Bozell and Other Leaders Protest Vicious Anti-Catholic Huffington Post Article
As Fox News is reporting, MRC president Brent Bozell organized a group of socially conservative leaders to demand that Huffington Post publisher Arianna Huffington apologize for allowing a Catholic-bashing, Santorum-bashing column to be published on her website that begins: "Many of you will be shocked to learn what our possible future president believes, who he answers to, the bloody jihads his so-called church has carried on for centuries, and its current role as the tactical arm of the North American Man-Boy Love Association."
Writer Larry Doyle added, "Unlike Christians, Santorum and his fellow Roman Catholics participate in a barbaric ritual dating back two millennia, a 'mass' in which a black-robed cleric casts a spell over some bread and wine, transfiguring it into the actual living flesh and blood of their Christ. Followers then line up to eat the Jesus meat and drink his holy blood in a cannibalistic reverie not often seen outside Cinemax." Bozell and the others replied:
When you started the Huffington Post in 2005, you opened your new Internet venture with a pledge, as quoted by Newsweek: “If you’re looking for the usual flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric....don’t bother coming to The Huffington Post.” But Larry Doyle’s recent anti-Catholic screed in the Huffington Post, The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum, is bigoted and unacceptable, and a perfect example of “flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric.” His column should be taken off your site, and you should issue an apology for ever publishing such trash.
As we stated in February of 2011, (“AOL News Has Lost Its Mind' with HuffPo Buyout”), AOL was foolish to buy the Huffpost, presuming that it would be anything less than a “hate-filled, vicious, radically left-wing rag.” Doyle’s column is the latest in a long line of such content.
In answer to online reader outrage over his distasteful column, Doyle responds that it was all a joke. Intelligent readers and the millions of faithful Catholics who come into contact with this piece don’t buy such equivocating nonsense for a minute. Bigots like Doyle think they can hurl the most contemptible insults towards Catholics ("Jesus eaters") and when called out, claim it was just a joke. What cowardice. What a double standard. If such an article was written concerning the Islamic or Jewish faith, the public outcry would be overwhelming, and rightly so. But anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable form of bigotry, and the Huffington Post is taking advantage of that bigotry for all it’s worth.
The Obama administration’s recent mandate forcing religious institutions to provide insurance which violates their most sacred teachings is the outgrowth of a media, including the HuffPost complicit in the persecution of religion. Timothy Cardinal Dolan has called this mandate an unprecedented attack on conscience.
You should be covering such attacks on religion in this country, not fomenting more persecution and bigotry.
The double standard is clear for all to see. Media outlets like the HuffPost are ignoring the attack on the religion, but promoting bigots like Doyle who despise Catholics and others who practice traditional Judeo Christian faiths. That makes you complicit in bigotry.
Withdraw Doyle’s piece from your site and issue an apology to all the millions of faithful Catholics you have deliberately offended in publishing this piece. If you choose not to, then your so called news outlet cannot be seen as anything but an anti-Catholic talking piece.
Sincerely,
L. Brent Bozell III
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The guttersnipes!
Submitted by lgeubank on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:07am.
The guttersnipes on the left will sink to any depths. They're completely immoral, amoral guttersnipes, yet they consider themselves "holier than thou" because they're tax-and-spend redistributionists.
Democrats are a bunch of nauseating, sanctimonious guttersnipes.
There are a few of us
Submitted by Soldat44 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:22am.
There are a few of us Catholics that aren't so quick to turn the other cheek. He will meet up with one of us and it ain't gonna' be pretty.
Doyle--just joking, huh?
Submitted by Meredith1966 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:37am.
That's the same excuse I get from my 7-year-old when I call him out on something. "I was just joking, Dad!". Yeah, right. Don't hide from yourself, Doyle--you made the comments, be man enough to stand behind them and accept the consequences should there be any. Don't pretend you didn't mean exactly what you wrote. For my part, I won't pretend you're anything other than a hateful, mean-spirited, anti-Catholic bigot. I'd also suggest you take 20 minutes to interview a priest and find out exactly what the Mass is all about, but that would be something akin to open-mindedness and I don't really expect that of you based on this load of liberal tolerance.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson
Who are the haters?
