I have never heard of Rachel Campos-Duffy before. Nope. Didn’t even know she existed. But after 90 seconds on television, she is now one of my favorite people in the world.
Mrs. Campos-Duffy filled in for Elizabeth Hasselbeck on the view as the token conservative. Only problem is Mrs. Campos-Duffy is no token anything.
After announcing that she is having her sixth child on the show, she is asked by Whoopi Goldberg what she thinks of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Her answer is one of the absolute best that I have seen. Witness. (From the wonderful Newsbusters)
Congratulations Rachel on your sixth child and well done!
October 13, 2009 at 4:00 am
I never heard of her either. But I think she may just give Laura Ingram a run for her money! And that's a GOOD thing, because I REALLY like Laura! I hope she gets more air time, and not just on "the View".
October 13, 2009 at 4:05 am
SOme Background: She became famous from being on the "Real World" San Francisco cast (the season with Puck and Pedro). She wound up marrying a guy from another season of the show. I remember she was a finalist for the token conservative job, but Elizabeth Hasselback got it.
October 13, 2009 at 4:07 am
I'm sorry, but I HAD to watch this a second time. And when Rachel mentions the word abortion, you can actually see the ugly old hag (which one, right?) Barbara Walters' mouth open, letting all the flies out. Her expression is like, "Did this little brat REALLY just say that on MY show?????" But because the audience is SO DUMBSTRUCK that the most beautiful woman on that panel spoke so eloquently and made such a good point, there is just silence. No booing or jeering. And Barbara can't get it one of her pattent put-downs or sarcastic quip, at the risk of the audience turning on HER.
DAMN! We TOTALLY need more (smart) celebrity spokespeople like this! Why can't we buy more commercial PS airtime to get this message out??
Once again, brilliantly played. Check and Mate.
October 13, 2009 at 5:02 am
Hey, Patrick I know you all are on twitter. You can follow Rachel at http://twitter.com/RCamposDuffy
October 13, 2009 at 6:50 am
Way to go, Rachel Campos-Duffy! I actually like the View, because they do actually let everyone talk (most of the time)- I don't know a lot of shows where even a guest could get away with speaking the truth.
Congrats to her for her 6th, too!
October 13, 2009 at 10:58 am
I see God's Providence in somehow getting her in the show. Then, her cooperation with God's grace did the rest – the fearless witness to proclaim the greatest injustices and the indictment of the perpetrators on national TV. Praise God & thank you Rachel.
October 13, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Wow! Definitely worth seeing. Thanks for posting this. God bless her (Rachel) and her family.
October 13, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Hooray for Rachel! What a strong beautiful and smart woman:). We need more like her out there in the media:).
Congrats on her 6th baby too:).
October 13, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Wow, I know who she is.
She was the conservative (Cuban) American girl on the MTV show "Real World: San Francisco".
At the time she was a student at Arizona State University (Tempe), when I was getting my grad degree there. Her Catholicism was typical of the day, sometimes Sunday Catholic-poorly catechised. She married at the Newman Center chapel on campus. She got a tatoo on the show, remember the show with the obnoxious biker named "Puck"?
Anyhoo, she interned at Jack Kemps office in San Fran and that's the last I heard of her…
Until today.
She has changed a lot since then. She KNOWS her faith (Blessed Mother Teresa quote) and practices it (6th child on the way, had two miscarriages).
I am impressed at how she grew in her faith!
Not bad for a Sun Devil (Arizona State mascot)!
October 13, 2009 at 2:35 pm
She was the conservative (Cuban) American girl on the MTV show "Real World: San Francisco".
Ohh, the sins of youth. To my embarrassment, I'll admit I wathced that series. As far as the obnoxious Puck, yes indeed he was, but he said one thing that has stuck in my memory forever. He was doing the confessional thing and talking about Pedro (who had HIV): "The only thing that ever comes out of his mouth is Young, Gay, AIDS." A truth to power moment about the homosexualist movement that really doesn't get echoed again until Team America parodied Rent with the musical number "Everybody Has AIDS."
October 13, 2009 at 2:44 pm
To clarify, I was a grad student waaay after she graduated. I was a student there though when she did get married at the chapel.
Yes, the sins of my youth as well.
Since then I to have grown in my faith and am a little embarrassed to say that I watched the Real World.
Yeah, Pedro was all about himself. Never taking responsibility for his actions.
October 13, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Great courage in the lioness' den!
Just one thing, why does she have to clarify with, "personally for me"? No one else apologizes for their views or brackets them as personal.
We (who recognize the unnecessary evil of abortion on demand/abortion as birth control) have got to stop apologizing for the truth in public.
(BTW, she probably didn't get booed etc. because she started her monologue mentioning the "Dali Lama" (non-Christian religion talk quite often settles religion talk).
gbm3
October 13, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Notice how Behar won't even look at whom she's speaking. Keeps looking at Whoopi like she needs help to not get upset. Shows how disgusted she is with the topic and how much of a coward she is… can't even face the person with whom she doesn't agree.
Good response with the Mother Teresa reference.
October 13, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Wow, that was excellent!
October 13, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I just saw her on EWTN. I can't remember if it was "The World Over" or "Life on the Rock", but she talked about being in the running for "The View" when the other woman got it.
Suzanne From Oklahoma
October 13, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Wow, way to go, tonight I'm gonna say a rosary for Rachel Campos-Duffy.
October 13, 2009 at 5:13 pm
White liberals squirm when they have to deal with a black or hispanic conservative.
October 13, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Too true Anon! It disproves their, "Liberalism is source of all succor of all minorities."
Hence the backlash many black conservatives receive from their "own."
October 13, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Oooo… they didn't like the one about abortion – Whoopi totally painted herself in a corner when she praised Mother Teresa, and Rachel comes at her with the abortion quote – I think that was very clever, 'personally' notwithstanding.
Notice how Rachel is also the only attractive woman at the table, six kids and all (ok, so I'm a guy, sue me).
You don't get to see so many leftist dogmas shattered at the same time – makes me feel all warm and goey inside.
October 13, 2009 at 7:02 pm
I don't care who she was looking at or just saying "personally,for me" 'cos SHE SAID IT and kudos for her!!