{"id":295,"date":"2011-04-13T07:50:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T11:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/catholicsmediaandculture\/?p=295"},"modified":"2011-04-13T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T21:20:21","slug":"donald-trump-on-the-koran-mitt-romney-on-donald-trump-the-birther-issue-borgias-loses-viewers-nbcs-playboy-club-pilot-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2011\/04\/donald-trump-on-the-koran-mitt-romney-on-donald-trump-the-birther-issue-borgias-loses-viewers-nbcs-playboy-club-pilot-controversy.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump on the Koran; Mitt Romney on Donald Trump & the “birther” issue; “Borgias” loses viewers; NBC’s “Playboy Club” pilot controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump talks about Koran’s “negative vibe.”<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>Of course, he’s apparently running for president so he may just be trying to quash those “Donald Trump is secretly Muslim”<\/em> rumors.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile…<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney has a suggestion for Trump: Lay off the “birther” issue.<\/a> <\/strong>He says even if (for sake of argument) President Obama was born in Kenya, he’d still be an American citizen because his mother was. He cites the case of his own father, George Romney, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination in the 1960’s and was born on a Mormon commune in Mexico. (Mitt’s grandfather moved there in the 1880’s after polygamy was banned in the U.S.)
\nGeorge Romney’s lawyers investigated the issue and determined that he was eligible for the job because Article II of the Consitution states\u00a0 \u201cNo person except a natural born citizen \u2026 shall be eligible to the Office of President.\u201d<\/em> The reasoning goes that the Founders could have said “Only persons born in the United States…shall be eligible to he Office of President.” <\/em>Who says “natural born” can’t simply mean the child of a U.S. citizen? The Framers were, no doubt, aware of the issue and would have specifically ruled out American offspring born on foreign soil if they intended to.\u00a0 And why would they intend to?
\nBottom line, George Romney ran for President with everyone knowing full well that he wasn’t born on U.S. soil. The issue that lost him the election was the Vietnam war and Romney’s claim that he had been “brainwashed” into (earlier) supporting it. The issue of brainwashing, of course, leads us to this<\/a>. To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a scar is just a scar.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/a> Borgias <\/em>dips in the ratings.<\/a> <\/strong>Attendance is falling for the historical drama about corruption in the Catholic Church, drawing\u00a0 less than a million viewers in its second outing. It’s hard to keep people in their pews (or, apparently, even their sofas).<\/p>\n

MRC goes bunny hunting.<\/strong><\/a> The head of the Media Research Council joins those raising flags on an NBC drama pilot about a Playboy Club in 1960’s Chicago. Actors in the show are being asked to sign a nudity clause. Personally, I always sign a nudity clause when starting a new job. No one asks me to. I just provide my own. What? You mean that’s not normal?<\/p>\n

Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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