You Must See This Clip of "The View"
I have never heard of Rachel Campos-Duffy before. Nope. Didn't even know she existed. But after 90 seconds on television, she is now one of my favorite people in the world.
Mrs. Campos-Duffy filled in for Elizabeth Hasselbeck on the view as the token conservative. Only problem is Mrs. Campos-Duffy is no token anything.
After announcing that she is having her sixth child on the show, she is asked by Whoopi Goldberg what she thinks of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Her answer is one of the absolute best that I have seen. Witness. (From the wonderful Newsbusters)
Congratulations Rachel on your sixth child and well done!
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I never heard of her either. But I think she may just give Laura Ingram a run for her money! And that's a GOOD thing, because I REALLY like Laura! I hope she gets more air time, and not just on "the View".
SOme Background: She became famous from being on the "Real World" San Francisco cast (the season with Puck and Pedro). She wound up marrying a guy from another season of the show. I remember she was a finalist for the token conservative job, but Elizabeth Hasselback got it.
I'm sorry, but I HAD to watch this a second time. And when Rachel mentions the word abortion, you can actually see the ugly old hag (which one, right?) Barbara Walters' mouth open, letting all the flies out. Her expression is like, "Did this little brat REALLY just say that on MY show?????" But because the audience is SO DUMBSTRUCK that the most beautiful woman on that panel spoke so eloquently and made such a good point, there is just silence. No booing or jeering. And Barbara can't get it one of her pattent put-downs or sarcastic quip, at the risk of the audience turning on HER.
DAMN! We TOTALLY need more (smart) celebrity spokespeople like this! Why can't we buy more commercial PS airtime to get this message out??
Once again, brilliantly played. Check and Mate.
Hey, Patrick I know you all are on twitter. You can follow Rachel at http://twitter.com/RCamposDuffy
Way to go, Rachel Campos-Duffy! I actually like the View, because they do actually let everyone talk (most of the time)- I don't know a lot of shows where even a guest could get away with speaking the truth.
Congrats to her for her 6th, too!
I see God's Providence in somehow getting her in the show. Then, her cooperation with God's grace did the rest - the fearless witness to proclaim the greatest injustices and the indictment of the perpetrators on national TV. Praise God & thank you Rachel.
Wow! Definitely worth seeing. Thanks for posting this. God bless her (Rachel) and her family.
Hooray for Rachel! What a strong beautiful and smart woman:). We need more like her out there in the media:).
Congrats on her 6th baby too:).
Wow, I know who she is.
She was the conservative (Cuban) American girl on the MTV show "Real World: San Francisco".
At the time she was a student at Arizona State University (Tempe), when I was getting my grad degree there. Her Catholicism was typical of the day, sometimes Sunday Catholic-poorly catechised. She married at the Newman Center chapel on campus. She got a tatoo on the show, remember the show with the obnoxious biker named "Puck"?
Anyhoo, she interned at Jack Kemps office in San Fran and that's the last I heard of her...
Until today.
She has changed a lot since then. She KNOWS her faith (Blessed Mother Teresa quote) and practices it (6th child on the way, had two miscarriages).
I am impressed at how she grew in her faith!
Not bad for a Sun Devil (Arizona State mascot)!
She was the conservative (Cuban) American girl on the MTV show "Real World: San Francisco".
Ohh, the sins of youth. To my embarrassment, I'll admit I wathced that series. As far as the obnoxious Puck, yes indeed he was, but he said one thing that has stuck in my memory forever. He was doing the confessional thing and talking about Pedro (who had HIV): "The only thing that ever comes out of his mouth is Young, Gay, AIDS." A truth to power moment about the homosexualist movement that really doesn't get echoed again until Team America parodied Rent with the musical number "Everybody Has AIDS."
To clarify, I was a grad student waaay after she graduated. I was a student there though when she did get married at the chapel.
Yes, the sins of my youth as well.
Since then I to have grown in my faith and am a little embarrassed to say that I watched the Real World.
Yeah, Pedro was all about himself. Never taking responsibility for his actions.
Great courage in the lioness' den!
Just one thing, why does she have to clarify with, "personally for me"? No one else apologizes for their views or brackets them as personal.
We (who recognize the unnecessary evil of abortion on demand/abortion as birth control) have got to stop apologizing for the truth in public.
(BTW, she probably didn't get booed etc. because she started her monologue mentioning the "Dali Lama" (non-Christian religion talk quite often settles religion talk).
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Notice how Behar won't even look at whom she's speaking. Keeps looking at Whoopi like she needs help to not get upset. Shows how disgusted she is with the topic and how much of a coward she is... can't even face the person with whom she doesn't agree.
Good response with the Mother Teresa reference.
Wow, that was excellent!
I just saw her on EWTN. I can't remember if it was "The World Over" or "Life on the Rock", but she talked about being in the running for "The View" when the other woman got it.
Suzanne From Oklahoma
Wow, way to go, tonight I'm gonna say a rosary for Rachel Campos-Duffy.
White liberals squirm when they have to deal with a black or hispanic conservative.
Too true Anon! It disproves their, "Liberalism is source of all succor of all minorities."
Hence the backlash many black conservatives receive from their "own."
Oooo... they didn't like the one about abortion - Whoopi totally painted herself in a corner when she praised Mother Teresa, and Rachel comes at her with the abortion quote - I think that was very clever, 'personally' notwithstanding.
