{"id":184691,"date":"2012-02-13T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/13\/cry-me-a-river\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T00:38:00","slug":"cry-me-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/13\/cry-me-a-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Cry Me a River"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That is not the real Pope<\/i><\/div>\n

Ok, because Natalie, my daughter, insisted on watching the Grammys, so I saw Niki Minaj’s The Exorcist<\/i> inspired bit.<\/p>\n

My reactions was, “WTF?”<\/p>\n

But professional victim, pedophilia apologist, and talented amateur bigot, Catholic League president Bill Donohue predictably blew a gasket<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In what should come as zero surprise to anyone who watched Nicki Minaj attempt to reenact \u201cThe Exorcism of Emily Rose\u201d during her performance at Sunday\u2019s Grammy Awards, the Catholic League has issued a statement condemning the actions of the \u201cSuperbass\u201d star.<\/p>\n

As predicted by our own Maura Judkis, the faith-based organization whipped up an angry news release written by Catholic League president Bill Donohue as a response to Minaj\u2019s rendition of her song \u201cRoman Holiday.\u201d Donohue mocked Minaj but primarily blamed the Recording Academy for allowing the number to air, a notable fact given that the executive producer of the Grammys and Minaj have told conflicting stories about how the performance got approved. More on that in a moment. First, the angry press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, this improves my opinion of Minaj.<\/p>\n

There is probably a more contemptible (technically self appointed) spokesman for the Catholic Church, but none immediately come to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That is not the real Pope Ok, because Natalie, my daughter, insisted on watching the Grammys, so I saw Niki Minaj’s The Exorcist inspired bit. My reactions was, “WTF?” But professional victim, pedophilia apologist, and talented amateur bigot, Catholic League president Bill Donohue predictably blew a gasket: In what should come as zero surprise to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1051,1064,1137,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-hypocrisy","category-media","category-music","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}