I would say that it’s shocking that a pseudo-famous talking-head would be into kiddie porn but the fact that anyone traffics in this evil shocks my not-so-delicate sensibilities.
SAN FRANCISCO — Bernie Ward, the most prominent liberal voice on Bay Area talk radio for more than two decades, admitted Thursday to distribution of child pornography by e-mail in a plea deal that will send him to federal prison for at least five years.
San Francisco? LIBERAL?? Huh.
Ward, 57, a former Roman Catholic priest, was a fixture on KGO-AM 810 for three hours every weeknight, known in recent years for his fervent denunciations of President Bush and the war in Iraq during his news talk show. He also hosted “God Talk,” a Sunday morning program on religion, and was a prolific fundraiser for the station’s charity drives.
Former Roman Catholic priest? I suppose that’s germane to the story because it fits the author’s template. Into kiddie porn? Ahhh…..former Roman Catholic priest. There you go. Douche-bag.
At a 30-minute hearing in federal court in San Francisco, Ward admitted he was guilty of a single charge of distributing child pornography, saying it involved “exchanging an image of a minor engaged in sexually explicit activity” in December 2004. The plea agreement he signed, quoted in court, contained an admission that he had sent between 15 and 150 pornographic images via e-mail.
Does anyone believe for a fucking second that the images of children engaged in explicit sex numbered less than 150? Uh, no.
Ward initially pleaded not guilty and said he had downloaded a few pornographic images over several weeks as research for a book on hypocrisy among Americans who preach morality in public. But he was confronted by a federal law that flatly prohibits possessing, receiving or distributing child pornography - regardless of intent - and requires at least five years in prison for each conviction.
His hopes of maintaining a defense based on a constitutional right to research taboo subjects appeared to be weakened further when police in Oakdale (Stanislaus County) released transcripts in February of a series of online sex chats between Ward and a dominatrix in December 2004 and January 2005.
The transcripts quote Ward as fantasizing about naked children with no apparent reference to any subject he was researching. Police said he had sent photos to the woman that showed children engaged in sexual activity.
Laughable horseshit.
Ward’s indictment, and his claim that he was a researcher rather than an exploiter of children, focused attention on the strict federal law, which considers motive and intent to be irrelevant. The rationale is that anyone who possesses child pornography adds to the national market for a product that degrades youth.
Well, there’s a law that makes sense. And child pornography “degrades” youth like terminal cancer “degrades” your retirement plans.
Have fun in prison, scumbag. Cherish your last days of medically unassisted continence.
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Bernie Ward should not have been allowed to plead down. Sick shits like this should be disposed of like common garbage. . . they should be burned.
No argument here.
I’ve seen this turd before on cable news giving his stupid opinion.
Gaaahhh!!!!
Man, these dudes are always hideous looking piles of Jaba meat.
At least he has a little padding between himself and all the different things that will be introduced to his ass.
Bernie’s new prison name: Salvatore Adonis Tosser.
Seriously, I hope this man rots in hell. People don’t understand that these kids will be affected for the rest of their lives.
They will not trust people’s motives and will forever think the only thing they’re good for is sex. No better.
For years their lives will be affected, for a few minutes pleasure for some sick pig.
Seriously, whoever took those photos will probably never think of that child again, but for so long that child will have nightmares with that sick fuck’s face as the starring role.
er, I mean
Yeah! That cocksucker! Fuck him!
Did you eat chicken soup for dinner?
No, I didn’t get soup or a hug. Or a blankie
PattyAnn did say she would make me some soup however
Somebody wrap PJ in a fleecie blankie and give her some soup. . . right after she mixes me another bloody mary.
I give you good music and this is the thanks I get?
*puts poison on MCPO’s pickle
I turn you on to Django and you put poison on my pickle?! You trying to kill Lou??
PJM,
Here is a double Bloody Mary, with extra pepper (for the gouk) and I make a killer tomato chicken noodle soup.
I agree I hope the bastage is BuFued till he dies.
V
Sick fucker can’t burn in hell soon enough.
I’ll give you hug, pajama momma. My hugs have mythical healing power.
Did you listen to the song in the BBF post?
That will make you feel better.
Vmaximus!! You can’t come here and not tell us how your interview went!
Well? spill!
and thank you for the bloody mary
Rosetta? Do you look like this when you hug?
and MCPO, how does my poisoning your pickle kill my sister?
Guess you didn’t need the hug.
Bitch.Burrito-head.What’s the gayest, stupidest, most pathetic thing you’ve seen all day?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mI808JK6-Q
Rosetta did you even see my comment? spaz
They said they were going to call me tomorrow….
Tomorrow would have been Wednesday.
I have not heard, but I am calling them monday and making up something like me call was off or something… Did you call me????
V
Haaaahh! I cannot spell…. I have had too much to drink
PJM - It is just something you’re gonna have to think through. First, “my pickle” has poison on it.
“Do you look like this when you hug?”
PJ, did I tell you it was 86 degrees here earlier today. Well,it’s hotter now.
