I wonder how Sean Hannity and Chris Matthews will rationalize this...
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Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties.
The priest, Monsignor Alan Placa, a longtime friend of Giuliani and the priest who officiated at his second wedding to Donna Hanover, continues to work at Giuliani Partners in New York, to the outrage of some of his accusers and victims' groups, which have begun to protest at Giuliani campaign events.
"This man did unjust things, and he's being protected and employed and taken care of. It's not a good thing," said one of the accusers, Richard Tollner, who says Placa molested him repeatedly when he was a student at a Long Island, N.Y. Catholic boys high school in 1975.
At a campaign appearance in Milwaukee last week, Giuliani continued to defend Placa, who he described to reporters as a close friend for 39 years.
"I know the man; I know who he is, so I support him," Giuliani said. "We give some of the worst people in our society the presumption of innocence and benefit of the doubt," he said. "And, of course, I'm going to give that to one of my closest friends."
Interestingly, despite his protestations to the Religious Right that they had nothing to fear from him at the Values Voter Summit last weekend, Giuliani obviously did not impress them. However, that didn't keep the media from furthering the narrative of his front-runner status.
I don't know that a cozy relationship with a disgraced and defrocked monsignor is going to help Giuliani win more votes from those last remaining diehards in the Republican Party. That would make those in the media pushing him as the candidate look bad, wouldn't it? So what are the chances that anyone other than Brian Ross will mention it?
