Links for 10/19/16

by Michael Sean Winters

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At the Washington Post,  Chris Hale of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good discusses the ridiculous charges being made about that organization. 

At RNS, Mark Silk on Trump's delegitimization strategy. At first I thought Silk was overstating the case but on second and third thought, I am not so sure. 

And, in Politico, Daniel Dale on what it is like to be a fact checker in this election. The money quote: 

The man himself, of course, almost never appears to care. Fact-checking sometimes prompts normal candidates to abandon or modify their false claims, often to spin some sort of explanation. Trump simply keeps on lying.

Here is another one of the musical selections I referred to yesterday, when I wrote about my father's funeral, the "Pie Jesu" from Faure's Requiem



 

 

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