Imagine this: A conservative congresswoman, her voice edgy with religious fervor, stands before a press corps announcing her intention to end abortion rights in her state, and alongside her appallingly theocratic claims that human life at all stages of development is of equal value, she quotes the Bible, and even pushes Catholic piety, praying for the intercession of the Lady of Guadalupe.
Can we begin to imagine the media’s reaction? She would surely be Palinized, and, if all other efforts failed, would be called a pedestrian poser, having breached the cardinal rule of public life—that is, not to mention the transcendent. Well, such a shocking thing did indeed happen today, though its origin was on the persnickety religious left, not the religious right. Nancy Pelosi, chair of the theology department at Pelosi State, today invoked St. Joseph’s intercession as she pushed for health care reform. At a news conference she claimed, incorrectly, that today is the feast of St. Joseph the Worker:
Today is the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, particularly important to Italian-Americans. It’s a day where we remember and pray to St. Joseph to benefit the workers of America, and that’s exactly what our health-care bill will do.
Aside from the fact that today’s feast is, in fact, the Solemnity of St. Joseph, a colleague pointed out to me that the feast of St. Joseph the Worker—actually on the first of May—was placed there to foil May Day, a fete wrought with Communist labor philosophies. In any case, Nancy came just inches short of dubbing the United States a “worker’s paradise.” For good measure, she highlighted her recent photo shoots with babies and young people, and gave an admiring footnote to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and their missive promoting the health care as “life-affirming.” Theocracy, theocracy, theocracy!—right?
March 20th, 2010 | 9:40 am
The media double standard is huge. I mean, it’s the Grand Canyon.
I almost never watch the MSM anymore. Last night I tuned in to check out how health care was being handled. On CBS…we were on the verge of history…on ABC, the president was fighting to end.
It made me want to throw-up. I watched less than five minutes.
There are no honest arbiters in the MSM anymore…probably haven’t been since Cronkite turned on the war. While Watergate was bad, Nixon never understood that the media rules had changed. FDR used the IRS dozens of times to “investigate” his critics…also the FBI…Nixon thought he could do some of the same things…wow, was he wrong.
Still, I have to give the MSM this…when it became evident that Johnson, Hoover, and to some degree Nixon were covering up Kennedy’s murder…instead of showing the truth…they got Nixon in their own way, in their own time.
Then, the media turned themselves into a kind of political party…they nominated both McCain and Obama.
March 20th, 2010 | 11:51 am
I remember March 19 as the Feast of St.Joseph the Worker as well. Is this a generation gap thing, maybe?
>>…the feast of St. Joseph the Worker—actually on the first of May—was placed there to foil May Day>>
When did this occur?
(not that I want to be in the position of agreeing with Pelosi. I find her use of the feast to be appalling.)
March 20th, 2010 | 6:19 pm
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March 20th, 2010 | 9:05 pm
On CBS…we were on the verge of history…on ABC, the president was fighting to end.
Darn than MSM. If it’s facts we wanted, we’d make up our own. I guess.
March 20th, 2010 | 9:42 pm
“. . . when it became evident that Johnson, Hoover and to some degree Nixon were covering up Kennedy’s murder . . . ” Anybody know what that’s supposed to mean? How ’bout it, Herman Husband?
March 21st, 2010 | 7:17 am
John C:
Guess I’m a crank on the JFK assassination; but in the last twenty years there have been some compelling books that the legacy media seem determined to down play or ignore.
Read Thompson and Hartman’s “Legacy of Secrecy”…they pretty much have the Kennedy killing figured out…and it’s an ugly story.
Hartman doesn’t connect Johnson and Nixon but credible others do…like Johnson’s personal attorney Barr McClellan…read “Blood, Money, and Politics”. This book was so hot when published that ABC’s GMA program called McClellan the night before he was to appear to cancel.
The late Katie Graham, publisher of the WaPo when told by authoritative sources within the Bobby Kennedy presidential movement of his brother’s organized murder reportedly said “So, we live in a bananna republic after all”.
The ever loyal JFK press took Watergate as an opportunity to bring down Nixon…who likely knew Kennedy’s murder was going down. On Nov. 21, 1963 he was in Dallas at a meeting with HL Hunt, Johnson, and Hoover…read Johnson’s mistress’ account “Texas in the Morning” by Madeline Brown.
Lots and lots of infomation about the politics of the sixties is now available that the MSM ignores.
March 22nd, 2010 | 8:34 am
Regarding the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1,
a quick internet search turned up that it the original Feast of St Joseph was on March 19th. The Feast of St. Joseph the Worker was established in 1955 and yes, it was a repsonse to the May Day celebrations is communist countries. March 19th became the Solemnity or Feast of St. Joseph (sources differ on this). Since the date was set on May 1 back in 1955, I would say that even if March 19th was the date Mrs. Pelosi learned as a very young girl, she is woefully behind on her knowledge of Catholic feast days as she is on other things Catholic.
I think the most infuriating thing about Mrs. Pelosi is her consistent use of Catholic teachings and piety to go against Church teachings and the bishops? It is disgusting that she used St. Joseph to push this package that would pay for abortions. Does she ever use Catholicism for the good?
Is she a heretic? Isn’t there a way to discipline a lay person who uses a public forum for such scandal? Is this grounds for excommunication?
see this link:
http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1370
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