Submitted by feisty on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:38am.
Every election cycle the Left goes to deeper and deeper depths to spew their hatred, be it institutional, personal, etc. They hate traditional American values. They hate organized religion (crystal-clad Earth Mothers are OK), they hate principled leaders, they are progressive lunatics whose definition of equality is no personal liberty. No tolerance.
Of course, these boneheads won't apologize
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:07am.
The ignorant boneheads at the Huffington Post will not only NOT apologize, but they will also vigorously defend this trash, citing - what else? - "free speech". They'll call the critics "censors" and worse, too. Being a liberal, after all, means never having to say you're sorry...
The last refuge of the
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:18am.
The last refuge of the liberal: It's a JOKE!!
Just like Bill Maher talking about Jesus "doing magic tricks."
HAHAHAHA!! They're just joking, but you know, those religious nuts have no sense of humor!!
Utterly Disgusted
Submitted by maryerin on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:27am.
Welcome to the same kind of propaganda that fueled the Holocaust. Casting Catholics as cannibals and sub human as a joke? Don't think so. This jerk is just planting seeds of contempt in the feeble minded people that actually read his column and take it to heart. He is also trying to put a bigger divide between Catholics and other Christian Denominations at a time when we are unified in the fight against the Birth Control Mandate.
This man's article is the snake that bites at our heel but we will crush him underfoot.
Fulton J. Sheen
I am extremely disheartened,
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:57am.
I am extremely disheartened, even depressed, by the level of hate against and ridicule of the Catholic Church that is not simply tolerated, but actually accepted in this country.
It's getting so that only the faux-Catholicism of Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden is tolerated. Catholicism is fine, as long as you only talk the talk, but don't actually walk the walk. And if you do walk the walk, just don't do it in public.
Pelosi and Biden like the trappings: the Mass, probably other ceremonies, perhaps the music, but when it comes down to it, they are like seed sown on rocky ground that has no depth.
When Catholic teaching is considered "hate speech" as it is in Canada, will Pelosi and Biden stand up for the Church?
Don't count on it.
⇒ The plan is working
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:13pm.
"I don't know Him #%*#@"! We don't know whether Peter's remark included an expletive or an oath, but it seemed convenient to him at the time. But I'm sure, for the rest of his life, he shuddered every time he remembered that moment, even though his Friend, God, and Savior forgave him.
Imagine how much less the fallen-away will consider it a problem to enter the voting booths self-righteously armed with a commitment to separation of Church and state.
I'm afraid exit polling will show too many Christians will leave their faith on the other side of the curtain.
Just a joke
Submitted by Maytag on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:04pm.
Why doesn't this spineless rectum make this type of joke about muslims? He can probably get video of them chopping heads off , stoning women and gays. doing honor killings of thier own daughters. Maybe because that stuff really happens? Come on Doyle pull your panties up and be brave.
Joke my Patutti!!!!!
Submitted by dyardley on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:17pm.
Each day I'm sure I've seen the absolute lowest and vilest filth spewed by people like this. I'm a very deeply offended Catholic. I can however rest peacefully because I believe what we sow, we will eventually reap. Doyle would, i'm sure, be quite stunned at the numbers of Catholics now praying for mercy on his soul.
Someone hasn't done a bit of
Submitted by wiwf on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:33pm.
Not sure if Doyle is trolling, or just really really dumb.
You Guys Are Wtong About the Left...
Submitted by Suilbup on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:41pm.
The Left LOVES diversity. We're all free to write hate-filled screeds about the religious groups of our choice and expect the HuffPo to publish them. As long as our screeds are about Catholics or Mormons - everyone will get along just fine. It's all good as long as it's a joke.
Did you hear the one about the homosexual, the Earth-firster and the Jihadist who walked into a bar...
I'll let you read it in the HuffPo - they LOVE a good joke.
