Mitch McConnell says he's not handling the "speech police" over the Limbaugh's calling Sotomayor a racist!
By John Amato Sunday May 31, 2009 2:56pm
Mitch McConnell joined John King of CNN to discuss judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination. King asked him to comment on Limbaugh's racist rant against her. McConnell took the cowardly way out by not denouncing Limbaugh-Gordon Liddy and all the rest of them for their hate speech and instead used a different tactic.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: So, here you have a racist. You might want to soften that and you might want to say a reverse racist. And the libs, of course, say that minorities cannot be racists because they don't have the power to implement their racism. Well, those days are gone, because reverse racists certainly do have the power to implement their power. Obama is the greatest living example of a reverse racist, and now he's appointed one.
MCCONNELL: Look. I've got a big job to do, dealing with 40 Senate Republicans and trying to advance the nation's agenda. I've got better things to do than be the speech police over people who are going to have their views about a very important appointment, which is an appointment to the United States Supreme Court.
So I'm not going to get into policing everybody's speech. The important thing here is to look at the nominee, her qualifications, read the 3,600 cases, and do it right. That's what the American people expect of us.
In other words, McConnell is whispering, "hey Rush/Newt/Cheney/Buchanan/Tancredo! Keep saying what you're saying and I'll make believe that the Senate Republicans are above it all."
Think Progress:
Asked if Sotomayor is a "racist," Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) ducked the issue on CBS this morning. "I'm not going to get involved in characterizations before I've even met her," Kyl said.
CNN's transcript below the fold.
KING: 48 hours later, though, those remarks making some Republicans uneasy. Senator John Cornyn, who is from Texas and also heads your Senate Campaign Committee, says he finds those remarks terrible. And Senator McConnell, he went on to note that neither Rush Limbaugh nor Newt Gingrich, who also labeled Sonia Sotomayor a racist, get votes on this. They are not in the United States Senate.
You have a difficult job anyway. Are Rush and Newt making it a lot harder by using language like that?
MCCONNELL: Look, those of us who have a vote in this process are the ones who are studying this nomination. We have got a country full of people with their opinions, many of whom have big audiences, and they are certainly entitled to their opinions.
KING: Entitled to their opinions -- I don't mean to interrupt. I don't like to interrupt. Entitled to their opinions, but you're the Republican leader, you are the highest elected Republican in the United States of America. You've got a tough job. Would it be best -- would it be best that language like racist not be used by a man who millions of people listen to? A lot of people who vote for your candidate, and for a man who is not only the former speaker of the House of Representatives but is headline a major fund-raising dinner for House and Senate candidates this coming week here in Washington? Wouldn't it be better that they choose their words more carefully?
MCCONNELL: Look. I've got a big job to do, dealing with 40 Senate Republicans and trying to advance the nation's agenda. I've got better things to do than be the speech police over people who are going to have their views about a very important appointment, which is an appointment to the United States Supreme Court.
So I'm not going to get into policing everybody's speech. The important thing here is to look at the nominee, her qualifications, read the 3,600 cases, and do it right. That's what the American people expect of us.
KING: Can I read into that, though, that you do not agree? You would not label...
MCCONNELL: It is certainly not my view. My view is we ought to take a look at this nominee's qualifications. I think her life story is absolutely impressive.
KING: Let's move on.
MCCONNELL: And we all admire the fact that she has started off from humble beginnings, did well in school and has had a long career in public service. But the issue before us now is should she be a Supreme Court justice, and that is what we're going to be concentrating on here in the next few months.
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Remember this one. Next time someone McConnell doesn't like says something McConnell doesn't approve of, see if he continues to stay so nobly above the fray.
McConnell is a reverse vampire. Oh, and he is gutless.
He looks just like an old lesbian I know. Just thought I'd share that.
Better watch your tongue around her...
It's just every time I see him, I think of her. It means nothing, but it's been in mind for a couple of years. They could be twins.
It's a bird,
It's a plane,
It's your comment.
Not to worry sir.
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he like small puerile young teens in congressional page suits.
OK, he has not been caught yet.
Like all good republicans is a coward and a liar!
republicanism is a mental illness!
it was his lovely wife Elaine who was on the chopping block and the felon Liddy was interested in her menstrual cycles and hot flashes if the idiot would be so damn smug.
mcconnell would never say anything, because
he sure does not want to miss out on banging
the old closet drapes.
How can any person take anything that Mitch McConnell says or does serious..
He has sold Americans out to foreign businesses years ago , and has his hands in the lobby's pocket..
He is the highest ranking elected Republican in Washington??? ...and they wonder why they are in the tank???....seems pretty clear to me............surely no one takes this man seriously..........
well, mcconnell and kyl i'm glad you are
not the speech police because you two
CAN GO FUCK YOURSELVES!! YOU ASSHOLES !
like the rest of the gop, you are losers.
