Caricature Witness

The first thing Clarence Thomas screamed was "high-tech lynching"! He knows how to play the race card to his advantage.

SHE injected ethnicity into the discussion. SHE injected gender into the discussion. SHE implied that her rulings will be "colored" by race and gender. SHE made the declarative statement that because she is a latina that her rulings would be superior to a white man. As a black man, all this race-ist talk is boring and noxious. If a case comes to the Supreme Court that involves a Puerto Rican, will they find favor with HER because HER last name is Sotomayor? Maybe we should expand the Supreme Court to include one judge that symbolizes every lifestyle in America, bi-racial judges of every bi-racial type, an obese judge, an anorexic judge, a midget(just hem the robe) etc....since rulings won't be made based on LAW, but on lifestyle and background. Where was the same degree of support for the beauty contestant, Carrie Prejean? Where was the mantra, "I may not agree with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it?" Where was that? Where? I can't hear you. You're to busy supporting gays, women, Latins, Blacks,,,,,,as long as they are DEMOCRATS. Frauds. Phoneys. Hippocrites. Ideologues. You'll get your Latina judge. In your next editorial you can write about how much you supported Alberto Gonzales. I'd better not hold my breath.

This is the problem that occurs when media acts as advocate,which they have no damned business doing [not if they are to be taken seriously on any other subject at any rate].

For the second time in less than one week, ''close friend'' Ellis Cose acts as this advocate, without lavishing even one spot of ink on what makes this pick worrisome.Indeed,Cose remands his sources to an area within the liberal echo chamber and does not seek out independant and intelligent critique,reaching for other liberals including Jarrett,Sturm,Shaw,and Toobin in order to make his case. Indeed, the liberal Los Angeles Times found it neccesary to lie regarding Republican uneasiness over the Sotomayor pick,inserting self-invented language in an article they did on GOP Sen.Coryun [Tx] and his response to the Sotomayor nomination performed solely to introduce racial intrigue, which is the positively worst usage of the nations fourth estate [ the LA Times has now ''disappeared '' this article with Coruyns offices demanding that it retract and offer correction/apology]. The more that the media acts as cheerleader,the more one should be suspicious of their motives,offering Coses two Sotomayor articles as exhibits one and two as instances of partisan advocacy rather than what constitutes ''news''.

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