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'Joy Behar' Guest Host Gives Perfect Example of Bias Against Catholic Church
Newsbusters.org ^ | March 30, 2010 | Colleen Raezler

Posted on 03/31/2010 8:38:41 AM PDT by Bean74

Jeanine Pirro provided a textbook demonstration of media bias against the Catholic Church during her stint as a substitute host for CNN Headline News's "The Joy Behar Show on March 29. Pirro never gave her guest a chance to defend the church and interrupted him six times within 1 minute, 59 seconds.

Pirro is a former Westchester County, N.Y., district attorney and judge who now hosts the TV program, "Judge Jeanine Pirro." She also appears on network and cable news programs as a legal analyst.

First, she stacked the deck. Pirro hosted a panel discussion about the recent allegations that Pope Benedict XVI failed to act when confronted with evidence about priests sexually abusing children. Of the three panelists, only Catholic League president Bill Donohue defended the church. The other participants included Kevin Cullen, a Boston Globe reporter who was part of the investigative team that broke the 2002 story of the Boston diocese covering up sexual abuse and Jeffery Anderson, an attorney who has filed thousands of suits against the church since 1983.

Pirro told Anderson he was "right" in one instance, and then proceeded to call one of Donohue's argument's "hogwash," despite the fact that The New York Times backed up the claim that Benedict, as a cardinal, did not know that a priest in Germany accused of sexual abuse was transferred and allowed to serve in another parish.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: anticatholic; antichristian; billdonohue; bostonglob; catholicchurch; cultureofcorruption; pravdamedia; scandal; witchhunt

1 posted on 03/31/2010 8:38:42 AM PDT by Bean74
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To: Bean74

I detest the left.


2 posted on 03/31/2010 8:41:17 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Pirro should be in jail for the way she ran the Sex Crimes Unit in NYC. Look up Jeff Deskovic.


3 posted on 03/31/2010 8:43:47 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Bean74
Setting the Record Straight
4 posted on 03/31/2010 8:44:19 AM PDT by pgyanke (You have no "rights" that require an involuntary burden on another person. Period. - MrB)
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To: Bean74

I can not figure out why the left even cares whether or not Catholic (or any minister) has sex with a child, after all they want that taught in schools that sex is ok anytime anywhere. They embrace the homosexual agenda.......really they are so hypocritical.


5 posted on 03/31/2010 8:44:33 AM PDT by svcw (Religion is like giving someone who is dying of thirst mouthwash.)
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To: Bean74

She is a perfect example that “there are more horse’s rear ends than there are horses”..


6 posted on 03/31/2010 8:47:38 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Keep your socialized health care off my body !!)
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To: Bean74

The Joy Behar Show?

I would rather have a root canal...


7 posted on 03/31/2010 8:50:44 AM PDT by jessduntno ( If someone calls me racist, I reply "you are just saying that because I'm white!")
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To: svcw

Pope John Paul II was one of the “Architects of Freedom” that brought down their beloved Soviet Union.


8 posted on 03/31/2010 8:52:01 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: svcw

They certainly don’t see any big conspiracy to supress reports of sexual abuse in our public schools or even by Planned Parenthood when minor girls report that they have been criminally impregnated by adult males.


9 posted on 03/31/2010 8:53:12 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: Bean74

I caught about 2 minutes of one night. She’s mono tonal and devoid of any sense.


10 posted on 03/31/2010 9:03:34 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: jessduntno
The Joy Behar Show?

I don't have enough self loathing in me to watch that.

11 posted on 03/31/2010 9:08:15 AM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has it limits.)
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To: Bean74

The problem is gays, not the church. The church needs to publicly state going forward, the church will not allow Gay priests. Watch the left scream bloody murder.


12 posted on 03/31/2010 9:20:39 AM PDT by T. Jefferson (Batton down the hatches, full speed in reverse)
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To: Bean74

One remarkable and enduring characteristic of the Left is a complete lack of class. It’s Holy Week.

I wouldn’t be surprised if CNN chose to run a ‘Everything you ever wanted to know about Islam’ special right on Easter Sunday.

I don’t watch CNN. Persons like Behar and Pirro are just some of the reasons why.


13 posted on 03/31/2010 9:28:14 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Home Depot should begin stocking up on pitchforks and torches.)
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To: T. Jefferson
The church needs to publicly state going forward, the church will not allow Gay priests. Watch the left scream bloody murder.

The Church has... in effect. In a very clearly worded document about five years ago, homosexual inclination isn't disqualifying necessarily. However, there can be no hint of homosexual practice.

And yes, heads exploded.

14 posted on 03/31/2010 9:34:21 AM PDT by pgyanke (You have no "rights" that require an involuntary burden on another person. Period. - MrB)
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To: massgopguy

There was a murder in Westchester County back when Pirro was in charge. A bum laid in wait in a parking garage for the stated purpose of killing a white woman. The bum was black. Pirro declined to prosecute a hate crime. I can’t remember the names involved. She’s a useful idiot.


15 posted on 03/31/2010 9:36:10 AM PDT by sig226 (Mourn this day, the death of a great republic. March 21, 2010)
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To: Ann Archy

These left-wing nuts are at their best when accusing their definition of “radicals” of hate speech. They are the most hateful of radicals...and too blinded by hate see it.


16 posted on 03/31/2010 10:29:16 AM PDT by lonestar (Better Obama picks his nose than our pockets!)
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