Showing posts with label Kathryn Lopez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kathryn Lopez. Show all posts

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Spin Doctors of the RC Church – K-Lo Quotes Bobbie Barron Quoting King George of Chicago



Tea Party Spin Doctress K-Lo Cites Cardinal George's Spin Doctor Bobbie Barron – “the wealthy need the poor to stay out of spiritual poverty” – What the Hell Does That Mean???

The Poor should stay poor or jeopardize the salvation (or wealth) of the Rich???


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Spin Doctor Bill Donohue (Bill-Doh) Hovering Above Pope Francis – What the Pope Really Really meant




Like his female counterpart K-Lo at National Review, Bill-Doh is there to tell his readers what the Pope really really meant in his most recently published interview appearing in a Jesuit magazine.

Bill-Doh disputes the New York Times spin on the pope’s words.

From someone who has read the entire magazine interview, I suggest that Bill-Doh do the same before he disputes the NYT spin in favor of his own.

This imitation of “journalism” style of Kathryn Jean Lopez (K-Lo) (an “Anglo” and not Hispanic despite the last name) over at the National Review Press Release Dumping Ground online “magazine” site, is quite a step up for Bill.  Keep Up the good work Bill whatever that is.


“The pope also said the Church should be a “home to all” and not a “small chapel.” He did not mean by these words, as the Times alert said, that these remarks were a criticism of focusing on “doctrine, orthodoxy and a limited agenda of moral teachings.” In the previous paragraph, he speaks about “the sanctity of the militant church.” In the same paragraph where he mentions “small chapel,” he cites the “negative behavior” of priests and nuns, saying their conduct is that of an “unfruitful bachelor” and a “spinster.” He did not say what the Times attributed to him.” 
“The pope wants us to reject abortion, and to help women who have had one to find peace with God. He wants us to reject gay marriage, but not gays because they are gay. Kudos to Pope Francis.”





Thursday, September 19, 2013

Boutique Journalist John J. Miller, National Review, Complains About Michigan “Journalist” Law




The Nanny Michigan State Legislation is about to shatter the illusions of or is it delusions of Boutique Journalist John J. Miller over at the NRO – National Review Online.

In my recent research into the shards of what used to be the National Review of my youth, of several decades ago, I have been trying to put a finger on the outrageously overrated print child of William F Buckley Jr. and his bastion of right wing moneyed privilege and values at the old NR, what it has become in the modern Internet digital age.

Buckley spent decades on PBS, a government subsidized vehicle, for his Firing Line  series which was amusing at times if only to see how many of a dozen new exotic words Buckley would use in his one trick monkey bit to impress and push the conservative agenda, a decidedly viable political view in those older early days.

But I guess Mr. Miller who teaches on some subsidized teaching “Dow” research grant at some conservative college, Hillsdale, is trying to educate his Republican State Legislature that a new hard on GOP bill to define “Journalism” would take that title away from him and jeopardize his right to write in the public forum.

The legislation is a layer of nanny rules, more GOP (BIG) government to prevent Ambulance Chasing Lawyers from giving you a telemarketing call on your land line (dial) telephone, from them having access to accident reports at the local police station.  Only Journalists should have access to public information and not lawyers.  It never occurs to the Pubs in Lansing that maybe they could forbid advertising by lawyers or solicitation of business by phone etc. That I think would violate the myth of the pure open market religion of the far right.

Of course, if real market forces existed in America, the National Review would not, could not exist.  Each of its various departments specializing in content like law reviews or market forces or voodoo creationist science in Planet Gore, each command subsidy from various think tanks, much in the same way the Corner has become the Church Ladies corner under K-Lo and in deference to the uber-uber-Catholicism founder Bill Buckley Jr.

According to this new nanny regulation law, Journalists would have to be connected to hard print newspapers or magazines that print at least once a week which the apparently hard copy National Review does not.  

