CNN panelists might have amnesia. It’s worse, apparently, than the former vegetable-in-chief they spent years defending.
On Wednesday’s NewsNight, a pompous and overconfident Neera Tanden, former senior Joe Biden White House official, talked over Scott Jennings, wildly gesturing and insisting that Joe Biden never went after his political opponents! She seemed personally offended by the suggestion.
Maybe she’s still living in the brain-dead Biden era, where a constant ice cream-brain freeze obscured reality. But Joe Biden’s administration almost singularly targeted conservatives, Christians, and, as it turns out, nuns — for the crime of being nuns.
That’s one way to book a direct trip to hell.
According to a new exclusive Daily Wire report, Justice Department prosecutors in the Biden administration fantasized about targeting Catholic sisters. Text messages obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) show DOJ attorneys Joseph Cooney and Molly Gaston salivating over a New York Times photo of religious sisters in traditional habits and veils at the January 6 rally.
“I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,” Gaston wrote. Cooney replied: “I’m with you. Although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.” Then: “Hahaha.”
God’s not laughing.
This is the same Cooney who is now running to represent Virginia’s 7th congressional district — right in the heart of the Diocese of Arlington, one of the most traditional Catholic dioceses in the United States, serving over 430,000 faithful. The irony appears entirely lost on him. You’d have to possess a breathtaking level of arrogance to miss it.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because earlier this month, the Trump DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group released an 800-page report exposing the lengths to which the Biden administration weaponized the FACE Act against peaceful pro-life defendants — mostly Christians — while barely acknowledging the firebombings, vandalism, and coordinated attacks on pregnancy centers and churches.
They called Christian beliefs “culty” in open court, screened jurors for religiosity, and dispatched 16 FBI agents to arrest Catholic father Mark Houck in front of his weeping children. All while cozying up to abortion advocacy groups who fed them dossiers on pro-life activists.
Sure, gas was high, the economy was in the toilet, and illegal migrants were flooding our borders. But hey, at least the nuns and baby-lovers were getting prosecuted. In fact, Biden prosecutors sought an average of 26.8 months in prison for pro-lifers.
I don’t want to hear about the “weaponization of the DOJ” from a former staffer of the man who wrote the book on it.
One side note: In light of King Charles jetting here this week to lecture us on religious tolerance and “shared values” in his address to Congress, I ask that his majesty aim his bloody, blasphemous babbling at the previous president, please and thank you. As it was, he was the religiously intolerant one. Of Christians.
Of course, beneath all of these lies is something far more sinister. It’s the quiet part they desperately want to say aloud: a seething hatred of the entire edifice of human rights, individual liberty, limited government, and objective morality that built the richest, freest, and most innovative societies in human history. That edifice rests on one revolutionary Judeo-Christian idea — Imago Dei. Every human being is made in the image of God. That single doctrine shattered pagan hierarchies, declared that kings and peasants alike have equal dignity before the Creator, and slapped a firm moral limit on the reach of government power.
They despise the religious conviction that makes abortion grotesque. The faith that gave us the work ethic and charitable impulse that built universities, hospitals, and the scientific revolution. The moral foundation that gave us a rule of law, declaring that even the president answers to a higher authority.
John Adams wasn’t kidding when he said the Constitution only works for “moral and religious people.” Strip away that Judeo-Christian root and you don’t get neutral secularism, you get moral subjectivism, where feelings replace facts and the state becomes the new God, deciding who has rights and who gets hunted.
The Biden DOJ was purposeful and nefarious. It was, in effect, an extinction project. They know Christianity stands in the way of total cultural control, so they smear pro-lifers as “extremists,” surveil churches, stack the DOJ with activists who openly despise traditional faith, and literally text each other about hunting nuns.
And then Neera Tanden has the audacity to sit on CNN and pretend none of it happened.
Spare us.
I think they’re arrogant ideologues who hold the rest of us in contempt. But I’ll still pray for them.
