Liberal Talk Radio Host - Child Molester
Alleged, of course. According to The Smoking Gun he sent illicit images of children to a San Francisco dominatrix and, guess what, she told the cops.
Now, if this were a conservative talk show host everyone in the MSM would be out saying that this guy is a hypocrite and that this is incontrovertible truth that the right is morally bankrupt. But this guy is a former priest turned Bush-hater, so my guess is we won’t hear much about him in the future.
FEBRUARY 15–When radio talk show host Bernie Ward was arrested last year on child pornography charges, his lawyers downplayed the federal rap, saying that his client was merely doing research for a book when he accessed and distributed illicit images. But police reports indicate that Ward, a 56-year-old former Catholic priest, began a graphic online correspondence with a San Francisco-area dominatrix who used the name “Sexfairy” and called cops when Ward sent her a lewd digital image featuring a topless woman, a nude boy, and a young girl. According to the Oakdale Police Department reports, copies of which you’ll find below, the woman, Linda Figueiredo, informed investigators that she never told Ward of a desire to “see or hear about sexual activities among minors.” The documents note that in his 2004-05 instant message exchanges with the 33-year-old Figueiredo, Ward, using the alias “Vincentlio,” made reference “that he might be sexually abusing minors” or allowing them to “engage in sexual acts in his presence.” As first reported by San Francisco’s ABC7, armed with the explicit IM exchanges and the image received by the woman, investigators obtained a search warrant for Ward’s AOL account, which yielded other alleged photos of child pornography. Several of those images, an investigator noted, “depicted children engaged in or simulating sexual acts with adults or other children.” The minors seen in the photos were between four and 17 years old, according to a police estimate. The photographs resulted in Ward’s indictment last year on three federal felony counts. Currently free on $250,000 bail, Ward was fired last December from his job at KGO Radio, where he built a reputation as an outspoken liberal voice and harsh critic of the Bush administration.
If this guy did what he is accused of then he deserves to burn. BigT
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This guy may be “a liberal” and a pervert, but to suggest that all “liberals” are child molesters is just idiotic, and shows how desperate you are.
Comment by Mark In Irvine — February 16, 2008 @ 10:21 am
Mark,
You are the one that is desperate. At no point did I say that all liberals are child molesters. This is something your side did when the priest child molester scandal came to light (i.e. all priests are child molesters).
Should I just not report on a liberal doing anything bad? Would that make you feel better? You really need to reevaluate your belief system if your knee jerk reaction is to defend a liberal no matter what.
My two points in posting about this was that 1.) if it were a conservative talk radio host who had done this then the media and definitely everyone in the liberal blogosphere (like you) would be saying that this was emblematic of Christian conservatism and 2.) the story of the liberal talk radio host turned child molester wouldn’t get much traction for the opposite reasons.
Seems I’m right.
Rethink your positions,
T
Comment by admin — February 16, 2008 @ 10:31 am
“Should I just not report on a liberal doing anything bad? Would that make you feel better? You really need to reevaluate your belief system if your knee jerk reaction is to defend a liberal no matter what.”
I have no doubt that we can both find many “liberals” doing something bad, and many “conservatives” doing something bad. I expect that you would say that Mark Foley is not representative of Republicans or conservatives in general (and I agree, by the way). If Foley’s case is not representative, why would this instance of a so-called “liberal” doing something bad be representative? And if it is not representative of anything, how is it noteworthy?
To borrow paraphrase you: “You really need to reevaluate your belief system if your knee jerk reaction is to attack a liberal no matter what.”
Comment by Mark In Irvine — February 16, 2008 @ 11:16 am
As for your comment that “At no point did I say that all liberals are child molesters”, I recall that your RCP posting says “This just goes to prove that you can’t trust a liberal with your kid”. That comes close to saying that “all liberals are child molesters”, don’t you think?
Comment by Mark In Irvine — February 16, 2008 @ 12:03 pm