NPR: Clinton Rape Claims Are Nasty 'Old News,' But Catholic Priest Abuse Charges Never Age

Newsbusters/Media Research Centre ^ | August 25, 2016 | 9:05 PM EDT | Tim Graham

[drewh]

NPR: Clinton Rape Claims Are Nasty 'Old News,' But Catholic Priest Abuse Charges Never Age

“It's important to say right up front that this isn't a story about pedophile priests,” began the NPR reporter on Wednesday night....in a story with the online headline “Catholic Church Groups Fight Bills To Revive Old Sex Abuse Cases.”

Legislators have tried to pass retroactive windows to allow a so-called “grace period” for old sexual-assault allegations. Brian Mann reported New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat, “wanted to open a one-year window -- a kind of grace period -- so that [alleged] victims who've waited too long can get a second chance to sue in civil court. New York's Catholic bishops hate this idea and spent more than $2 million lobbying to block the measure.”

The people who call their show All Things Considered didn’t consider this: what if a priest is unjustly accused? Does that ever happen? Just this week, a federal judge in St. Louis ruled for an accused priest named Xiu Hui Jiang in a defamation case against the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). District Court judge Carol Jackson ruled that SNAP defendants conspired “to obtain plaintiff’s conviction on sexual abuse charges” and that it was because of “discriminatory animus against plaintiff based on his religion, religious vocation, race, and national origin.”

And try this idea: Can we open the statute of limitations on rape allegations for Juanita Broaddrick to sue Bill Clinton? Would that seem fair?

On May 24 of this year, All Things Considered hammered the Trump campaign for suggesting the Clintons were cruel to Broaddrick. That was “nasty” mudslinging in an Instagram video, according to Mara Liasson:

MARA LIASSON: If there was any doubt that the 2016 election would be nasty, it was gone by this week when Donald Trump uploaded an Instagram video with a picture of Bill Clinton chomping a cigar and a voiceover from a woman who, in the '90s, accused Clinton of assaulting her in 1978.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: It was an assault.

JUANITA BROADDRICK: He starts to bite on my top lip, and I try to pull away from him.

HILLARY CLINTON: (Laughter).

MARA LIASSON: The wicked-witch laughter is Hillary Clinton from a completely unrelated event. Then there's a caption - quote, "is Hillary really protecting women?" Trump's been pushing this line of attack all year. Here's what he said at a campaign event in Washington state.

DONALD TRUMP: She's married to a man who hurt many women. And Hillary, if you look and see - you study, Hillary hurt many women, the women that he abused.

MARA LIASSON: Trump has yet to produce any evidence of exactly how Hillary hurt those women. The Clinton campaign says it's confident the attacks from Trump won't hurt. They're old news, her advisers say.

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So with the Clintons, sexual assault allegations are always “old news” and evidence-challenged. Liasson even ended the story with more editorializing, that for Trump, “maybe there's no strategy, just a visceral, almost feral instinct for the weaknesses of his opponent.”

Speaking of feral instincts, the Catholic Church is presumed guilty on every allegation. Fighting the charges is seen as an admission of guilt. Not a sliver of doubt about the accuser is allowed in stories like this. Words like “alleged” – words that NPR would employ for Muslim terrorists – are absent:

BRIAN MANN: Laws making it easier to prosecute pedophiles [or alleged pedophiles?] and opening retroactive windows for civil lawsuits have passed in other states, including California, Hawaii and Minnesota. Poust says in those places, Catholic organizations faced hundreds of millions of dollars in new claims.

POUST, New York Catholic Conference: Plaintiff's attorneys have been teeing these cases up for many years and are more than willing to harm today's Catholics who had nothing to do with the abuse of the past.

MANN: New York isn't the only state where Catholic leaders are pushing back. Pennsylvania's legislature debated a similar measure this year, so the Archdiocese of Philadelphia distributed fliers during church services targeting Catholic lawmakers who support extending the statute of limitations. Republican Representative Nick Miccarelli says the church tried to shame him.