Raising the bar...
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:44pm.
I heard that it was a redneck-bitter-clinger-held crowbar that they ran into...or something like that?
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Equal opportunity?
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:42pm.
I'm sure that this smug, self-righteous, tolerance-preaching, brave, speaking-truth-to-power Huffing-and-Puffington Dumb-as-a-Post "journalist" will next be seen publicly vivisecting the practices of the Religion of Peace in a similar manner.
Right?
Any day now, I'm sure.
We'll be watching and cheering on this noble purveyor of objective truth and insight.
Should be very shortly.
Uh huh.
Still waiting....
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but
Submitted by PaleHorse on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:46pm.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this piece printed in the "comedy" section of the site? Whether you actually find it funny or not, it was clearly not a serious article. Simmer down. All this whining is really getting old.
⇒ Oh!! It's Comedy!!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:56pm.
All better now. I get it.
Got some Mohammed jokes? We'd love to hear them.
Maybe some assassination jokes? I'd be more specific, but there would likely be a knock on my door, and I don't think your brand of humor is very funny anyway.
Apparently nobody ever told you the truth about your four fathers. Scientifically speaking, only one of them really was. Hey, it's comedy!
I'm sure you're really proud of what your momma did for a living. Hey, It's comedy!!
Lighten up.
What do Muslims have to do
Submitted by PaleHorse on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 1:39pm.
What do Muslims have to do with anything? How is that relevant to the conversation at hand in any way? The guy wrote a satire piece about Catholics. I personally found it to be unfunny and distasteful, but I wouldn't feel the need to cry for an apology.
DOUBLE STANDARD
Submitted by maryerin on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 3:57pm.
The point is that there is a double standard on what religion these satirists are willing to address. I guarantee that you will never see such a satire directed at Muslims or Jews. This is how the comparison is very valid.
Fulton J. Sheen
Maryerin, that is just
Submitted by PaleHorse on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:10pm.
Maryerin, that is just untrue. Comedians mock Jews and the Jewish faith constantly. Ever heard of Larry David? Joan Rivers? Judd Apatow? Mel Brooks? Richard Lewis? Don Rickles? Adam Sandler? Sarah Silverman? John Stewart? Lewis Black? The list of comedians mocking Jews is too long to even list.
Comedians mock Muslims all the time. Ever hear of Jim Jefferies? Kat Williams? Robin Williams? Bill Connolly? Jimmy Carr? Tommy Tiernan? Jeff Dunahm? Russel Peters? Heck, even Bill Maher has some good Muslim material.
Just because you've never heard it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The claim that Christianity is singled out and is is some sort of victim is a blatant myth.
WHAT???
Submitted by sentry_99 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:16pm.
Jewish comedians mock the Jewish faith? Next you'll tell us black comedians mock black people.
Thanks for the laugh but seriously you can't be this blind.
sentry. Maryerin claimed
Submitted by PaleHorse on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:21pm.
sentry. Maryerin claimed that satirists don't mock the Jewish faith. This is false. The background of the satirist doesn't actually matter in the context of her argument. Doyle, who wrote the anti-catholic piece discussed in this thread, was raised as a Catholic.
Is he a Catholic?
Submitted by sentry_99 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:28pm.
It doesn't really matter. Maryerin's point still stands. If you think a satire of Muslims on the level of what Doyle wrote about Catholics would be published, especially on HuffPo, you are either a fool, or a liar.
You know, or should know, the type of comedy directed at Jews and Muslims is completely different from this trash and that you would defend it in anyway or Huffpo for publishing it, is pathetic.
sentry99, you said: "It
Submitted by PaleHorse on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 4:39pm.
sentry99, you said: "It doesn't really matter. Maryerin's point still stands. If you think a satire of Muslims on the level of what Doyle wrote about Catholics would be published, especially on HuffPo, you are either a fool, or a liar."
I guess you've never read or listened to Christopher Hitchens...
Link or Slink
Submitted by sentry_99 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 5:01pm.
Then we can compare the vitriol contained in either.
