Pope Ratso I and Tom DeLay: Separated at Birth

Pope Ratso in 2002 (emphases mine):

"I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of these offences among priests is not higher than in other categories, and perhaps it is even lower."

"In the United States, there is constant news on this topic, but less than 1% of priests are guilty of acts of this type," he said. "The constant presence of these news items does not correspond to the objectivity of the information nor to the statistical objectivity of the facts.

"Therefore, one comes to the conclusion that it is intentional, manipulated, that there is a desire to discredit the Church. It is a logical and well-founded conclusion."

Tom DeLay, yesterday:

"I'm suggesting there's a left-wing syndicate. That's for sure, we've documented it..."These people are all hooked up. The same people that went after George W. Bush have just changed their focus onto me. They are running ads, they are raising money. This is pretty serious stuff,"

These are the Heroes of the Right.

(Hat tip to John Aravosis, who has dug up almost as much nasty stuff about Pope Ratso as he did about Jimmyjeff Gannonguckert.)