Mike Huckabee: Media Boycotting Catholics Suing Obama 'Like Missing the Roe v. Wade Decision'
NewsBusters for days has been strongly admonishing the media for ignoring the recent lawsuit by numerous Catholic entities against the Obama administration for its contraception mandate.
Appearing on Fox & Friends Saturday, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee likened this press boycott to "not covering the 'I Have a Dream' speech by Martin Luther King in 1963. It’s like missing the Roe v. Wade decision and not thinking that’s significant. It’s like somehow missing Brown versus Board of Education" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
ALISYN CAMEROTA: 43 Catholic entities are now suing the Obama administration because of that healthcare mandate that stipulates that they have to provide contraception coverage. That seems like a big story, yet the, most of the media outlets have not covered this massive lawsuit. Why not?
MIKE HUCKABEE: It’s like not covering the “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King in 1963. It’s like missing the Roe v. Wade decision and not thinking that’s significant. It’s like somehow missing Brown versus Board of Education.
This is one of the most significant historic lawsuits in the past 100 years because what you have are the major diocese and the most significant parts of the largest Christian body in the world suing the President of the United States. That is not small potatoes.
And let’s remember, the Catholics are not historically a Republican organization, even right-leaning. Typically I think Catholics tend to vote more Democratic than Republican. So you can’t say this is some partisan effort to embarrass this president. This is the last resort by people of conviction and faith who realize that this is a government that has grossly overstepped its Constitutional authority, and it’s done exactly what the first amendment prohibited it from doing.
Huckabee of course was right about Catholics not historically being Republicans. As NewsBusters reported last Monday, recent polls find a plurality of Catholics supporting or leaning Democrat.
As for the media component, readers are advised to review NewsBusters extensive coverage of this matter:
NPR Plays Up Catholic Priest's Trial, Ignores Church's Anti-ObamaCare Lawsuit
Outrage Over 72 Hours Of Network Silence On Catholic Lawsuit Spreads To Other Christian Leaders
CBS Presses White House on Catholics' Anti-Obama Lawsuit, But No On-Air Report
Massive Religious Lawsuit Eclipsed on CNN by 'Stroller Brigade' Protest of About 100
Fury Spreads: Catholic Leaders Join MRC Outrage Over Network Silence on Catholics vs. Obama Lawsuit
Biggest Religious Lawsuit in U.S. History Launched, Liberal Evening News Shows Ignore It
Chris Matthews: Are All Catholic Bishops Republican?
(HT Mediaite)
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The MSM have a problem...
Submitted by c5then on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 11:17am.
They can't predict the outcome, they can't really influence the outcome, so they don't know how to cover the story. A real journalist would just stick to the facts and get both sides of the argument. But it's been so long since the MSM actually engaged in journalism, that they don't remember how.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
With just five months to go...
Submitted by Guapo Diablo on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 11:47am.
...the MSM is in full campaign mode to re-elect Obama and at this point they're getting desperate. This story is NOT good for the democrat party, so the Obama-loving media lapdogs will eagerly do as they've been directed and willfully bury it.
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Submitted by okie-pastor on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 11:48am.
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He's right.
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 1:01pm.
Can't add a thing beyond that.
Catholics vote Democrat
Submitted by Don L on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 3:18pm.
It's just something a practicing Catholic can no longer do -- and still be Catholic. This is no longer our immigrant parent's Democratic Party -this party of immorality, this party of hedonism, of sinful envy, of slothful victims,of family destruction, of earth worship, of pornography and deviant sex, of government control of your very conscience. This is not a good association and now they are just finding out the cost of flirting with the diabolical.
The biggest scandal was the 53% of Catholics voting for a known pro-Infanticide president and then honoring him at Notre Dame. Where were the calls from the 2/3 of the bishops who sat silent -implying there was no problem with honoring the most pro-abortion president in history at a Catholic institution?
Perhaps if the USCCB had remained as shepherds who were concerned with their Christ-given mission of salvation, instead of "social justice" led by Caesar and universal healthcare while totally ignoring the moral principle of subsidiarity...perhaps if the USCCB hadn't given millions to ACORN which helped elect the most pro-culture of death president in history..perhaps if they had properly catechized the flocks under their care.....
I agree.
Submitted by dyardley on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 10:27pm.
Very well said Don.
The most likely reasons the
Submitted by Netstatter on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:10pm.
The most likely reasons the MSM is not covering this, in my opinion:
1. The MSM want Obama to be re-elected. This story would be an embarrassment to Obama; it might even cause some people to take a deeper look at this president and thereby not support him ( what other outcome can there be?).
2. The MSM has forgotten what journalism is all about. They can't tell a real news story from a hole in the ground.
Or maybe it's both.
I'm wondering how the MSM would treat any new Middle East War, should one occur before the election. Perhaps the MSM would cover some Hollywood scandal instead. It would not surprise me.