I blame Bill Maher and the rest of the Hate Left for this:
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A man allegedly molested three decades ago by a priest was arrested Friday on charges that he lured the clergyman to the lobby of a Jesuit retirement home and beat him in front of shocked witnesses, authorities said.
William Lynch, 43, was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon for the May 10 attack that sent the Rev. Jerold Lindner to the hospital with bruises and lacerations, said Sgt. Rick Sung, Santa Clara County sheriff’s spokesman.
Lynch harbored a fantasy for years of confronting the priest, who also allegedly molested his little brother.
Sung said Lynch attacked the 65-year-old priest after he failed to recognize him at the Jesuits’ Sacred Heart retirement home in Los Gatos. The attack occurred in a small room adjoining the lobby.
“They’re saying it was pretty close to beating him to death,” defense attorney Pat Harris told The Associated Press. “They’re essentially saying that he waited all these years and then took out his revenge. It’s sort of the ultimate revenge story.”
The Hate Left in general and Bill Maher in particular have launched smear after smear against the Catholic Church, insinuating that every parish priest is a pedophile or an ephebophile who molests pre-pubescent and pubescent boys. The Hate Left has no problem bashing the heck out of the Catholic Church – who by the way did an awful job of handling the decades-long scandal – and has used it as an excuse for anti-Catholic bigotry. They won’t say one word about another religion that poses a direct threat to our freedom and way of life, and to anyone who does, they scream “Islamophobe!” I wonder if the same idiots had they been alive in the 1930s and 40s would have labeled most Americans “Nazi-phobes.”
But I digress.
This reminds me of the Bill Sparkman case. Sparkman was the census worker who committed suicide in Kentucky in 2009, staging his death to make it look like a homicide committed by “crazy right-wingers” by scrawling the word “FED” into his chest. Sure enough, the Hate Left, eager to make the Tea Party folks and other conservatives guilty by association, took the bait. Within days after Sparkman’s body was found, lefty bloggers and commentators were screeching about hate from everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Michelle Malkin to Sarah Palin to Michelle Bachmann to the Tea Parties motivated some whackjob to murder Sparkman as a blow against the federal government.
When the truth came out – thanks in no small part to the shoe leather efforts of R.S. McCain of The Other McCain - the Hate Left gave us the Emily Litella reaction: “Never mind.”
I hope the guy who did this gets the max. And yes, to be equitable, he should be charged with a hate crime, since he targeted his victim based on his religion. Oh yeah, that’s right. Whites, males, Christians (especially Catholics) don’t count. Now if the victim had been a Moooslim …
I know it’s convenient to blame this on Bill Maher, but you don’t have to know much about him to know that he is disrespectful of all religions equally. If you can stand to listen to another point of view, why not watch his movie, Religulous, and find out? Or listen to the latest podcast of his show, in which the only religion he bashes is Islam.
I’m not saying you’re not entitled to an opinion, but if you’re going to pontificate (pun intended) about something, it’s generally best to know what you’re talking about first.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/episode-195-originally-aired/id98746009?i=88676483
Too bad you do not recognize snark when you see it. Our side never blames anyone but the actual perp for crimes. It’s the Left that tried blaming Rush Limbaugh and talk radio for Oklahoma City. It’s the Left that tried blaming Tea Parties, bloggers and anyone opposed to the Obama Regime for the death of the census worker. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Blame the perp. Period.
Besides, I don’t care to watch or listen to a bigot like Maher unless absolutely necessary. Yes, his “movie,” which deservedly tanked at the box office, is nothing but a stream of bigotry.