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Sinead O'Connor Laughs Off Pope-Killing Fantasies, Blames Own Twitter Followers

Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:00 AM Comments (23)

According to FOX News:

Irish songstress Sinead O’Connor came under fire a few weeks ago when she took to Twitter to announce that she would perform a “bloodbath” if Pope Benedict XVI visited Ireland.

“Young people of Ireland I love u’ said Sinead as she pulled the [f**king] trigger,” the artist tweeted, referencing the famous words of John Paul II, which he uttered in his 1979 pilgrimage to Ireland.

Okay, the offense meter just maxed out the scale.

But O’Connor is changing her tune, insisting that her words were all in innocent humor.

I’ll bet she is. I’ve got one word for you, Sinead: “NOT FUNNY.”

“That was just nonsense. Come on! See, that’s the trouble with Twitter, you know, people take it too seriously and they say, ‘Oh, you’re looking for attention,’ . . .

Ding! Ding! Ding!

. . . but it’s them following you and you didn’t ask them to follow you,” she told FOX411’S Pop Tarts column at amfAR’s Inspiration Gala Los Angeles, a celebration of men’s style, to benefit the Foundation’s AIDS research programs.

So . . . O’Connor is blaming her own Twitter followers for being concerned about her publicly expressing fantasies about killing the pope?

What’s with this “I didn’t ask them to follow me on Twitter” schtick? You’re a pop celeb. You create a Twitter account. You say stuff on it. You’re kinda inviting people to follow you. This is Publicity 101 in the 21st century.

“So it just got to a joke between me and my mate … I was joking about how I’d meet him at the airport with my AK but obviously I wouldn’t or couldn’t.”

Oh, of course. That explains it then. Everyone publicly jokes with their pals about murdering prominent world leaders at airports with AK-47s and creating a “bloodbath,” right? No reason anybody would think there was anything amiss there.

Yet, this isn’t the first time the outspoken rocker who has vented her ill feelings towards the Pope and openly criticized the Catholic church over its sex abuses cases involving the clergy. In 1992 she sparked outrage on “SNL” following an a cappella version of Bob Marley’s “War” when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II with the proclamation: “Fight the real enemy!”

Yeah, I remember that.

In recent months, O’Connor has also raised eyebrows with several odd remarks on her personal blog and on Twitter – ranging from her suicidal thoughts to her desperate need for a sexual partner.

Violent gun fantasies coupled with suicidal thoughts aren’t going to help one get a sexual partner—marital or otherwise.

Miss O’Connor needs serious help.

O’Connor did, however, recently delete her Twitter account.

That’s actually a good start. Stop ideating these things in public and GET HELP.

“It was quite tiring keeping up with it really,” she explained. “I had great fun though, but all things must pass. I might start it up again, you never know.”

Right.

Interestingly, the FOX News piece didn’t mention the fact that Sinead O’Connor had herself ordained as a woman priest back in the 1990s.

MORE.

What a mess.

What do you think?

 

 

Filed under benedict xvi, ireland, john paul ii, saturday night live, sinead o'connor, women priests, women's ordination

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Nothing compares to you, Mr. Akin.

How is this funny? If I were to make such a violante threat against the President or anyone, I would be put in a psych ward so fast it would make your head spin. This poor souls really needs prayers.

She is a nobody: that needs prayers

Many celebrities are just morons and but still many are mentally disturbed.  Unfortunately, the sycophants they keep around them don’t say, “Hey, that ain’t right, get some help,” or something along those lines.

Slight note: You have TWO words for her, Mr. Akin. Not one.

She is also a suicidal person. I blame the media for using a mentally unstable woman to attack our beloved Pope.

I am reminded of Matthew Archbold’s post here dated 29 April 2010 titled “Anti-Catholicism is the New Vegas,” wherein he laments the phenomenon of has-been celebs who rail against the Church in a desperate grasp for attention.  For example, Rosanne Barr’s infamous statement that parents who take their children to Mass should lose custody sounds more like the dying gasp of a thoroughly mediocre media figure than any sort of legitimate concern for children.  That’s the Faustian bargain we make with the New Media.  While it is capable of reaching billions of people, any twit with a cell phone can “tweet,” and get heard.  Whether he or she has anything to SAY that is worth hearing seems to be a secondary concern.

