CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE NEW YORK TIMES

From Father Dwight Longenecker at Standing On My Head:

Campaign Against the NYT

Let's get a campaign going. Let's blitz the New York Times with emails complaining about Maureen Dowd's sleazy and false attack on the Holy Father. This means letters to the editor and a boycott of their advertisers. I'm not the only one. Bp Marzio of Brooklyn calls his people to 'besiege the New York Times' here and Thomas Peters the American Papist calls for a response here.

You can read what Maureen Dowd has written here. This first column made exagerated and false claims. That her attacks are false can be seen here and here and here.

A good and honest journalist would be corrected and apologize once she was proven wrong. Instead Dowd continues her smear campaign and repeats her lies here.

Clark Hoyt is the editor at New York Times. Here's his email: public@nytimes.com

Here are the rules: First, in the subject line write: "Fire Maureen Dowd". That will give the general impression. Letters should be brief, firm and indignant, but also intelligent and charitable. No rage. No anger. No rude words. No self righteous condemnations. Here's a copy of my letter:

Dear Mr Hoyt,

As a faithful Catholic I am grateful for any effort which will help rid our church of the few pedophile priests. Honest and fair investigative journalism is part of this righteous crusade.

However, your journalist Maureen Dowd is telling lies. Pope Benedict is not guilty of any crime in the case of Fr Lawrence Murphy. You and your staff had the facts. Rather than implicate Pope Benedict the facts actually exonerate him. There are only two options: that you and your staff did not bother to understand the facts, or that you willfully distorted them. As you are intelligent people I have to assume the latter.

Shame on your paper for publishing lies and continuing this intentional smear campaign against the Catholic Church during the holiest time of our year. Would you launch a similar campaign on Muslims during Ramadan about the prophet's marriage of a young girl, the institutionalized pedophilia amongst the Taliban or the Muslims shameful treatment of women? I think not.

I have decided to never purchase your paper and to boycott all your advertisers and I will be encouraging all I know to do the same.

Yrs sincerely,

Dwight Longenecker

If you have a blog, do a post on this. You can copy and paste my whole post if you wish. Compose a brief email with Hoyt's email address and encourage people to write. Send it to all the faithful Catholics on your list and ask them to forward to their lists.

Finally--does anyone have the time to go through the NYT and make a list of their advertisers? I think a Catholic boycott of all companies who advertise in the NYT and on their website is in order don't you?

OBAMA GIVES DEMOCRATS REASON TO VOTE AGAINST HEALTH CARE

Since the President has been the kiss of death for anyone he campaigns for and most Americans don't want healthcare, I'm thinking this statement from the President pretty much points to a no vote for any Democrat that wants to keep his job.

You do what your constituents want and you keep the President out of your district. Win-win!

"The president will refuse to make fund-raising visits during November elections to any district whose representative has not backed the bill.

A one-night presidential appearance can bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds which would otherwise take months to accumulate through cold-calling by campaign volunteers.
Mr Obama's threat came as the year-long debate over his signature domestic policy entered its final week.

Mr Obama is personally telephoning congressmen who are still on the fence this week, in between several personal appearances devoted toward swinging public opinion."
Telegraph

"It may be only a matter of time before President Obama's invitations start to get lost in the mail.

In the most recent gubernatorial and Senate races, the president -- the man who swept to office on a raft of support from red and blue states alike -- has gone 0 for 3. He put his prestige on the line with campaign visits to Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, only to see his party lose each race.

In the latest election, some have suggested Obama couldn't have saved Martha Coakley's Senate campaign in Massachusetts no matter how hard he tried. But strategists say the president's inability to turn that race or the two gubernatorial races around suggests Democrats in moderate states could be rolling up their welcome mats ahead of the midterm elections in November."
Fox News