Tag Archive for ‘lying’
Fool for the Truth
In late February, in the midst of the uproar over Live Action’s exposé of Planned Parenthood, I wrote a piece about the controversy for the About.com Catholicism GuideSite. The piece argued that, whatever good intentions Lila Rose and her comrades at Live Action may have had, they stepped over the line, and their tactics could not be justified under Catholic moral theology. But now, five or six weeks later, I’m beginning to have second thoughts.
Lying in a Good Cause
James O’Keefe scored another victory recently, when his group tricked Ron Schilling, an NPR fundraiser into making statements that were soft on militant Islam and expressed contempt for Middle American conservatives. As much as I detest NPR and all its works, the attack on the fundraisers is either naive or disingenuous. Schilling may well have really believed everything he said, but some level of exaggeration and acquiescence is part of his job.
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