Catholic Priest Rips Fox News a New One

Looks like Fox News thought they were going to embarass Obama supporter Father Michael Pfleger, by sending out one of their henchmen to ambush him over his ties to and support of Barack Obama. Instead they got their tiny, little bigoted and ignorant heads handed to them.

Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

................

"Did Bill O'Rielly serve in the marines?" Oh man, that was choice.

Talk about someone speaking truth to power. Right on, Father Michael.

God Bless.

Sorry for the short post. It's just that Father Mike says it all. Not really too much to add.

•  Tip Jar

  by PolitX on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 09:56:30 AM PDT

•  Why

  wouldn't the cameraman show the asshole asking the questions?  I want to see the motherfucker's face.  

  by bluestateonian on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:07:06 AM PDT

  •  Exactly what I was wondering.

    Because the friggin douche is embarrassed that he's being schooled.

    by Punditcrat on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:08:06 AM PDT

  •  One shot of him

    quickly at the beginning...

    by DrSpalding on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:11:21 AM PDT

•  Wow.

  Bravo Father Pfleger.

  by Michael James on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:11:09 AM PDT

  •  Cabinet?

    Of what can he be Secretary for Obama? Probably not State or Defense (and as another former Catholic, Education doesn't quite strike my fancy)... ambassador to somewhere maybe?

    OH! Press Secretary! Fox would be pissed.

    by moonsammy on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 12:21:17 AM PDT

•  Best line for me

  "If you took a sound bite of Jesus saying 'You've got to hate your brother and your mother and your sister and your father in order to love me,' they'd say 'Jesus is a madman!'"

  Damn straight. Kill the soundbites and let's start hearing the whole story, mass media!

  by Killer of Sacred Cows on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:11:39 AM PDT

•  I don't think anyone will be seeing that

  interview on FOX any time soon.

  That was great.  Thanks.

  by istari5th on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:12:21 AM PDT

  •  My pleasure...

    istari5th.

    by PolitX on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:13:45 AM PDT

  •  Won't matter

    The blogosphere has it now, and we'll spread it far and wide, and FOX is just going to have to deal, now aren't they? Poor MSM, getting their behinds handed to them once again by an intelligent person who insists that they take context into account. You could almost feel sorry for them.

    Almost.

    by Killer of Sacred Cows on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:14:39 AM PDT

•  good man

  by lmenshevik on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:13:15 AM PDT

  •  Yep....

    Great man!

    by PolitX on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:14:44 AM PDT

    •  Nope.....

      the Greatest Man!!!

      by lmenshevik on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 11:02:39 AM PDT

•  thanks for sharing that clip...

  it's so refreshing to hear such a clear response to just one of the many slanderous accusations being spread by the out of touch talking heads!

  I was raised Catholic but left the church for various personal reasons long ago... but hearing Father Pfleger is almost a good enough reason for me to consider going back! I doubt I will... but I have to say, whoever has him as their priest should be quite grateful.

  by Wide Awake in NJ on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:14:16 AM PDT

•  What a good

  Man.

  by rosecar on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:16:07 AM PDT

•  I hope Hillary gets

  Everything that's coming to her.  Seriously that woman has built up so much bad Karma that it's ridiculous.

  Same w/the media talking heads.

  by Shhs on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:21:11 AM PDT

  •  Instant Karma's

    gonna get you!

    by Dark UltraValia on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 03:56:03 PM PDT

•  Is there anyway to rec. this....

  before it disappears?

  by PolitX on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:21:50 AM PDT

  •  I hope it gets rescued...

    more people need to see this.

    by blindyone on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:45:58 AM PDT

•  Amazing!

  by jarell on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:25:58 AM PDT

  •  Yep...

    that silly little dweeb got owned by Father Mike.

    by PolitX on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:31:38 AM PDT

•  Mama Bush said of the New orleans Black folk

  they had it good inthe Convention center.
  She is a bigot?

  what about falwells comments on 9/11 and katrina? pat robertson comments? or haggee's

  by wuod kwatch on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:26:44 AM PDT

•  Can someone explain

  how this 10 minute interview (which I'm sure won't be on Fox tv) got on YouTube? Surely Fox didn't release it?

  And that "reporter" -- holy moly! Is that how Fox employees work by haranguing and arguing with their interviewee?

  by gypsy on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:27:46 AM PDT

  •  Yeah, they have guys

    ambushing local politicians and media types in the parking lots of stores etc as they go about their daily business. It borders on stalking. I remember Keith Olbermann mocked this tactic on one of his shows (he pretended to be loading groceries in the trunk of his car)

    by blindyone on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:45:09 AM PDT

  •  Hey, if they can get the interviewee mad...

    then they have something on tape that they can bandy about like a prize fish to say how angry and out of touch we lib-ruls are.

    Bravo to Father Mike for keeping his cool, on top of everything else he did.

    by Killer of Sacred Cows on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:57:45 AM PDT

•  Recommended for standing up to media spin...

