Catholic Bishops ‘Misrepresented’ by Fox, Talk Radio Attackers

By Jeffrey Lord, Am. Spectator:

Are we verging on the scandalous?

The American Spectator has learned that Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput has specifically denied that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops agreed to an attack on talk radio and Fox News personalities. Contrary to an FCC filing and media package released by the interfaith group So We Might See, a “Media Justice” project run by the United Church of Christ and funded in part by left-wing billionaire George Soros. The USCCB Communications office also says specifically to a complaining Catholic “that, although USCCB is one of the groups constituting So We Might See, USCCB did not join the petition of which you complain.”

To another angry Catholic the USCCB said: “Please note also that, although USCCB is one of the groups constituting So We Might See, USCCB did not join the petition of which you complain.”

Get that? The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is denying that it signed onto a formal petition to the FCC naming Rush Limbaugh by name as a purveyor of hate speech. The debate is perhaps best represented by one concerned Catholic’s question to this column: “Who is correct? I don’t see any official statement from the USCCB denying or confirming.”

In point of fact, this response to that question from the USCCB to a Catholic Spectator reader is what seems to come closest to answering the question:

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H/T: Linda at The Great Pumpkin

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