podcast<\/a>, From the Kitchen Table: The Duffys, and daring to suggest that having lots of kids is a good thing. <\/p>\nThe premise of the piece, titled \u201cThe MTV Reality Star in Trump\u2019s Cabinet Who Wants You to Have More Kids,\u201d is that the 53-year-old Duffy was not always a paragon of virtue and therefore shouldn\u2019t be taken seriously because of the way he behaved on three episodes of a reality show in the \u201990s.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver three decades, Americans have watched him evolve from a sex-hungry 25-year-old on MTV\u2019s \u2018The Real World,\u2019 gyrating with a woman on a pool table, to Secretary Duffy, a devoutly Catholic husband and father at the helm of President Trump\u2019s Transportation Department, pushing young Americans to have families as large as his own,\u201d the Times tut-tuts.<\/p>\n
Of course, the real sin, according to The New York Times, was not Duffy\u2019s misspent youth, but his evolution into a father of nine, raising his children in the Catholic faith. <\/p>\n
Because old episodes of the MTV reality series are no longer streaming, the reporter dug deep, and \u201clistened to many episodes of Mr. Duffy\u2019s podcast and watched over 15 hours of MTV reality television for this article.\u201d<\/p>\n
That hard work was rewarded with a few very cringy and definitely not G-rated moments in which the 23-year-old Duffy \u201cembraced his role as resident playboy, debuting a pattern of raunchy behavior that continued all season.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Register readers would be advised to refrain from indulging their curiosity and going down that rabbit hole, the Catholic faith and Christianity at large is nothing if not a home for sinners. That\u2019s actually the point, as Jesus explains in Luke 5:31-32:<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.\u201d<\/p>\n
All of this digging into Duffy\u2019s early TV career, though, is just there to set up what the writer clearly thinks is the real outrage: the secretary\u2019s past statements recommending that couples consider having more children.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018If you make the decision of a big family, I think your kids are better, I think you\u2019re better,\u2019 Mr. Duffy, the 10th child in a family of 11, said in a 2023 episode of the Fox podcast he co-hosted with his wife,\u201d the article reads.<\/p>\n
It is surprising that someone could get so hot and bothered about being pro-family. Perhaps they view having children as a pitiable state. At the very least, the reporter clearly thinks the Duffys are \u201cweird,\u201d reminiscent of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz\u2019s labeling of Vice President JD Vance as weird during the 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n
That seems to be the reporter\u2019s take on the Duffys\u2019 marriage. The piece\u2019s most personal attacks are saved for the couple\u2019s relationship, in which Duffy is portrayed practically dragging his wife around by the hair, caveman-style. <\/p>\n
Describing a 2017 Fox News appearance in which the two cook breakfast together on the set, the reporter, who sees no need to conceal her contempt for the family\u2019s Catholic faith, writes:<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Duffy\u2019s wife rattled off the kids\u2019 names before mixing the batter, noting that two were away at Catholic camp, praying the Rosary. When it came time to fire up the burner, she stepped aside. In this all-American household, the roles were clear: Mom whisks and Dad mans the griddle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campos-Duffy\u2019s book Stay Home, Stay Happy is also fodder for a takedown: \u201c\u2026 a 2009 book that advises women on family-friendly kitchen design and how to transition from \u2018mommy mode\u2019 to \u2018woman mode\u2019 by the time your husband gets home.\u201d <\/p>\n
The entire hit job seems overwrought and unnecessary but hangs on for dear life to one policy-related \u201coffense\u201d of Duffy\u2019s, which the Times seems to think justifies this mistreatment.<\/p>\n
Shortly after being sworn in as secretary of transportation, Duffy was the focus of a brief media feeding frenzy over a \u201cmemo\u201d he wrote proposing handing out more federal transportation money to award states and municipalities with higher birth and marriage rates. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to invest in growth,\u201d Duffy responded to questions from the media about the memo.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not that radical. And neither is Sean Duffy. And if families like the Duffys are weird, we say \u201cMake America Weird Again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL: A page-one hit piece reveals contempt for traditional faith-based values. The New York Times, in a page-one…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,16569,16568,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,16570,16567,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-16941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-catholic-families","10":"tag-catholic-politicians","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-pro-life-families","18":"tag-sean-duffy","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114751038204082121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}