ABC News:
Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties.
The priest, Monsignor Alan Placa, a longtime friend of Giuliani and the priest who officiated at his second wedding to Donna Hanover, continues to work at Giuliani Partners in New York, to the outrage of some of his accusers and victims' groups, which have begun to protest at Giuliani campaign events.....
Yuck. What about Giuliani's 'family values'? Family values not only covers the sanctity of marriage, honor, respect, but also the protection of children. If Giuliani were elected President, would he put this Placa guy in a position of authority?
Salon:
Why does Glenn Beck hate California so much?
Right-wing blowhard Glenn Beck didn't make any friends in Southern California on Monday. Media Matters caught him in flagrante delicto on his talk radio show, declaring, "I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today." (Thanks to David Roberts at Grist for the tip.)
......The comment came in the context of a discussion of how Beck's politics differ from Arnold Schwarzenegger's. Beck took issue with Schwarzenegger's recent proposal that Republicans need to move to the political center if they want to win elections. The governor has also been out front on environmental issues, as befits a California political leader, because out here on the West Coast, we all hate America so much that we want to pass legislation limiting the production of greenhouse gases, and thus simultaneously destroy the economy and force everyone to drive small foreign cars......
There must be something wrong with a man who finds delight in the suffering of others.
