Tired of crazy Catholics

From an assignment for Bus 404:

America’s News HQ – Fox News 5/17/09

Fox News hosted Randall Terry and Fr. Jonathan Morris—two radical, right wing, pro-life activists—to fill in the space between the boring parts of the controversial Notre Dame graduation ceremony. Both Terry and Morris were criticizing the Catholic University for giving President Obama an honorary law degree. 2 hours.

Fox News was obviously leaning towards the right during this story. Their guests shared similar viewpoints: against Obama and anti-Notre Dame citing the President’s “unholy” voting record on the abortion subject.

The overall bias of this show is completely obvious. I heard some backing for Obama and the University, the anchor bringing up the point that many Presidents have been invited to speak at Notre Dame’s commencement, however both guests refuted the point citing Obama’s unholy record of defending the “most innocent of lives”—nobody was there on the show to challenge Fr. Morris and Mr. Terry. I would have replied that not giving Obama an honorary degree would have been disrespectful and close-minded, and Obama is Mr. Open Dialogue compared to the previous administration. The same crazy pro-lifers who are intruding on the Notre Dame graduates and their ceremony, were backers of President Bush and his close-minded approach to dealing with differences of opinion. I may have interjected that Obama is also the commander in chief of our behemoth, inefficient federal government; none-the-less he deserves respect and honor—as the Vice-President of Notre Dame said in the President’s introduction, Mr. Obama transcended race (and unscrupulous allegations) to become elected President in a time of crisis.

Lastly, how boring are most graduation ceremonies? If the President of the United States came and spoke at my college, and received an honorary gesture of kindness and respect in the form of a degree, I wouldn’t be bored at all and I would be thankful that I had the opportunity to listen to an influential figurehead. All I have to look forward to is a boring stateeee schooooool graduation ceremony. Maybe John Madden will come back to speak now that he is retired.