Who’s ‘Fierce’ on Abortion?

CNS News ^ | October 14, 2008 | L. Brent Bozell III

[Caleb1411]

On Sunday, October 12, CBS wrapped up its “Evening News” with the apparently charming scoop that Sister Cecilia Gaudette, a 106-year-old Catholic nun living in Rome, would cast her first presidential ballot since 1952 ... for Barack Obama. That’s one more evening-news story than CBS has devoted to Obama’s radical legislative record on abortion.

Try this on for size: ABC, CBS, and NBC together have unloaded more than a thousand stories on Obama’s presidential campaign, and we’re still waiting for the first broadcast network TV story devoted to examining Obama’s abortion record.

CBS’s man in Rome, Allen Pizzey, packaged his story without the slightest interest into inquiring as to why this Catholic nun would vote for a candidate who is clearly the nation’s fervent advocate of abortion.

Instead, Pizzey chose to ... ooze. “She has a simple, old-fashioned standard for politicians,” Pizzey proclaimed, before giving the good nun the opportunity for her on-air national endorsement of Barack Obama: “A good straight man; good private life, honest and politically able to govern, of course.”

Wait a minute. Isn’t this a classic Catholic scandal story, a nun publicly defying church teaching?

This kind of story cheering a “dissident” Catholic as “old-fashioned” is a natural for Pizzey, a reporter who kicked the casket of Pope John Paul the Great in 2005, saying his rigid opposition to abortion was a “flaw” of his life: “His legacy is not without flaws. His staunch refusal to ordain women as priests and rigorous rejection of birth control, abortion and homosexuality, have alienated many.”

CBS skipped that angle. It detracts from the Obama story line.

Not only has CBS chosen – yes, chosen – to skip Obama’s abortion controversies, this network has also refused to cover the controversies surrounding Obama’s Catholic running mate, Senator Joe Biden.

He weirdly pronounced on “Meet the Press” in September that the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas could be used to confuse Catholic doctrine against abortion.

Just like his Catholic friend John Kerry, Biden couldn’t “impose” his faith on anyone: “For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.”

CBS didn’t find it newsworthy that more than a dozen bishops publicly corrected Biden for mangling Aquinas, or that the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus wrote a terrific open letter calling him out for his remarks.

As CBS and other networks touted Biden’s “working-class Catholic roots” growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, they refused even to note that the Bishop of Scranton had announced it wrong to give Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians like Biden.

CBS briefly covered Obama’s remarks to a right-to-life question at Rick Warren’s church, yet completely ignored his infamous declaration that deciding when life begins is “above my pay grade.”

They just ran the quote “I am pro-choice. I believe in Roe vs. Wade. And I come to that conclusion not because I'm pro-abortion, but because ultimately I don't think women make these decisions casually.”

For CBS, abortion has been an issue in this race only on the Republican side. CBS has described Governor Sarah Palin’s views on abortion as “fierce” several times, but would never apply that adjective to Obama or Biden.

Obama’s record is beyond “fierce.” Not only has Obama dared to support the right to a partial-birth abortion, but in the Illinois state Senate, Obama fought against a Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, designed to offer legal protections to a child who survived an abortion attempt.

In one debate in 2002, in a great spasm of ideological ardor, he argued it was acceptable for babies to be killed after they’d exited the womb, since trying to keep this tiny survivor alive “would just burden the original decision of the mother to abort the child.”

Obama wouldn’t want that gnawing tension across the dinner table: “Mom, why did you want me dead?”

This is the same Senator Obama that declared in April that he wouldn’t want his daughters to be “punished with a baby” for having premarital sex without contraceptives. CBS ignored that, too, as well as ABC. (NBC skipped it except for Tim Russert airing a clip on “Meet the Press.”)

There is apparently nothing harsh Obama can say about babies that will be considered newsworthy by Barack’s disciplined message providers in the media.

