Saturday, April 3, 2010

Media War Against The Pope — Libel And Smear

First The New York Times, then the MSNBC:
“Go to the home page of MSNBC and click on ‘World News.’ From there click on ‘Americas.’ Next click on the article, ‘Losing Their Religion? Catholicism in Turmoil.’ Scroll down and in the ‘Click for Related Content’ section there is an article entitled, ‘Pope Describes Touching Boys: I Went Too Far.’ Clicking on this piece takes the reader to an article about a homosexual German priest who had sex with males in the 1980s. It says absolutely nothing about the pope. Yet MSNBC paints Pope Benedict XVI as a child molester in the tease to the article.
Sure they'll publish a retraction sooner or later. But who is going to notice the retraction and among those who notice - how many will actually be willing to accept the truth and let go of the "I went too far" lie?

Interestingly enough, according to a little-remembered study, physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests. But why would the mainstream media want to bash schools? The Pope and the Catholic church, on the other hand - that's a different story:
Deal Hudson of InsideCatholic.com asked Bill Donohue of the Catholic League, "Why do media like the New York Times and the Washington Post hate the Catholic Church and the pope? What's the source of the animus?"

Donohue replied, "it stems from three issues: abortion, gay marriage, and women's ordination. So, when they can nail the Church on promiscuity, they love it. The goal is to weaken the moral authority of the Church so it won't be as persuasive on issues like health care."
That explains it, doesn't it?

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