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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News New ad says Sotomayor “supports terrorists”
Posted By John Grooms on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
The Sonia Sotomayor hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee keep bringing the rightwing crazies out of the shadows and into the light of day. Earlier, we told you about Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has the gall to imply that Sotomayor is a racist when his own racist behavior has been public knowledge for years and caused him to be rejected for a federal judgeship. Now, an organization which Sessions has praised, the rightwing nut, oops, activist group Citizens for Justice, has put out an anti-Sotomayor ad in which it claims that the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund -- which Sotomayor belongs to (or “led,” as the ad erroneously claims) -- “supports violent Puerto Rican terrorists.” The PRLDEF is, in fact, a well-known, completely mainstream civil rights advocacy group that focuses on things like employment discrimination and bilingual education. The CFJ ad really goes off the deep end when it also tries to link Sotomayor with “Obama’s buddy Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who bombed American buildings in the seventies.” It’s so ludicrous, you’d think people would be ashamed to put out this kind of pure crap. But no. As ThinkProgress.com points out, Sen. Orrin Hatch, another member of the Judiciary Committee who has been critical of Sotomayor, supports the group, and was “a featured guest” at a fundraiser that collected $50,000 for CFJ, allowing the group to continue producing its outrageous commercials.
As the American right wing continues its ongoing mental breakdown, it seems that everyone they disagree with is now destined to be called a “terrorist,” or at least a “supporter of terrorism.” There’s sometimes a thin line between political zealotry and insanity (see: Nazi Germany). I’d say that unless the CFJ is the most cynical political organization in the U.S., its members are really getting close to crossing that line. Here's the ad in question:
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