Left-wing Hollywood celebrities wasted little time Saturday launching a social media offensive against President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to succeed the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. Not only did they attack her judicial record, they also launched personal insults.

“Amy is like a hybrid of Aunt Lydia and a Stepford wife,” Grammy-winning singer Diane Warren tweeted, referring to the Aunt Lydia villain in The Handmaid’s Tale.

“How much chalk can one blackboard stand?” actress Ellen Barkin tweeted, referring to Barrett’s voice.

“RBG turning in her grave,” actor Adam Goldberg tweeted.

Amy Coney Barrett, 48, currently serves as a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. A former clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia, Barrett takes a strict “originalist” view of the Constitution that prioritizes the original text over subsequent interpretations. Her nomination is President Trump’s third pick for the high court, following Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

Left-wingers fear Barrett’s positions on the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, as well as abortion, due to her strong Catholic faith. Some have already launched smears against her and her family, questioning why Barrett and her husband adopted two children from Haiti.

Hollywood elites eagerly joined the left-wing pile-on. Singer Diane Warren compared Barrett to Aunt Lydia from The Handmaid’s Tale, while also likening her to a Stepford wife.

Actress Ellen Barkin mocked Barrett’s voice and used the hashtag #stfuacb — as in, “shut the fuck up, Amy Coney Barrett.”

Actor Adam Goldberg claimed that the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be upset about Barrett’s nomination, even though Ginsburg was a close personal friend of Scalia.

Actor Jeffrey Wright called Barrett’s nomination “disgraceful.”

Actor Alec Baldwin insisted that Judge Barrett “is only another card that the Psycho turns over to destroy the Constitution.”

Debra Messing claimed that the president is pushing Barrett’s nomination so that “she can vote him in w/ contested election results.”

Actor Jon Cryer called Republican senators “lying, racist hypocrites” for their decision to hold a vote on Barrett’s nomination.

Actress Patricia Arquette appeared to allude to Barrett’s stance on abortion.

Comedian Sandra Bernhard tweeted the hashtag #NoSCOTUSforAmy.

Actor Ethan Embry claimed that Barrett is “unqualified” despite her impressive career on the bench and respect from those who disagree with her decisions.

Actress Kristen Johnston said that women are “fucked,” referring to Barrett’s association with the Catholic community known as People of Praise.

General Hospital star Nancy Lee Grahn spread the debunked theory that People of Praise was the inspiration for The Handmaid’s Tale. Novelist Margaret Atwood has written that she was inspired to write the novel after visiting Afghanistan and seeing the oppressive Islamist clothing that women were forced to wear.

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Delaware State University (DSU) has refuted Joe Biden’s claim that he attended the historically black institution — the latest example of Biden being caught embellishing his academic credentials.

Biden made the little-noticed claim in October 2019, as he was campaigning in South Carolina:

The Washington Times reported Friday:

Carlos Holmes, director of news service for Delaware State, said that Mr. Biden was never a student, although he has made appearances twice on campus for commencement speeches at the public university in Dover, one of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

“Vice President Biden did not attend DSU,” said Mr. Holmes in a Thursday email. “However he was the Commencement keynote speaker in 2003 and [2016], and during the former he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree.”

Mr. Biden made the claim ahead of the South Carolina Democratic primary during a town hall held Oct. 26, 2019, at historic Wilson High School in Florence, which was founded in 1866 by the Freedmen’s Bureau for Black children seeking an education.

“I got started out of an HBCU, Delaware State — now, I don’t want to hear anything negative about Delaware State,” Mr. Biden told the audience, drawing laughter, as shown on video. “They’re my folks.”

In his 2007 biography, Promises to Keep, Biden never mentions Delaware State University, though he describes his experience at the University of Delaware.

The university’s website notes:

DSU enjoys a long history as one of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Founded in 1891 as the State College for Colored Students, DSU is proud of our heritage as one of the country’s first land-grant educational institutions. Today, we’re a welcome center of learning for students from many backgrounds. Our current population includes a 63% African-American enrollment and an increasing number of Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian and other international students.

Public statistics suggest that nearly 10% of the student body today is white.

Biden’s false claims about his academic record helped destroy his first presidential campaign in 1987. Among other claims, Biden said he had graduated in the top half of his law school class. He graduated near the bottom.

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Left-wing television host Bill Maher has wasted no time in going the low road, branding President Trump’s expected Supreme Court nominee, distinguished law professor and Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, as a ‘f***ing nut.’

“We’ll be saying this name a lot, I’m sure, because she’s a f—ing nut,” he said.

“Religion. I was right about that one too,” he continued. “Amy Coney Barrett, Catholic. Really Catholic, I mean really, really Catholic. Like speaking in tongues. Like she doesn’t believe in condoms which she has in common with Trump because he doesn’t either. I remember that from Stormy Daniels.”

“So she’s gonna be on the court. RBG’s laying in state. Trump visited RBG’s casket. When he walked in, everybody went ‘boooo’. And of course all the ass kissers around Trump, they told him, ‘No sir, they’re saying ‘coup, coup,’” Maher said. “It’s so funny but we’re losing our country.”

Class was never his strong suit. And ‘unhinged’ is just a Tuesday for him.

But what he’s doing is getting the ball rolling for the ongoing leftist narrative, that Amy Coney Barrett is a nut. With his sizable audience, he has a very big voice for for narrative-setting.

