Bill Donohue comments on last night’s episode of Conan O’Brien’s show on TBS:
Unlike Leno and Letterman, we rarely have a problem with Conan O’Brien. But last night he took several shots at the Catholic Church, one of which was clearly below the belt.
In his monologue on Pope Francis, light fun was made of the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Baptism. It was the one-liner subtitle about children being molested by priests that was a low blow: “Kids can opt out of fondling by texting #nothanks to the Vatican.”
Religious profiling—portraying all priests as molesters—is not out-of-bounds with late-night hosts. Now if Conan had said, “Kids can opt out of fondling by texting #nothanks to gay priests,” he may have been fired. But just smearing all priests is considered perfectly acceptable. These are the rules in liberal land.
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