Posted by Hemant Mehta in The Catholic League’s William Donohue is for some reason the guy the mainstream media goes to when the Catholic Church is in the news.
Everything offends him, innocuous or not.
Chris at Cynical-C Blog has a list of the people and organizations that have been called “bigots” or “bigoted” by Donohue.
You may want to grab a drink. This could take a while.
Bill Maher
John Hagee
Carnegie Hall
ESPN anchorwoman Dana Jacobson
KCPW, Utah’s National Public Radio stationPhilip Pullman & The Golden Compass
National Secular Society
Scholastic Corp.
David E. Kelley
Molson Coors Brewing Company
Miller Brewing Company
Kathy Griffin
The Washington PostThe Louisiana Democratic Party
Florida attorney Loring Spolter
Walnut Creek Community Church
The Buffalo City Council
The Elites
Robin Williams
The California Assembly
Rosie O’DonnellBarbara Walters
Joy Behar
Rev. Al Sharpton
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The View
American Atheist bloggers, Tony Auth and Julianne Malveaux.
Penn Jillette
Some teacher in GeorgiaUniversity of Minnesota’s Department of Theatre, Arts and Dance
The Ford Foundation
Frances Kissling, head of Catholics for a Free Choice
Catholic Democrats
Blogger Amanda Marcotte
Blogger Melissa McEwan (Shakesville)
CBS
Non-christians during Christmas
One anonymousAttorney Jeffrey Anderson of St. Paul, Minnesota
DePaul professor Norman G. Finkelstein
MoveOn.org
The University of Minnesota
John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University
The Helen Hayes Theatre in New York
Seattle’s ACT Theatre
Arianna Huffington
Christopher HitchensTed Turner
Hollywood
Madonna
Author Malachy McCourt
Michael Savage
The Boston Globe
South Park
The Chicago Sun Times
The Telegraph HeraldAdele Cohen from the New York State Assembly
The Chicago Tribune
Catholics for a Free Choice
Hillary Clinton
The Fairness Foundation
Aidan Quinn
Land’s End
Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist MajorityTwo and a Half Men
Tyler Cabot
The law firm of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Schleifer, Weinstein & Winkler
ABC-TV Affiliate (KOMO)
Molly Ivins
Ken Schram, a commentator for the ABC affiliate in Seattle
New York mayoral hopeful Fernando Ferrer
KABC radio talk-show host Kim SerafinSenator Dianne Feinstein
NPR’s Lynn Neary
Associated Press
Louis Farrakhan
Showtime
Penn & Teller
Terry McAuliffeThe Democratic National Convention
Howard Dean
George Soros
San Francisco
Pete Leon, an aide to Congressman Eliot L. Engel
HBO
No bigots today, but check back tomorrow
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
Linda DiLeo, Principal of Central School in ILThe University of Alabama’s Office of Cultural Diversity
KUSA-TV, Denver NBC affiliate
The Nightingale Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Village Voice
Mitch Albom
John R. MacArthur from Harper’s Magazine
Garry Wills
Maureen DowdThomas Friedman
Margaret Carlson
Sheryl McCarthy
Sidney Blumenthal
Sean Wilentz
Lt. Gen. William Boykin
Forward, a Jewish newspaper
Mara Vanderslice
NewsdayReligious Coalition for Reproductive Rights
The Democratic Party
Lenny Bruce
Hannukah
Kwanza
Indiana University Law Professor Florence Roisman
PETA
Anti-Defamation League
American Jewish Congress
Atty. Jay Milano
Teachers’ Unions
Prominent African American Leaders
The Senate Judiciary Committee
Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy
The X-Men
A coalition of liberal organizations
Pennsylvania chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)Democratic Congressman Gary Ackerman
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Attorney John Aretakis
HSBC USA
Thomas Duane, a gay state senator from New York
City of Philadelphia
Brigitte Boisselier, the head of Clonaid
Attorney Richard LustgartenBoston Public (TV Show)
Balboa Park officials in San Diego
Americans United
Tampa Tribune columnist Daniel Ruth
MadTV
Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger
Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers
District Attorney Lynne Abraham
Michigan State UniversityToo many columnists and cartoonists
Radical feminists
National Organization for Women president Kim Gandy
Dennis Miller
Ian McKellen
The “John and Ken Show,” a KFI radio program in Los Angeles
Palm Beach Post
Nebraska state senator Ernie ChambersArizona Governor Jane Hull
The Girl Scouts
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Lion’s Gate
The BBC
Howard Stern
Beliefnet
“A Love Divided”The play “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You.”
