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Bernie Ward Sentenced to 7 years +

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oaktree

KGO Radio's "Lion of the Left," former priest and late night talk show host, Bernie Ward, has been sentenced in Federal court to prison term of seven years and three months.

The announcement was made at 11:55 a.m.

Ward pleaded guilty to one charge of child pornography receipt and distribution in the spring and the sentencing came today.

He will serve his time at the Federal minimum security prison in Lompoc in Santa Barbara County.

The 57-year-old Ward was at KGO for nearly 25 years, both in the station's news department as well as on-air nightly from 10 - 1 as well as a three hour Sunday morning talk show, "God Talk."

The liberal talker was known for participating in many charitable fundraising causes throughout the Bay Area.

Prosecutors had sought a minimum 9 year term for Ward. He had pleaded for a minimum 5 year term. He could have received 20.
 
oaktree said:
The liberal talker was known for participating in many charitable fundraising causes throughout the Bay Area.
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The fact that he's liberal has little to no bearing on the incident. We can all think of rightwing conservatives who have done the same or worse, everything from televangelists caught buying whores at roadside motels to fundamentalist congressmen cruising public toilets.
 
DavidKaye said:
oaktree said:
The liberal talker was known for participating in many charitable fundraising causes throughout the Bay Area.
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The fact that he's liberal has little to no bearing on the incident. We can all think of rightwing conservatives who have done the same or worse, everything from televangelists caught buying whores at roadside motels to fundamentalist congressmen cruising public toilets.
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...I suspect you'll want to come up with better examples than prostitution or public sex to compare with the rape of children...
 
Ultimajock said:
DavidKaye said:
oaktree said:
The liberal talker was known for participating in many charitable fundraising causes throughout the Bay Area.
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The fact that he's liberal has little to no bearing on the incident. We can all think of rightwing conservatives who have done the same or worse, everything from televangelists caught buying whores at roadside motels to fundamentalist congressmen cruising public toilets.
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...I suspect you'll want to come up with better examples than prostitution or public sex to compare with the rape of children...
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Since when is the possession of child pornography the same as raping children? I'm not saying that possessing child pornography is right. (it's illegal....duh), but Bernie wasn't convicted of raping children.
 
Michael Rivers Kramer said:
Ultimajock said:
DavidKaye said:
oaktree said:
The liberal talker was known for participating in many charitable fundraising causes throughout the Bay Area.
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The fact that he's liberal has little to no bearing on the incident. We can all think of rightwing conservatives who have done the same or worse, everything from televangelists caught buying whores at roadside motels to fundamentalist congressmen cruising public toilets.
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...I suspect you'll want to come up with better examples than prostitution or public sex to compare with the rape of children...
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Since when is the possession of child pornography the same as raping children? I'm not saying that possessing child pornography is right. (it's illegal....duh), but Bernie wasn't convicted of raping children.
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...the rape of the children involved is the very basis of the existence of the porn...
 
One more time for the hearing-impaired, Ultima. Bernie was convicted of a very serious charge...but he was NOT convicted of raping children. There was no such allegation. Period.
 
talkjim said:
One more time for the hearing-impaired, Ultima. Bernie was convicted of a very serious charge...but he was NOT convicted of raping children. There was no such allegation. Period.
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...I never said Bernie raped the kids. Rape of children clearly was involved in the process. That still puts it at a much stronger level than the sexual hypocricy of Jimmy Swaggart and Larry Craig, neither of which (last I checked) had to do a second of prison time for their violations of law. Better comparisons would have been Jim Bakker and Lyndon LaRouche, who not only did time but also were in the same prison (Stillwater in Minnesota)...
 
The sad reality in the end is with Bernie's family.
 
Bernie's in jail for 7 years and 3 months while all these "BRAIN DEAD PARENTS" that allow "THEIR CHILDREN" to "ROAST ALIVE" in the back seat of their cars and SUV's time and time again all over the country get nothing for their crimes against their children. As far as I'm concerned they "MURDERED THEIR CHILDREN!" The Perfect Crime! Now thats "REALLY" sad! Society has got its priorties all ffffed up!
 
You remind me of the "CHRIS FARLEY CHARACTER" that "PUTS EVERYTHING IN FINGER QUOTES" "WHEN HE IS TALKING".
 
lol lol You crack me up. Thats it attack the poster. I guess I was a little strong, but it just boils my blood when these people get away with killing their kids, because there is no excuse for forgetting your children in the car. How would you like to roast in the back of a car because your parents are too stupid to remember where you are?
 
RadioStarOne said:
lol lol You crack me up. Thats it attack the poster. I guess I was a little strong, but it just boils my blood when these people get away with killing their kids, because there is no excuse for forgetting your children in the car. How would you like to roast in the back of a car because your parents are too stupid to remember where you are?
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I know I'm stating the obvious here, but what do crimes committed by other people (whatever they are) have to do with what Bernie did? Sure, there are much worse things that people have done (just ask OJ), but as a society we have to go WAY out of our way to protect our children (especially these days). So lets not veer off course with this; the point is Bernie did something very bad and now has to pay the price. The reason kiddie porn exisits at all is because people like Bernie want it.
 
That's It Mike, start defending the brain dead parents and society for not locking them up where they belong! Those parents sure didn't go "way out of their ways to protect their children" and society isn't doing a thing for them either! Why don't you tell that to the roasted children in all those cars and suv's. You must not have any children.
 
"That's It Mike, start defending the brain dead parents and society for not locking them up where they belong!"

Mike did no such thing--he actually did a very intelligently-written post. Too often on these boards, the subject of a thread gets subtly (or not so subtly) changed. No one with two brain cells rubbing together would defend parents who leave their kids in hot car, but it is NOT the subject of this thread.

Time to settle down and take a breath, Star.
 
Sorry, wasn't attacking the poster at all. I thought your post was brilliant.

Uhh, it was shtick, right?
 
Newsperson responds:

It's easy for people to change the facts of a crime which is what has happened on this posting. Yes he pleaded guilty to one count and wow what a sentence!

KGO-TV Channel 7 has done everything possible to fry Bernie Ward. First they explained that KGO Radio is a different company from KGO-TV and Dan Noyes has uncovered every stone. It's all about the ratings in TV and having any compassion for a former ABC employee is out of the question.

From a reporting point of view, Dan Noyes has done a good job. In fact in a recent story, they showed that Bernie had confided to a friend about his problem on the internet and that friend turned him into the FBI. Wow with a friend like that who needs enemies?

A deal had been worked out for Bernie to enter a plea a couple of months ago with the understanding that the sentence would be delayed until now. Kenny, because he had not been a flight risk and he has an ankle bracelet, they allowed him one final night of freedom.

Back to Dan Noyes; the woman in the central valley who first turned him in was certainly put on a pedestal and so was another woman from Sonoma or Marin County who Bernie dated 20 plus years ago.

Was Dan Noyes reporting objective? Or did he just go for the guts and the ratings of the story?

I will look for your replies.

Newsperson
 
Dan Noyes is great at channel 7, he blasted MUNI on the rude bus drivers, and got the tapes muni didnt want us too see! Its guys like Dan Noyes and Michael savage who "Give it 100%" to insure the news junkies like myself get the whole story ,not something watered down like the SF Chronic&*!!!!!!!!!!!If you read these Dan , great work, Bernie got just what he had coming! he got what the law allowed! Kenny in Concord
 
Can't comment on the Bernie coverage, but my experiences with Dan Noyes have been less than stellar...Pompous Ass is the term that comes to mind.
 
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