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The Spectacle Blog
I just watched the 60 Minutes puff piece on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Scott Pelley asked Sotomayor if anyone resented her getting a hand up via affirmative action. Sotomayor spoke of a school nurse who asked her why she was being considered for Princeton when the top two ranking students were not being considered. Sotomayor said, “But from the tone of her question I understood that she thought there was something wrong with them looking at me and not looking at those two other students.”
Well, Sotomayor is assuming (as is Pelley) that the school nurse was motivated by Sotomayor’s racial heritage. Isn’t it reasonable to ask why Sotomayor was admitted to Princeton when the top two students were not admitted?
Towards the end of the interview, Sotomayor again made reference to the school nurse. “And the memory of it has never really left me. Because it is the look that so many people give you. It’s the look I was still receiving when I was nominated to the Supreme Court,” said Sotomayor.
Absolutely cheap. The opposition Sotomayor received on Capitol Hill was on account of her judicial philosophy and her rulings, not because of her Latina heritage, and she knows it. And who exactly gave Sotomayor that “look”? It certainly wasn’t Lindsey Graham who told her “you’re gonna get confirmed” during her confirmation hearings.
In any case, for Sotomayor to suggest that Republicans opposed her nomination because of her racial heritage is beneath her and beyond contempt.
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Constance| 1.13.13 @ 9:41PM
The sooner that we all stop expecting decent behavior from these people, the sooner we can effectively shut them down. The "Wise Latina" is nothing but a racially-motivated political hack. That is all she is on the Supreme Court for. To assume anything else is to be absolutely ignorant. Nothing is beneath her or anybody like her. To her, we all owe her a living. Not because of anything she has actually achieved, but because she knows the game - she knows how to play it and live highly on the backs of others because of the color of her skin. Time for all of us to realize this now.
J.C.Eaton| 1.14.13 @ 12:02AM
What she said.
txtrue| 1.13.13 @ 10:05PM
She needs to get out and socialize with "other" people. She has been so bigoted, and hung out with bogoted people for so long, she does not have a clue how Americans think. Sad. She might actually like some of us.
Kingofthenet| 1.14.13 @ 12:19AM
AARON apparently wants Higher Education classrooms to consist of 95% Asians with a smattering of Whites thrown in.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.14.13 @ 8:16AM
Were you beaten up by some martial art practicing Asian kid you tried to pick on once? Your remarks about Michelle Malkin (despite your claims that you have an Asian girlfriend, the "Made in Viet Nam" label on the blow up doll doesn't really qualify) are but another example of your bigotry:
Kingofthenet| 9.1.12 @ 1:38PM
Michelle practices YELLOW Journalism, I would say the SLANT to her work is obvious. I would not pay even 5 dollar, for her 'work' because it never leaves me with a HAPPY ENDING.
Brad| 1.14.13 @ 8:55PM
What? You expected better from Foolofthenet? Please...
RAM| 1.14.13 @ 1:15PM
I want the best to get ahead the most.
Occam's Tool| 1.14.13 @ 2:01PM
If the Asian kids are the best students, I'm fine with that.
Funny thing about Affirmative Action for minorities: it has always worked against Jews and Asians. I mean, I got accepted to UTMB as an out of state student, and U of I med school as an instate, and it wasn't because of my sparkling personality OR affirmative action.
But as for Sotomayor---she said her former father-in-law referred to her as being built like a "brick house." I'm sure it refers to her box-like build and smallish cubelike head, not chick a maow, chick a maow maow, Commodores' style.
I mean, Sonia doesn't strike me as the sort who's "mighty mighty," does she? Maybe for King, but not for a human male.
ggoblue| 1.14.13 @ 6:28AM
nothing is 'beneath' these pigs. there is no bottom to the ocean of slime in which they dwell.
ggoblue| 1.14.13 @ 6:29AM
king of the net apparently thinks one race is superior to the others...and he has another race picked out as second smartest...pray tell us your top ten you racist pig.
ArtyS| 1.14.13 @ 8:56AM
I wonder if it bothers the leftists on the court that Baracky is having more and more of the fun, spoiling so many of their big moments.
squalis| 1.14.13 @ 10:11AM
I disagree. The vacuous claims of racism are not beneath her, or any liberal for that matter.
Jim Adcox| 1.14.13 @ 10:29AM
If I thought long enough about it, I could probably recall every person who ever said anything to me that didn't please me or fit my little world. Then I could ponder what sort of facial expression each person wore, so many years ago, and I could remember it exactly, or shape it to how I wanted my memories to feel congruent with my current rage. THEN I could know that these people indeed did not like me, that they were against everything I believe, that they wanted to hold me down, even destroy me. Maybe years later, as I look back again, I will realize I was wrong about all of these perceived and imagined slights, and I will GET OVER MYSELF! But the resentment tastes so gooooooooood.
Tom Kyba| 1.14.13 @ 11:46AM
Wow, it sure took her a long time to resort to the race card didn't it? What pride Americans must have, to be represented by a judge who whines about racism at the drop of a hat.
I'm a Canadian of Ukranian descent. Where do I go to get a race card?
Paul McGrath| 1.14.13 @ 12:16PM
What is fascinating is that she made a very good argument against affirmative action without even realizing it: it denigrates the achievements of minorities even when they are absolutely deserving of them. The sad fact is that no matter how intelligent or hard-working you are, if you are a black man, people will wonder in the back of their minds whether you truly deserve what you've got.
JD| 1.14.13 @ 4:55PM
Sotomayor deserves little of what she's ever gotten. She seems to know this, since she couldn't bother to explain why she got accepted while two higher ranked students did not.
Bandido| 1.14.13 @ 12:26PM
Actually, it isn't beneath her. It's exactly at her eye-level. This is who and what she is. A nonentity, one who was elevated solely because of her race/leftism far beyond her meager intellectual gifts.
RAM| 1.14.13 @ 1:05PM
In the 1970's, my future wife applied for admission to a medical school that had traditionally accepted only female students. Problem was, the school had gone coed before she applied and was trying their best to admit male students. She found out that they admitted a less qualified male applicant instead of her.
atilla| 1.14.13 @ 1:39PM
if a lefty got pummeled and nearly beat to death WITH THE TRUTH that person would STILL NOT KNOW IT OR ADMIT IT
THE TRUTH IS NOT IN THEIR GENES
Bob K| 1.14.13 @ 6:59PM
No one here seriously believes she got to where she is without the help of affirmative action along with the help of her own big mouth in reminding all parties along the way that she was entitled to everything she wanted.
That's how it works.
C Bowen | 1.14.13 @ 7:53PM
Good reminder what a worthless hack Lindsey Ghamnesty is--sucking up Sotomayor like that, and not putting up a fight.
Occam's Tool| 1.15.13 @ 12:49AM
By the way, wise Latino: Benjamin Cardozo: into Columbia Law School at age 19 after starting college at age 15 and graduating Phi Beta Kappa.
Besides brains, what's the other thing that sets Cardozo apart from the Affirmative Action Latina---he was Jewish---there was no AA working for him.