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More on Bernie Ward

The fallout continues from Bernie Ward’s arrest on child porn charges.  San Jose Mercury News: [1]

Ward’s lawyer told KGO the alleged pornography involves research Ward did more than four years ago for a book.

“He was doing research,” said Jeanette Boudreau, Ward’s business lawyer. “For him to be charged this way for what probably amounts to a technical violation of the law is a tragedy.”

Sounds like a defense we’ve heard before.

Ward, a San Francisco resident known for being a liberal firebrand, is married with four children. He left the priesthood more than two decades ago, said his friend Susan Prather, the executive director of Fresh Start, a Walnut Creek-based service organization for the homeless.

“People need to remember the good things he’s done in the community,” Prather said. “He’s a good man. I think he made a tragic mistake and I pray he’ll be exonerated. He was doing research and didn’t do anything wrong.”

And Hitler was a great guy… he made the trains run on time.

If you think the comparison is a little over the top, let’s try something little more tame, shall we?

What would happen to Rush Limbaugh, were he to make such a claim?  “Well, I was just doing research.”  You know as well as I do the outcry would be unending.  Or for that matter, Ward’s cross-town rival, Michael Savage.  If Savage were ever accused of such a crime, the man would be the newest attachment to the Golden Gate bridge.  But because this guy big mouthed liberal loon, we’re supposed to take claims that he was ‘doing research’ seriously.

Perhaps someday someone will be able to coherently explain to me how these people can come up with this glittering double standard with a straight face.  Of the time being, I just don’t see it.  But I will tell you what I do see; this being the leftist San Francisco, this guy will be on the street again, and on the air again, in about six months’ time.