NICK MICCARELLI: This came from the archdiocese, and the priests were kind of sent out to do the dirty work.

This is the kind of accusation that NPR producers adore. “Priests were sent out to do the dirty work!” Everyone get out their DVD of Spotlight and applaud your own courage! Unless the accused is Bill Clinton, or another Democrat. Then it’s mudslinging. No one makes a movie about courageous Clinton-probing journalists.

Back to Mann:

MANN: This debate feels raw, in part because these crimes [not alleged crimes], while often decades old, are still coming to light. Last March, a Pennsylvania grand jury released a new report describing rape and sexual violence [allegations?] oft hundreds of children by more than 50 priests in one diocese, Altoona-Johnstown. Democrat Frank Burns represents that community in the state House.

FRANK BURNS: I'm a Catholic, but when that grand jury report came out, it devastated our community. And there are still people trying to silence the [alleged?] victims right now.

MANN: A spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia sent a letter to NPR saying there's nothing wrong with priests sharing information about how Catholic lawmakers vote. Their lobbying efforts have been effective. The bill expanding the statute of limitations for sex crimes against children died this summer in New York's legislature. A similar measure stalled in Pennsylvania's state Senate.

There are millions of Catholics in America who are revolted by any priest who would abuse a child. They should be removed from ministry. But they also believe that the legal system operates on a presumption of innocence, even if NPR refuses to bow to that principle when it comes to religious faiths other than Islam.

[cloudmountain]

No one ever mentions the abuse done by OTHER men of the cloth. If it happened in one Christian group it has to have happened in others. But, THOSE men of the cloth wouldn't have the press punch that the Catholic Church does.

No media bias there.

[I want the USA back]

Because the left wants to eliminate the Catholic Church and wants Bill Clinton’s wife to be president.

[originalbuckeye]

I am slowly starting to detest Mara Liasson. She can hold her nasty messages when she’s on FoxNews, only barely. But when she gets into a very friendly venue like NPR, she is as despicable as Hillary. Why isn’t the Clinton rape of Broaddrick a story that needs investigation?? How about how Hillary was cackling about getting a rapist off with time served?? A man who had raped a 12 year old child, a child whom Hillary destroyed, suggesting she ‘wanted to get close with older men’. What a pantsuit load! Hillary is for HERSELF over all others. Pray the idiot Lefitsts wake up!

[Yaelle]

There should be no statute of limitations on sex crimes. I wish I had the maturity to report when I was young but I did not. Rapists of all kinds love that law.

[DoughtyOne]

NPR: Old cases involving priests and abuse are like vintage wine.  Old cases involving Clinton and abuse are like used Billy Beer.

My gripe isn't abou tthem going after priests that have it coming.  It's about them not going after a bastard that had it coming and going.

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[savagesusie]

Nor the deep-pockets. Notice the Franklin Cover-Up-—about the politicians, judges, elites, czars in the White House were never charged for their orgies with children-—and it was literally covered-up-—the Documentary on the Franklin Cover-Up removed from 60 Minutes-—because it was about homosexuals and Man/Boy sex ring run by CIA. People trying to expose the Satanism in the White House, literally KILLED in exposing this child abuse ring-—and CRICKETS.

Also, the Sandusky boy-sex ring—another coverup. They just got the fall-guy—not the hundreds of elites who were furnished with little boys, probably run by the CIA as lots of magazines and the homosexual and feminist movements were to destroy Christianity-—all for the homosexual satanists—Lucifereans (sold their souls for power/money/fame).

Pychopathic sodomite elites who infiltrated into ALL areas-—esp. to take over all major churches, plus the Catholic Church (Bella Dodd) in the 30s-—as they took over “education” of our children to normalize all perversions, so that they will be willing to work for the satanists (cabal) in Hollywood (their sex-boy-ring orgies) and be able to steal, cheat, etc.,just have to normalize perversions (satanism) and Marxist gender theory (satanism/dehumanization/slavery) to destroy moral formation of our children, (flip Good and Evil), to literally destroy Virtue formation so they can actually use others in irrational, vile, filthy ways and “think” it is “good”.

