While I was over at Newsbusters reading a story about how CNN’s Jack Cafferty says the Catholic Church must drag itself out of the 13th century, and another about professor Robert McElvaine blogging at the Washington Post to the effect that Pope Benedict XVI ought to be impeached, I saw this totally unrelated little gem:
Joy Behar, paragon of good taste and refinement that she is, has written a children’s book called Sheetzucacapoopoo. I couldn’t really believe this was the name of the book, so I checked on Amazon and sure enough, there it is.
The book is supposed to be a canine allegory about Barack Obama, apparently. As Behar told Robin Roberts on Good Morning America:
BEHAR: The kids love to say SheetzuCacaPoopoo. Well, that was the key. But, the book is really about Barack Obama. Okay? Let me explain.
ROBERTS: Everyone is looking around.
BEHAR: The dog- Max is in trouble. They send him to obedience school, okay? When he’s in obedience school is when he becomes Barack. He becomes a community organizer. And he organizes the big dogs around the little dogs. ‘Cause at first, the big dogs, also known as the Republicans, don’t like him. See? And so, he finds ways, pragmatically, to help the big dogs.
ROBERTS: Uh-huh.
BEHAR: They can reach itches for them. They can go underneath to get to spots. They can scare the cats away. And so, he becomes popular. And everybody loves each other.
ROBERTS: It’s all about change.
BEHAR: It’s all about pragmatism and change, and trying to find a solution in your situation, which is Barack Obama. Isn’t that- How did I jump to that? Pretty good? That’s- All because of SheetzuCacaPoopoo.
Normally I would comment on something like this, but really, I think this pretty much speaks for itself, don’t you?
But what, you may be wondering, does it have to do with the Holy Father? Well, the learned Professor McElvaine, in his righteous indignation about Benedict XVI, whom he deems worse than Bernard Madoff and all the terrible people at AIG put together, exhorts us:
Let’s start a movement within the Catholic Church to impeach Pope Benedict XVI and remove him from office. While we’re at it, let’s replace him with a woman.
I’m thinking Joy Behar might be just the kind of woman McElvaine is looking for to head up his new, improved Catholic Church. She can write a series of encyclicals titled with cutesy names for excrement, and work to canonize Barack Obama as the first patron saint of the Church. There wouldn’t be any rules about having to be dead to attain sainthood, since it makes more sense to pray to a living god who can help you out with some taxpayer money.
I wish Cardinal McElvaine all the best with his new progressive church. I just wish he’d leave mine alone.
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Prof. McElvaine said,
I am a Catholic and the idea that such a man is God’s spokesperson on earth is absurd to me.
Typical liberal. We’re all supposed to adopt his value set instead of him living by the rules the Church sets up.
I think I’m going to be sick.
Posted 22 Mar 2009 at 2:42 am ¶Actually, the man is denying that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, thus he is a heretic and since he hasn’t repented he should be excomunicated.
Actually, the nasty cuss should endure Vitandus as his punishment.
Problem solved.
Posted 22 Mar 2009 at 8:30 pm ¶I’m not a Catholic so I don’t have a dog in this particular fight, but it seems to me that if someone doesn’t like the Catholic Church, he’s free to leave the church, and sort of has a lot of nerve demanding the entire church change just to suit his opinions.
Posted 22 Mar 2009 at 9:16 pm ¶Oh, and JB’s book title is BEYOND tacky.
Posted 22 Mar 2009 at 9:17 pm ¶Here is another troublemaker for you Brigette!
Days after launching legal action in Queensland’s Supreme Court, Fr Peter Kennedy has appealed to the Holy See against his removal as administrator of St Mary’s parish, South Brisbane.
Appearing on ABC1 panel program Q&A last Thursday, Fr Kennedy slammed the Catholic Church’s teachings on sex and its treatment of women, the Brisbane Times says.
“I think the Church is so wrong about its teaching on sex, because women are excluded.”
“This is one of the horrible things that the Church does.”
But Fr Kennedy admitted on the program that his congregation had engaged in practices that would not be widely accepted by the Catholic Church.
“Yes, there were blessings of homosexual couples.
“We (had) been flying under the radar for quite a while.”
“These people, these ultra-orthodox Catholics, came into our parish uninvited and started taking pictures.
“They then reported these findings to the Vatican.”
I like how once he’s been removed he cries “foul” after knowing his conduct would get him removed.
And I also throughly enjoy how he has done what he has done in the name of women, yet admits he’s been marrying homosexuals (blessing?).
Thank the Lord above Benedict the XVI is who he is.
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 2:01 am ¶And bravo to the “ultra-orthodox Catholics” who ratted him out!
Jolly good show!!!!
We’ll clean this house out yet.
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 2:02 am ¶I am Catholic, too. However, if there is someone out there who is just figuring out that the Catholic Church is not perfect, then I wonder where they have been for the past 2000 years or so years.
If everything was so perfect, there wouldn’t be any need for faith.
I spend a lot of time being thankful for forgiveness personally.
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 3:06 am ¶We (had) been flying under the radar quite a while
This line is very, very instructional. It shows that the creep, like many socialist agitators, use deception and subterfuge to agitate against a conservative insitution like the Catholic Church.
He’s like a cockroach who scatters for cover as soon as the lights are turned on.
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 5:39 am ¶These people, these ultra-orthodox Catholics, come into our parish UNINVITED…
What????? I guess I’ve been a Catholic for 41 of my 47 years and have existed under the apparently false impression that all Catholic Church facilities were open to all comers. Now I find out one needs to be “invited” to attend?
This guy is a real piece of work!
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 5:44 am ¶Unnerving and irritating? Most definately.
Surprising? Sadly, not so much.
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 8:05 pm ¶As I am not Catholic, I also do not have a dog in that fight. (Pun intended) I can’t help but say that Joy Behar is just tacky, period. Not to mention that the premise and the name of the book are just…………there hasn’t been a word made for that yet – maybe it should be: mydogcouldwriteabetterstupidbook
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