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Politico’s Pretentious, Error-Filled Hit Against Amy Coney Barrett
New York Post ^ | September 24, 2020 | Sohrab Ahmari

Posted on 09/24/2020 1:12:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway

It’s open season on Amy Coney Barrett, the appeals-court judge reported to top President Trump’s list of candidates to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court. Barrett is a devout Roman Catholic and a member of an ecumenical charismatic community, so naturally, Democrats and their media allies are trying to cast her as Dangerous Theocrat.

But the least they can do is get the facts right. Sadly, it seems that’s too much to ask. Witness Villanova professor Massimo Faggioli’s flatulent hit piece published at Politico Thursday. Faggioli charges Barrett with membership in a “Christian group with a highly authoritarian internal structure.” This, he argues, means interrogating her religious faith is within bounds in a potential confirmation battle.

Never mind that the US Constitution bars such interrogation (“no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States”). It’s harder still to take Faggioli seriously when he makes three basic factual errors in a short piece.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acb; hitpiece; politico
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1 posted on 09/24/2020 1:12:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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At least her name isn’t Faggioli.


2 posted on 09/24/2020 1:16:43 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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POLUTEco bellows and spews out noxious gases again?
So what's new?
3 posted on 09/24/2020 1:31:12 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Thank Linda for giving the rats 4 days to trash her.


4 posted on 09/24/2020 1:36:24 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: nickcarraway

Hitler’s propaganda minister, Paul Joseph Goebbelsn Reich Minister of Propaganda famously said, “if you repeat lies often, then it becomes truth”.


5 posted on 09/24/2020 1:38:57 PM PDT by entropy12
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It doesn't matter. It never matters. It doesn't matter how many times these full-of-themselves MSM outlets lie, make it up, spout total BS. It doesn't matter how many times they're wrong. It doesn't matter how many times they lead their readers down the primrose path.

They are still taken seriously. They are still quoted, still participants in the gigantic daily sycophant BS echo chamber.

6 posted on 09/24/2020 1:39:38 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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People of Praise isn’t even an exclusively Catholic org. It’s an ecumenical Christian org. Hardly a cult if it supports such a wide variety of beliefs. Amy attends mass at her church but also the PoP gatherings.


7 posted on 09/24/2020 1:40:24 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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An anti-Catholic jihad, with a wonderful, accomplished mother of seven, one a Downs victim and two Haitian adopted children? Bring it on DemonShits, just bring it on.


8 posted on 09/24/2020 1:42:11 PM PDT by libstripper
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What we need is a Marxist test. One that weeds out every Marxist from every courthouse and institution of “higher learning.”


9 posted on 09/24/2020 1:43:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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His Italian name translates to beans. Which is appropriate because he knows beans about Amy. And the only thing that comes out of him is a noxious noise.


10 posted on 09/24/2020 1:44:20 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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Thank Linda for giving the rats 4 days to trash her.
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Actually, I do. The DemonShits are going ton prove the truth of the old saying, “When you point at somebody, three of your fingers are pointing back at you.”


11 posted on 09/24/2020 1:44:35 PM PDT by libstripper
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They are still quoted,

By each other for the most part. Credibility of the fake news media with American voters is at an all time low. No one takes them seriously. Not even the Dems who pretend to.

12 posted on 09/24/2020 1:47:23 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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They fact check everybody but themselves.


13 posted on 09/24/2020 2:00:20 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: gibsonguy

Why would a Catholic professor attack another Catholic for being Catholic?


14 posted on 09/24/2020 2:04:19 PM PDT by CalWildcat
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Last sentence gotta hurt.


15 posted on 09/24/2020 2:10:44 PM PDT by edwinland
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Why would a Catholic professor attack another Catholic for being Catholic?

Most "Catholic" colleges are hardly Catholic anymore. It's a sad fact.
16 posted on 09/24/2020 2:52:22 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: gibsonguy

Who’s Linda?


17 posted on 09/24/2020 3:24:49 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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Graham


18 posted on 09/24/2020 3:59:29 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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I had read Barrett actually belonged a group called People of Hope, not People of Praise, which was the inspiration for the Handmaiden’s crap.

Now confused.


19 posted on 09/24/2020 4:47:29 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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; ) thanks


20 posted on 09/24/2020 5:23:54 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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