Notice how Rachel is also the only attractive woman at the table, six kids and all (ok, so I'm a guy, sue me).
You don't get to see so many leftist dogmas shattered at the same time - makes me feel all warm and goey inside.
I don't care who she was looking at or just saying "personally,for me" 'cos SHE SAID IT and kudos for her!!
Heathens like me watched MTV's Real World San Diego about 15 years ago ( I was 16). It was then I got to know about Rachel Campos even then, she was a strong conservative and an unabashed Catholic. I found myself not knowing why I was on her side.
Interestingly enough, she met her husband Sean Duffy, who was also a cast member on Real World Boston in 1997 or 1998. Sean, was also a conservative and an orthodox Catholic back then and still is.
Together, Sean and Rachel have 5 kids. One with Downe Syndrome.
Sean Duffy is now running for congress in Wisconsin I believe. If you live there, vote for him.
It's interesting how disgusted they look when she says pregnant with her sixth child. Of course, they'd be cheering if she announced she was having her sixth abortion...
And I remember watching her on the Real World! Wow, she's come a long way!!
"Notice how Rachel is also the only attractive woman at the table, six kids and all '
I did. That's the inner beauty shining through, a soul united with God. And the converse is all true.
I LIKED the "personally, for me" approach because she sounds FAR less preachy then the other blowhards surrounding her. She's saying, "this is me, this is my life. It's out there in the open. So, take my opinion for what it's worth." And it is worth a LOT more than the other schmuckettes on that show.
Can't watch the clip from here, sounds good though. I'll watch itwhen I get home.
Just a little writing critique:
"After announcing that she is having her sixth child on the show..." That will be quite a show, and really upstage all the other ladies. But is it worth the loss of privacy?
How about
After announcing on the show that she is having her sixth child.."
OK?
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I applaud.
She is a much better social conservative voice on The View than Elisabeth Hasselbeck, IMO. Hasselbeck does her best to stand on principle but unfortunately she often comes off as shrill, combative and ill-informed when she speaks about the Catholic faith (I know Hasselbeck is Boston College grad and based on past comments she is not well-catechized).
Anyway, not so with Campos-Duffy. She is poised and confident and delivers her opinions in a forthright yet pleasant manner. It's amazing what a little formation will do! I hope we see more of her on The View and elsewhere.
I don't follow the Mother Theresa argument Campos-Duffy cites at all. Regardless of how awful abortion is -- and of the president's position on it -- it has nothing whatsoever to do with world peace in any meaningful sense.
Tom, Mother Theresa's arguement against abortion is something like this:
1. Abortion demeans the human person by treating tiny, vulnerable and (aguably) unproductive persons as waste to be discarded on a private whim.
2. Allowing abortion in society allows the underlying thought of human life as something to be discarded to begin to permeate it.
3. Once you have the legalized killing and discarding of human life in its tiniest (and most vulnerable) stage, it becomes easier to discard human beings in other vulnerable positions (look at the elderly and the proposed death panels in our health care reform...).
4. Once the discarding of vulnerable (read: useless, unproductive, draining) human life becomes common place, much atrocity is possible as human life is no longer valued simply because it is human and living. What is human and what is living then becomes subject to the various opinions of the people currently in power.
5. Once opinion of the powerful is the only defining source of what is human and living and worth keeping alive, you see mass executions (abortions) or death camps (Holocaust) or extreme ostracism (look up plight of India's "untouchables" -people not considered fully human).
The human rights violations, atrocities and killings all lead us away from world peace. Peace is acheived (imho) when human life is valued and protected (and fed and cared for) regardless of their age, condition or social status. Gross injustices and atrocities like those previously mentioned stir discontent, anger and violence among those oppressed and create eventual outbursts of violence in society and the world at large.
This is what I believe Mother Theresa meant when she argued that without peace in the womb, there will be no peace in the world.
I hope that explains it!
"I don't follow the Mother Theresa argument Campos-Duffy cites at all. Regardless of how awful abortion is -- and of the president's position on it -- it has nothing whatsoever to do with world peace in any meaningful sense."
One of Fem. for Life's slogans, "Peace begins in the womb" might shed some light on the Mother Theresa conection. Also, one of her own quotes will.
"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
(This may repeat Sarah above.)
Abortion itself is the antithesis of peace (war) in the womb. (millions acts of violence a year; no safe abortion for the preborn)
Further, (as Sarah said) she said devaluation of life leads to more violence.
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I once read another interesting interpretation of Blessed Mother Teresa's comment on abortion. In some countries and cultures that have a preference for boys (such as India or China), baby girls are aborted at much higher rates. This situation can eventually lead to a society with a shortages of female mates. When all those baby boys grow up and there aren't enough females to go around (and "domesticate" the men), it can potentially lead to higher levels of violence, instability etc. in the future.
I think the explanations of previous commenters are probably closest to Mother Teresa's meaning when she made the link between abortion and peace, but the other possible side effect of aborting high numbers of baby girls makes sense.
"...but the other possible side effect of aborting high numbers of baby girls makes sense."
I read somewhere that the number of aborted girls over aborted boys in China alone (in no. of abortions) is the population of the UK (GB) now.
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The Mother Teresa quote is actually part of her acceptance speech for winning the Nobel Prize. I happened upon this incredible gem of a book/cd combo on discount at Borders Express that had the recording and the transcript.
Text of Mother Teresa's Nobel lecture (3 mins audio available)
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