I distrust anyone who attempts to portray themselves as a victim. Some people are victims, certainly, but a managed, well-researched self-presentation as such is almost always a sign of some kind of derangement. Especially when you’re one of the most powerful people in the most powerful country in the world, of course.
We have just got to get beyond this. As if, really, anyone cares what the New York Times has to say anymore anyway.
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on the other hand, the times still has quite a few influential columnists: krugman who had a nobel, brooks, and dowd is probably the most widely read of them all.
Yes, yes, of course, that statement about the Times was intemperate; really, the question is, why the Catholic Church should be upset at negative coverage in the paper of record of the City of Man. And as everyone knows, the story here is not the sex-abuse cases, but the subsequent coverup, the moving priests to parishes where they felt no one would talk, etc. Because the coverup does reveal a lot about clericalism, and the priests-protect-priests mentality.
i once heard that things which divide people get the most attention. i wonder…could it be a marketing technique to draw attention (and parishioners and donations) to the church? these days the church seems a lot like a corporation in a number ways. wasn’t it mr. mullin who told us about archbishop egan going up to st. joseph’s in yonkers and callously laying off a bunch of priests?
“the deepest bias in the history of the American people,”
i think he forgot about black people and jews
my brother told me a funny thing from chris rock the other day about why black people can allegedly say anything and get away with it:
“when you have shit, you can’t say shit. and when you say shit, you can’t have shit”
the point to this article: the catholic church is probably the largets, most powerful, longest-lived organization of modern times. it’s a contradiction of terms for such an organization to ever portray itself as a victim.
and who cares? what’s even the point? the only point i can see is that this is a political protest intended to rabble-rouse, a la tea party bullshit, in hopes of retaining the already-faithful.
how about some real insight or real guidance? …
TEA PARTY!
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