The Marxists knew a hundred years ago, that if they could get control of minds of your children—they will own them for Life (Vice creates Slaves only). So with the communist John Dewey—they took over curricula to erase Christianity so that little satanists/Marxists/Socialists could be created—dumb, irrational, non-thinking drones for the NWO.

Only the Christian Worldview (Classical Curricula) created minds which could “think” coherently like in the Age of Reason and when Modern Science was created. Logic and Reason were created by Christianity when it aligned with Natural Law Theory (science/Reason/Logic/Common Sense). No other religion is as rational or Just or Free. All other religions/worldviews are tribal, irrational and demonic.

Killing babies, sodomizing children and others and slavery and polygamy were “Evil”—and STILL should be outlawed in a Justice (virtue) System.—But, NO! We have allowed an irrational unjust system to force evil laws onto us since Pres. Wilson. We have to take back Rule of Law instead of this Rule of Satan (Man/Oligrachy).

The Satanists/Lucifereans need to normalize perversion in little children so they can keep practicing their satanic rituals and orgies with children and killing them on their altars to Ba’al. (I am not kidding). Get your young children OUT Of the Matrix which will destroy their ability to know the Truth (God/Reality).

[Vermont Lt]

Well, maybe if bill was raping little boys it would become news.

Priests just don’t seem to get the message.

[cloudmountain]

My refrigerator needed repair as the thermostat died. So, I called a repair person. Mind you, I've been trying for DAYS to get a gardener, landscaper, cabinet refinishing person and grout guy, IMPOSSIBLE.

So, I called the ice-maker repair service and they said: TODAY BETWEEN 2 AND 5. The guy who came was Russian. His company made him take an American name. He got "Ian" but his Russian name is Vasily.

He LOVES this country. He won an "immigration lottery" in Europe. These kinds of "get-to-America" lotteries are prevalent in Europe.
He works 12 hours a day, repairing refrigerators and is SO happy to be here.

Then I come to this site and hear how ROTTEN things are in our governments (federal, state)...complaints out the wazoo.

I know, I know..."YEAH, BUT..."
I KNOW things aren't even close to perfect here, ss. I know. However, I'm glad I live here and THANK THE GOOD LORD for allowing me to be born and brought up here. I lived abroad for seven years (two years one country, five years another country).

God bless America.

[FourtySeven]

Not to mention that abuse is known to be at a higher rate in public schools than in any church or communion, of any denomination.

Of course there’s no mention of that on “All things considered”. “All Things Considered” my...

[Huskrrrr]

Watch for a Watergate rehash come October.

[cloudmountain]

Not to mention that abuse is known to be at a higher rate in public schools than in any church or communion, of any denomination.
I didn't know that.

Of course there’s no mention of that on “All things considered”. “All Things Considered” my...
We used to say....my aunt Fanny.

[eyeamok]

The STATUTE of Limitations for ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS, FOR A:LL CRIMES should be in perpetuity

[Prince of Space]

Most of the abuse by priests involved adolescent boys. That’s because homosexual priests have been allowed into the priesthood for decades. Never heard about the Lavender Mafia? Additionally, the NYT did an exhaustive study about priest molestation accusations going back 50 years. They concluded that accusations and convictions involved less than 2.5% of priests. That means 97.5% of priests have performed their roles honorably.

[DuncanWaring]

As the headline says ... “...Catholic Priest Abuse Charges Never Age”.

[Vermont Lt]

I know several peers that were riddled by three priests. They were 10-12 years old.

We must have lived in an outlier diocese. I understand stairs tics. I also know that the clergy would argue that they were bound by canon law instead of American law.

I know it went a lot deeper in my area than even the media knows.

Not everyone in the meetings took a vow of silence. It was disgusting.

[Ann Archy]

Brit Hume caught Mara LIARSON in a LIE EVERY night on their show!! She would have to take back and correct what she said. It was like clockwork...every night.