Networks Ignore DNC Benediction

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Networks Ignore DNC Benediction: Archbishop Dolan Defends Right to Life & Traditional Marriage
By Ryan Robertson | September 07, 2012 | 15:22

After offending religious Americans by appearing to boo God, the Democratic National Convention had the top ranking Catholic official in the country perform the closing Benediction Thursday night. Cardinal Timothy Dolan did the same for the Republicans last week in Tampa Bay, but those delegates didn’t seem to have a problem with a party platform that included God and Jerusalem.
 
The only networks respectful enough to show the prayer in its entirety without interruption was Fox News, Fox Business and C-SPAN. ABC, CNN, and PBS kept it in background while talking over it. MSNBC completely ignored it, cutting the audio feed to let their pundits share their opinions without distraction. CBS and NBC returned to local news affiliates as soon as he began. 
 
[See video below.  MP3 audio here.]

Two minutes after he finished however, PBS reporter Ray Suarez commented on how "combative" Dolan was. "20,000 Democrats had to stop in their tracks" to listen to him. Suarez then summarized how Dolan just had a "long riff" on religious liberty.
 
The content of the prayer was surprising and controversial to some, considering where he was. The Archbishop defended the right to life of the weakest and smallest among us.

Typical smarmy hate religion MSN