Waaaaa! Call me a WAAAAmbulance! He has FORTY (40) senators to deal with! How many supervisors are there in America who are in charge of 40 employees (or more)? Millions! My heart bleeds, you slacker.
Grow up, Mitch. Learn to be brave! Stop letting that obese racist say BOO and send you to your room without supper.
Seeing all this is really disgusting. Not that they are getting away with anything, but to see grown men cower in fear. It really makes me want to puke.
But are they 40 multi-millionaires? Gotta say, it must be hard to get that greedy bunch to agree on anything!!
when was that headshot of that racist 650lb jagoff taken? 1988? he has put on 300 pounds since then. dont tell me that that is the newest headshot that they have and dont tell me he has lost an ounce in the last 10 years.
the easiest way to deal with limbaugh is to identify him as what he is. a heroin addict. oxycontin is synthetic heroin. here i will use it in a sentence. "i dont take shit from heroin addicts, or the people who listen to them."
i pray to the gods of the myocardial infarction every time i see him.
any questions?
Funny, the Republicans and some Democrats had no problem acting like the speech police when MoveOn posted the advertisement against General Petraeus when he was testifying in front of Congress a few years ago.
The Speech Police only harrass progressives.
Just us!
or when any liberal talker says something they disagree with
i hate these people
McConnell is absolutely an integeral part of the culture of hate and violence the right foments for.
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I am NOT afraid of any terrorist going to a maximum security Prison you Brainless dweebs. You Scum Trash and Garbage on the RIGHT created this problem because the Talking Monkey bush and the Gutless Spineless cheney COULD NOT do their jobs.
So DO NOT put me in your cowardly scare routine you BASTARDS who lack Intestinal Fortitude, yes it is true your shadow is permantly attached so stay out of the sun you COWARDS and quit telling me I am afraid I am not, further proof is I am NOT a Cowardly Racist Nazi Lock Step Fear Mongering HATE Monger like nyou PUKES on the Right.
Just what does the slimey death face of the Repulsivican Party look like?
Hummm...lemme see here!
Curtsie!
Mitch McChinless. Mitch McSpineless would also fit very well. Of course, that assumes he doesn't agree with Limbaugh and Liddy.
McConnell is a chicken shit poltroon.
fact check police or truth police. Better yet, how about propaganda police where they as a news corporation has to present facts instead of propaganda before they can claim to be a news corporation.
For McConnell not to at least say what Cornyn said shows how weak he is. Of course Harry Reid could really show him what a chicken shit poltroon really looks like.
Let these assholes play to their base. It is shrinking every day. At least they will be solidly behind them.
looks like cnn is countering ko's bouncing lardass with a high school yearbook pic
Remember the hubbub over MoveOn? All the democrats lining to Denounce the hate speech of MoveOn?
Why aren't we lining up asking Republicnas to denounce Limbaugh? Why do we let them continue to faughn over him? If we think that we are giving them enough rope to hangthemselves we are mistaken. we're giving them the rope with which to hang us!
Rush Limbaugh LOVES Sonia Sotomayor. Since her nomination, his bellicose rants have driven up his ratings and polished his portly image for the shriveled Republican base. Of course, this is all at the expense of our self-respect. In a single breath, Rush Limbaugh accuses a highly respected Supreme Court nominee and the President of the United States of being racists. (There is no such thing as a "reverse racist", unless you're a racist who feels that you've been discriminated against). Limbaugh's grotesque remarks are an embarrassment to the country. It should be no surprise to anyone that he doesn't understand how "sensibilities" can influence the way a judge might view the facts in a case– which is totally different from interpreting the law. A century ago, Supreme Court judges would have looked at civil rights cases through totally different eyes-- eyes that were blind to what we now see as culturally embedded racial prejudice. What fuels Limbaugh's faux rage is that Sotomayor represents sensibilities that aren't held captive by dogmatic assumptions and pre-Civil War values.
Why should Mitch McConnell play speech police with everything his minions are saying when most of it is coming right out of the playbook McConnell ascribes to? He stays lily-white clean while the mud and filth pile up.
He is a miserable pinch-faced, mysoginist, racist, intolerant old fart.
...or does McConnell's nose look like a penis?
Larry King is like the sheriff who opposes his opponent in the upcoming election of f'ing pigs. When asked if his opponent
really believes that his opponent really f's pigs, he says "No, but
I just want him to hear him deny it. In the same way King keeps
wanting to link the comments of Rush Limbaugh and others opposing
the nomination of Sotomayor, and refusing to allow Senator Mitch
McConnell to respond to the question. Larry King in this case is the pig, who has no interest in the truth.
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