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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is apparently the leader of a menacing conspiracy. The New York Times put this on the June 24 front page: "Under Trump, Ex-MTV Star Pitches Big Families." But he used to be a bad boy on MTV, so the headline underneath was "From a Racy Past to a Key Cabinet Post."

At 25, Duffy starred on MTV's reality show "The Real World." The Times reporter on this story was Caroline Kitchener, who recently won a Pulitzer Prize at The Washington Post for her blatant abortion advocacy thinly disguised as journalism. The agony of women who are unable to delete their babies has been her cause.

That tilt surfaced as the article was being pieced together. Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the oldest daughter of Duffy and his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy, tweeted: "One of the deranged questions she bombarded my parents with was if they considered aborting their first child -- me."

Kitchener's overarching point in this article is how Sean Duffy has exploited his large family with nine children as a collection of props to help push his political career. This is a little funny, since most politicians pose with their children in campaign ads.

"The truth is simple: we're not a prop, a brand, or some act. We're a real, loving, faithful, joyful family," tweeted Evita. She called Kitchener "bitter and a creep."

This was not how The New York Times covered the last transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, who adopted twins in 2021 to the delight of liberal media outlets. No one wrote a front-page article about Buttigieg being a poseur. You could try to find a New York Times article on how Kamala Harris posed with her adult stepchildren in all the publicity about how she's called "Momala." Were they just props?

As RedState writer Stacey Matthews joked: "In the aftermath of the 'MTV Reality Star in Trump's Cabinet Who Wants You to Have More Kids' article, we look forward to a future 'Willie Brown's Ex Mulls California Gubernatorial Run' write-up on former Vice President Kamala Harris."

The difference was that Harris was childless, which they were always poised to defend against "childless cat lady" taunts. Buttigieg adopted twins at middle age. That's not making the big leap of having nine children. Leftists are creeped out about "natalism," anyone promoting more births instead of more abortions.

Kitchener outlined the threat this way: "As the Trump administration seeks to both exude macho masculinity and encourage men to settle down, some conservatives see Mr. Duffy as an important cultural figure who offers a middle way. A red-blooded American male who once scored with reality TV stars, he is now a devoted dad with his own chicken coop and beehives." Are you scared yet?

Kitchener warned of Duffy's "controversial memo" pledging to prioritize transportation funding for regions with higher birth rates and marriage rates, noting Democratic senators have called that "deeply frightening" and "disturbingly dystopian."

To underline the natalist conspiracy, the Associated Press found the 14 states with the highest fertility rates backed Trump in the November election while the bottom 11 plus the District of Columbia supported Harris.

It's understandable that abortion-loving feminists feel threatened by any promotion of a pro-life culture of large Catholic families. "Be fruitful and multiply" sounds like God at His worst. It's disturbing that this qualifies as their dystopia. In their utopia, abortion pills fly through the mail for liberated women to exercise their autonomy and choose death for their inconvenient babies. They are killers, hear them roar.

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Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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