MRC's Bozell Scolds Media's Reluctance to Cover HHS Birth Control Mandate
"This time, they went too far," MRC President and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell said of the Obama administration's rule to force Catholic institutions to violate their conscience on contraception, and he scolded the media for refusing to cover the controversy at first.
"The national news media has no understanding of what goes on in the Catholic church. This is massive inside the Catholic church, and think about how long it took -- it took CBS 10 days to do a story on this and they only devoted seconds to it," Bozell argued on the February 9 edition of FNC's Hannity, during his regular "Media Mash" segment. "It took NBC and ABC 17 days to arrive at this story. This is the biggest story dealing with an assault on religious freedom in the history of the Republic."
[MP3 audio here; video and additional transcript below the fold]
Host SEAN HANNITY: We've got the health care issue going on. Now when the issue of Planned Parenthood was in the news, the media pounced on it -- you actually did a study at MRC about this -- they waited two weeks to cover Obama and his mandate on religious institutions and violating the beliefs on birth control....
MRC President BRENT BOZELL: The national news media has no understanding of what goes on in the Catholic church. This is massive inside the Catholic church, and think about how long it took -- it took CBS 10 days to do a story on this and they only devoted seconds to it. It took NBC and ABC 17 days to arrive at this story. This is the biggest story dealing with an assault on religious freedom in the history of the Republic.
HANNITY: Let me explain it to these people that don't understand in the media. This is about the First Amendment. This is about the right to practice your religion. To have the state mandate and force religious institutions, to provide a -- mandate forced by the government -- to provide coverage for either contraception or the morning-after pill, it's contrary and contradicts their values, their religious belief system. That's religious freedom. To have the government force you to do something that is the antithesis of what it is your conscience tells you to do.
BOZELL: And not only that, Sean, but this thing has been simmering for months. Cardinal-designate Dolan said to the President directly, 'You are telling us that by law we must commit a mortal sin. We can't do that.' And he tried to explain this, that you've got "Marie Antoinette" Sebelius and these people at the White House, they just think they can run roughshod over people. This time, they went too far.
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Really?
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 12:31pm.
MRC President BRENT BOZELL: ". . . This is the biggest story dealing with an assault on religious freedom in the history of the Republic."
The Mormons may beg to differ with that statement.
Do you DARE to question the expertise of Dr. Bozell?
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 1:48pm.
RESPECT HIS AUTHORITA!
Mainstream Media; Lying Media; Lamestram Media
Submitted by iamsaved on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 12:41pm.
All the more reason to marginalize the MSM/LM and boycott their shows and printed material. The message needs to be repeated over and over - "Don't Believe the Mainstram Media". Bumper stickers; billboards; sandwich boards; and any other kind of board that will drive the point home.
If something isn't done, we'll be no better off than communist Russia and their Pravda or Hitler's Germany with the Goebbels propaganda machine.
Oh. My. Gawd.
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 2:06pm.
I don't where to put this, so here it is On our local radio station's 1 PM news (I don't knwo where the feed comes from) the guy just said this was an issue that, had become personal for the president!!
Personal??? What the H is personal to him about it?
Yes, once again, we are to be impressed by the personal agony our "servant" president goes through for us.
It's a narcissistic reaction to criticism
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 3:02pm.
Obama has even got sympathetic MSMers saying that this is a dumb policy, and that irks him. He expects obedience from the Left.
Also, where's Biden? He reportedly urged Obama not to go ahead with this, but his advice was ignored.
Let's get Wrongway Joe Biden to defend the President.
Joe?
Where are you, Joe?
For the Democrats, it's all about one thing - money!
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 2:43pm.
Lost amidst all this uproar about Ears' tyrannical behavior is the ultimate motive: m-o-n-e-y. Ears and his fellow Democrats get millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood every year. They're panicking because one of their major money sources is being threatened. It's not about women's health or any other bogus excuse. It's about the cash...
Another Fake Controversey By Comrade Downgrade...
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 3:06pm.
This is so comical... That dope is going to "cave in" to pressure from the Church at the end so he can try to garner some fake credit for being "reasonable" and "open to negotiation"...
It's the oldest trick in the book... float an untenable, illogical position. If you're lucky and they're not paying attention, you can slip one by them. If not, you show what a "statesman" you are by "negotiating" a different outcome.
Pathetic.
Typical.
So very Barry.
This is just like his fake vacation in December that he fake-cancelled, before he fake un-cancelled.
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
I Called It... Fake, Fake, Fake
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 7:05pm.
This clown is so transparent. Comrade Cellophane.
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
This country needs a stronger dictator
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 3:25pm.
I want someone who can make up a RULE and enforce the thing, dammit! C'mon, Barry, show some backbone here. If you're going to rule like a dictator, then by God -- RULE. Send down an unconstitutional edict and get your minions to enforce it. It's the least you can do. Otherwise, you just come across as another flip-flop liberal. You KNOW this nation is looking for you to rule on every aspect of our lives, so don't tease us like this. Please. WE BEG YOU. You're our leader. Our inspiration. Our God. And we look to you each and every day to interpret everything for us, to tell us what to do, to let us know right from wrong.
Don't let us down. Show us you can do it. Come up with another rule -- today. Be strong -- we'll follow.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
The Ears in Chief has spoken!
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 3:27pm.
Instead of forcing religious based employers to pay for contraception and abortion (which is unconstitutional and could cost him votes) he is forcing the employers' insurance companies to pay for it...which is still unconstitutional, but since it only offends people who still care about the constitution, will cost him NO votes, as his supporters are not in that group.
I don't understand how this
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 4:06pm.
I don't understand how this man believes he can issue mandates like that. "I hereby decree that health care will be given away -- for free -- to anyone who asks for it. Big Bad insurance companies will pick up all the costs". Who gave him the power to make decisions like that? And then to willy-nilly make adjustments to those decisions? I don't believe the Constitution gives him the right to spend money from private companies, does it? Then where does he derive his dictatorial powers? Unbelievable!
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
They weren't really reluctant
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 3:49pm.
They were trying to figure out how to spin it.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Up At The White House,
Submitted by bigdaddy on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 5:12pm.
Up At The White House, Baracko Pause,
From Trying to Dictate His own Laws.
He Tried To Ram It, The Pope Said "NO",
Now He's Backpeddlin' Out The Door...
BO, BO, BO,
You Gotta GO.
BO, BO, BO,
You Gotta GOOO.
Back To Chicago,
Quick, Quick, Quick!
Your Type Of Change
Is Making Us Sick!
Birth control can play a role in plans for genocide
Submitted by ekslib on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 5:25pm.
Obama's childhood president, Suharto, used contraceptive programs to further his goal of carrying out GENOCIDE against East Timorese.
http://home.mira.net/~sp/magazine/dec96/timor.htm
Is Obama trying to reduce the number of Catholics in the US?