One would not know this fact, given that I read Mr. Miller’s piece on National Review NRO online that streams non-stop with, and in the “Corner” an online version of “News” with its ascetic style to underline links or PR Press Releases which is the whole real reason for the articles I think in the “Corner”. With Kathryn Lopez trying to build another career over at the Church Ladies league, The National Review these days in the Online Corner side seems like one long stream of RC Bishop press releases with Kathryn cut and pasting a few dozen words around every new underlined link.

But John J. Miller has lived in a bubble world that the rest of us are not privileged to be part of. Other real journalists are scrambling for jobs as newspapers close and newspapers online consolidate and try to figure out how to make a profit under real market forces and not being subsidized in Boutique Journalism with that of Mister or is it Professor Miller.

One of the marketing forces dictating work in the real world, and not the subsidized world of boutique journalism is also in being a burden on the company, in terms of salary and benefit costs, in being passed the 40 years of age mark as the red flags go up in the HR (personnel) department.  Mr. Miller, I hope his job at the college is secure on that score. Whatever.


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Michigan lawmakers are mulling a bill that would definte the word “journalist.” This is a bad idea, as I explain in today’s Detroit News. For one thing, those of us who report and write for National Review wouldn’t qualify as journalists–and neither would writers for theAtlantic, Mother Jones, and Reason.


About the author 
John J. Miller is director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College and a longtime reporter for National Review. His latest book is “The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football.” …and The Unmaking Of Americans: How Multiculturalism has Undermined the Assimilation Ethic (1998, ISBN 0-684-83622-X)

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130919/OPINION01/309190004#ixzz2fLDocfpX


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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Kathryn Jean Lopez – Token Vagina/Front of the All-Male RC Church’s New Evangelization




It is perhaps vulgar of me to use the title I used but after some basic research, I thought I would share it to those interested in reading it. I call a spade a spade as I see it. And Me vulgar – never – just a bit kitch?

Kathryn Lopez is thought to be some sort of wunderkind, being “Hispanic” and a female and her career has shot with a bullet to the top of the heap as Heir Apparent to Phyllis Schlafly as token female Catholic opinion maker and speech giver for the GOP.

Of course her shot to the top was as one woman with a computer at the National Review and running as editor in chief National Review Online NRO. Now that the Internet has taken off, Kathryn got pushed to the side as Editor at Large at NRO, which gives her time to produce a prolific amount of GOP and Uber-Catholic drivel both separate and mixed together on many media and online sites and circles.

Most of what I read of what she has written is totally boilerplate and considering her associations with Right Wing think tanks and her association with National Review; she has little journalistic talent IMHO.

She merely reiterates and repackages what she hears on the media and re-spins it to the ears of RNC talking points' daily listeners.  A one trick (very talented – savant?) monkey sort of “journalistic” deal? She does not as far as I can determine work directly with the Republican National Committee.

And of course when Bill Buckley Jr. was alive he renounced the John Birch Society and Ayn Rand per say but dear old uber-uber-Catholic Bill is dead and in uber-Catholic gated white heaven. Thank Gott!

In terms of her Twitter, she seems when the news is dead to send out Saint Josemaria Escrivia quotes, perhaps trolling for lonely workaholic Opus Dei virginal males and females working themselves to death and feeding, contributing to Opus Dei trying to deprivatize religion in America.

That and she throws out random bones that bored lonely Catholic Housewives eat up, to stir the pot of racism, or is it Abortion against the you know who in the White House (wink,nod) left over from the 2012 election campaign still gnawing at the craw of so many good white gated community pro-life uber-catholics?


It is in retreading backwards on some of her retweeters that I see that many of them are Twit Tweet illiterate and merely want to show an @ or a # Hashtag shared with the rising token vagina in the Church, Party and or Church/Party – The Christian Catholic Republican Party?

But really some of these retweeters and it is unfair to use guilt by association, but I rather think that a lot of campaign fund raising and more importantly charity fund raising follows the lines of K-Low’s considerate well-heeled Mailing lists or followers of her tweets, columns and other keeping her face and her income career constantly in the every second of everyday borderline social and public media.

