So the Media Research Center won’t publicly criticize Ann Coulter for making an anti-Semitic tweet. Nor will the MRC chastise any conservative who bashes the Catholic Church.
How do you think the MRC will react to Coulter bashing Catholics? That’s right: stone silence.
During Pope Francis’ visit to America last week, Coulter tweeted that the Catholic Church was “largely built by pedophiles,” and claimed that the pope’s criticism of economic inequality is “why our founders (not “immigrants”!) distrusted Catholics & wouldn’t make them citizens.”
You’d think that NewsBusters blogger Dave Pierre, who reflextively defends the church against any mention of its sex scandals, would have something to say. But he, along with the rest of the MRC, are keeping their mouths zipped.
By contrast, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League — on whose board of advisers MRC chief Brent Bozell sits — approached the issue in his usual way:
What do Ann Coulter and the Westboro Baptist Church have in common? Both are obscene anti-Catholics. Indeed, they are the worst of Pope Francis’ vile critics to emerge during his visit to the United States.
Coulter tweeted last week that the Catholic Church was “largely built by pedophiles.” This is the kind of comment we might expect from the likes of Bill Maher.
No wonder these two bigots are best of friends. Coulter also tweeted, “I’m an American and this is why our founders (not ‘immigrants’) distrusted Catholics and wouldn’t make them citizens.”
If she doesn’t already belong to the Klan, they would love to have her.
Donohue is a NewsBusters blogger, but you won’t find the above commentary there (we found it at Newsmax). That language is apparently too strong for the MRC.
Heck, any criticism at all of Coulter is too strong for the MRC. Call them the Coulter Cowards.
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