who is really Colbert the wingnut, amirite?
My head hurts now.
FMA:
I met Jesus when I was working at a library in Battle Creek MI. He wanted to watch Godspell so he could see who was playing Him. Afterwards He asked me where He could buy a cheap bottle of wine. Did you know Jesus was black? Nice guy really.
Actually, Colbert is a fairly devout Catholic, teaches Sunday school every week. Don’t know what he’s teaching the kiddies, but he’s teaching them. Allegedly.
Terry: I still got stuck cleaning and sectioning several cases of raw chickens.
Because you never know when you will hear the call “Keep fucking that chicken!”
This is an example of Poe’s Law.
Seriously, I heard somewhere that conservatives really do think Stephen Colbert one of them, and that his whole shtick is designed to take the piss out of liberals. I am not making this up. They really do think he’s only pretending to be joking, and that he really means the stuff he says. Look:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/27/colbert-study-conservativ_n_191899.html
Maybe someone really does know who Stephen Colbert is, and is just irony deficient.`
DemmeFatale: His self-righteous indignation alone would fill a phone booth or seventy.
There is no god but Colbert, and Comedy Central is His Messenger! Repent, Bitches! Repent!
Actually, I think Colbert is Unitarian. I’m too lazy to verify but let’s go with it.