So when former first lady Hillary Clinton, whom I assume to be of right mind, equates r-a*p.e as a tactic in w-arf-are with protecting un-bor-n babies, I was frankly at a loss.
Enter Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, who had just the words I was looking for.
“Please, please don’t listen to this ev-il woman,” he tweeted Friday evening over a picture of Clinton. “Her lies and im-m-orality need to be silenced for the good of humanity.”
Please, please don’t listen to this evil woman. Her lies and immorality need to be silenced for the good of humanity. https://t.co/fZhp6bljnK
— Bishop J. Strickland (@Bishopoftyler) December 3, 2022
Strickland, who has something of a reputation for calling out lef-tist poli-ticia-ns for their e-v-il (that’s a strong word, I know, but it aptly describes most le-ftis-t poli-cy), was responding to comments Clinton made the previous day during an interview with Christiane Amanpour on PBS’s “Amanpour and Company.”
“[W]e are also in a period of time where there is a lot of pushback, and much of the progress that has been, I think, taken for granted by too many people is under a-tt-ack — literally under at-ta-ck in places like Ir-an or Afg-hanis-tan or Ukr-ai-ne where r-a-pe is a tactic of w-ar, or under att-a-ck by pol-itica-l and cultural fo-rces in a country like our own when it comes to women’s health care and bo-dily aut-onomy.”
There’s a lot of jargon and l-eft-ist do-g-whistling going on there, so let me translate into the vernacular: Women’s bodi-es in w-ar-torn countries are under a-tt-ack by soldiers who r-a-pe them, and they’re also under at-ta-ck in the United States by citizens who don’t want to allow them to m-ur-d-r their babies.
I can’t begin to describe the fal-se equivalency Clinton is positing here, or the thinking that underlies it. “E-v-il” is a pretty good summary. (I’d call it “deplo-rable,” but I’m not sure she’d catch the irony.)
Speaking of irony, the PBS interview is viewable only by subscribers — I guess the P in PBS stands for “paywall” now — but you can see the per-tinent video clip at LifeNews.
Bishop Stickland’s tweet enge-ndered thousands of likes and retweets, as well as replies that were overwh-elmingly positive — though not unanimously positive, of course. We’re talking about Twitter here, after all.
Please, please don’t listen to this evil woman. Her lies and immorality need to be silenced for the good of humanity. https://t.co/fZhp6bljnK
— Bishop J. Strickland (@Bishopoftyler) December 3, 2022
In addition, there were a few who — reasonably, in my opinion — suggested the bishop be a little more careful with his language.
Please, please don’t listen to this evil woman. Her lies and immorality need to be silenced for the good of humanity. https://t.co/fZhp6bljnK
— Bishop J. Strickland (@Bishopoftyler) December 3, 2022
I don’t know if I’d go that far, but, especially given all that’s gone on at Twitter in recent months, I would certainly support the pro-free-speech position here, even if that speech is e-vi-l.
Can’t argue with that. And however history judges Hillary Clinton, I know she’ll one day face a greater judgment even than that. “I tell you, on the day of judg-ment people will give account for every care-less word they speak, 37 for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned,” Jesu-s told His followers.
Clinton needs to heed the war-ning. So does Strickland. So do we all.