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<blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 938632" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>How to Fake a Firestorm</p><p><em>by</em> Steve M.</p><p><em>Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 11:56:53 AM EST</em></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/health/policy/obama-addresses-ire-on-health-insurance-contraception-rule.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank"><em>The New York Times</em>:</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">WASHINGTON -- Facing vocal opposition from religious leaders and an escalating political fight, the White House sought on Tuesday to ease mounting objections to a new administration rule that would require health insurance plans -- including those offered by Catholic universities and charities -- to offer birth control to women free of charge....</p><p>Please note that this is an "escalating political fight" even though polls show that <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/07/1062505/-Sorry-GOP-Poll-of-Catholics-finds-majority-supports-birth-control-coverage-" target="_blank">clear majorities of Americans -- and Catholics</a> -- support birth control coverage. The leadership of the Catholic Church is peeved, but rank-and-file Catholics aren't. So why is this a firestorm?</p><p>It's a firestorm, I think, because the American political elite teems with high-profile right-wing Catholics -- among them <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/god-and-country/2009/03/30/12-political-converts-to-catholicism--besides-newt" target="_blank">converts</a> such as Newt Gingrich, Robert Bork, Sam Brownback, Laura Ingraham, Lawrence Kudlow, and Ramesh Ponnuru. There's been a concerted effort in recent years to win influential wingers over to the Catholic Church (Father John McCloskey, a prime mover in this effort, was described in a 2002 Slate article as <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2002/08/the_rev_john_mccloskey.html" target="_blank">"The Catholic Church's K Street lobbyist"</a>); the effort seems to be the political equivalent of Scientology's focus on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Centres" target="_blank">converting famous entertainers.</a></p><p>When you combine all these wingnut Catholic converts with birth Catholics who are prominent right-wingers (William Bennett, Scalia/Thomas/Roberts), you get a Catholic-winger noise machine that can convey the sense within the Beltway that Catholics believe a certain thing when, in fact, only prominent right-wing Catholic pols and pundits believe it in great numbers. This is a great mechanism for fooling easily spooked non-right-wing Catholics such as <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/494/000025419/" target="_blank">Cokie Roberts</a> and <a href="http://www.uscatholic.org/church/contemporary-issues/2008/10/5-questions-with-ej-dionne" target="_blank">E.J. Dionne</a> -- both of whom have <a href="http://www.indeonline.com/opinion/x1393362976/Cokie-and-Steve-Roberts-Obama-s-Catholic-problem" target="_blank">engaged</a> in <a href="http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Dionne-Obama-botches-contraceptive-issue-2755888.php" target="_blank">fretful hand-wringing</a> about the terrible political misjudgment President Obama has allegedly made. Well, it really does looks like a terrible decision -- if the only Catholics you encounter regularly are your Georgetown cocktail party pals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="804brown, post: 938632, member: 29553"] How to Fake a Firestorm [I]by[/I] Steve M. [I]Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 11:56:53 AM EST[/I] [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/health/policy/obama-addresses-ire-on-health-insurance-contraception-rule.html?pagewanted=all'][I]The New York Times[/I]:[/URL] [INDENT]WASHINGTON -- Facing vocal opposition from religious leaders and an escalating political fight, the White House sought on Tuesday to ease mounting objections to a new administration rule that would require health insurance plans -- including those offered by Catholic universities and charities -- to offer birth control to women free of charge....[/INDENT] Please note that this is an "escalating political fight" even though polls show that [URL='http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/07/1062505/-Sorry-GOP-Poll-of-Catholics-finds-majority-supports-birth-control-coverage-']clear majorities of Americans -- and Catholics[/URL] -- support birth control coverage. The leadership of the Catholic Church is peeved, but rank-and-file Catholics aren't. So why is this a firestorm? It's a firestorm, I think, because the American political elite teems with high-profile right-wing Catholics -- among them [URL='http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/god-and-country/2009/03/30/12-political-converts-to-catholicism--besides-newt']converts[/URL] such as Newt Gingrich, Robert Bork, Sam Brownback, Laura Ingraham, Lawrence Kudlow, and Ramesh Ponnuru. There's been a concerted effort in recent years to win influential wingers over to the Catholic Church (Father John McCloskey, a prime mover in this effort, was described in a 2002 Slate article as [URL='http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2002/08/the_rev_john_mccloskey.html']"The Catholic Church's K Street lobbyist"[/URL]); the effort seems to be the political equivalent of Scientology's focus on [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Centres']converting famous entertainers.[/URL] When you combine all these wingnut Catholic converts with birth Catholics who are prominent right-wingers (William Bennett, Scalia/Thomas/Roberts), you get a Catholic-winger noise machine that can convey the sense within the Beltway that Catholics believe a certain thing when, in fact, only prominent right-wing Catholic pols and pundits believe it in great numbers. This is a great mechanism for fooling easily spooked non-right-wing Catholics such as [URL='http://www.nndb.com/people/494/000025419/']Cokie Roberts[/URL] and [URL='http://www.uscatholic.org/church/contemporary-issues/2008/10/5-questions-with-ej-dionne']E.J. Dionne[/URL] -- both of whom have [URL='http://www.indeonline.com/opinion/x1393362976/Cokie-and-Steve-Roberts-Obama-s-Catholic-problem']engaged[/URL] in [URL='http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Dionne-Obama-botches-contraceptive-issue-2755888.php']fretful hand-wringing[/URL] about the terrible political misjudgment President Obama has allegedly made. Well, it really does looks like a terrible decision -- if the only Catholics you encounter regularly are your Georgetown cocktail party pals. [/QUOTE]
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