PA,
It is freaking HOT here too! I took my mutts for a walk and I needed a drink…(and a shower) I always need a drink…
V
Rosetta did you even see my comment? spaz
Meh. Too late. Hug withdrawn.
Feel the cold emptiness of my hug vacuum.
It was 95 here PA and my dog was soo mad because there was no way I was letting him go anywhere in the car with me.
hug vacuum’s suck!
but it took me a while to find just the right picture!!!!!11
That’s not fair!
I hope your dog got a cool drink, too, Vmax
ROSETTAAA! You owe me a hug for what you did to me on my blog!
“hug vacuum”
OMG, I hope this won’t turn into another one of those posts–”emotional small appliances”
We need wiserbud and mesa here to make this complete.
PJ, I can’t believe Rosetta got you again.
yeah, silly me thinking he was being all sweet and sensitive.
I’m the fool, once again
What’s the gayest, stupidest, most pathetic thing you’ve seen all day?
That’s the worst thing I’ve seen in months. Who’s going to see that piece of shit? How can that movie even get made?
Idiots.
PA,
As usual. my Golden Retriever is at my feet, and my Black Lab is on the couch, they have had drinks. dinner and are waiting for bedtime. I still have 1 more inch of vodka (Titos) to drink.
awww, I have a black lab too. His name is Frodo. Yes, I’m the one that named him. Wanna make sumpin of it?
Is he gay for the neighbor’s dog, Samwise?
PJM,
My lab is named Bear. He is a big dumb sweetheart. And smart.
My GF said dogs will name themselves, I spent 2 hours calling out names, when I said Max, my Golden came running over to me…. and started drinking my Bourbon.
PJM: You found a picture of Bart? Brava!
Titos is good vodka, Vmax.
Yeah, that’s right. I take it all back. That’s a photo of bart. Screw rosetta……bastard
and started drinking my Bourbon.
hahahaha, good dog!
Gay dogs and child sex predators…coincidence? I think Not.
Rosetta
I have been trying all kinds of vodka, I liked Fris (with the dots) for a while, I have tried Stoli, (sucked) Gery Goose (meh) level 1 (ok) and several others, I think Titos is the best for the money.
I think you’re on to something BIW
BIWIAP,
My dog is NOT gay!!!!!111!!!
well maybe when he is drunk…
Try Finlandia…right out of the freezer, like my Lithuanian freinds drink. And BIW it just fine….I also answer to “Asshole”, “Hey you!” and “Not another frickin lawyer!”
Haah!
Ok Biw it i.t
Skyy is my choice for mass consumption. Ketel, Goose and Van Gogh are all great but Level is probably the best, smoothest vodka I’ve ever had.
For the money however, Tito’s is tough to beat.
Get a bottle of Blavod the next time you have people over for cocktails. It’s black vodka and pretty damn good. It makes for very odd looking cocktails.
http://www.blavod.com/
*yawn
R,
I liked the Skyy too, I will look for the blavod. I bought a Baru or was it barou (Irish vodka) $20 distilled 5 times a little harsh, but not as harsh as Stoli. not bad for the price.
I think I have 1/2 a bottle of Belvedere around here someplace…
It is pretty good
No Val-U-Rite drinkers??
http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/8691/ooo0sn.gif
i got nothin
Master Chief,
I haven’t seen any here, but but Albertsons has some cheep stuff that is $9.99 for a 1.75,
I don’t have the courage to try it… Yet.
v
I’m curious–what is your very favorite adult cocktail?
Here is the recipe for mine: Remove Sapphire bottle from freezer, along with the frosted tumbler in there. Place 3 huge, pitted green olives into the bottom of the glass. Pour gin over the olives. Drink. Repeat. Repeta. ReTpaE.
Popov is the Sh*t.
Bart,
That is not nothin
The Blavod is good to take to a Halloween party. Makes a green screwdriver which is fun.
If you’re into that sort of thing.
Place 4 ice cubes in tumbler, cover with Jameson. Drink. repeat. repeet. peraet.
Jameson? Why not just chug urine samples?
I’m just happy with a bloody mary, or a Cape cod
BIW - I’m a disabled veteran on a fixed income. Gimme a break.
PA,
I like Sapphire on the rocks. I will settle for Tanquere
and bourbon on the rocks (Knobb Creek, or Makers Mark, or most 90+ proofs)
and scotch on the rocks (Balvenie, or McCallan)
Titos straight up (shots)
Do a shot taste test with Bushmill’s and Jameson. Bushmill’s is smoother in my professional drinker opinion.
Urine?
Absinthe = Cat urine
MCPO,
If I get to Pa, I will bring a bottle. I liked Bushmills slightly better than Jameson, but I am 1/2 Scotch and 1/2 Irish. I will bring the 15 year Jameson.
V
OH Pa,
Try the Tabasco olives for the martinis. I. Like.
V
“I’m a disabled veteran on a fixed income.”
Back off, KKFF–he’s my favorite now.
Vmax - Thanks. I usually spring for Bushmills at the holidays. I haven’t had the 15 yo Jameson. I’ll have to look for it at the package store.
MCPO…That’s why they make Thunderbird!
Back off,
KKFFLOU–he’s my favorite now.Jeez!