Pretty much all of the left is marching in lockstep to this narrative, bunching up to make Coney Barrett’s faithful adherence to Roman Catholicism, the largest professed religius in the U.S., encompassing 21% of the population, into something that’s purely for nuts. Be a Catholic, head for the margins of human society is the message. Polite people don’t do Catholic. Don’t let Amy get all those Catholic cooties on you. Funny how no one says that of an atheist or am Episcopalian…

It’s disgusting.

It seems that for the left, they’ve got no boyfriends to throw sex harassment charges at her with, as they tried with Kavanaugh, and in any case, they’ve been to that well twice before. Therefore all they have to grasp at in the life of this spotless judge is making her Catholicism the issue.

Funny, they didn’t seem to have this problem at the confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia, Sam Alito, Anthony Kennedy or even Brett Kavanaugh. It’s just Barrett whose Catholicism is all of a sudden a problem.

“The dogma lives loudly within you,” sneered Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Barrett a couple years earlier.

Maher is far from the only one pushing this outrageous line of thinking. Here are a few headlines from around the press:

Amy Coney Barrett: spotlight falls on secretive Catholic group People of Praise –The Guardian

Notable & Quotable: Durbin to Amy Comey Barrett: ‘Do You Consider Yourself an Orthodox Catholic?’ –WSJ Opinion pages

 

ABC News suggests link between Christian group and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ during Amy Coney Barrett report –Fox News, dated Sept. 25

 

As U.S. Supreme Court nomination looms, a religious community draws fresh interest –Reuters

The bombshell consequences of Amy Coney Barrett —Ruth Marcus/Washington Post

Even the leftwing National Catholic Reporter thinks Catholicism is controversial:

Amy Coney Barrett, controversial Catholic, re-emerges as potential Supreme Court pick –Religion News Service/National Catholic Reporter

Which shows you how far things have gone downhill.

They’ve got nothing but good references, a sterling record, and fine character reports, That is why they’ve suddenly decided that Catholicism, and its 51 million adherents in the U.S., is reason enough to keep someone off the Supreme Court.

Image credit: Rachel Malehorn, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

Left-wing television host Bill Maher has wasted no time in going the low road, branding President Trump’s expected Supreme Court nominee, distinguished law professor and Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, as a ‘f***ing nut.’

“We’ll be saying this name a lot, I’m sure, because she’s a f—ing nut,” he said.

“Religion. I was right about that one too,” he continued. “Amy Coney Barrett, Catholic. Really Catholic, I mean really, really Catholic. Like speaking in tongues. Like she doesn’t believe in condoms which she has in common with Trump because he doesn’t either. I remember that from Stormy Daniels.”

“So she’s gonna be on the court. RBG’s laying in state. Trump visited RBG’s casket. When he walked in, everybody went ‘boooo’. And of course all the ass kissers around Trump, they told him, ‘No sir, they’re saying ‘coup, coup,’” Maher said. “It’s so funny but we’re losing our country.”

Class was never his strong suit. And ‘unhinged’ is just a Tuesday for him.

But what he’s doing is getting the ball rolling for the ongoing leftist narrative, that Amy Coney Barrett is a nut. With his sizable audience, he has a very big voice for for narrative-setting.

Pretty much all of the left is marching in lockstep to this narrative, bunching up to make Coney Barrett’s faithful adherence to Roman Catholicism, the largest professed religius in the U.S., encompassing 21% of the population, into something that’s purely for nuts. Be a Catholic, head for the margins of human society is the message. Polite people don’t do Catholic. Don’t let Amy get all those Catholic cooties on you. Funny how no one says that of an atheist or am Episcopalian…

It’s disgusting.

It seems that for the left, they’ve got no boyfriends to throw sex harassment charges at her with, as they tried with Kavanaugh, and in any case, they’ve been to that well twice before. Therefore all they have to grasp at in the life of this spotless judge is making her Catholicism the issue.

Funny, they didn’t seem to have this problem at the confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia, Sam Alito, Anthony Kennedy or even Brett Kavanaugh. It’s just Barrett whose Catholicism is all of a sudden a problem.

“The dogma lives loudly within you,” sneered Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Barrett a couple years earlier.

Maher is far from the only one pushing this outrageous line of thinking. Here are a few headlines from around the press:

Amy Coney Barrett: spotlight falls on secretive Catholic group People of Praise –The Guardian

Notable & Quotable: Durbin to Amy Comey Barrett: ‘Do You Consider Yourself an Orthodox Catholic?’ –WSJ Opinion pages

 

ABC News suggests link between Christian group and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ during Amy Coney Barrett report –Fox News, dated Sept. 25

 

As U.S. Supreme Court nomination looms, a religious community draws fresh interest –Reuters

The bombshell consequences of Amy Coney Barrett —Ruth Marcus/Washington Post

Even the leftwing National Catholic Reporter thinks Catholicism is controversial:

Amy Coney Barrett, controversial Catholic, re-emerges as potential Supreme Court pick –Religion News Service/National Catholic Reporter

Which shows you how far things have gone downhill.

They’ve got nothing but good references, a sterling record, and fine character reports, That is why they’ve suddenly decided that Catholicism, and its 51 million adherents in the U.S., is reason enough to keep someone off the Supreme Court.

Image credit: Rachel Malehorn, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0