Lessons Learned and Lessons Missed from the Attempted Land Grab
- Saturday, April 19, 2014
Even though Progressives in anti-Christian forces make sure to get t their messages out each and every Holy Week, this year’s came as a jolt to many Christians.
“Pope Pelosi”. That’s how the the mighty Drudge Report headlined the story about Pelosi partnering up with Bishop Marc Andrus to--”honor the dignity and work of immigrants” by washing the feet of two children at San Francisco’s Saint John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco.
You could call that “making like the Pope” or even “Aping the Pope”, but never “Pope Pelosi”.
We don’t know whether Bishop Andrus caved in to Pelosi pressure or whether he relished having her beside him for a foot washing ceremony used to dredge up the Immigration Issue, and most of us don’t much care.
If anything proved beyond doubt that the Pulitzer Prizes are a self-congratulatory display whereby the media pat each other on the back and share in the congratulations, it was the coverage of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize announcements. There was nothing from inside the Columbia University journalism building where Pulitzer Prize administrator Sig Gissler tried to justify the honors, known as Gold Medals, for the anti-NSA stories based on the espionage activities of Edward Snowden. My give-and-take with Gissler is the main topic of this column. I saw this process from the inside and am reporting on it here, for the first time. It was a sad and disgraceful day for the journalism profession.
These prizes are usually called “prestigious,” but few people know that they involve a process whereby some people in the media nominate other media for awards, to be decided upon by still other media. It’s a racket.