Remember all this omission when you see vapid pseudo-journalists like Jon Stewart oozing to Michelle Obama that her family has been "vetted about as much as a family can be vetted." Remember all this when the networks claim the campaign should be about “the issues.”

Obama’s been on the presidential campaign trail for 20 months, and the TV networks are still giving him a pass. At this point, it isn’t accidental, nor is it coincidental. It is deliberate.

[Caleb1411]

Obama’s been on the presidential campaign trail for 20 months, and the TV networks are still giving him a pass. At this point, it isn’t accidental, nor is it coincidental. It is deliberate.

[pray4liberty]

NO vote is worth going to Hell for. Sorry sister.

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[Adder]

“For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.”

Then you should resign, Joe and all you other Catholics because every vote you take with a moral component forces YOUR MORALITY on someone. Each time you open you big yap to talk about how its FAYERRR for the rich to be taxed more than the poo-er, you are making a judgement based on your morality and the hell with those who disagree. You are imposing your morality.

So either quit or STFU.

[Smokin' Joe]

At 106 years young, the good Sister will get to discuss this with the Lord soon enough.

[cookcounty]

Wow! On a family income of $200,000+ he gives an average of $360 a year to charity, and calls himself a “devout Catholic.”

If he were a Republican, they’d call him an iron-sphinctered scrooge.

[Campion]

Then you should resign, Joe and all you other Catholics because every vote you take with a moral component forces YOUR MORALITY on someone. Each time you open you big yap to talk about how its FAYERRR for the rich to be taxed more than the poo-er, you are making a judgement based on your morality and the hell with those who disagree. You are imposing your morality.

Bingo.

[Salvation]

Hopefully, this nun will realize that she is excommunicating herself from the Catholic Church by voting for an abortion supporter. (BTW, any dimocrat is an abortion supporter — it’s part of their party platform.)

[Salvation]

Updated: American Bishops who have spoken against Pelosi and against abortion

Here is the complete list of American bishops who have responded to Nancy Pelosi's comments so far:

1. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver was the first American bishop to respond
2. ... Bishop James Conley, his auxiliary, joined him
3. Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington DC responded twice, first in a press release and second in a statement to The Hill. He has also appeared on Fox News, I am told.
4. Cardinal Justin Regali of Philadelphia, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities, issued this statement through the USCCB website...
5. ... Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, chairman of the Committee on Doctrine, joined him
6. Cardinal Edward Egan of New York publised a strongly worded statement of his own
7. Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo issued a letter correcting Pelosi's claims
8. Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh and...
9. ... Bishop Michael Sheridan of Colorado Springs have chimed-in
10. Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio, CNA reports has added his voice ...
11. ... Bishop Oscar Cantu, his auxiliary bishop, has joined him
12. Bishop William Murphy of Rockville has published an extensive letter
13. Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa has a detailed response
14. Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas has joined the USCCB's efforts
15. Bishop Gregory Aymond of Austin is on-board
16. Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston mentions the USCCB on his blog
17. Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando has written at length
18. Archbishop John Nienstedt of Saint Paul/Minneapolis challenges Pelosi's statement
19. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the US Bishops, has weighed-in
20. Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker, OR publishes in the Catholic Sentinel
21. Bishop Jerome Listecki of La Crosse, WI responds in a word document
22. Bishop Richard Lennon of Cleveland, OH will comment in his September 5th column (PDF)
23. Bishop Ralph Nickless of Sioux City, IA has one of the very best responses I've read
24. Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco has invited Pelosi to a "conversation"
25. Bishop Glen Provost, LA: "Catholic Church clear on when human life begins"
26. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn: "Judging the Candidates"

{Last updated on September 10th.}

Notes:

• Previous #23 has been removed. Bishop Joseph Gossman of Raleigh, NC is actually the bishop emeritus, and the new bishop, Michael Burbidge has not, to my knowledge, made a personal statement.
• Previous #16 has also been removed, it was an erroneous duplication of current #13.
• #26 was added September 10th, although he published his column September 6th

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