Posted by
KsReaganite on Monday, April 21, 2008 9:14:45 PM
I thank a reader for bringing this to my attention. Over the weekend, CNN's eclectic anchroman Lou Dobbs bashed the Pope twice! Not exactly what your mother would teach you about how to welcome a guest in your home. Until recently, as I pointed out in my previous entry, public anti-Catholic prejudice had been limited to the liberal Democrats and their allied hate groups like Planned Parenthood and Moveon dot org. Not any more apparently. Seems that the hypocritical populist class represented by Lou Dobbs has taken up the cudgels where liberal Democrats and Planned Parenthood left off. It is a shame.
Not more than fifteen years ago as an undergrad I remember following Lou Dobbs' financial analysis with respect due to a defender of the free markets from the halls of business schools. Somewhere between then and now, Mr. Dobbs lost his fervor for the freedoms of the market and tilted increasingly towards the increasingly xenophobic fringe of populism. That he is a lead showman for CNN only goes to show the bizzarre eclecticism that Ted Turner encourages at the cost of true philosophical diversity amongst his journalistic underlings. Will Lou Dobbs be still on the air had he bashed the leadership of another ethnic or religious group? Probably, but after a full contrite apology like that of Howard Stern.
And that is what Catholics and the rest of Americans deserve: a full, sincere, and unconditional apology from Lou Dobbs for attacking the Pope, an honored visitor to our shores. Anti-Catholic bigotry should be no more fashionable than the anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, or anti-Black kind.