No More Mr. Nice Guy!

WT-Priest-F?

I can't believe I'm only hearing about this now. Well, on second thoughts, I can believe it. The "liberal media" will always carry water and cover up for extreme-right politicians, and build a wall of silence around their "WTF" activities and associations.

It's bad enough that Rudy Giuliani promoted his personal chauffeur to Police Commissioner of New York, and nearly foisted him on all of us as head of Heimat Security, despite mob ties and a record of personal corruption and sleaziness that would make a sewer rat blush. But can you believe Giuliani is sheltering and handsomely paying a pedophile priest?

Giuliani employs his childhood friend Monsignor Alan Placa as a consultant at Giuliani Partners despite a 2003 Suffolk County, N.Y., grand jury report that accuses Placa of sexually abusing children, as well as helping cover up the sexual abuse of children by other priests. Placa, who was part of a three-person team that handled allegations of abuse by clergy for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, is referred to as Priest F in the grand jury report. The report summarizes the testimony of multiple alleged victims of Priest F, and then notes, "Ironically, Priest F would later become instrumental in the development of Diocesan policy in response to allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests."

The grand jury report stated that "Priest F was cautious, but relentless in his pursuit of victims." Placa, a boyhood friend of Giuliani's, has been on the payroll of his crony-corporatist outfit, Giuliani Partners, since 2002, though he apparently does not do any actual work.

Jeez! Is this story ever going to be aired in the "liberal media"? And if so, will Placa get moved to a different rethug presidential campaign? Or perhaps to the Carlyle Group?