Hannity and friends trot out all the "wild and crazy Latina" stereotypes to smear Sotomayor
By David Neiwert Thursday May 28, 2009 9:00am
Republicans always get these bewildered looks on their faces when it's pointed out to them that there's a clearly racist component to their incessant Hispanic-bashing. Racists? Us? In fact, this response is a highly calculated attempt to make their accusers seem like hyperbolic ranters.
But just watch Sean Hannity and his guests -- Andrew McCarthy of NRO and Jay Sekulow of the right-wing American Center for Law and Justice -- wank forth on the unkind things their fellow right-wing lawyers say about Sonia Sotomayor.
Here are some of the comments about Sotomayor from attorneys who practice before her that Hannity manages to cherry-pick (he lifted this whole from Power Line without crediting them, incidentally):
"She is a terror on the bench."
"She is overly aggressive -- not very judicial."
"She behaves in an out of control manner."
"She is nasty to lawyers."
Of course, from the same source, we can do similar cherry-picking:
"She is very good. She is bright."
"She is a good judge."
"She is very smart."
"She is frighteningly smart. She is intellectually tough."
"She has a very good commonsense approach to the law."
"She looks at the practical issues."
"She is good. She is an exceptional judge overall."
Nonetheless, Hannity and Co. proceed apace, attacking Sotomayor's "judicial temperament" by making it clear that she's just too hot-tempered to be a good Supreme Court Justice:
Sekulow: You know, I do a lot of my practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, and of course the difficulty is, this is the highest court in the land, the final determination on judicial review. There's no other higher court to go to, there's no other -- this is it. And to not have the right judicial temperament not only signals a danger for the litigants before the court, and of course the lawyers, but also for what the law becomes. And that's my concern with this, Sean.
You've got the statements about the setting social policy, the concerns being expressed by lawyers that have argued before her about a lack of judicial temperament -- this is the Supreme Court of the United States we're talking about, and there is no room for error in that regard. And the lawyers have to be able to artfully, quickly, and diligently present their case, but the judges, the justices, have to be able to listen, and that's what I'm concerned about right here.
Hannity: [To McCarthy] ... Um, "She can be difficult, temperamental, excitable, she seems angry, she makes inappropriate outbursts, she is nasty to lawyers." This is ... this is almost a liberal critiquing this show!
Why, it's almost someone describing a classic "hot-blooded and crazy Latina" stereotype.
In fact, it is. And, as usual, using anonymous sources.
And then these guys wonder why Hispanics are fleeing the Republican Party.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t43_ilAdwC8&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU
After a court ruling just talk to the winning legal team, then the losers...both will generally have different opinions of the way the judge handled his/her courtroom.
Yup...exactly.
I started laughing when Hannity was doing this because it is blatant cherry picking of quotes.
and you were expecting journalistic integrity?
C'mon mon....this is FOX.
... and it's Hannity.
No, I was expecting Coulter-style plagerizing and that's what I got!
The scary part about this is how many people won't actually come to this conclusion but believe it because hannity said it. I'm sure if you talk to others about John Roberts you could've gotten some pretty nasty comments about him as well. Of course fox would talk to the lawyers that she ruled against to get just the type of comments they wanted to highlight.
This is going to be FUN!
What's really funny is that they're trying to portray her 60% reversal rate as if it proves that she's not fit for the SC when the average is 75% reversal. How do these people look into that camera with a straight face while spewing this garbage?
... once you've sold your soul for cheap, you've got nothing left. Integrity? Honesty? Gone. Can't get them back.
All you can do is sink deeper.
This is why the Bush Administration was such a train wreck - it began with him selling his soul for the presidency. He thought it was God calling him, and it was really a telemarketer:
"The factory warranty on your immortal soul is about to expire! Please press 1 to speak to an infernal representative ..."
I've never heard anything even resembling intelligence coming out of his blow-hole. The jerk still claims that waterboarding is not torture. Why then is he showing the yellow streak down his back by not accepting Keith Obermann's challenge? He's all noise and no action.
being "two wild and crazy guys"!
