Peggy Noonan on Hillary playing the female card after her recent lambasting at a candidates’ debate:
The point is the big ones, the real ones, the Thatchers and Indira Gandhis and Golda Meirs and Angela Merkels, never play the boo-hoo game. They are what they are, but they don’t use what they are. They don’t hold up their sex as a feint: Why, he’s not criticizing me, he’s criticizing all women! Let us rise and fight the sexist cur.
Picture Daley saying this in Bridgeport about political hiring and other corrupt practices:
Standing in an intersection in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Wednesday, Mayor Richard Daley reprimanded the community for not identifying the shooters who killed a pregnant woman in front of her three young children on Halloween.
“You know who did it,” he said. “Don’t be blaming the police. Look in the mirror and say, ‘I can do better.'”
I can’t.
Chi Trib’s Colleen Mastony, a girl, delivers girl talk:
Today, Robert Redford’s strawberry blond hair is graying at the temples, his face is weathered and he wears a pair of thick, round-framed glasses. But with his slight build, sun-kissed skin and light freckles along his forearms, he retains the graceful ease and rugged good looks that once made him the golden boy of Hollywood. And — if you’re wondering — this septuagenarian can still make a heart flutter by flashing a smile and dropping a small compliment. (“That’s a beautiful name,” he says to me, mid-interview, as I swoon.)
She got this past copy editors who saw nothing amiss. Nor will higher-ups, I bet.
On the other hand, Chi Trib’s op-ed page, an oasis of sense in that publication, has another view of Redford’s and other anti-war movies:
By confusing the public’s war-weariness with their own carefully cultivated rage they’ve badly over-reached. Rage may be a good box office draw; exhaustion isn’t. The late film critic Pauline Kael is reported to have said that Richard Nixon couldn’t have won because she didn’t know anybody who voted for him. Similarly, maybe everyone [director] Paul Haggis knows shares his hatred for the war, but he just doesn’t know enough people to make a hit.
The “exhaustion” reference intended for the general public (by columnist Jonah Goldberg) could refer to Redford’s portrayal by Mastony as “pessimistic activist,” with angst in his veins. Question is, how many people want to sit through an hour and a half of Redford’s angst?
The pastor at St. Vincent Ferrer, River Forest, in the years when a Dominican brother was reportedly abusing kids at St. Vincent Ferrer in the 70s, himself was reportedly an admitted abuser in two Michigan parishes in the 90s, Wednesday Journal reports.
As part of a long and immensely informative article, writer Bill Dwyer interviewed Rev. Thomas Doyle, O.P., a canon lawyer and critic of abusive clergy in a warning against blaming religious order members for the crimes of their fellows:
Though he has been an unstinting critic of what he sees as the Catholic Church’s failures to deal openly and effectively with the issue of pedophile priests, Doyle said he believes the current Dominican vicar provincial, Rev. Michael Mascari, has reacted to the allegations against Hensley and Bryce “in a responsible and competent manner.”
“Fr. Mascari has done his best,” Doyle said by phone from his home in Virginia. “If he hadn’t done that, I wouldn’t hesitate to smear him all over the sidewalk.”
And while Doyle has not hesitated to blast the church’s top leadership for a litany of failures, he said people mistakenly assume that the criminal behavior of many priests must have been known to those who served with them.
People say, “They all had to know,” said Doyle. “Oh no, they didn’t.”
“It’s very possible in a [religious] community to become almost transparent,” he said. Priests are largely free to come and go as they please, he said.
“You can do all sorts of stuff [without people knowing].”
Gauntlet considered thrown before Chi Trib and Sun-Times opinion, controversy, perspective, whatever editors to give Steve Sailer space in your esteemed publications. His lede for today is alone cause for considering him:
The ritual humiliation of America’s most prominent man of science, James Watson, for publicly acknowledging that there are differences in average intelligence among the races, highlights the extent to which today’s conventional wisdom is hysterically hostile to basic findings of the human sciences.
Longtime reader, third– or fourth-time writer (WRITE ME, I’M LONELY!) Phil put me on to today’s David Brooks column and its brilliant reportage on the recent debate between Democrat runners-for-office, which includes this from the Man from Poverty:
EDWARDS: I worry about the two Irans. For while the corporate Jihadis are building nuclear weapons, the working-class extremists are shivering in doorways and making do with sharp sticks.
Lots more here, including a closing paean from Tonto:
GOV. BILL RICHARDSON: That was beautiful, Hillary. I love you
Who says the NY Times sucks?
Dave Newbart is at it again in S-T, with story about Loyola kids protesting LU investments in things that The Left does not like: “controversial companies like Halliburton, Clear Channel, Wal-Mart, Chevron and Dow Chemical,” says Newbart — his exact words NOT in quotes in his tendentious lede. (Suggested redo: “companies controversial to libs and mainstream media.”)
N. has finished with his Finkelstein-DePaul coverage that was heavy on complaints by protestors and perfunctory on rebuttals. It’s a meme he has pursued since he led the ouster of Fr. Donald Rowe some years back as president of St. Ignatius College Prep in which N. gave ample space to — guess what? — protesters, this time among dissident teachers.
Rowe may have overstayed his time at Ignatius, where he raised lotsa bucks in a good cause. But what about selecting this investment-in-Wal-Mart cause at Loyola, one dear to leftists’ hearts, while never the cause of campus conservatives? I would love to hear of a campus-protest story by Newbart that picks up on a conservative protest. It could be I have missed it or them, but I very much doubt it.
This being All Souls’ Day, or day of Commemoration of the Faithful Departed,
Should poor souls fear a shade or night,
Who came sure from a sea of light?
Or since those drops are all sent back
So sure to thee, that none doth lack,
Why should frail flesh doubt any more
That what God takes, He’ll not restore?
ATTRIBUTION by Bartleby.com: Henry Vaughan (1622–1695), Welsh poet. “The Waterfall” (l. 17–22). . .
Meaning, tentatively proffered:
Having come from “a sea of light,” should we fear endless night when we die? God takes his gift when we die and will give it back. Don’t worry.
Convicted sexual abuser Rev. Donald McGuire, S.J., made his mark in the Deep South, leading Bishop J. Kevin Boland of Savannah GA to write to Chicago Province Jesuits on Sept. 24, 2003, telling what he’d been told by a boy’s parents:
“They are an excellent family and are obviously very concerned because of the relationship their (name redacted) had over a long period of time with Father McGuire. (Name redacted) has transferred his loyalty from family to Father McGuire,” Boland said in the message on official diocesan letterhead. “On a different level, the Diocese of Savannah is also concerned because Father McGuire gave at least three retreats for our potential seminarians at the request of our Vocation Director. By all accounts they were very dynamic and had great impact on those who participated.”
Great impact, yes.
National Public Radio has a transcript, “Papers: Jesuits Were Warned About Abusive Priest,” that is a must read if you have interest in the Rev. Donald McGuire case. The item includes links to .pdf copies of letters that the most recent accuser’s lawyers unveiled at a news conference on Monday.
The data is damning indeed.
