With all the talk of stimulus (aka spending) and your tax dollars at work, I thought it might be instructive to see what your taxes are funding. Namely, virulent anti-Catholicism.
Bill Donohue at the Catholic League is asking LinkTv to drop the video “Divine Food” because it is over-the-top anti-Catholic and egregiously offensive.
Even worse, the Catholic League reports that among the producers of this video, producers which include well known anti-Catholic foundations, is IVTS who receives funds (aka your tax dollars) from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
So here you go. This is your tax dollars at work.
Nice.
February 5, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Don’t you just love how these liberal types are soooo tolerant of other people’s beliefs? This is sick and hurtful. Shameful.
February 5, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Other than being gratuitously and deliberately insulting to Catholics, what was the point of this thing?
Yeah, I’ve probably already answered the question.
February 5, 2009 at 6:28 pm
that’s what struck me. There’s no there there. It’s just nasty for no reason. Bizarre.
February 5, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Disgraceful.
February 5, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Oh. My. God.
February 5, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Ahhhh…. the ripe fruits of stupidity…
February 5, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Honestly, stuff like this doesn’t even shock me anymore. It seems that the message here is “Look at me!” Essentially this is the same baloney we got from PZ Meyer a few months back. It’s an attention-grab with nothing to say. The point seems to be to ridicule, and nothing more, because there is no attempt to present a logical or reasonable argument against the Church, or any argument at all, or that matter. You’ve all seen this before: when people run out of intelligent things to say, they generally resort to name-calling.
I am thoroughly disgusted, offended, and sickened, but not surprised in the least.
February 5, 2009 at 6:55 pm
By the way, raise your hand if you are surprised to see that the video is funded by several of the same “philanthropic” organizations that provide financial support for NPR? Namely: the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Anyone? Anyone? I think I see a hand back there… no? Just stretching… ok, good, then we are all on the same page.
February 5, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Ok, that was disturbing. I know it’s been asked before, but why?
February 5, 2009 at 7:01 pm
This is despicable. It is also very immature and pointless. How pathetic do you have to be to make something like this and think you are being clever?
February 5, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Actors portraying priests could at least learn how to make the sign of the cross properly.
February 5, 2009 at 7:28 pm
This is unbelievable! If a video like this was produced mocking the religious Jews, it would be front-page news.
Anti-Semitism is never tolerated – Anti-Catholicm is entertainment!
Shameful indeed! Where is the outrage from our Bishops?
February 5, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I love my little Ford Escape, but because Ford funds hatred and falsehood I’m not buying another Ford.
— Mack Hall, Kirbyville, Texas
February 5, 2009 at 8:07 pm
OK, some background here: LinkTV is a Mohammedan (see: Muslim for you anti-intellectuals) funded organization. It’s principal staff, producers and sponsors are Mohammedans. They have a yearly competition for film-makers to portray Mohammedanism in a favorable light. But they don’t care about ridiculing or slandering other religions in the name of art or free speech.
Actually, one guy made a rather funny video about it on YOUTUBE HERE
February 5, 2009 at 8:20 pm
If these foundations have their names in the credits, that just makes it convenient to write and email them with protest letters, now doesn’t it?
Also, the Ford Foundation was set up by the Fords, but was made to be separate from the company. Folks of totally different ideological stances from the car folks run the Foundation now.
February 5, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I usually pat myself on the back for being able to read the subtext of anything, but, like others, I’m at a complete loss as to what this film is saying beyond being an opportunity to show mock desecration of the Sacrament. I’m like, “Surely it can’t just be that!” But I guess it can. Man. I can’t imagine even a die-hard muslim looking at this and not saying, “What the heck?”
February 5, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I usually resist the temptation of ascribing evil straight to the evil one (after all we have to take our share of the blame) but this is demonic. It is a direct, unjustifiable assault on what we hold most sacred as Catholics and as such is designed to be gratuitously offensive. It should be challenged and opposed.
February 5, 2009 at 10:50 pm
This isn’t anti-Catholic. Anti-Catholicism requires that you actually say something against Catholicism. This video doesn’t say anything. There is no plot whatsoever; it is just one tremendous non-sequitur.
~cmpt
February 6, 2009 at 12:35 am
Here are addresses, both surface and magic. Let’s all be diplomatic; the association is alleged, not proven:
Ford Foundation
320 East 43rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10017
office-of-communications@fordfound.org
Mack
February 6, 2009 at 2:30 am
It’s been yanked from the LinkTV site.