“Having Standard & Poor’s downgrade the creditworthiness of the U.S., and warn the country about further downgrades, is a little like having the Catholic Church lecture Scout leaders on the proper behavior toward boys.”
The above quote was the first sentence in an article recently published online at the Curious Capitalist blog by Bill Saporito, assistant managing editor at Time; it was titled, “Why Congress and S&P Deserve Each Other.”
In response, Bill Donohue offered this statement:
“This vicious, and wholly gratuitous, smear of the entire Catholic Church demands an apology. Vicious analogies citing other demographic groups—on this same subject—could have been made, but they would never have been published. Which means that persons other than Saporito should also issue an apology to Roman Catholics. We might expect this kind of cruel remark from some no-name angry blogger, but not from a high-ranking person at Time.”
We immediately contacted our members and asked them to e-mail Richard Stengel, Time’s managing editor. We are confident that they flooded his inbox and that Stengel heard our voice loud and clear.
