Good question. Everyone here would presume that MSNBC left Donohue's bizarre comments in. "You have to be quiet when an Irishman speaks"? What is that? "You want to take it outside"? Really?

Why indeed Noel.

I for one can't figure this one out....strange to me for msnbc to do this...they thrive on this type of stuff.

Maybe because Donohue spoke for millions of us...not that that many people watch the network or the show...lol....

Btw...just as an aside...I have had nothing but admiration for Donohue.

Hitchens hates religion, and it shows. What better way to insult Catholics
than to denigrate one of their most revered icons? On the night she
died, on NPR's "All Things Considered", Hitchens criticized Mother Teresa's enthusiasm for the dignity of
poverty as "Middle Age theology, a destructive comfort to keep people
poor, rather than give them the means or inspiration to rise up"

(quoted from Brent Bozell's report at the time).

And for some reason, he thinks it's relevant that all the awards Mother Teresa received meant nothing to her. So let's see...she won awards, but she said they were worthless to her....meaning what, Mr. Hitchens? That Donohue shouldn't mention that world opinion of her was very high, because she didn't care about it?

Oh, I get it now. That's exactly his point. If she didn't care for the world's opinion of her, Donohue shouldn't be allowed to use it as measure of her stature. He thinks because Mother Teresa didn't want fame, we should give her her way and just forget about her.

Hitchens comes off as a hateful snob, who thinks just because he spouts his venom with a high-class British accent, it's crass to dispute him.

You have to understand liberals in being bullies and quite brave when it is hulking Bill Clinton tackling Dick Morris, but let Matthews do more than verbal spit at Michele Malkin who could probably take Matthews......it is a different story.

Liberals like beating on people when they have the numbers. It is why Nazi (national socialists) always do it in mass like Muslims always attack in mass in the Middle East as they are not brave enough to do it alone.

This is key, because Liberals like Olberman know in "civilized" society they can get away with being rude like a number of bloggers pull all the time. The last thing they want is to really meet someone who will take it outside.

Just imagine if people like Donohue sparked a trend where Liberals anchors were getting slugged for mouthing off. Imagine Dick Cheney popping that dope Pat Leahy for spouting off to him.

Liberals have so "civlized" society so they can get away with being uncivilized. Remember the good old days when Irish cops used to use their sticks beating the bajesus out of criminals in New York...crime was low. Remember on the floor of Congress during the Civil War a representative almost beat another to death with his walking stick..........that was polite society and the last thing these loud mouth Liberals want is a trend starting where they get hauled outside and their clocks cleaned.

Now I might buy an extra six pack for the night librarian marm Laura Bush throws down and pounds the stuffing out of Katie Couric, but Liberals would be terrified of it.

That is why they leave it out as they control the game and are treading water doing it.........I would though love to see Donohue bust a few chops. Those Irishmen are long overdue for venting a little steam in all the crap they have been taking.

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I just took the time to watch the video. It was worse than I expected.

First of all, Chrissie Matthews starts off with "Mother Teresa, a story
of sainthood, or of scandal?" I guess it's a scandal that she had
doubts...real saints don't have doubts, right? The left will now jump on these
letters as "proof" that...what? That she was human? That her faith
sometimes faltered? Big fat deal. Every person of faith goes through periods
"in the desert" when it all seems to dry up, and God seems so far
away.

Hitchens was despicable. He referred to Donohue's "so-called
faith," among other things. He was gleeful, that he thinks he has now
proven, with Mother Teresa's agreement, that there is no God. Oh, yeah, Chris
you got us on that one.

In typical liberal fashion, Hitchens thinks that if you can't
"feel" something, it isnt' true. He cites Mother Teresa's confession
that she couldn't "feel" Christ in the Eucharist. I am a
Catholic....I don't "feel" Christ's presence in the Eucharist; I
don't get a warm "glow" when I partake of communion. But I know He is
there. How? Because He said so. And he cannot lie. Faith based on proof is not
faith. And faith based on emotions, or what one "feels" is no
lasting. Look at all the people at those evangelical gatherings...waving and
crying and singing....how long do you think that emotion lasts when they leave
there? Real life intervenes. And real faith, is an act of will, not an act of
feeling. So is real love.

As for the feeling she expressed about her tongue moving but no prayer comes
forth, which Hitchens also cited as proof that she stopped believing: Nice try,
Chris, but God knows that too. As St. Paul
tells us, when we are dried up and have no words, and don't know how to pray,
the Holy Spirit prays for us, in unintelligible (to us) groanings, to the
Father. God knows we are human, and we fail, and we are not always strong in
our faith. But the reward is to the one who perseveres.

Mother Teresa was a human who struggled in her faith, but always kept going
forward with what she knew was God's work, and apparently trusted that God
would stay with her, even if she couldn't "feel" Him, until the end.
For Hitchens to say that she was an unbeliever who was exploited to her last
day by the Catholic Church is the most despicable thing I have ever heard him
say.

Shut up, Mr. Hitchens. Just. Shut. Up.

There! I feel better now.

Father why have you forsaken me... Question the faith! is the strength.

A Catholic and an Irishman! The cliches weren't far behind.

Mother Teresa did intmate what Hitchens said. As recent history has shown, Catholics are great at defending rascals.

I'm not much of a fan of institutionalized religion. They tend to be more about proping up heros and sanctuaries than in building on faith.

Like it or not Hitchens is one of the strongest voices on TV supporting the War on Terror and in Iraq...he has the guts to say things to the Chrissy Matthews of the MSM that most on the Right for some reason are afraid to..so I for one am willing to give him a break on some of his more extreme postitions on religion.

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