Proving that he is as incapable of parsing a sentence as he is of extending the "civil rights" to anyone other than the 350,000 members of his organization, Bill Donohue referred to Keith Olbermann as a "smear merchant." (Well, at least he didn't call him a "smear merchant of Venice". And in one of those great ironies that provokes in me that great Australian bit of profanity fuck me dead, Donohue agreed with Bill "Loofah-up-your-hoohaw" O'Reilly that Olbermann was a smear merchant. I fucking kid you not.

From dated today, Donohue says:

O’REILLY IS RIGHT:
OLBERMANN IS A “SMEAR MERCHANT”

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded to MSNBC talk-show host Keith Olbermann’s comment last night that Donohue made a bigoted statement when he once said, “Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.” Here is Donohue’s rejoinder:

“Bill O’Reilly was right when he referred to Keith Olbermann as a ‘notorious smear merchant.’ Here’s why.

Okay. Here comes the part where those proverbial apples get equated with matzoh.

“On July 31, 2006, Olbermann interviewed Tom O’Neil, a Hollywood observer, and in the course of discussing Mel Gibson’s drunken anti-Semitic rant, O’Neil wondered aloud whether Mel could come back from this incident: ‘I don’t see how Mel rallies from this, especially in Jewish Hollywood.’ A few seconds later, Olbermann said, ‘And let’s clarify so nobody puts you on that list of folks who said things. When you said Jewish Hollywood, you meant the Jewish community in Hollywood, not Jewish Hollywood.’ O’Neil answered affirmatively.

“So let’s clarify for Olbermann’s sake. When I referred to Hollywood being run by secular Jews, how is this any different from what O’Neil said?

Um. Bill. Let's compare, shall we? Tom O'Neil, and the others you cite, refer to Jews. Or Jewish Hollywood. You said, "secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular."

Don't know about you, but I see a teensy-weensy bit of difference there. It's sort of like saying, Catholic Rome, or Catholic Boston, and saying "Jew-hating, blood-libel believing, Christ-killer-calling Catholics." See, the second is anti-Catholic, because, in fact, not all Catholics hate Jews nor hold them responsible for the Crucifixion. You, however, seem to not have gotten the memo from your Pope that Jews are not responsible for the death of Christ. You, and Bill O'Reilly, and Mel "Sugartits" Gibson (and Mel's father, who believes that the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust all moved to Brooklyn), those Catholics—the ones who have threatened to rape and murder the two women you went after just a couple of days ago—those Catholics, Bill, are assholes. ASSHOLES.

Fuck you, Bill. We are watching every fucking word that comes out of your mouth. Let the accountability games begin.