Apropos of my post below where Jeff Jarvis accused the MSM of caddying for the Christian point of view on the Schiavo matter, perhaps Mr. Jarvis missed this little exchange over the weekend between that well known shill for Christianity Howard Kurtz and Michele Cottle of that bastion of Christian conservatism The New Republic:
[HOWARD] KURTZ: Michelle Cottle, has the press ridiculed, or maybe I should say marginalized, religious people who believed the Terri Schiavo must be kept alive as a matter of Christian morality?(HT: Michelle Malkin)COTTLE: Well, it’s not that they get out there and make fun of them. It’s just you come with a ready-made kind of visual here. You have people on the streets praying. They’re, you have very dramatic and even melodramatic protests and things like this.
These people are very easy to kind of just poke fun at without even saying anything. You just kind of show these people. And the majority of Americans who don’t get out there and do this kind of, you know, really dramatic displays feel a little bit uncomfortable on that level.
Oh those comical Christians! Given that until recently, Christians were almost without exception portrayed by Hollywood and the rest of the cultural elites as evil, hypocritical, rabid dogs who go into trances and do strange things like pray in public and exhibit kindness to others, it’s a wonder we haven’t clapped these poor unfortunates into irons and sent them off to live in some re-education camp. And while this attitude is changing slowly with the advent of a few TV dramas where God is a central part of the plot and Christians are actually portrayed in a positive light, it doesn’t change the fact that in the newsrooms of the country, they are still objects of derision.
Malkin draws the obvious conclusion:
Oh, and if Cottle is willing to be this honest on national TV about her discomfort with people praying on the street, can you imagine what her colleagues in newsrooms and control rooms across the country are saying about “these people?”
We can imagine it because we see it all the time.
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“THESE PEOPLE:” THE MSM’S RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY
Over the weekend, I wondered why the mainstream media was ignoring some amazing stories of pro-life activists and evangelical disabled advocates who have been peacefully keeping vigil outside Terri Schiavo’s hospice. Michelle Cottle of The New Republi…
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Captain Emeritus of Lolly-Gaggers
Today’s dose of NIF - daily News, Interesting & Funny … pray for Terri!
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It is rare to find an intellectual of Michelle Cottle’s depth who is also a gifted wordsmith. Where do we find such people?
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Same place all New Republic writers come from…the pristine halls of academic journalism.
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MSM’s bigotry toward the disabled
Was skimming news this morning in the blogosphere and came across Michelle’s very revealing piece about how many activists REALLY ARE in Pinellas Park.
There are pictures of these people up, there are a lot of them. It’s disgusting to me that the…
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With reference to Cottle’s comments … She was poking fun more at the silly christian wailers than the silly disabled christian wailers. You see, each wails for a different reason.
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Al:
First off: Get stuffed.
Second, I’m suprised you show so little compassion for your fellow handicapped citizens. Maybe it’s because being born without a brain, such as you were, it makes it hard to feel anything at all.
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