It’s where they find friends to protect them from Fox News.

Prominent Democratic Lawmakers, Lobbyists and Fundraisers to Celebrate at Media Matters – Big Journalism.

What set Limbaugh off, as below.

At the prospect that institutions associated with the Catholic Church would be required to offer to their employees health insurance covering contraception and abortifacients, the bishops, priests, and nuns scream bloody murder.

 

But they raise no objection at all to the fact that Catholic employers and corporations, large and small, owned wholly or partially by Roman Catholics will be required to do the same.

Etc., via American Catholicism’s Pact With the Devil – Ricochet.com.

Did the Leaders of the Catholic Church Make a Deal with the Redistributionist Devil? – The Rush Limbaugh Show.

Dimmycrats at heart?

These Media Matters guys know how to play hardball:

A little after 1 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2009, Karl Frisch emailed a memo to his bosses, Media Matters for America founder David Brock and president Eric Burns. In the first few lines, Frisch explained why Media Matters should launch a “Fox Fund” whose mission would be to attack the Fox News Channel.

“Simply put,” Frisch wrote, “the progressive movement is in need of an enemy. George W. Bush is gone. We really don’t have John McCain to kick around any more. Filling the lack of leadership on the right, Fox News has emerged as the central enemy and antagonist of the Obama administration, our Congressional majorities and the progressive movement as a whole.”

“We must take Fox News head-on in a well funded, presidential-style campaign to discredit and embarrass the network, making it illegitimate in the eyes of news consumers.”

Now that’s what I call winning ball games.

via Media Matters Memo | Private Investigators | Fox News Employees | The Daily Caller.

An interesting discussion of twofold execution: The hermeneutic of continuity: On the prospect of being shot and strung up.

Venting by Don Boudreaux at the NY Times-Democrat:

You think it’s heartening and good that, as you report, “Michelle Obama is on the road, campaigning and telling Americans to eat their vegetables” (“Helpings of Energy and Cheer for the Trail,” Feb. 11).

I think it’s creepy and obnoxious.

Spelling out the money issue: Insurance companies don’t print money:

They aren’t empowered to create money out of nothing the way the Federal Reserve is.

If they’re going to pay doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to provide these things then they are going to pay for them with money they got from someone else.

Who else?

Why! The very same churches, church-related organizations, and individuals who are otherwise paying.

 

 

Chicago’s Fr. Robert Barron drops a “rhetorical bomb.”

The secularist state recognizes that its principle enemy is the Church Catholic. Accordingly, it wants Catholicism off the public stage and relegated to a private realm where it cannot interfere with secularism’s totalitarian agenda. I realize that in using that particular term, I’m dropping a rhetorical bomb, but I am not doing so casually.

via Secularism’s Toll on Catholic Americans | Daily News | NCRegister.com.

They would prefer not.

Catholic bishops said that they would not support the Obama administration’s proposed compromise on a controversial rule that requires most employers to fully cover contraception in their workers’ health plans.

Yes. Are Catholic universities, hospitals etc. simply to stand by and wash their hands of what their insurance carriers are doing?

What, me worry? is to be the stupid response Obama wants them to make?

He’s a snake in the grass, trying to lead them down a primrose path. (Some metaphor, eh?)