Washington Post (blog)
04:49 PM ET, 02/13/2012
Nicki Minajs Grammy performance has angered the Catholic League
By Jen Chaney
In what should come as zero surprise to anyone who watched Nicki Minaj attempt to reenact The Exorcism of Emily Rose during her performance at Sundays Grammy Awards, the Catholic League has issued a statement condemning the actions of the Superbass star.
As predicted by our own Maura Judkis, the faith-based organization whipped up an angry news release written by Catholic League president Bill Donohue as a response to Minajs rendition of her song Roman Holiday. Donohue mocked Minaj but primarily blamed the Recording Academy for allowing the number to air, a notable fact given that the executive producer of the Grammys and Minaj have told conflicting stories about how the performance got approved. More on that in a moment. First, the angry press release.
So far neither the Recording Academy nor Minaj has issued a response to the Catholic Leagues open letter.
I wrote a piece here on FR regarding the performance already, so I’ll just say that I read the comments at the WaPost article, and my goodness, you can see the disdain. The libs love to flood comment sections, and they are there defending the performance on the grounds that the Catholic Church is bigoted and intolerant, so the Church and Catholics deserve it. We even have some cafeteria Catholics rear their heads saying they they are Catholic and weren’t offended in the least.