  The reporter should say 100 Our Fathers and 90 Hail Marys.

  Then let the Nuns have a go at the reporter for a while.

  by Mr SeeMore on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:31:16 AM PDT

•  Holy.

  Shit.

  That last word really hit it home for me. Father Michael simply schooled that twerp from Faux News, especially at the end there with MLK.

  by FishBiscuit on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:32:38 AM PDT

•  Ten minutes of Truth

  brought to you (indirectly) by Fox News.

  I love the irony.

  by soonerhq on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:34:31 AM PDT

  •  YES!!!!

    Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

    by PolitX on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:36:22 AM PDT

•  O'Riellys Fluffer

  The guy with the mike is O'Rielly's Fluffer, and why isn't he in Iraq!

  by gitmo bay on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:38:08 AM PDT

•  Lapsed Catholic here...

  Someone like that might get me back in the church. Well, probably not. I hope that this gets more exposure. I admire the priest for hanging in there. I would have walked away in disgust almost immediately which they would play off as being unable to answer questions about Wright.

  by blindyone on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:42:24 AM PDT

  •  I agree, this guy would get me back to a church

    and hell, I am a recovering Presbyterian! But I would love to hear Father Mike speak.

    by dansk47 on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:08:27 PM PDT

•  I'm trying to figure out how this footage got out

  I mean, no way Fox News airs this whole ten minutes.  

  Someone on the inside had to leak it.

  by tbetz on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:44:15 AM PDT

  •  Yeah....

    That's what I'm thinking too. Someone had to have leaked it.

    by PolitX on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:46:08 AM PDT

    •  I've got Replay A/V grabbing it right now.

      We need to archive this footage before Fox demands its removal from YouTube.

      by tbetz on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:48:07 AM PDT

      •  Good idea! n/t

        by gypsy on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:49:51 AM PDT

      •  GREAT IDEA tbetz ....

        this is just too embarassing for them to leave up.

        by PolitX on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:52:32 AM PDT

      •  Where will we find it?

        Let us know here where we can get it if or when it gets censored.

        by gypsy on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 11:58:07 AM PDT

        •  If it goes away, I'll do what I can...

          ... to make it available again.

          by tbetz on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 12:12:53 PM PDT

  •  I saw it on the Fox website

    I first time saw this was on the Fox News website. Of course, they think the Father is a wackjob because he would defend Rev Wright or Farrakhan.  
    The Father is awesome, he sometimes preaches at TUCC (you can find some clips of a sermon on YouTube). His church is called St. Sabina's. Anyone in the ChiTown should check it out.
    Peace.

    Hmmm, I wonder if Fox still has this on their site or did they figure out that THEY are the ones that look bad in this vid?

    by myelinate on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 08:34:30 PM PDT

•  Too bad....

  we couldn't get this into recommended.

  by PolitX on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:54:13 AM PDT

•  Story about Wright's visit to Fr. Pfleger's churc

  See this story:
  http://cbs2chicago.com/...

  Wright received a thunderous welcome. The audience had no idea the man at the center of a national political firestorm for the past three weeks was even coming to their church.

  Rev. Wright was invited by Saint Sabina's pastor, Father Michael Pfleger to attend an event at which Maya Angelou spoke. She was the main draw of the church's African American speaking series.

  ...

  "I wanted him to come tonight as a guest, because he loves Dr. Angelou, and I wanted him to see the love of people for him," Pfleger said. "And so when I asked him about coming he said it would be an honor to come and it was a blessing having him here."

  by gypsy on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 10:58:03 AM PDT

•  Father Mike

  Kicked that little boy's ASS!

  Bravo Fr. Mike and many thanks to PolitX for providing us with the video.

  The reporter showed up, unarmed, to a battle of wits.  He was nice enough to record it for us, too!

  Celtic Merlin

  by Celtic Merlin on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 11:06:00 AM PDT

•  The greatest ending in the world!

  "You just defined 'love' by Dr. King's saying 'be judged on the content of your character and not the color of your skin.' Read the first part of that speech, where he talks about the injustice of America. Read his speech about the Vietnam War. You'd like to take Dr. King and repackage him as this, this wonderful little loving sweet guy with an olive branch in his hand. That's not Martin Luther King - and I knew him too. Martin Luther King spoke truth to this country, and that's why he's dead now - because they decided that he had to die."

  Awesome. Wonderful. Amazing. True. Hard-hitting. Honest. With integrity. With character. With forthrightness.

  Yes. Yes. YES. Thank you, Father Mike. This is what this country needs - a good heaping serving of honesty and truth.

  by Killer of Sacred Cows on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 03:06:10 PM PDT

•  PREACH! n/t

  by Dark UltraValia on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 03:53:52 PM PDT

•  OH YES!!

  h/t to the reporter.  He was able to hold the mic even after having his ass handed to him.  Go get em Padre.

  by RJH on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 02:22:02 AM PDT

•  Thank you.

  Thanks for posting this.

  by cottonmouthblog on Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 03:06:24 PM PDT