Prominent world leader? The Pope? Everyone is up in arms over the child abuse cover up going on at Penn state…meanwhile - this JERK and the company he is CEO of moved around and HID pedophile priests for decades and decades and decades. Paid for abortions for girls who got knocked up by priests and made the abused feel like it was their fault. Prominent? I wouldn’t walk to my SHED to see the Pope. I don’t condone killing anyone, but let’s first look and see how many lives this man and his company - the Catholic Church - have killed/hurt/damaged - be it through suicide, drug abuse - or just all around pumping out disfunctional people because they supplied them with disfunctional childhoods. DISGUSTING. But Sinead makes a crazy tweet (wow what a SHOCKER!! Sinead saying something outrageous! - imagine that! what did her followers expect? Betty Crocker recipes!?!?) - and she’s the bad one. Pathetic.

Once upon a time, there was a lovely Irish lass, with a beautiful soulful-sounding voice that could wring tears out of the most granite-like hearts for her songs about Ireland’s “Troubles.” (Take your pick, going back to the Famine.)
  Yea, that t’was “once upon a time.” It’s been no secret that she’s been a professional pope hater for the past two decades. (Did she NOT get paid for her “performance” on Saturday Night Live years back when she attacked Pope John Paul II?) Granted, SNL’s brass probably paid her while saying under under their breath, “Here’s your thirty pieces for the trouble, now git,” but all it appears now as if Sinead got her 30 pcs from 30 Rock and used it to buy an incredibly gawdforsaken PWT tatoo on her breast of all places!
  What next? Oh yes, she’ll have a new revelation of sorts, discover she’s not a woman after all and start taking testoserone treatments and one day we’ll all be reading about her sportin’ a beard to go with the ‘too. Trust me, I’ve seen a video taken of a transgender parade in a city close to my home town several years back and well, uh, mmmm, er, ahhhhh, it wasn’t a sight for sore eyes. It made them even sorer.
  Oh, I know what’s next!
  One sunny day, after, (if ever) Lindsey Lohan ever gets her act together long enough to stay out of the police blotter pages or TMZ ... she’ll suddenly fall in love with Sinead and the two will fade into celebrity oblivion once and for all. No, not a sudden self-created permanent disappearance with prejudice, but just suffer the most painful of all forms of demise to people such as these obnoxious “famous celebs,” a long, and I mean a long, way into their 80’s, 90s n’ up years ... with nary a soul in the real world asking, “Whatever happened to that Pope basher and her crowd?”
  And for such notables like O’Connor, should she decide to become a permanent Yank, I’m willing to forgive the government if Obamacare officials decide to reinstate the (understandably and deservedly) “pre-existing condition” for denying any health care, especially expensive mental health care on grounds of “WILLFUL AND DELIBERATE EMBRACE OF SHEER STUPIDITY AS A LIFESTYLE.”

You should get a Twitter account DAN. That way you can air your outrageous charges accusing anybody of any crimes you want without a second thought and leave space open on these comments sections for something actually sunbstantial and relevant to the topic at hand. Also might I recommend you actually learn about the fact behind the sex abuse scandal and what the Pope did before you go around supporting anyone’s rights to publicly air how much they’d like to kill anybody. Also it might help if you also took your crusade to other public places, corporations and institutions where this sort of thing is similarily happening at a far greater rate, or is the Catholic Church your only target because you have an axe to grind.


Yeah yeah… I know… I’m now supposedly trying to ‘divert attention’ from the failings in the Church to somewhere else, but aren’t you also trying to keep attention on the Church and away from other institutions that are more to your convenience that you can overlook them? Two can play that game, and given that you like to throw about unsubstantiated accusations that have not only been proven false a long time ago, I would imagine that’s a game you like to play. Also I’m sure you love to paint things with the broadest brush you can find. It’s much simpler than trying to stay within the lines of informed context and argument supported by facs, but looks like you prefer the loud ignorance and insignificant outrage the sound of your voice carries.

“What do you think?”


What I think is too uncharitable and scathing to be printed, basically.  I might discourse for hours upon all the many places I wish Ms. O’Connor, her ilk, and her “followers” would go, but the only one I’ll voice publicly - at present - is “away.”

