Self-Righteous Punks

I have had to suffer for the past several years listening to a blowhard who is also an anti-Catholic bigot. You can imagine what this person thought of the whole scandal thing in the Church. Recently, I read in the NY Daily News about a Navy sailor who videotaped himself raping young girls (1 as young as 8). The name sounded familiar and I asked the blowhard if this was the friend he had mentioned before. He admitted it was and I realized why he hadn't been so vocal about child molesters in the Church as he once was. This was his friend since high school and he had no idea he was a child rapist. I have to admit it was somewhat satisfying to see the wind taken out of the windbag! I think he finally realizes that he is not the genius he thought he was, at least not smart enough to recognize evil when it was right in front of him.

Recently, the same kind of satisfaction is being felt by many Long Islanders who read about the situation at Newsday. This is the paper that the Catholic League calls the most anti-Catholic newspaper in the country. For one thing, the paper is trying to get older employees to leave in what can only be described as massive age discrimination. One Newsday columnist wrote:

"Thank goodness that I, for one, am not losing her to a buyout being offered to all in this workplace aged 53 and older."

At the same time, it seems the self-righteous anti-Catholic windbags at Newsday have been committing fraud for years against their advertisers by inflating their circulation figures. When a lawsuit was filed against the paper by a few small businesspeople, Newsday denied everything and dismissed the plantiff's accusations. Now it appears they have admitted their circulation numbers were inflated but are saying the actions they have taken have nothing to do with this lawsuit. They are trying to have the lawsuit thrown out even while the Nassau County DA opens a criminal investigation. Of course the anti-Catholic bigots like Paul Vitello try to sound like they are above this whole thing, but it is nice to see them a bit deflated! Of course, I once temped at Newsday, actually scanning the returned bar codes of unsold newspapers that came back from vendors, so I can personally attest that Newsday attempts to keep track of these things. However, the article below in the Long Island Press shows that Newsday has not been reporting the whole truth about this scandal:

The Tip of The Iceberg

Read it and get some satisfaction in knowing that the Newsday that hates the Church also has its skeletons to hide:

"Newsday has finally admitted to lying about its circulation, and it's a lie that has cost Long Islanders millions.
After four months of adamantly denying any problems with its circulation figures, the paper announced on June 17 that it would reduce its reported circulation for the 12-month period ending last September by approximately 40,000 for the daily editions and 60,000 for the Sunday editions."


For one thing, Newsday is smarter than the Catholic bishops who tried to cover up the homosexual scandals in the priesthood. The paper tried to make it seem like they were the ones who discovered the fraud, and are attempting to show themselves as fully disclosing the truth. The Long Island Press article begs to differ:

"In making the announcement, Newsday said its findings were based on its own in-house audit. It did not acknowledge the Feb. 10 federal lawsuit brought against Newsday by advertisers, which first brought the practices to light. Nor did the paper credit the ongoing audit being conducted by ABC for discovering the problems."


Newsday is not the champion of the little guy as it would have you believe, but is rather the bully:

"The paper initially reacted to the lawsuit by threatening to cut off advertisers who sued; one of the plaintiffs dropped out of the suit because of that threat."

"Obviously they're going to go with the lowball figure," surmises John T. Anderson, a Lindenhurst deli owner who was cut from Newsday's distribution route when he complained the paper was shortchanging him."

Now the Long Island Press is somewhat competition for Newsday so you might figure they have an agenda. (It is a free publication that is not really in Newsday's league) But Newsday, and any anti-Catholic windbags have an agenda as well, and it is good to see them lose some wind from their sails.