Comments on: LA Times Uses Psychic Powers to Decide ‘Wife of Nominee Holds Strong Antiabortion Views’ (And They May Be Wrong, Too)

By: Hugo Schwyzer: Thoughts on Jane Roberts and Feminists for Life -- UPDATED

Hugo Schwyzer: Thoughts on Jane Roberts and Feminists for Life -- UPDATED — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:29:40 +0000

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By: Dana R. Pico

Dana R. Pico — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 01:09:48 +0000

Displeased in TO writes that the comments on Mrs. Rogers being Catholic are “pretty easy to decode.” Yes, but short of the mark: the Democrats want to find something, anything, to oppose Judge Roberts, but simply don’t have anything. So they go after Mrs. Roberts, who is not only Catholic, but, as the New York Times was kind enough to tell us, a devout Catholic, listing her all-girls Catholic secondary school, that she is an alumna of Holy Cross and Georgetown, that while in college she attended Mass several times a week (horrors!).

It was all written in as positive a manner as one could find, but the implication was clear: Mrs Roberts is a strong pro-lifer because she’s a devout Catholic; because Mrs Roberts is a devout Catholic and her husband is also Catholic, he must be a devout Catholic as well; and because he is such a devout Catholic, his judgements on social issues cannot be trusted to not be influenced by his faith.

They tried this with the nomination of William Pryor in 2003, and the anti-Catholic bias (or really, anti-devout Catholic bias, given that Pat Leahy and Ted Kennedy were involved) was noted in many places.

The Democrats managed to ameliorate this problem by nominating a Catholic for president in 2004, but John Kerry turned out to be such a CINO (Catholic in name only) that the majority of Catholic voters cast their ballots for President Bush.

With any luck, the Democrats will realize that this isn’t a good nomination to filibuster. If they do, the subtle anti-Catholic bias they are trying (quite deliberately) to employ will fade away, because it will be of no use. If they don’t we could see something just as ugly as what happened over Mr. Pryor, whose “deeply held beliefs” were too much for the Democrats to stomach.

By: Patterico’s Pontifications » Independent Sources on LAT Article on Roberts’s Wife

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:43:37 +0000

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By: Angry in T.O.

Angry in T.O. — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:01:14 +0000

For instance, irrelevant to a story on Jane Sullivan Roberts but germane to an agenda, we read

“It also pointed out that if John Rogers were to be elevated to the Supreme Court, he would be the fourth Catholic justice on the current court, along with Clarence Thomas, Anthony M. Kennedy and Antonin Scalia.”

That’s pretty easy to decode.
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Stick it to the Catholics, eh? Darn Papists and the way they agree with each other!

On the other hand, if we could just get them to agree on the “right” positions…

http://angrygwn.mu.nu/archives/105583.php

By: kc

kc — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:41:30 +0000

You have been added..;-)

By: jcrue

jcrue — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:55:17 +0000

fair play for me and not thee!

the typical hypocritical double standard on the Left.

if a right-leaning publication did an article like this in regard to a liberal or “progressive” candidate they outcry would be deafening.

but we knew that already, huh?

let’s just hope this gets ignored on the Right and played down on the Left.

By: Tearfang

Tearfang — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-wife21jul21,1,7196704,print.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true These guys argue that Roberts wife isn’t that strong of a conservative indicator I somewhat disagree http://independentsources.com/2005/07/21/wife-of-nominee-holds-strong-antiabortion-views-la-times/ check out her organization for yourself feminist for life mission: http://www.feministsforlife.org/who/joinus.htm Robrt’s wife’s service with feminists for life http://www.feministsforlife.org/news/jsroberts.htm

By: Calblog

Calblog — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

not breed terrorists. (Given the events of this week, we think its clear that you are wrong on that one Swati). Prior to Mr. Kaus report, Independent Sources had noted on several occasions what they considered her superficial and incorrect research. LA Times Uses Psychic Powers to Decide ‘Wife of Nominee Holds Strong Antiabortion Views’ (And They May Be Wrong, Too) A scathing analysis of Richard Serrano’s “Wife of Nominee Holds Strong Antiabortion Views,” which according to