That she cheats in cards
puts too much achiote in her rice
she actually likes American Idol (the horror)
she doesn't use her turn signal when making a right turn
she doesn't rewind her tapes
yada, yada, yada...
he lifted this whole from Power Line without crediting them, incidentally
Well, sure! Then he'd have to admit giving credit to a [gasp! I feel faint!] BLOG. And we know how conservatives feel about evil, stupid, jobless "bloggers". Oh wait, that's right.....blogs are only easily dismissed if they have a progressive (read: truth based) leaning. Conservative leaning? Hey, Drudge me baby one more time. Kind of like their derision of "Hollywood values", but they themselves don't hesitate for an instant to throw people like Reagan, Arnie, Fred Thompson, and the like into office.
Tools. Their hypocrisy knows no limits. They'd have to grow consciences for that to happen.
I see that Hannity has decided to drink from his six pack of stupid for his afternoon appearance.
I guess he's saving his six pack of crazy for tonite or tomorrow.
....his gooood buddy Beck keeps bogarting the Batshit Insane waterpipe.
...did Glenn Beck get a TV show?
...anything his right wing masters demand of him. Basically, he's a prostitute with schtick thrown in for good measure. FoxNews is just a political media dissemination network for the GOP. Their objectivity is unquestionable, meaning: they don't have any. Beck fits right in.
just a wild guess...
... ugly. Which explains why I dislike Glenn Beck.
round head full of fluff--it's all there. We've had Tweety, now we have GBK.
I used to think the CPKs (kids) were ugly too, but have mellowed in my old age.
he cried in Rupert Murdoch's office, so Rup gave it to him to make him go away. Arrrrrrrrrrrrh!
It isn't Pirate Day, but any time is a good time for some "Arrr!"s.
All acceptable answers! LOL!
Surely they have kegerators at Faux News HQ by now!
Something much stronger is responsible for this crap! They have to be issued pipes and pill bottles during their orientation to work at the FoxHole!
Who said beer?
I said 6-pack.
When he's off air, Sean pulls on the beanie with the two holders and the straws.
But they loved Alberto. Weren't the dems painted as rcists when Al was up for conformation? Why have we continued to let the GOP be the party of backbone wile we remain spineless in countering their attacks?
And we all see how well that worked out for them, right?
It's worked out well for him. He's getting air time talking about her, maybe now he'll get a law clerking gig... Or become the Fox SCOTUS consultant. After all he can speak Spanish, so he'll be the only reporterwho can understand the new judge....
Wait for her first case. They'll rip her apart, or she'll cave and decide "safely".
...we jump the "spineless" label too quickly. Maybe the difference is between those beset with willful, verbal diarrhea and without a shred of decency and mature, grown people who think about what they say now and again?
It's more palatable....
Like Solomayor also,And you can tell who that site blogs for by the flag on the right
I can hear him now. "Anal rape saves American lives." Anal rape provides good intelligence." "Anal rape is not torture."
"And.... I will allow myself to be anally raped to prove it." "To make it as authentic as possible, I will select a young, buff, dominent, marine with boyish good looks." "A proper lubricant will be used." "After all..... we are not savages."
a good scent. Must Smell Good
Did they happen to mention what time of the month this was?
I KID!!!
I wish I'd said that!
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judges, the Dems should defer to his judgment. When a Democratic President nominates judges, he should select from a list submitted to him by Republicans.
yesterday on NPR.
"Well, you know, this pick isn't so important because Obama is just replacing another liberal. But if one of the conservatives retires, he really needs to pick someone that is at least centrist to appeal to conservatives in this country and not appear to be combative."
What. The. FUCK?!!?
Anybody hear about this thing called an Election? You know, the thing you win and that allows you to make these crazy things called 'Decisions'?
...you are for the status quo, then?
:D
Status Quo sounds like the name of a Roman politician who could never make up his mind about anything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atBdNHGxEEY
reaching?
but I can say reacharound.
One of the most powerful statements regarding racism I have ever read was written by Peggy McIntosh (pdf). The essay available online is excerpted from a much longer work, and includes a section called, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack", which lists what Peggy calls, "Daily effects of white privilege".
Some of my favorites:
1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
7. When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.
13. Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.
18. I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty or the illiteracy of my race.
Many more at the link above, and the entire essay is a great read.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SaKYFR6ms
From the Power Line blog I copied the descriptions for each judge into the Wordle.net generator.
See the results
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/892823/Sam...
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/892818/Son...
He's mostly Conservative, she's mostly Argument.
Just having some fun. ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mft3_A6qtRA&fe...
