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发帖数: 29846 | 1 February 18, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston
Recently NPR’s Morning Edition aired a segment on Chicago’s “gun violence
” featuring taped comments from local Catholic Priest Father Michael
Pfleger. Unfortunately the taxpayer-funded radio show presented Pflager as a
benign “social activist” and never informed listeners of just how radical
this man is.
The segment focused on President Obama’s Friday, February 15, visit to
Chicago that was meant to highlight his anti-gun policies. Without fully
informing listeners about their radical ties, NPR played taped comments from
the long-time, left-wing priest and two other Chicago-based activists to
speak to what Chicagoans were thinking.
Chicagoans are likely to know all about Father Michael Pfleger, pastor of
Saint Sabina’s Catholic Church on the city’s South Side. It’s hard to
miss him as he interjects himself into the news as often as he can. But NPR
listeners outside the Windy City aren’t likely to know what an extremist
the man is.
At the end of the segment, NPR’s Cheryl Corley played some tape of Father
Pfleger who talked about the city’s plague of gun violence as he saw it.
Corley introduced him only as “a social activist who lost a foster son to
gun violence.”
Naturally, Father Pfleger is all in favor of Obama’s gun-ban ideas. But he
is far more than a mere “social activist.” In fact, he is quite extreme in
his “activism.”
For instance, Pfleger has repeatedly come to the support of fellow
Chicagoans Reverend Jesse Jackson, in his many crusades and shakedowns, and
racist Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
The priest has also made himself such a thorn in the side of the Church that
in 2011 he was suspended as Pastor as St. Sabina’s while Cardinal George
assessed whether to remove him completely from dealing with parishioners.
Sadly, Chicago’s top Catholic official failed to fire Pflager even though
the priest has made a career out of attacking the policies of his own church.
You might also recall Pfleger’s outrageous “sermon” he screamed from the
pulpit in 2008 where he mockingly said that Hillary Clinton was a “
privileged white person” and accused anyone that would vote against Barack
Obama of being a racist.
Back in 2007 Pfleger once threatened the life of a suburban gun shop owner
saying the merchant should be “snuffed out” for daring to sell firearms.
Pfleger even came out in support of Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism. A Chicago
Sun-Times article in 1994 reported that the priest said that Nation of Islam
leader, “raised serious questions regarding Jewish power, Jewish influence
, that people do not want to ask or answer, in particular Jewish power in
the media, and with racism and white people and what’s been done.”
Father Pfleger wasn’t the only extremist that NPR’s Corley highlighted.
Corley featured two other activists without telling her listeners just how
extreme they were.
On the same show Corley played tape of Cathy Cohen, who Corley merely
labeled the founder of the Black Youth Project. Cohen is better known for
serving on the board of the Arcus Foundation, a radical homosexual activist
group.
The third activist Corley introduced to her audience was one Jens Ludwig.
Corley said that Ludwig was the University of Chicago’s crime lab director,
which is certainly true. But Ludwig is also a senior fellow at the liberal
Brookings Institution. That was something Corley didn’t seem interested in
telling her audience.
Corley failed to give her listeners all the relevant information about those
she favorably quoted about Chicago’s violence. She failed to inform
listeners that Pfleger had been such a hard-core rabble-rouser nor that
Cohen, and Ludwig belonged to such extreme organizations. But even more
inexcusable was her failure to identify the instigators of Chicago’s “gun
violence.” Not once did Corley note that nearly all the murders occurring
in Chicago is a result of gang warfare. It isn’t a “gun violence” problem
that Chicago has. It is a gang warfare problem. |
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