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Why was Andrew Greeley Op-Ed thread pulled?

Posted on 06/11/2004 6:27:32 AM PDT by aragona

This was a worthy thread.

--aragona


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1 posted on 06/11/2004 6:27:33 AM PDT by aragona
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To: aragona

The article is the worst sort of vile spew, but I agree with you that people should read it to clearly see and understand the depth of evil that resides on the other side.

www.realclearpolitics.com is running it as a featured piece with a special request to readers to reply to Greeley's editor...something I took the time to do.

-Toonces


2 posted on 06/11/2004 6:32:57 AM PDT by Toonces T. Cat (The Token Republican in Deep South Texas...)
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To: aragona
Becaues it was just anti protestan bigotry by this so called priest. He very explicitly compared Hitler and German Naziism to American Protestant Fundamentalism.

So9

3 posted on 06/11/2004 6:33:47 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
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To: Toonces T. Cat

I can't find it on RCP...where is it?


4 posted on 06/11/2004 6:34:52 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: aragona

We really don't need to read that kind of trash on a day like today. We know what how trashy people on the left are. I really don't need to see the millionth example.


5 posted on 06/11/2004 6:35:39 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Toonces T. Cat

I found it under 'do me a favor'.


6 posted on 06/11/2004 6:36:22 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: aragona
Priest smarter than Fr. Andrew Greeley:

:)

7 posted on 06/11/2004 6:36:52 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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To: aragona
Let's see:

Hitler did the following:

Instituted gun control
Nationalized industries
Thought the wealthy were evil
Banned free speech and freedom of the press
Did not debate his enemies but destroyed them
Believed that all loyalty should go to the state
That religion and the church was for fools
That people should be judged on how they look and not on merit or achievement
Fully supported abortion, euthenasia and sterilization etc.

Now which party or presidential candidate does that sound like?????
8 posted on 06/11/2004 6:37:31 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: aragona

"Can this model be useful to understand how contemporary America is engaged in a criminally unjust war that has turned much of the world against it, a war in which torture and murder have become routine?"

Anyone making such baseless accusations and comparing the present administration to the Nazis is not worthwhile.

Greeley is a Catholic priest, Professor of Sociology, and raving lunatic leftist.


9 posted on 06/11/2004 6:37:48 AM PDT by Max Combined
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To: Dudoight

http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel11.html


10 posted on 06/11/2004 6:38:47 AM PDT by Max Combined
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To: Max Combined
Greeley is a Catholic priest, Professor of Sociology, and raving lunatic leftist.

And a writer of soft porn.

11 posted on 06/11/2004 6:39:53 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Latine loqui coactus sum)
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To: aragona
This was a worthy thread.

Worthy of what. Comparisons to the US to NAZI Germany isn't worthy of anything. There is not one ounce of intellectual honesty in such a looney comparison. I guess you could wipe yourself with the paper it was printed on.

12 posted on 06/11/2004 6:40:25 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: 2banana

A - the junior Senator of New York State?


13 posted on 06/11/2004 6:43:31 AM PDT by saveliberty (Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
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To: Toonces T. Cat

The Nazi namecalling is a bankrupt argument. Unfortunately, there are those who vote democrat who are very susceptible to emotionally charged rhetoric.


14 posted on 06/11/2004 6:50:18 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Vote Kerry if you want to commit national suicide)
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To: Always Right

"Worthy of what."

The piece is a direct campaign prop for Kerry if you read it all the way through. I agree that Greeley is among the most whacked out of the leftists. I also believe, however, that it is critical that when these cranks expose themselves like this that the world gets to see it.

Joe average American is not an idiot and deserves to see what sort of support John Kerry is getting...The truth will set them free.

-Toonces


15 posted on 06/11/2004 6:50:33 AM PDT by Toonces T. Cat (The Token Republican in Deep South Texas...)
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To: 2banana
Now which party or presidential candidate does that sound like?????

Lemme guess.... Democrats, John F'n Kerry. What do I win?

16 posted on 06/11/2004 6:51:28 AM PDT by b4its2late (According to my calculations, the problem doesn't exist.)
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To: 2banana

Well, AFAIK, Hitler never was in favor of :

- abortion (he stated was the patriotic duty of every German woman was to have babies for Germany)

- nationalization (he was well-funded by German industrialists and not even weapon manufacturers were nationalized, hence Porsche made the Panther tanks, Messerschmidt the planes, etc)

- wealthy men (part of which gave him money)

- promoting people because of their look and not their merits (there were as many cases of promotion for yes-men as there were for competent leaders. In the military, think about Rommel or von Manstein, for example)



17 posted on 06/11/2004 6:52:23 AM PDT by Atlantic Friend (Cursum Perficio)
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To: aragona

OK, you have over a dozen a comments and you have not stated what was so 'worthy' about the article. I really have no use for people who use Hitler to seriously discuss the United States, whether it be Clinton or Bush as President. The arguement is just bankrupt rhetoric at its worst.


18 posted on 06/11/2004 6:53:11 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: aragona

There was nothing worthy about the read and you should be ashamed for posting this crap on this Friday of Pres Reagan's Memorial Service.

Obviously a Conservative Republican would not have posted this kind of nonsense!


19 posted on 06/11/2004 6:54:52 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04 -- Losing is not an Option! Win One for the Gipper!)
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To: Atlantic Friend

Given his interest in eugenics, I bet Hitler would happily have supported abortion for imperfect/disabled babies.


20 posted on 06/11/2004 6:55:04 AM PDT by Sloth (We cannot defeat foreign enemies of the Constitution if we yield to the domestic ones.)
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