Not surprising you missed this, P.Horse
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 1:12pm.
Intelligent readers and the millions of faithful Catholics who come into contact with this piece don’t buy such equivocating nonsense for a minute. Bigots like Doyle think they can hurl the most contemptible insults towards Catholics ("Jesus eaters") and when called out, claim it was just a joke. What cowardice. What a double standard.
Moslms and lefties, got the hate angle all sown up...
You Didn't Build That.
upcountrywater, but that
Submitted by PaleHorse on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 1:38pm.
upcountrywater, but that statement is simply incorrect. Doyle didn't claim it was a joke only after he got called out. It was a joke from the start, hence, its original publication in the comedy section of Huffington Post.
comedy section , hate section, whatever section
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 2:01pm.
So you were.... Rolling On The Floor Laughing eh?
Same sort of funny, as the moslem treatment of Coptic Christians...
got it.
You Didn't Build That.
Actually the section that it
Submitted by PaleHorse on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 2:57pm.
Actually the section that it was posted in does matter. As I mentioned above, I found the piece to be distasteful and unfunny, but that doesn't change the fact that it was clearly intended as satire.
Says the King of Whiners....
Submitted by NC Cop on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 1:48pm.
Says the King of Whiners....
NC Cop, not sure where I
Submitted by PaleHorse on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 3:00pm.
NC Cop, not sure where I picked up that designation but I have never been offended and demanded an apology from anyone. If somebody says something I don't like, I ignore it or rebut if I feel so inclined. A lesson I learned in preschool.
But you DO offend and insult.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 12:58am.
Very very very good at pulling out the insults when you don't like something someone has said.
Yeah, insulting others then whining and filling your diaper when others insult you. You are still in preschool troll.
You're wrong, and you've been corrected.
Submitted by Mike Bratton on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 1:54pm.
The cover of "Just Kidding!!" doesn't work at all here.
--Mike
Mike Bratton, you are wrong
Submitted by PaleHorse on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 2:58pm.
Mike Bratton, you are wrong actually. The cover of Just Kidding implied somebody says something then tries to take it back after the fact as nothing more than a joke. This piece started as a joke as evidenced by its inclusion in the comedy section so your assertion doesn't hold water.
As someone who's done that professionally...
Submitted by Mike Bratton on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:06pm.
...one has to start off with humor to be taken as humor.
This didn't start off as humor.
Attempting to retrofit incendiary comments as humor doesn't work, at all, period.
--Mike
But Mike, it wasn't retrofit.
Submitted by PaleHorse on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:15pm.
But Mike, it wasn't retrofit. Just because you don't find it funny (and neither do I by the way) doesn't mean that it wasn't clearly classified as satire from the start. Your subjective taste in comedy hardly changes this fact.
And by the way, I see the Catholic Church demanding a lot of apologies recently. Before they ask for apologies, they should probably get started on the laundry list that they owe the world. I'm still waiting for an apology for the fact that anti-semitism was an official doctrine of the Catholic Church until 1964.
sure palehorse*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:44pm.
Catholics think sinning will send you to hell. Guess we should apologize for thinking that too. Come to find out, 1969, the moon is not made of cheese. The garden of Eden had Adam and Eve, but God did not send Adam and Josh, so I guess we should apologize for that too.
PaleHorse
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 5:09pm.
Antisemitic? Really. You could have fooled the Catholics like John Paul II who hid Jews during WWII.
Radical, meanwhile the
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:47am.
Radical, meanwhile the Catholic Church as an institution was actively supporting genocide in Yugoslavia. Then they helped thousands of Nazi War Criminals escape to freedom after the war through the Rat Lines. What an upstanding institution.
And yes, anti-semitism was an official doctrine of the church until 1964. Just facts.
Palehorse
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 12:12pm.
Where is this official doctrine you're speaking of?
The Church, as an institution, helped the Jews. My uncle was in Italy in WWII and saw first hand what was going on firsthand.
So you just choose to ignore
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:29pm.
