Gallagher compares "scandal" of Notre Dame inviting Obama with Columbia allowing Ahmadinejad to speak

If I remember right Mr Corleone was quoting Sun Tzu from the Art of War

"Mommy and Daddy, please tell me what I want to here, please?" There, in a general nutshell, is the pablum seeking attitude of the Fox viewers.

The Catholic Church doesn't believe in freedom of expression. The Catholic Church wants its teachers to spout Catholic morality. I am a devout Catholic, I taught in a Catholic school and had to sign a morals clause and agree to only state Catholic opinions on all moral issues. I was told I could think whatever I wanted but if I departed from the Church line in public or private, I could be fired. I don't work there anymore. I have no problem with President Obama speaking at Notre Dame, and they might have avoided some controversy if they had invited him and not conferred the Doctorate. And for the protesters, where were they when President Bush, a pro-death penalty supporter who ordered over 150 executions and publically mocked one prisoner's plea for clemency, spoke at Notre Dame. The death penalty is just as much against the Catholic Culture of Life as is being anti-abortion!

When you own your own TV station, the fringe whack-jobs suddenly become "authorities."

Before you know it, they have their own TV shows.

This is an easy one, though it's up to you to decide whether you accept the answer.

Condemned prisoners are adults whose right to life has been respected by making the removal of that right a difficult process that can only be pursued for very limited reasons by very limited bodies authorized to do so. Also it is for conscious, most often deliberate actions by those adults, and most often actions that have had consequences as great or greater than those being suffered by the convict.

There currently is no such protection for the fetus. The fetus is being terminated without having done anything to justify this treatment. It has had no opportunity to defend its life, even through a proxy.

So in the case of the fetus, its alleged "right to live" is being withdrawn without due process. In the case of the condemned prisoner, the "right to live" cannot be withdrawn without due process.

Though the Catholic Church does not recognize this distinction, most Protestant denominations do and most Protestant denominations leave this determination to the conscience of the individual.

I see how you can read it this way. I see it differently. I interpret the statement as Gallagher comparing the invitation by Columbia to Achmedinejahd with the invitation by Notre Dam to Obama as both institutions inviting people whose beliefs are in contradiction to those presumably espoused by the institution, Obama for the contra-Papal support of abortion as a right, Achmedinejahd as an opponent of religious and intellectual freedom.

The similarity was not between these two Presidents, but between the two universities. In both cases, honor, or an honor, was conveyed that helped the speaker and contradicted the values of the institution. He was talking about the institution and his comparison was that this was the same argument used to defend Columbia's invitation to Iran's President. As it often does, MMFA misrepresented the comments saying that the scandals were being compared rather than that an argument presented in the debates over the scandals was being compared. Relisten to the clip and you will hear this for yourself. An MMFA lie even the most devoted Leftist can recognize.