Diane Sawyer 'Couldn't Believe' Santorum Challenged JFK on Separation of Church and State
In the wake of new sexual revelations concerning John F. Kennedy and a nineteen-year-old White House intern, you would think media members would shy away from putting the former president on a pedestal concerning his religious beliefs.
Yet there was ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer Monday telling George Stephanopoulos of his previous day's interview with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, "Couldn’t believe that he was going on the offensive on church and state and the separation of them against John Kennedy" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DIANE SAWYER: Which brings us, by the way, to Good Morning America anchor and host of This Week George Stephanopoulos who interviewed Rick Santorum yesterday, and I watched every minute of it, George. Couldn’t believe that he was going on the offensive on church and state and the separation of them against John Kennedy.
After Mimi Alford's book and subsequent interviews earlier in the month, one would think Sawyer wouldn't be holding JFK up as so knowledgable about religious issues - even the ones involving the separation of church and state.
On the other hand, maybe Sawyer isn't familiar with these new revelations.
According to LexisNexis, they've never been covered by her or anyone else on ABC World News.
Color me very unsurprised.
(H/T Steve Malzberg)
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One does not buck Camelot
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 9:49pm.
To people like Sawyer, JFK is a god.
Ditzan Sawyer
Submitted by P. Aaron on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 9:50pm.
Sawyer is a complete Ditz. ABC news is just a People magazine kinda thing these days.
We're NOT Stupid...
Submitted by JRobertGiles on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 10:06pm.
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Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 10:13pm.
This clip should be played EVERY single time this idiot goes on camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkAxHmlqYII
the meat of this delicious clip starts at the 6:50 mark.
Has anyone ever seen Diane
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 11:34pm.
Has anyone ever seen Diane Sawyer and Andrea Mitchell in the same room at the same time?
Just wondering.....
One has to wonder if Diane
Submitted by big.league.slider on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 4:41am.
One has to wonder if Diane Sawyer has even the slightest clue what "separation of church and state" means with regard to the US Constitution?
For Diane's benefit, here's a few quotes from JFK's 1960 speech:
".......and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all."
"......I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the first amendment's guarantees of religious liberty....."
"...... I do not intend to apologize for these views to my critics of either Catholic or Protestant faith--nor do I intend to disavow either my views or my church in order to win this election."
".......But if this election is decided on the basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being President on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser, in the eyes of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people"
Grow up Diane. At one time, you could get away with being stupid because you were cute and blonde. But now that you're old, washed-up and fat, your cluelessness is no longer tolerable.