Newsweak magazine has issued a major correction to an article smearing potential Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, accusing the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judge of belonging to a Catholic sect that “inspired” the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Initially,
Newsweak claimed that “People of Praise,” a Catholic group to which Barrett reportedly belongs, “served as inspiration for Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel,
The Handmaid’s Tale,” adding that female members are forced to report to spiritual superiors known as “handmaids” and that the group stresses that “men have authority over their wives.”
“Members of People of Praise are assigned to personal advisers of the same sex — called a ‘head’ for men and ‘handmaid’ for women, until the rise in popularity of Atwood’s novel and the television series based on it forced a change in the latter,” the leftist propaganda panderers panted. “Atwood herself has indicated that the group’s existence motivated her to write
The Handmaid’s Tale, set in the fictional Gilead, where women’s bodies are governed and treated as the property of the state under a theocratic regime.”
The problem?
It turns out
Newsweak’s story is actually completely wrong based on information from Atwood herself, which
Newsweak admitted in its “correction.”
“Correction: This article’s headline originally stated that People of Praise inspired ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. The book’s author, Margaret Atwood, has never specifically mentioned the group as being the inspiration for her work,” the note read.
Newsweak regrets the error.”
I don't believe them.
The false
Newsweak story that had be corrected spread to leftist propaganda pushers everywhere even after the correction.
And the so-called "fact checkers" are MIA.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsweek-forced-to-issue-major-retraction-after-it-smears-amy-coney-barrett-claims-she-belongs-to-sect-that-inspired-the-handmaids-tale