MCPO,
To be honest I still like the Bushmills, but if Jameson is yours, I will bring the best I can buy.
BTW my family is from Ohio, so on occasion I head up that way.
V
The Colonel (my dad) would be rolling over if he knew I was drinking Jameson. The family is Scots-Irish from Londonderry.
One Grandfather was from Glasgow, the other was from Dublin.
I hate myself.
not really.
V
um………..BEER!!!!!!!!!
BIW,
I lived in NYC for about 4 years, and I have a theory, I worked with the homeless, and they all slept on park benches, and drank old thunderbird. I came to the conclusion that if you slept on park benches and drank old thunderbird, you would never go bald.
Yes I have no hair, I notice things like that.
It is that, or bird shit that grows hair.
PJM,
What is a cape cod?
V
nothing special
vodka cranberry
My ex wife liked amaretto and OJ
It tastes good but is weak
v
Tito’s is distilled in Austin Texas
DIT - Is Austin still considered part of the USA?
because ot Tito’s, yes
I have been to San Antonio, and El Passo, and Dallas. Texas is cool. I have a don’t mess with Texas shot class.
I too have visited Texas. It is beautiful and the wimmens there are Yum-my!
I like Tito Puente, does that count? Heck I like Celia Cruz too.
I had one of the wimmens want to marry me there, I should have took her up on the offer.
PJM,
I remember Stripes,
Bill Murray loves Tito Puente, andf his hot gf dumps him.
V
I’m heading to San Antonio next week.
WOOHOO!
hah, I know a certain hostage that loves stripes
where are you tonight wiserbud?
PJM - Thems Cuban-Americans not Texican-Americans!
“Wisconsin? I got my ass kicked in Wisconsin.”
PJM - Thems Cuban-Americans not Texican-Americans!
You say potato, I say potahto
“Wisconsin? I got my ass kicked in Wisconsin.”
Story I’d like to hear
Stripes - When Murray convinces them to go into Czechoslovakia. “It’s Czechoslovakia! It’s like going to Wisconsin.”
Toenail juice is distilled in my socks.
There is no czechoslovakia.
BIW! That was the worst image I think I could possibly get right now. That’s brain-bleachworthy.
BIW - there was when Stripes was made!
Revenge for germing up my blog, PJM.
MCPO- That’s a fact, Jack!
Revenge for germing up my blog, PJM
What? whatever do you mean?
Good night boys! I need to rest up. Happy Friday.
I graduated from HS in 1979, and went to Key West, That was the year of the Mariel boat lift. I hated Cubans for a while, they ruined my vacation. I was in Key West and the only thing in the grocery store was pickles and mustard
In 1980, I met a guy from Cuba, named Willy. He told me how the Ruskies shot killed his brother when he was standing on his front porch after curfew. I was working in Miami at the time and hired Willy. He came over on the Mariel boat lift. I changed my mind about Cubans then. Cubans are my friends. Yea they F*** up my vacation, but I respect them for what they went through.
What? whatever do you mean?
I have one thing to say to you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1sS1TmXF38
Scrubs germs clean.
BIW
Sweet!!!!!!!
hahaha you all suck! I just hadto come back for one little looky poo before i went to bed and did I click? oh yeah baby
I think some of the reactions here have been a bit extreme: this fellow has not, as yet, been accused of anything more than trafficking in child pornography. I think calls for his unseemly Dairy-Queen-type death are going to far.
Permanent blindness would be a perfectly adequate Solomonesque solution.
Q. Why is Bart always trying to push the limits of gay video?
geoff,
I considered your point as well…that, at least to the best of our knowledge, he did not engage in the physical acts themselves…but I have a difficult time cutting him any slack because of that.
To begin with, since we’re not talking court-of-law burden-of-proof here, it seems entirely possible, if not probable, that at some point this sickness manifested itself in the real world and not just on the computer screen.
This is just my personal opinion but I think if you find kids sexually attractive in the first place, there’s likely to be little in the way of strictures of morality or law that would stop a predator from molesting a child should the opportunity present itself.
I didn’t include this in my post but this subhuman had four kids which of course would have provided him innumerable opportunities to be around other kids.
It’s not a stretch in my mind to consider child molesters as terrorists and those that traffic in kiddie porn as enablers, supporters and providers of shelter to those terrorists.
Seems to me that an awful lot of convicted rapists, murders and child molesters were sexually abused as kids themselves. And rapists, murderers and child molesters do more harm to our society than al-Qaeda or radical Islam generally.
I would be okay with him being permanently blinded as well but I don’t think the harshest punishments in court, the prison shower or hell are too extreme.
In all other matters of crime and punishment I think gray is a necessity. When it comes to the sexual abuse of kids, I’m okay with black and white.
San Antonio? So close! Yet so far
Am I a bad person if I thought that chihuahua video is cute and just perfect for introducing youngsters to nauseating ethnic stereotypes?
No.
Q. Why is Bart always trying to push the limits of gay video?
A: That’s how Bart rolls.
/thread
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P.S. What you got against chihuauas, anyway, geoff?
/thread