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Why are these men so scared of Sonia Sotomayor?

by: Pam Spaulding

Tue Jul 14, 2009 at 19:00:00 PM EDT


The Women's Media Center has put together an amazing cavalcade of MSM pale males -- including Pat Buchanan, Rushbo, Glenn Beck, Dennis Miller, and the misogynist of the day, G. Gordon Liddy -- who sound like their testicles are shrinking at the thought of Sonia Sotomayor serving on the Supreme Court.
Since the announcement of Judge Sonia Sotomayors nomination to the Supreme Court, some in the media have engaged in sexist and racist attacks against her. Attacks have been overt and blatant. Some have been the repetition of extreme far right commentary, often packaged as news and endlessly discussed in mainstream media outlets.

Liddy's comment -- "Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something" is almost beyond belief.

If hormones and bad judgment are go hand-in-hand with being a woman for Liddy, how does he explain the bumper crop of men like John Ensign or Mark Sanford who show exceptional "judgment" based on their hormones?

UPDATE: Oh god. The right is really into the pigpen now, rolling in the filth. Look at this ad from a conservative judicial activist group called the Committee for Justice trying to tie Sotomayor to....drum roll please...BILL AYERS, as in supporting terrorism. I sh*t you not. Their logic? She served on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF).

As Kyle at Right Wing Watch says, the title to the video might as well be "Obama Is Putting a Terrorist On The Bench!"

But as the Hispanic National Bar Association - which is mainstream by any standard - wrote last week on behalf of 26 prominent national Hispanic groups: "PRLDEF is a mainstream and respected civil rights organization that serves not only the Latino community, but the nation as a whole." You can read more about the bar association's letter and PRLDEF here.

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She has more class than they do
And intelligence.  She is a great study in communications and keeping cool. Miss Lindsey Graham ranting on from 0 to queen in the past, but he seemed to like her.

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Jeff Sessions (full name - Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III) seems to be the GOP hit man against Sotomayor. They are using her "wise Latina" comments to suggest racism on her part. Problem is their hit man has some racial problems himself - in the 80s, Ronald Reagan nominated Sessions as a federal judge. The Judiciary Committee defeated his nomination outright for his racial animosity (Sessions thought the KKK was okay until he found out some of its members smoked pot).

Then we have South Carolina's Lindsey Graham. Quoting anonymous sources today, he questioned Sotomayor's temper on the bench asking her outright if she was a bully. Now, if memory serves me correctly, Lindsey Graham was one of John McCain's biggest supporters. McCain, of course, is known throughout the Senate for a terrible temper. Furthermore, here we have a United States Senator from a party that a)celebrates the death penalty b)advocates torture c)advocates corporal punishment for children d)advocates the death penalty for children...yet he is questioning Judge Sotomayor on her temper?!?! Give me a break.

Instead of questioning Judge Sotomayor on decisions she has made (which is totally appropriate), they seem hellbent on damaging her as much as they can before she takes a seat on the court.

Sad and frustrating, but totally predictable.  

"I like your Christ, but do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." ~Gandhi
"Upon the integrity, wisdom, and independence of the judiciary depend the sacred rights of free men and women."  


If there were a god
the Monty Pythonesque foot would have already squished Sessions and Graham both.

Like little annoying, insignifigant ants.


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Graham's lecturing was painful for me to watch
Seeing him lecture Judge Sotomayor as if she were a child really got to me.

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Did you notice...
...how he told her before he asked his questions, using his anonymous sources, how much he liked her? What a tool. I was utterly disgusted by his use of anonymous sources to attack her character.  

"I like your Christ, but do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." ~Gandhi
"Upon the integrity, wisdom, and independence of the judiciary depend the sacred rights of free men and women."  


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Actually it goes deeper
Not only do they get to attack her. Which seems to make the Repubs happy right now (of course they keep mentioning Bush's Male Hispanic pick, blanking on his name right now, just to let the public know its not about race.)

The deeper attack is more about the next individual to be nominated, since there will be another position soon (at least that is prevailing wisdom right now). By attacking Sotomayor they trying to affect the choices Obama can make in future.

Also it creates an atmosphere that the Repubs hope will help them. "Certain" people will now be watching her for anything they don't like. This also includes the individuals who are, less than well informed and think "activist judges" are actually a problem. You know those people we watch in videos of conservative events, who scream ignorance into at the camera and leave the rest of us shaking our heads in disbelief. The Repubs are hoping to use these people to help energize their base for the next elections and also by pointing out that they were the ones opposing her. This may or may not work (probably not) but they are holding on to this for now.      

