See Politico for how the law has nothing to do with Sotomayor's nomination or the press coverage. Zero.
June 02, 2009 12:39 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
The Politico headline:
Right demands tougher fight on Sonia Sotomayor
The article itself is what the Beltway press adores: process. It's about how movement conservatives are demanding GOP senators filibuster Sotomayor's nomination, but that appears very unlikely to happen, and how two prominent conservative activists got into a tiff at a closed door meeting last week about their Sotomayor strategy, etc.
What's telling is that news outlets like Politico don't seem to think it's odd that there's a conservative movement afoot to stop Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination and the movement has virtually nothing to do with the law or her rulings from the bench. Conservatives aren't even talking about Sotomayor and the law, yet the press treats their opposition as being very important and newsworthy. Because when conservatives play hardball, it's news.
It's hard to believe that if liberals opposed Bush's SCOTUS nominees Samuel Alito and John Roberts with attacks that had nothing to do with their legal opinions, that the press would have taken that opposition seriously. But today conservatives don't even pretend to be interested in Sotomayor's legal record, and the press acts like that's completely normal for a confirmation battle.
Just like the suppposed contentious battles over confirmation for Hillary Clinton, Sebelius and Holder that never panned out.
But the press will keep on tryin' to make up something BIG!
How the great reporters from the past must be spinning in their grave at some of these scum even having the gall to call themselves journalists.
And please, everyone, spare me the indignation that people like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are great journalists. While they may not be uber-Nazis like Bill O'Lielly, Rush Limpballs, and Sean Insanity, they're anything but true journalists.
Journalism is nonexistent in this nation any more.