{"id":9884,"date":"2007-02-09T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9884.html"},"modified":"2007-02-09T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T19:04:03","slug":"bill-donohues-unusual-employment-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bill-donohues-unusual-employment-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Donohue’s unusual employment standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

For his role in pushing John Edwards to fire Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen, the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue is receiving a heaping of scrutiny<\/a> from the progressive side of the blogosphere for some fairly offensive things he’s said and done over the years.<\/p>\n

For my money, Nico has found the most pertinent example<\/a>. Deal Hudson was the Catholic outreach coordinator for Bush-Cheney ’04, right up until he was exposed as having been something of a sexual predator, including having taken advantage of a drunk, 18-year-old student while he was a professor.<\/p>\n

According to documents obtained by [National Catholic Reporter], Hudson invited a vulnerable freshman undergraduate, Cara Poppas, to join a group of older students for a pre-Lenten “Fat Tuesday” night of partying at a Greenwich Village bar. The night concluded after midnight in Hudson’s Fordham office, where he and the drunken 18-year-old exchanged sexual favors. The fallout would force his resignation from a tenured position at the Jesuit school, cost him $30,000, and derail a promising academic career.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hudson was forced to give up his Bush campaign position, his Jesuit school teaching job, and his role as publisher of Crisis magazine, a D.C.-based conservative Catholic publication. It was a sad, humiliating affair for everyone involved.<\/p>\n

Donohue, however, rushed to Hudson’s defense<\/a>, and said his sexual indiscretions should have no bearing on his employment.
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In a press release, Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League, minimized the charges against Hudson and attempted a joke at the Virgin Mary’s expense. “Effective today,” Donohue wrote, his organization had “a new requirement for all future employees: all candidates must show proof of being immaculately conceived, that is, they must demonstrate that they were conceived without sin.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For all the ridiculous and offensive quotes we’ve heard the last few days, which characterize Donohue as a rather hateful blowhard, this may be the most apples-to-apples comparison I’ve seen. Presidential campaign to presidential campaign, employment decision to employment decision.<\/p>\n

In Donohue’s worldview, some intemperate blog posts should cause you to lose your job, while sexual impropriety shouldn’t.<\/p>\n

Good to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For his role in pushing John Edwards to fire Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen, the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue is receiving a heaping of scrutiny from the progressive side of the blogosphere for some fairly offensive things he’s said and done over the years. For my money, Nico has found the most pertinent example. Deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}