Abercrombie & Fitch
Florida Atlantic University
Salon.com
60 Minutes
Planned Parenthood
Detroit Free PressBob Jones University
The Media
Democratic congressman James P. Moran
The Washington DC Council
Al Roker
Artist Robert Gober
Woody Allen
1997 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Dario Fo
Slate.comThe Whitney Museum
Refuse and Resist
ACLU
Speaking in non-catholic places of worship
White-collar miscreants
The Chaplain Search Committee
Becker
Suddenly Susan
The West WingRepublicans
“End of Days”
“All About My Mother”
Dogma
Peter F. Vallone, Speaker of the New York City Council
New York
Jesse Ventura
Brooklyn Museum of Art
“Julien Donkey-Boy”Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice)
PA State Rep. Joseph Preston, Jr.
James Hormel
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Ted Turner
American Atheists
Hunter College Newspaper
American Cancer SocietyGeoffrey Fieger, Dr. Kevorkian’s former lawyer
Levi Strauss
National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
Ally McBeal
In Seattle, Washington, a coffee shop called the Coffee Messiah
Terrence McNally’s play, ‘Corpus Christi.’
The Washington Times
Hustler
Khalid Abdul Muhammad“That’s Life”
The president of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Software from Microsoft
State University of New York (SUNY)
“Nothing Sacred”
MTV
MAD Magazine
“Agnes of God”
I think parts 2 and 3 of the list are coming soon 
A few are warranted, some are only mild accusations, but it’s obvious the Catholic League enjoys throwing that word around.
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Maybe I just missed it as I scrolled down, but I didn’t see The Simpsons on that list, and I’m pretty sure Donohue has turned his guns on them at least once before.
I can’t help but notice that Penn Jillette and “Penn & Teller” were named in two separate press releases. Does that mean that Penn is twice the bigot? The same goes for David E. Kelley and the show “Boston Public” that he wrote.
Also, Al Roker? Seriously?
They had to list Penn separate from Penn& Teller?
How do I get my name on that list? I’ve got to be at least as offensive to Catholics as Ally McBeal and Kwanzaa.
Holy Cow! It is sad that Donahue is the ‘go-to’ spokesperson for the Catholic Church.
P.S. did you see Kathy Griffin’s hilarious response to Bill Donahue?
You can see it here on youtube.
(The Catholic League bit starts at 6:45)
It would appear that we have a new drinking game on our hands.
I liked his bizarre appearance on the Colbert Report the other night.
Mike said:
Maybe I just missed it as I scrolled down, but I didn’t see The Simpsons on that list
I’ll have to update my post to make clear that I only posted those that Donohue used the term “bigot” in the press release. There were plenty of other organizations, shows and people that Donohue claimed to be anti-catholic, or catholic bashers but just didn’t go that extra length and declare them to be bigots.
And their press releases only go back to 1998 which means that the list is far, far from complete.
(BTW, I love your blog Hemant)
It might be easier to maintain a list of people William Donohue has not called a bigot. He sure likes to judge. Very Jesus-like.
good plan, jeff
Jeff: “It might be easier to maintain a list of people William Donohue has not called a bigot.”
You stole the words right out of my mouth.
Why is Ted Turner on the list twice? Is he twice as big of a bigot as the entirity of Bob Jones Univeristy?
I sprained my finger from all that scrolling.
The list has neither Friendly Atheist nor commentators from Friendly Atheist included. Everyone, we’re doing something wrong. Quick, say something “bigoted” about the Catholic Church! I’ll start.
The Catholic Church thinks women are second-class citizens and church members and will never allow them to become priests, and hides behind this sexist position by pretending that they respect Mary a lot, when all she did (in their version of history) was never lose her hymen.
Oh snap, no I didn’t.
Thanks for publishing the list. I found it most enlightening.
“You keep using that word. I do not think it mean what you think it means.”
I think I’m going to make it a personal goal to get on William Donohue’s list.
Given this, it’s hard to tell who hates more people, him or the Westboro Church of Fred Phelps from Kansas.
I noticed the University of Minnesota on there and clicked the link. Article said that because the U of M was going to put on a play about the Pope and something, they are bigotted. I don’t believe the President of the U of M bowed to his whims to cancel it.
Ye gads, it seems if you don’t do things his way and believe things his exact way, you’re a bigot. Or, that’s just what it seems thus far.
James, Westboro doesn’t hate people they hate gays… I believe at Westboro the two are mutually exclusive.
I love how he even includes Catholic Democrats and Catholics for a free choice on there. Translation: even if you consider yourself catholic, if you don’t agree with Bill Donahue, you’re a bigot! It seems anyone who disagrees with him and dares to actually say it is a bigot! I think there should be just one list with one name on it: William Donahue. He’s one of the worst biggots I’ve ever seen.
Sounds like someone is excersizing bigotry against Catholics.
I’m suprised the Catholic League hasn’t accused more entities of bigotry. I want to know how they define it, so as to confirm or deny my disappointment that I’m not on it.