By her own description, she is a workaholic, listening to MSNBC, talk radio, reading tweets, e-mails etc. to get her constant flow of filtered rewrites out to the right, with  their limited understanding of the outside world, this to both her uber-Republican and uber-Catholic fans.  Basically she is a middle aged female workaholic and I do not know if she has a private life, sex life etc. outside what she is allowed as a faithful unmarried submissive to male culture Catholic female?

My thanks to Dr. Bill Lindsey, the Catholic Theologian over at his Bilgrimage mission blog for alerting me to the latest crop of videos of the Uber-Rich, Uber-Catholics joining up in this year’s Napa Institute’s Catholic version of the Bohemia Club up there in wine country in Northern California.  

More Chardonnay anyone?


Of the many Videos offered on YouTube and on the EWTN Catholic “News”/propaganda network was one of a person who I had never heard of before, that of Kathryn Jean Lopez – “K-Lo” to her friends.

I went into this video of her speech at the Napa Institute with a mindset, after researching her writing, and was surprised by her presentation as full of effervescence masking extreme nervousness, shyness and in an adolescent style presentation, of rarely directly looking at the audience, of actually speaking directly to the audience with eyes closed at times and always always looking down, hands and arms waving, at her too long a script delivered at New York Minute speed to what looked like an older western middle class audience whose facial expressions, when the camera pans the audience, come across as Huh!, bored or indifferent. 

They give her a full eight and a half seconds of applause at the end of her presentation.

Content of the speech which is supposed to be the “deprivatization of religion in America” which translates into shoving your private religious beliefs into everybody’s face and legislation etc.

She does not make a good case for the so called title of the YouTube except to plug Archbishop Gomez’s latest book of similar title.

Her first plunge toward the deprivatization topic suggested to me that Archbishop Chaput or his aides wrote the script because she masks her attack on the “first Catholic American President” as the person who privatized religion and made it okay for the secularization of the American Town Square.

Whether of her own ass kiss writing origin or input script, I find it insulting that John F. Kennedy is both a forgotten dissed by silence, lack of a name (a bastard so to speak?) and insulted too at the same time as the man who forgot or greatly discounted his Catholic Root. Her reference to Chaput after this insult to President Kennedy is what suggests the ass kissing and or co-written status of her words.

Good job Girl!

There is also below a reference to her indifference to the Hispanic Community in America by her lack of knowledge of the Spanish language or by her not wanting to mix with the unclean unwashed immigrant types that some might think goes along with her name of Lopez – thus the Label and distance from Spanish culture in the “K-Lo” tag unless it is an inference and direct challenge to Jennifer Lopez regarding the biggest NewYorican (Puerto Rican) female Ass born in New York City.  LOL


And also below in YouTube garbled robot script that could not correctly translate her fast speaking style. She comments about having to go to a catechism to repackage what Pope Francis had to say on a plane – to understand it PC uberr-style – and reiterate it to her adoring uber audiences. 





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I'm worried about also our outreach to Spanish speakers and I worry about
11:20
are segregation within the church but despite my last name
11:23
others here are better equipped to address that topic


16:52
people often have no idea what we're talking about when we use the word
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conscience
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nevermind have a wall forms one we really have a lot of fundamentals to
17:00
reteach


25:44
how you made them feel. the good moment I think to talk about Pope Francis
25:48
on the plane but right back from Rome there's a brilliance
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to what he did as well as I think a caution and challenge for a bay dealing
25:55
with the media
25:56
my initial reaction so the first news stories that makes
25:59
characterized what he said as a definitive slapped down at Pope
26:03
Benedict's
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on a seminary candidates and homosexuality
26:08
my initial reaction was to scurry to figure out where exactly said because I
26:11
was in on the plan announced a good time
26:13
I had a and presented in some kind of catechetical context right
26:18
which is what a what I tends to you up but all around me the buzz continued
26:23
the pope people react in said the pic pope showed signs
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finally let gay priest reeve
26:29
LGBT activists on my the cable news channels
26:33
said finally somebody in the catholic church doesn't think we're wrong and
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evil
26:40
thats course a great injustice right but oh my goodness
26:44
while people may only be personally listening they are listening
26:49
he's captured their attention consider it their concern that perhaps
26:54
not all catholics may actually hate




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