In this Friday news roundup episode of the Victor Davis Hanson Show, Victor and co-host Sami Winc dive into the latest happenings from the Democratic National Convention, including an analysis of speeches by Barack and Michelle Obama. We also discuss the unexpected moves by RFK Jr., the dynamics between Trump and his opponents, and the impact of identity politics on the Democratic Party.
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I took the American Citizen a few years ago, and passed the final exam. Excellent work from Professor Hanson……
I recommend this to all citizens.
Gov Shapiro is not popular with Catholics.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro:
On the website of Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro it boasts that when he was Attorney General of the state he “exposed the Catholic Church’s decades-long cover up of child sexual abuse, identifying over 300 predator priests and thousands of victims and spurring investigation across the United States.”
This is a distorted account of Shapiro’s shameful grand jury investigation of Catholic priests. (For more on this subject see my book, The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse.)
Shapiro convinced the media that he found evidence of 301 priests who abused more than 1,000 children over a period of seventy years. This is thrice false (1) not all the alleged offenders were priests (2) most of the alleged victims were adolescents, not children, and (3) the report was not evidentiary—it was investigative—meaning that the accused priests were never given the opportunity to rebut the charges.
Importantly, nothing could be done about most of those who were actually guilty. Almost all the accused were either dead or had been thrown out of the priesthood. No wonder Shapiro was able to prosecute only two priests. He knew this from the get-go, but he used the report to push for a suspension of the statute of limitations.
Shapiro misused the grand jury for political purposes, and now he is at it again.
Alan Dershowitz understands
Shapiro isn’t as popular here in PA with others than Catholics, either, regardless of what the mainstream media says.
People didn’t get upset about the Snagglepuss comparison because he was their favorite character. People simply pointed out that it was an invalid comparison, because Snagglepuss wasn’t angry.
Now that I think about it, if you want to make a comparison to a cartoon character, Yosemite Sam is more appropriate, with his temper. Or the Tasmanian Devil.
It might be apter to compare Biden to Daffy Duck, too. Daffy was greedy, mendacious, amoral, and full of unwise schemes.