What’s wrong with these people?
My friend Fr. Robert McTeigue ,S.J. often says you can’t overestimate the impact on society that the desire to sit with the cool kids plays.
I fear he is right. Many people (most?) never really advance beyond high school thinking. They desire to be around the cool kids because that means they’re cool too. They want to let it be known that they’re part of the in-crowd. They will twist themselves into any and every position in order to do so.
Unfortunately, they will also twist the teachings of Christ and His Church in order for them to loved by the world.
God so loved the world that He gave His only Son. But hey, this is Yamiche Alcindor of NBC freakin’ news coming to our school and sitting right beside me on the dais!!!
The Federalist: On the first of the month, the nation’s only Catholic Spiritan university honored NBC News Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor with the school’s inaugural “Duquesne University Award for Ethics and Integrity in Journalism.” Duquesne President Ken Gormley presented Alcindor with the honor at the National Press Club in D.C.
In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette prior to the event, Gormley stated that Alcindor was selected because her journalistic approach aligned with the Congregation of the Holy Spirit’s mission to ensure that “all voices are heard.” He neglected to mention that the honoree, a self-described Catholic, has repeatedly ignored voices supporting the unborn.
During the award ceremony, Alcindor claimed that “every” woman she spoke with on the ground in the 10 to 15 states she visited leading up to this year’s midterm election, including those identifying as conservative, was “uncomfortable” with the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Alcindor’s recollection is highly unlikely, according to her own broadcast network. NBC News exit polls conducted on Election Day found that 87 percent of Republican women were enthusiastic or satisfied with the overturning of Roe.
The polling data also defied Alcindor’s assertion made during an episode of “The ReidOut” in September that Republican women were “extremely upset” about the reversal of Roe. Earlier in the month, she had also suggested that potential female voters in the battleground states of Florida, Michigan, and Ohio were enthusiastic about the “human right” of abortion.
Alcindor didn’t shy away from fearmongering leading up to the Supreme Court decision. While discussing the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade during an MSNBC appearance in May, she shared her concern that the downfall of Roe would result in women being forced to carry pregnancies that they “cannot afford to terminate” and “will then turn into children.”
Despite openly sharing her personal bias on cable news, Alcindor insisted during the award ceremony that her career beginnings in local journalism taught her she cannot “just go on TV and say whatever I want” because she doesn’t want to be the type of person who “tells you what I think.” Gormley praised the journalist for her commitment to “balanced, ethical reporting.”
Calling Alcindor a journalist is laughable. She is a partisan hack insulated by a leftist worldview and leftist friends. Her commitment to the legalized killing of the unborn knows ZERO boundaries. This award is a sad example of virtue signaling by a Catholic college. We’re Catholic but we’re not like those weirdos who pray outside clinics and actually believe that God created people as men and women.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
