Just remember how much coverage Rush got for far, far less charges...

Never heard of this guy. 

Bernie Ward’s possessing and distributing child pornography is not news as far as the MSM is concerned, and I very much doubt that it will receive any significant attention in the MSM. If you are a leftist or liberal, pedophilia is perfectly acceptable but one should be discreet about practicing pedophilia (sort of like picking one’s nose). This is not to say that pedophilia is not news categorically. In this “post modern” world morality, at least among Leftist and Liberals, who control the MSM, is relative, not absolute. Accordingly adultery, sodomy, pedophilia, and essentially all manner of fornication are acceptable among Leftist and liberals, but not among Republicans or conservatives. Therefore these are not sins as far as Leftist and liberals are concerned – though I understand that some impure Leftists and liberals do not like it when their spouse engages in some of these practices on the side – and thus not newsworthy. However, where Republicans and conservatives are involved, these traditionally aberrant sexual practices are sins and thus are newsworthy.

This is all very interesting, because in this day and age, when liberals are always on the lookout for violators of [their] Politically Correctness, one of the primary infractions is discrimination. But OMG, why lookie there! When you begin to examine the moral filters of Leftist and Liberals, you stumble upon a whole world of discrimination (and hypocrisy).

By the way, how can I say that pedophilia is perfectly acceptable for Leftists and Liberals? Because if they were outraged, we would hear about it, as we always do when they are outraged. But do not count on it in Bernie Ward’s case.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

It may get some coverage...but I imagine much of the media will highlight the fact that Ward is an ex-Priest and ignore that he's a left-wing lightning rod on talk radio.

If you go to enough Left-wing sites and the subject of Rush Limbaugh comes up...it won't be too long before some commentators will start throwing phony charges that Rush is involved in child sex in Thailand or something like that..but here you have a real Radio personality involved in that crap and you don't hear a peep out of them outside of trying to suggest it's because he's a former Priest and downplay him being a Liberal.

"How do you know when Hillary Clinton is lying?".."When She opens her mouth to talk."Neal Boort

If any of you have ever heard Ward's show (diatribe, rant, harangue) you would have no problem believing the worst.

I'd catch him occasionally when I lived in Silicon Valley and lost a couple of Blaupunks(?) bashed into my dashboard.

Of course, this is the land of Boxer, Eshoo, Pelosi, Migden, Dellums, Feinstein, Newsome, Alioto, Berkeley etc. They loved him.

The guy left a slime trail behind him wherever he went.

Life at Corocran or  Folsom are wa-a-a-ay too good for this despicable degenerate. Well, maybe not - not if he was released into the general pop - there is a certain kind of justice behind the walls for sub-humans like Bernie Ward.

He is richly deserving of every bad thing coming his way.

You'll notice the MSM only reports negatively on pedophilia if there are "special" circumstances.

If it's a 10 yr old giving birth to the child of a 37 yr old Illegal alien, don't count on it.  Same for Liberal commentators.

Let's see, when would the MSM report on pedophilia? Hmmmm. 

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From the Channel 7 site:

"Schwab says they smoked marijuana and drank. Then, Father Bernie
began pressing her for intimate details of the sex life with her
boyfriend.

"Every time I tried to bring the conversation
around to something that made me feel safer, Bernie would bring it back
to the sex," says Schwab.

Schwab says she grew very uncomfortable and when Ward put his hand on her shoulder, she froze with fear.

"And he took that same hand and grabbed the back of my head and pulled
me to him and stuck his tongue in my mouth and held me very tightly
with the one hand behind my head and the other hand up against my
breasts," says Schwab.

Schwab says it went on for several minutes before she could push Father Bernie away, and that he scolded her.

"He said, 'I am really disappointed in you. I thought that you were mature, I thought that you were special,'" says Schwab.

The second complaint comes from another former student who tells us
that when she was 16, Ward drove her to San Francisco for a prayer
meeting. On the way back, they stopped at the Golden Gate Bridge and he
pulled out a six-pack of Heineken. She says when Father Bernie tried to
kiss her, she punched him in the stomach.

When that girl told
her parents they demanded a meeting with the principal of Cardinal
Newman at the time, Father Bill Finn. Rosanne Schwab and her parents
also came.

"With Bernie and parents and Principal Father Finn, I do recall such a meeting," says Father LaTorre

The girls' account of what happened angered Father Finn. After all, he was Bernie Ward's mentor.

Finn's brother also lived in Cardinal Newman's faculty house and he clearly recalls their conversation.

"'That damn Bernie.' I said, 'What, what with Bernie?' He says, 'He got
caught in a sex thing with this girl from Ursuline,'" recalls Tom Finn,
the principal's brother.

Father Bill Finn died eight years
ago, but the I-Team knew him well. After his tenure at Cardinal Newman,
Finn became a vocal critic of the church's handling of priests who
sexually abuse children.

"I think that it could have perhaps
addressed it in a much more expeditious fashion and I wish it had.
Perhaps we'd have a lot fewer victims out there today," said Father
Bill Finn in an interview with ABC7 back in November of 1994.

Father Finn helped with several of our investigations, including one in
1995 that ended with a prison sentence for Santa Rosa priest Gary
Timmons.

Now, Father Finn's brother says he has to speak out about Bernie Ward.

"Bill is -- one of the reasons I'm talking to you is Bill was so not a
hypocrite, that if I kept this to myself, he'd be bothering me, no
matter who it is. Bill was that way," says Tom Finn.

We don't
know for sure if Ward left the priesthood on his own or was forced out.
He served under the Society of the Precious Blood and officials at the
headquarters in Ohio tell us they checked Ward's file and found no
information about sexual misconduct.

Through his lawyer, Ward
declined to be interviewed for this report. But after speaking with
Ward, attorney Doron Weinberg sent the I-Team a letter on Monday
saying, "the allegations are completely false" ... that they "could
have a negative impact on the federal prosecution currently pending
against Mr. Ward."

Former prosecutor and ABC7 legal analyst, Dean Johnson, agrees.

"The existence of this prior conduct becomes a huge deterrent to the
defendant getting on the stand and completely hamstrings his defense
attorneys," says Johnson.

Ward's guilty plea brings some
comfort to Schwab. She says it's important for people to know that
someone who criticized the Catholic church for so long on the radio had
his own complaints of misconduct when he was a priest.

"Too
many people have gotten away with this stuff. I am trying to heal and I
think that this is good for me because I know that I am a strong person
and I know that I have a lot of courage," says Schwab.

Ward is due back in court for sentencing in August. We'll keep track of what happens and get back to you."

Here is the url for it. http://abclocal.go.c...

My question, is it that he is a "defrocked" priest with a prior history is the only reason that there is even this minimal local coverage?

I am willing to bet that yes, he has found some victims over the years. He should have been stopped decades ago.