DONOHUE’S SCHOOL OF JUDO
I like to catch Bill Donohue of The Catholic League when he appears on the media. I’m a Bill too, Donovan in my case, so I suppose I would have a predilection to accepting his viewpoints even if I weren’t already in agreement with most of what he says, which I am. Most recently I saw him on EWTN’s The World Over, where he was discussing his new book Secular Sabotage.
He is always ready with an explanation of what led him to hold his positions, and can pick flaws in the logic or other not-so-logical brain processes which led his opponents to theirs. It struck me watching this latest interview that he employs a formidable too of argument. When his critics accuse him or Catholics in general of doing such-and-such, he turns the table on them by pointing out that they themselves are doing the same thing, in spades. Most of the accusations directed against him seem to be on the “we know all about how you Catholics are guilty of such-and-such”, in the sense that “all my friends and liberal associates see it this way”, so it is obviously true.