The day she was nominated by the President, C-span showed a fake court case at one of the law schools back in 04 or 05. There were three judges. Roberts, Sotomayor and one other one whose name I can't remember. Four of the students were arguing a case before these three justices. I saw nothing crazy, hot headed, disrespectful or unusual about anything Sotomayor said. In fact her questions were excellent for both parties.
Okay she did yell out a couple of nasty comments in Spanish but heck what judge doesn't. (yes, I'm just kidding with that last sentence)
Rush Limbaugh defending his 'magic negro' comments by saying racism is a ploy by people who enjoy victimhood? That they cry and scream and whine until people concede to them?
So who's leading the charge on 'Sonia Sotamayor is racist'? Yup. Rush Limbaugh.
pudgy wee twerp. According to Vonnegut, a twerp is one who wears dentures in their anus in order to bite the upholstery buttons from the seats of taxicabs.
Speaking of ethnicity, Hannity can kiss my pale, scrawny, socialist, Irish arse.
Shut yer piehole, Shawn, your making Irish people look stupid...
;)
You must be Bonkers.
And a stinkin' librul Irishman (plus some Portuguese and French) as well.
These arguments against Sotomayor are getting ridiculous.
This clip and subsequent post prove that those who are most vocal, are the ones who really have no idea what they are talking about.
http://progressnotcongress.org/blog/?p=1416
are they describing justice scalia???
hey dipshit, when are you going to get waterboarded. You are just a PUNKS, PUNK. I would pay money just to see you cry like the bitch you are. This is my dream to watch you piss your pants. One thing, you will get straped down, you will get waterboarded for just 1 minute. Be a man( like he is a man, little bitch maby not a real man) You said you would try out waterboarding. But I guess its just like all the rest of the shit you say, just bullshit day in day out.
but know this: It's all in vain and every single poisonous word out of your mouth alienates another voter and sends them running far, far away from the Republican Party.
Hannity and henchmen better get one thing straight: Sotomayor has the votes and she WILL be sitting on the Supreme Court. When that happens, whatever remains of the right wing base, (about ten thousand angry middle-aged white dudes by that point), can yell at their TV.
Like one republican woman said,Can't remember her name was she was a rightious woman untill she got caught haveing a 10 yr afair with her gardner.She died a few yrs ago but she said.
"You can sell the American people a sack of shit if you market it right"
A lot of politician are facing possible execution for their crimes against humanity,So don't put anything past them trying to pull one over on us by putting another sociopath on the USSC.
One other question I'm wondering about does Sotomayor have any connection the the Sotomayor Hotel chain in Porto Rico and other places around the world
I thought the GOPers would have held that to be a virtue!
with all their well publicised disdain for 'trial lawyers.'
:++:
here in the south makes me think they're useing sort of a reverse psycology.Saying she is going to be seated because their is nothing the gop can do about it.Personally I think it may be one of their tricks to pack the court
Sekulow argues, "[a]nd to not have the right judicial temperament not only signals a danger for the litigants before the court, and of course the lawyers, but also for what the law becomes."
This comment is problematic for at least three reasons. First, and most obviously, it ignores Justice Scalia's jurisprudence, some of which openly mocks differing opinions offered by the other justices in a manner akin to a competing brief filed by a litigant. Two, I can tell you as a matter of personal experience that federal courts are littered with judges who are "difficult," and the law doesn't really vary based on that particular item. Three -- what a baby! Geez, you'd think this guy had never been grilled by a sitting federal judge.
"She is a terror on the bench."
"She is overly aggressive -- not very judicial."
"She behaves in an out of control manner."
"She is nasty to lawyers."
You call this racist? I call this sexist.
Either way childish, schoolyard insults and stereotypes is all these cretins have. It's laughable how silly their response has been to our next justice. Shame on them.
Women of color are routinely subjected to sexist comments that have some of their roots in racist beliefs about our background, or vice versa.
In this case, Latinas are routinely stereotyped as spitfires with bad attitudes. It's just that these comments also have the added sting of terrible misogyny.
till he takes the waterboard.
or when she loses patience with shit-for-brains like Hannity.
The rest of the time I'm a mild-mannered pussy cat.
Keep at it GOP, eventually you will alienate everyone else on earth.
NO MORE OPPOSITION...
NO MORE BUSHIES...
NO MORE FILABUSTERS...
NO MORE NEO CONS IN PUBLIC OFFICE...
NO MORE RADICAL RIGHT JUDGES...
NO MORE ratings for hypocrital screamers like hannity
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