Last week, New York Daily News sportswriter Mike Lupica attacked Archbishop Timothy Dolan and ex-New York Giant David Tyree over their objections to the state of New York legalizing gay marriage.
Lupica said that Archbishop Dolan’s and Tyree’s respective positions on gay marriage were ignorant and intolerant, essentially suggesting that anyone who disagreed with him was wrong.
Almost laughably, Lupica wrote that “Dolan is entitled to his (opinion), even if he sounds like the marching orders on this one are coming straight from the Vatican.”
Really? If Lupica doesn’t realize the Archbishop is voicing his opinion based on the Catholic Church’s long standing position on gay marriage, he’s been spending way too much time at Ina Garten’s house.
Regardless of how you might feel about gay marriage, Lupica was devoid of the very reasons he called out Dolan and Tyree.
In expressing his view on the subject, Lupica forgot that being respectful of others opinions is the very essence of tolerance.
But as we often see from the mainstream media, opinions of others are chastised if they don’t happen to be in agreement with them.
Moreover, those with opposing views are often subjected to personal attacks, just as Lupica did when he intimated that the former Giants wide receiver occasionally played football without a helmet.
Lupica is yet another sterling example of why the mainstream media has become such a pathetic joke in America.
Instead of voicing his support for gay marriage in an objective manner, Lupica used the pages of The New York Daily News to exercise his First Amendment rights by attacking Dolan and Tyree for exercising theirs.
Within the elitist world in which Lupica resides, it’s perfectly acceptable to take a stand on an issue that he agrees with, but unacceptable if he doesn’t.
Putting aside his lack of objectivity for a moment, Lupica – clearly without realizing it – put his own hypocrisy on full display. It’s the same “do as I say, not as I do” mentality we see every day in the media.
And for someone who is obviously taking up the cause to support gay marriage, attacking people who oppose it isn’t the way to sway them.
Personally, I could care less if a same-sex couple wants to get married, but my support isn’t necessarily related to gay marriage. I’m of the opinion that no one, especially those at any level of government, has the right to tell me who I can or can not marry.
If Lupica had used that approach to voice his support of gay marriage and refrained from his personal attacks against Dolan and Tyree, at minimum he would have gained some measure of respect for his opinion, regardless of what anyone’s view on the subject may be.
But Lupica chose the easy path, the one that requires the least resistance. We’ve seen that time and again from the media, when someone can no longer present an argument based in fact or logic, they resort to personal attacks.
It’s at that point the other guy wins, because if engaging in personal attacks is all that you can bring to the table, you’ve lost.
Mike Lupica failed miserably on many levels, as an objective journalist, as an advocate and most importantly, as an individual who allowed his hypocrisy to overwhelm him.
Lupica will never admit to it because as a member of America’s mainstream media, he’s become the same person he accused Dolan and Tyree of being – ignorant and intolerant.
