Monday, November 07, 2005

Washington Post: With Alito, Court Could Slant "Dangerously" Catholic

From The Washington Post:
Court Could Tip to Catholic Majority
Some Say Slant Is Dangerous; Others See Historic Victory

If Samuel A. Alito Jr. is confirmed to the Supreme Court, a majority of its nine justices for the first time will be Roman Catholics -- a fact that, depending on whom you ask, marks the acceptance of a once-persecuted minority, reflects the importance of conservative Catholics to the Republican Party or means practically nothing.

Four Catholics currently serve on the court: Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and the new chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr. From the moment that President Bush announced Alito's nomination, there has been an undercurrent of debate about the prospect of a five-member Catholic majority.


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My Comments:
Check out that headline or sub-headline or whatever it's called in journo-jargon: "Some Say Slant Is Dangerous". Now, go read the story.

Who are these "some" who "say" that a Catholic majority on the Supreme Court is "dangerous"? You won't find out by reading the Post's story, because it makes absolutely no mention of anyone saying that a "Catholic slant" to the Court would be "dangerous".

So then, why did the Post headline writer stick that in? It couldn't be the Post's Katie-Couric-like effort at editorializing their own opinion about a subject by attributing it to an anonymous "some", could it?

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