Mission Accomplished

by Jason Morgan | Remnant Columnist By now, everyone in America and half the people on the planet have surely heard about the group of boys from Covington High School. The latest random target of the swarm of seething stalkers and mindless drones that Facebook and Twitter like to call an "online community," the students who were accosted on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by a lying Indian (Elizabeth Warren’s prom date?) and a phalanx of "Black Hebrew Israelites" yelling some of the vilest racial bile this side of the Women’s March are now a part of the growing diorama of our new American life: if you are a Christian or an Orthodox Jew, you are going to get hate-scrubbed on social media. Get used to it.

True to form—and having learned nothing from being punked just days before by a BuzzFeed story so patently false that only Dan Rather in his heyday could have come close to equaling it— the gladiator-media hacks ran with the "story" of—wait for it—a teenager smiling in our nation’s capital.

Again and again and again, the regurgatory press organs churned out the meme of the flush-faced kid and the longhaired old guy, apparently trying to recreate a sitcom version of Wounded Knee for a generation of "news" consumers incapable of sustaining thought for longer than 240 characters. It must have been a slow day on the Russiamania front.

But what was this one-act play in the Theater of the Absurd really all about?

What was the point? Did we really all just spend a week shouting about such nonsense?

Let me tell you about an old trick from my hometown of New Orleans.

When all the tourists stop to watch a street performer in the French Quarter, why, that’s the perfect time for "local entrepreneurs" to mingle amongst the crowd and pick everyone’s pocket.

"Look at the guy juggling torches, honey! Wait a minute… Where’s my wallet?"

Indeed, America, we have all been suckered again. The joke is on us, just as so many times before. The story was not the story, it was the distraction. There was something very important going on last week that the media didn’t want you to see. And by focusing on a non-story about a high schooler and a reject from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, we all missed the action right out.

What was the story? Hundreds of thousands of young people—including the kids in the infamous video—were in Washington calling for an end to the genocide of the unborn. (Like the last genocide, against the Native Americans, this one is also sponsored by the federal government.) People of conscience— many of them Christian and Jewish— had gathered in Washington, DC, as they do every year, to demand that the killing of the innocents be stopped. By pushing the doctored footage of the Lincoln Memorial Drum-Off, the mainstream media did in spades what it does every other year: try to convince you that the March for Life doesn’t really exist.

This year you really have to hand it to them. Mission accomplished. They did it. The media succeeded in distracting tens of millions of us from thinking about the horrors that compel hundreds of thousands to march in the freezing cold—heckled by Satanists, feminists, and other members of Catholic college faculties—to testify to the dignity of human life.

What made this year special, though? Why did the media have to pull out all the stops to get us to look the other way? Why the incessant, tranceinducing repetition of the same four minutes of fake news?

The answer is that abortion, bad enough already, just got even worse.

In anticipation of the grim anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the New York State Senate voted on January 22, 2019, to eliminate every single restriction on abortion throughout the Empire State.

Doctors and non-doctors can now kill a gestating New Yorker at any point during pregnancy to the moment of natural birth.

It is a free-for-all against the unborn.

This is what the media did not want you to see. Twitter and Facebook gladiatorwork may be largely rhetorical—only sporadically do the yahoos who use social media to threaten violence (like, for instance, Saturday Night Live writer Sarah Beattie, who is still employed by NBC) actually put their depraved scribbling into practice. But the swordplay in the abortuaries is very, very real. Children are vivisected, their mothers are often left with lacerated uteruses or septicemia or worse, and the human remains, instead of being respectfully buried, are sold to medical researchers like so many pieces of scrap metal.

This is why you spent the past week watching a non-story on playback loop.

The media blackout was not for lack of publicity by the New York establishment, of course. The proponents of the New York Senate bill were doing everything in their power to get their "achievement" on the evening news. And no one was more vocal in his praise for the Senate’s handiwork than Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York’s "Catholic" chief executive.

In this sickening irony we come to the second big "mission accomplished" of the bait-and-switch media coup.

For, when the story broke about the conscientious Kentucky high schoolers on pilgrimage to the March for Life in DC, no fewer than four bishops, including their own, rushed to condemn them. No attempt was made to discover the truth. The bishops—not least among them Archbishop Lori, spiritual leader of the Knights of Columbus— immediately rushed to judgment and cast the boys out into darkness amid the glinting eyes of the circling jackals. The boys who were standing up for life got thrown under the bus by their bishops.

So, the media brouhaha accomplished the very important task of revealing the neo-Catholic establishment for what it really is: a secularist organization which vastly prefers the praise of its liberal overlords to the protection of the faithful. The "Catholic" leadership in the US is not Catholic at all. It is just secularist, like everyone else. The last good American bishop is cold in the ground now, His Excellency Robert Morlino of Madison having gone to his reward late last year. Whoever is left is just a husk, a moral coward who would rather be lauded by the New York Times than stoned in the public square sheltering one of the sheep. We can see it all too plainly now if we somehow couldn’t before. Like Francis and the Chinese Catholics, we are the objects of our shepherds’ contempt. It’s time for every Catholic in the country to wake up and realize this fact, because it will only get truer from here out.

These are the media’s two big wins of this week. They kept us from discussing the nightmare of forty-six years of clinical holocaust. And they showed us that those of us who are in the trenches for human dignity are fighting even though all of our generals have gone over to the enemy camp. ■

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Cardinal Dolan