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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News GOP mouthpieces say Sotomayor is racist
Posted By John Grooms on Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:44 PM
CL writer Rhiannon Bowman told you earlier today about conservatives freaking out over President Obama's selection of a Latina judge for the Supreme Court, with some GOP pols backing away from opposing her for fear of alienating Latino voters, and Pat Buchanan echoing a New Republic article that claimed Judge Sonia Sotomayor is none too bright (funny accusation, considering she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton Law School and was an editor of the Yale Law Review). Now there's another accusation from the right — Sotomayor is a racist, at least according to such experts as FoxNews yakker Glenn Beck, radio mouthpiece Rush "Pillhead" Limbaugh, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The reason? In 1992 — yes, this is about a 17-year-old statement — during a discussion about the role of judicial diversity in determining race and sex discrimination cases, Sotomayor said, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." Is it just me, or is that not an understandable, and more importantly, true, judgment? In any case, hearing right-wing hate mongers like the aforementioned Trio of Shame attack someone as racist is, at the very least, really, really galling.
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