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British people who leave comments at THE CAFETERIA IS CLOSED insist that their media is much more repugnant than ours. This I think proves it. But our boys keep plugging away, looking to bring the big boys down and establish themselves as kings of the hill.
"Maybe it's British humor, you know, like the Standard asserting that Raztinger's first name is 'Thomas'."
They must think that your the pope.
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Thomas, you might want to spread the word on this documentary I stumbled upon. It seems like a very anti-Catholic movie, because it looks to me that it's blaming the entire Church for the sex scandal. It's a documentary, but I'm sure there are some biases. I think they're trying to blame Pope Benedict XVI, or at least trying to show that he had something to do with covering it up.
I'm not surprised. The BBC went out of its way to make the Pope responsible for the violent reaction to the Regensburg lecture, and then went out of its way to have him depicted as grovelling in response. My favourite was the headline that had him expressing his deepest respect for 'the Muslim faith'. I'm so glad a competent canon lawyer is on the case in blogland. I had a quick scan of the document myself, including reading the bits that the BBC had marked out, and even I could see that it wouldn't support the case that's allegedly being made.
When you stop to think of it, much of British history stems from Henry VIII's break with Rome. Rightly or wrongly, so much has come from that split. What else can the Brits say?
Given that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor is the one enraged, I don't think it has anything to do with the reformation.
Rather, I think it is just plain media bias. Television types these days don't like anyone or any institution which threatens their desire to promote sex, materialism, relativism, consequentialism, and many other 'isms.
No surprise coming out of the BBC.
Methinks Ian Paisley draws a stipend from the Beeb. If not, he probably should.
What Salome said.
This is the same document that CBS News was touting as a "smoking gun" connecting the Vatican to sexual abuse a couple of years ago. Remember that? CBS then aired a report the next night with Jeff Cavins saying how angry he was about it - though what what he was really angry about was the original misleading CBS report not the "smoking gun". Which if it really was a link would not have been more than a 2-day story pushed by lawyers suing the Church.
But was there really any doubt that the BBC hated Ratzinger anyway? I sorta took that for granted.
The story percolated to Oz yesterday. There is a free newspaper called MX, which is given out at railway stations in the city in the evening. Last night I spotted some lying about on the train. Normally the content is 'who's sleeping with whom in Hollywood'. Last night's front page headline was 'POPE SEX SHOCK'. The mind boggles.
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