The following comes from a February 28 National Review article by Anne D. Hendershott:
Realizing that the best way to fight any war is to first wage a media campaign to convince others that the cause is noble and the enemy evil, opponents of Salvatore Cordileone, the archbishop of San Francisco, have brought in the infamous public-relations maven Sam Singer to escalate the war over the issue of whether San Francisco’s Catholic schools should actually be Catholic.
Singer has launched a media blitz to defeat the archbishop’s policy, claiming to have been hired by “concerned parents” who oppose the archbishop’s instruction that teachers in the diocesan schools should teach in communion with the Church.
On Ash Wednesday, LGBT protesters, dressed in black, held a vigil that the San Francisco Weekly described as bearing “the signature slickness of a Singer campaign, drawing news coverage across San Francisco, and all the way down to Santa Cruz.”
When a tiger killed a teenager and mauled several visitors at the San Francisco Zoo, Singer helped garner sympathy for the tiger.
Singer planted stories in the press that the Dhaliwal brothers, the teenagers who were mauled, were drinking, smoking pot, and behaving badly prior to the lethal encounter. He then encouraged the zoo to post signage urging visitors not to tease the animals, although there was no evidence that the boys ever teased the tiger.
Singer has suggesting that his mission is to “push the facts as our clients see them.” Noting that Singer “has a complex relationship with the truth,” reporter Joe Eskenazi wrote in the Weekly that “the truth, after all, isn’t exactly Singer’s milieu.” That is, “Singer is playing by a different set of rules” and “traffics not so much in truth but the perception of truth.”
The following comes from a February 27 Catholic News Agency article by Kevin Jones:
Sam Singer’s public relations firm spun a Chevron oil refinery disaster in California and fought back a legal ruling in Ecuador that could have awarded billions of dollars to indigenous people for the company’s alleged pollution damage to the Amazon.
Singer Associates led the public relations response to a major fire at a Richmond, Calif. oil refinery after its third catastrophic failure since 1989. The 2012 pipeline explosion produced a massive cloud of thick smoke.
At the time of the fire, local authorities gave a shelter-in-place order for Richmond and two other cities. In the following weeks, an estimated 15,000 people in nearby communities sought medical treatment for breathing problems, chest pain, shortness of breath, sore throat and headaches, with 20 people being hospitalized, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s 2015 report on the incident said.
In response to the disaster, Singer’s firm engaged in a major public relations campaign. It created a newspaper to produce pro-Chevron messages alongside community news and to shape the political and legal reaction. Chevron paid only $2 million in penalties for the incident.
Singer’s firm is also credited with helping to fight back a threatened multi-billion dollar legal judgment against Chevron that could have benefited indigenous Ecuadorans and farmers in the Amazon region who said the oil giant was responsible for massive pollution there. Singer’s firm said the lawsuit was fraudulent.
It’s all spin, don’t get caught up in that spiral that leads directly to hell. They will say anything – they are being paid to misrepresent the Church’s positions.
San Francisco likes to fancy itself as sophisticated, watch how these paid whores seduce the faithful by the Bay. Prayer and penance.
Excellency, a time to be firm in the Faith. Sam Singer is a blowhard, so let him spout off. But, remain ready to confront his lies at each and every turn. In other words, do not take unanswered hits, but keep in a counter-punchers crouch.
You have the True Faith on your side. As long as you are clothed in the Faith, you will win. Of course, Singer may have a very sympathetic year in Pope Francis; such a step remains to be seen.
One thing that you might consider: asking Cardinal Burke to say a TLM at St. Mary’s and to assist in delivering the message on local Catholic schools and their need to remain Faith-filled, and Faithful. Or, you might convene a program on Catholic education, and invite conservative bishops to be on a panel dedicated to assuring transmission of the Faith in our schools. This approach takes the heat off of SF, and makes Singer attack the entire Church and the Faith that it seeks to transmit in its schools.
Please feel free, as well, Excellency, to reach out for assistance to the many that admire you and your courage, so rare in today’s Catholic bishopric.
The world has officially gone nuts. Paying a big lawyer to wage a media campaign to fight putting Catholic doctrine is a publication from a Catholic diocese. Can you say “throwing your money away” three times fast?
Click the links to see the silly tweets from the lawyer.
But pray for the archbishop because it can be a temptation to try to calm people down.
Now we are against “oil companies” and “oil men?”
Bad move.
They already say we are from the Middle Ages. Why do we need to double-down and go back to Dinosaur age?
We must pray daily for Archbishop Cordeleone that he will be able to withstand the onslaught of the anti-Catholics opposed to his school policies. We are blessed to have such a holy man in San Francisco. If the previous archbishops had followed Church doctrine, this employee problem would never have occurred. Their go along to get along policy is the cause. Shame on the previous hierarchy.
“Noting that Singer “has a complex relationship with the truth,” reporter Joe Eskenazi wrote in the Weekly that “the truth, after all, isn’t exactly Singer’s milieu.” That is, “Singer is playing by a different set of rules” and “traffics not so much in truth but the perception of truth.”
As a lawyer singer is a shining example that a complex relationship with Truth or Reality – need not impede a lucrative relationship with money and power – at least in the well paid world of Anti-Catholic Gaystapo Mau Mauing.
One does wonder a just who these allegedly ‘Concerned Parents’ are – footing the bill to Trash the Church and an Arch-Bishop who has not been tainted by the Homosex Ephebophile Boy Buggery Scandal, but rather stood tall in Defense of Catholic Youth and the Church?
After all – When German Homosex Activist / Paypal Mogul Peter Thiel launched well funded attacks on Rick Santorum during the 2012 campaign, he had never even met the candidate (The space alien inhabiting the brain cavity of Ron-Paul-Perot) he was allegedly spending lavishly on.
However – Like other Attacks on the Wise Moral Teachings of the Church, perceptions are more important than substance – let alone transubstantiation.
Q- What is the difference between a Catfish & an Attorney?
A- One is a bottom dwelling scum sucker, and the other a Lawyer.
Good point, Michael McDermott!! Sam Singer states that he is half-Jew, and half-Catholic, but considers his religion to be Catholic, although he is a “liberal.” If this is true– the Church should EXCOMMUNICATE him!!
Linda Maria—- You call for people to be EXCOMMUNICATED!! quite frequently. The Code of Canon Law sets very clear and specific requirements before excommunication can be imposed. These requirements bind the whole Church. Excommunication cannot be done on a whim. And its purpose , the universal law of the Catholic Church teaches, is medicinal and not punitive. Perhaps you should approach a priest well-versed in canon law to explain this to you. Judging only from what you have written, you do not seem to understand this subject which you cavalierly insist be meted out to others.
Caritas– Sam Singer is DELIBERATELY committing SERIOUS MORTAL SIN, being HIRED and PAID to DELIBERATELY DAMAGE CHRIST’S CHURCH!! WAKE UP, CARITAS WAKE UP!!
iS the anonymous at 2:35 Pm a catfish or an attorney?
and the other is a fish
Sorry but Singer is not a lawyer. But the people advising Cordileone are.
If Singer wants Catholic Schools to post signage for employment, we can accommodate that:
SIGN
“Those who do not adhere to Sacred Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church both in word and deed, need NOT apply.
Children learn by words and by example.”
Headlines should read: “SAM SINGER supports FRAUD” –
does not want schools that advertise as Catholic to be Catholic.
Another stiff neck attacks the Church and a Holy Bishop
” Singer has suggesting that his mission is to “push the facts as our clients see them.” ” –
So who are Singer’s clients ?