In 1956 – exactly 50 years ago – if a newspaper in someplace like Mississippi wanted to attack a budding presidential candidate from Massachusetts by appealing purely to religious prejudice, then the newspaper would have run a headline reading “Kennedy camp consulted with Catholic leaders”. That would have been enough to make the point that Catholics couldn’t be trusted with the presidency because everybody knew that Catholics really took their orders from the hierarchy in How sad that 50 years later the Boston Globe uses so similar a headline – nothing but an updated version of that same appeal to religious prejudice – to attack another presidential candidate who also happens to be the governor of the Commonwealth.
In my view this headline, the article under it, and the motivation for creating it, are as utterly vile as any 1950s-era prejudice that candidate John F. Kennedy faced.
The staff at the Boston Globe have learned little from our own local history. They should be ashamed of this headline and this article.
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The Globe's treatment of Mitt Romney is reprehensible.
To be fair, Howie Carr on WRKO reams Patrick a new one every chance he can. And any other Liberal democrat with a last name of Menino or Kennedy. And because I applaud Howie Carr for just sticking it to these bleeding Liberals, I really can't be a hypocrite and rail against The Globe for how they treat Romney.
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