Sinead O’ Conner and Dan above here need prayers and help for both creating outrage and perpetuating false infofrmation about this Pope, his staff at the Vatican.  And OUR Faith which survived pagan Rome, Germanic invasions ( recalled yesterday in the feast of St Pope Leo the Great) Islam’s worst assaults, the Protestant Revolt, the French revolution’s atheism, then Hitler and the USSR. Every possible twisiting of history, the Bible, Pius X11 blamed for the Shoah, BenedictXV1 and JP11 blamed for the sex abuse scandal, and so on. JESUS said in John 15 it would happen.And will until He comes back and sorts out the mess.

Dan, you need prayer. Too many men and women wallow in the mud and fail to look up to see the good in life. They are hellbent on pointing to all wrong in the world around them and fail to look for the good (except perhaps in themselves as judge, jury, and executioner). Look for balance in your life. You will be happier for it.

I’m sorry, but why isn’t Sinead O’Connor being observed to be put in a psych ward? She is insane, truly. She needs prayers, yes, but she also needs to be observed, honestly. I am sorry she doesn’t have any close family or friends who care enough for her to do some kind of intervention on her to “force” her to get the attention and help she obviously so desperately needs. St. Dymphna please pray for her. I am not sure, but I think it is said she threatened suicide too. Why why why isn’t she under some sort of observation?

Dan, you are a sad little man!

Sinead, Lindsey and the late Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson all have something in common. People around them who “milked” them for their share of the cash. The doctor who gave Michael J his “milk” as the star called it, without proper controls was blamed but how many others saw Michael, Lindsay, Amy and Sinead “lose it” as we say without suggesting time out for healing. I cannot judge nor know all the background, but human nature suggests greed, denial and it will work itelsf out may have been a big part of it.

She and Madonna should converse because they’re both give Catholics a bad face. I love the Irish and little old Italian ladies.

Lady GAGA was also raised Italian Catholic in Ny as was Madonna. Sarandon is Catholic also, called BXV1 a Nazi, so is/was Jay Leno. Hope Susan gets religion as she goes for her DEAD WOMAN WALKING when JESUS calls her home.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man (woman) to enter the gates of Heaven.  Nuff said…

unHolywood and all the pathetic, egotistical, and puerile imbecile “celebrities” whom Americans idolize (especially children, teens, and young adults), are all perfect examples of the Seven Deadly Sins, with the mother of all sins: PRIDE.  These robotic brain-dead humans contribute NOTHING to society except to show us how we should NOT live.  Look at Mel Gibson for goodness’ sake! If he isn’t a perfect example of how easy it is for anyone, but especially the rich and famous, to fall into the pit of self-love, which leads to death of the soul.

Even more pitiful are those in Hollywood who are/were Catholics.  Sinead is a very confused young woman.  Until she cooperates with Grace, she will continue to wallow in her own sty of narcissism.  She doesn’t need prayers—she needs an exorcism.

She is so confuses and lost, possibly seriously mentally disturbed.
She needs our prayers.

She so needs to be put into a mental hospital—and have her lose access to the internet.  She is starved for attention.  I pity her…..

“Violent gun fantasies coupled with suicidal thoughts aren’t going to help one get a sexual partner—marital or otherwise.”  This seems like commentary a commentary coming out of the Inquisitions, but I’m wondering if the writer wasn’t referring to the Pope.  I didn’t know the Pope was looking for a mate!

sister Teresa you make sense. Dan I do feel pity for you, the word that describes Jesus’ feelings as “pity” in the NT is a translation of “felt compassion.”  In large part because, as has been pointed out to you above, making absolutely false statements about the pope’s so called cover up of pedophilia. Joe A. your comment is about sixth-grade boy level at being “funny.” They all need our prayers. As the old saying goes, ” God is not finished with any of us) yet. Sister, we can follow Jesus by casting devils out of ourselves and others by prayer and fasting, as He advised his disciples. I fast from all except liquids one day a week, outside and inside Lent,am also confined to a wheel-chair for the past while. Tough job getting the Devilish spirits of resentment and desire for hitting back in my life. Taking long looks at the BEAM in my eye and trying to not see BEAMS in the others’ eyes.

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