So you just choose to ignore historical facts based on one man's anecdotal evidence. Seems sound. The aid provided to Nazi War criminals is an undisputed fact as is the Church's open support of Genocide in Yugoslavia.
Palehorse*
Submitted by cajun2 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 6:45pm.
Apparently, the RCC 's practice of Sanctuary has been distorted once again. Sanctuary is not "aid and abetting". It is a non political practice of the Church to offer temporary protection to those in danger. It has nothing to do with politics, crime, sin, or any other labels. It is compassion for those at risk, be it Nazi Germany, mayhem in Somalia, or illegal immigrants on the run in San Diego. It is not a practice respected by all but it is a practice available to all and has been for 2000 years.
There has been a major influx of Catholic haters here at NB recently. If you wish to spew your liberal hatred for the bearers of morals and values, please educate yourself first.
Well PalehorseIJust
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 6:50pm.
You haven't linked your sources, so in the words if The esteemed Vet, go pound sand.
That seems to be a running
Submitted by NC Cop on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 6:51pm.
That seems to be a running theme with Palehorse.
Palehorse
Submitted by cocodrie on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 12:19pm.
Your hero Present Obabble also claims to be a christian. He fits in well with those war criminals who also claimed to be christian. You can call a turd a rose all you wnat but its still a turd. You would do well to read accurate history books instead of that liberal misinformation manual you have there.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Cocodrie, not a fan of Obama.
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:29pm.
Cocodrie, not a fan of Obama. Clearly stated many times. Sweet assumption though. As for liberal information, the Yugoslavian genocide and the Rat Lines are well documented facts. You should check it out. Very disturbing information.
It wasn't funny. It wasn't meant to be funny.
Submitted by Mike Bratton on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:51am.
It merely used "funny" as a cover.
"Funny" isn't interested in overtly offending, yet the author cares nothing about the offensiveness of that article--yet another fact that makes my remarks something other than "subjective."
Christianity in general is under increased attack these days; compare the "you really should apologize for your actions" response we give to the response of world religions that, you know, determine that those who attack them should die.
--Mike
I'm eagerly awaiting his follow-up article on Islam...
Submitted by Clinkin on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:55pm.
....(sound of crickets)....coward.
Offering a Quiet Prayer
Submitted by BondPlainBond on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 1:34pm.
Offering a quiet prayer in the hope that one day soon, Larry Doyle may be fortified with the grace of the Holy Spirit and receive lasting peace in his troubled and angry soul and upon his hate-filled and enraged tongue.
Jesus meat and drink his holy blood
Submitted by CarlosS on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 1:46pm.
Nothing new here, just read John 53 - 66
Many of His own disciples could not believe that what He said was true.
Hmmm, I think Ann Barnhardt has it right.
Submitted by David Kramer on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:47pm.
It may be time for the Catholics again pick to up the blade. The Crusaders were led by priests. Our faith at the time had to take on the barbarian hordes. I guess the barbarians are calling us out again.
Ignorant Apology Ignored...
Submitted by JRobertGiles on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 5:06pm.
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http://tinyurl.com/7fnat2c
J Robert Giles
J Giles
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 5:07pm.
Your continuing promotion of your website isn't getting you any friends or followers from NB. Why don't you try contributing something besides a link, maybe someone would actually go read your blog then.
Who Knew
Submitted by Spooky48910 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:13pm.
Jack Chick writes for HuffPo. Huh.
Apparently
Submitted by Bob K on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 12:12am.
he wrote an apology/non-apology at HuffPo yesterday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-doyle/dear-catholics-i-am-heart_b_13...
In the last paragraph was this:
"I'm sorry if anybody was offended, but I really don't mind if anybody was offended."
He is also claiming it was "satire". Typical liberal escape mechanism when the public turns against them..
It was obviously satirical, but
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 12:44am.
that doesn't make it appropriate or inoffensive. Maybe if there had been just a hint of cleverness in the effort it would have mitigated the harm, but I doubt it. This was contemptible drivel oozing with malice and utterly worthless.
Jer