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Smart, quick-witted, friendly
was how she came across to me, when I watched her today. Those qualities scare the living bejeezus out of most men I know...

Arrrgh!
I shouldn't have watched that!  

Judge Andrew Napolitano:  Is she responsible with her own money?  Is she relying on anybody else to support her lifestyle?

When has that question ever been asked of a male nominee before???

It's making my blood boil.  


Yup.
Bumper crop of misogyny they're growing there in DC this season...  

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yes, because people who spend years at blue-chip law firms are barely able to afford a South Bronx 6th floor walk-up studio apartment....


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he said "lifestyle"?!?
Judge Sotomayor's "lifestyle"?!?  Huge red flag, when privileged asshats start blathering about the "lifestyles" of those who didn't come up in their country club.  

I hope these fools keep it up.  I really think they are in for another shock in 2010.  All the socio-economic groups that came out to vote for the first time in 2008 are giddy with what they accomplished (though many of us here know we've been betrayed and kicked aside).  And I think these same groups are going to do it again in 2010.


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Rabid dogs bite...

...always have. Always will.


I like that!
Have to remember it.

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comment about RUSH
I finally have to make this comment somewhere.

Everytime I have EVER seen video of Rush Limbaugh doign his radio show, he is constantly pulling on the front of his shirt.  And, I mean EVERY time.  I've never seen a clip where he didn't do this.

Do his "man boobs" sweat so much that his shirt sticks to his skin forcing him to constantly pull it away?

Doesn't he have any air conditioning in his studio?

LMAO


you can do better
Rush has reprehensible views.  He is a despicable hypocrite.  And you mock him for sweating and being overweight?  Ha, ha, look at the fatty?  C'mon, man.

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Rush to Sonia...wanna be my drug mule, and do you do windows?


What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


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But couldn't Rush's moobs have an etiology other than obesity?


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The funny thing about this
She isn't reliably liberal, and she is as well as confirmed, and she replaces a liberal justice, so if anything the Court becomes slightly less liberal.
i hope once she gets comfirmed, she tells Sessions "to kiss her wise old wrinkled Latina butt."

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


Sotomayor seems to be pretty similar to Souter
It's true she's not particularly liberal, but I don't see her addition changing the political leanings court.

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political theater
of course this is all just for the sake of posturing before the base.  she'll be confirmed without trouble.






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Yeppers, and that base is getting smaller and smaller,
  The republican party is making a complete ass of its self.  And even half thinking people don't want to be tied to them.

 No new thoughts or ideas, just the same old garbage regurgitated from the mouths of talk radio.  Capitalism at its best, there are enough suckers buying into their junk to keep them behind the microphones.  But it isn't enough to win the republicans elections.  

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


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Reasons
1. The wingnuts think they have some divine right to occupy the Presidency and have their desired candidates appointed to the Supreme Court.

2. They fear any woman who isn't a figurehead or lily-white. Randall Terry is a good example of this type.  


Uhn...
I actually watched that whole video and I can feel I have lost a significant amount of brain cells.

I've had mixed feelings about her.
If nothing else, I can't convince myself that having a sixth Catholic on the court will be a good thing.  But knowing these clods are terrified of her makes me feel a bit better.

The American people, taking one with another, are the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.
-H.L. Mencken


Rachel Maddow had a guest who's in the hearing room
She mentioned the audience besides a large contingent of Sotomayor's family and friends, there is a HUGE group of Latino press corps...and the snide racist garbage and taliking down to the judge....ain't playing well to that room.

Repigs....the throat you are cutting in every Latino news service is your OWN.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


I had the hearings on in the background
all day yesterday and I'm afraid "Southern male talking" and "whining" have become synonomous for the forseeable future.

Was there a single Republican who managed his bit without saying the mantra "Wise Latina Woman"?  Is there one little overworked speechwriter in their cadre who gave up and started cranking the mimiograph?


"You got some 'Splainin' to do"....Oklahoma Senator to Sotomayor
On a gun's right question this oaf from OK, said that I Love Lucy line to the Judge...boy is that short soundbite gonna come back and bite his backside off.

I kept imagining they were gonna start posing questions to Sonia with West Side Story references. "If the Sharks have knives and chains, can the Jets have conceal and carry licenses?"

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


Here's the story from AMERICAblog
   http://www.americablog.com/200...
 

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


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