About us Login Get email updates
Quick Clip
Print

Buchanan again says Sotomayor believes "discrimination against white males is OK"

June 05, 2009 10:49 am ET

From the June 5 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:

Please upgrade your flash player. The video for this item requires a newer version of Flash Player. If you are unable to install flash you can download a QuickTime version of the video.

EMBED

Previously: Buchanan continues attacks on Sotomayor

Expand All Expand 1st Level Collapse All Add Comment
    • Author by nerzog (June 05, 2009 10:55 am ET)
      4  
      Looks like the Republitoads are going to ride this Angry White Male Horse until it drops from exhaustion. Then they'll continue to beat it long after it's dead.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by TheThief672 (June 05, 2009 11:38 am ET)
        5  
        Once again....why does MSNBC even have this irrelevant commentator on?
        Report Abuse
      • Author by snoopy (June 05, 2009 1:43 pm ET)
        3  
        All Buchannon needs to do now is end his racist rant with "and now for a few words from my corporate sponsors". Look what Raw Story just uncovered!

        The Committee for Justice (CFJ), an astroturf group established by big business in July 2002 to create an appearance of popular support for President Bush’s judicial nominees, is now leading the effort to oppose the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court.

        CFJ’s Executive Director Curt Levey has been sending out press releases and making media appearances to promote the theme that Sotomayor is racist and biased in her rulings, drawing his talking points largely from a speech in which she suggested that when it came to race and sex discrimination cases, it was possible that “a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences … would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

        “It’s pretty disturbing,” Levey told The Hill. “It’s one thing to say that occasionally a judge will despite his or her best efforts to be impartial … allow occasional biases to cloud impartiality. But it’s almost like she’s proud that her biases and personal experiences will cloud her impartiality.”

        CFJ was created at the urging of former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MO) – who has himself been plagued by allegations of racism. In 2002, as Senate Democrats stalled the nomination of Judge Charles Pickering to the Federal Court of Appeals over Pickering’s alleged racial insensitivity and opposition to abortion, Lott recruited C. Boyden Gray to create a fake grassroots organization to drum up support for Pickering’s confirmation.


        There ya have it folks!
        Report Abuse
        • Author by eweston8542983 (June 05, 2009 7:53 pm ET)
          1  
          Been thinking that with ShrubCo out of office more and more conservative media action is originating from boardrooms. The quality and descrite modulated talking points from the machine have been replaced with an increasingly inferior product.
          I think this is one reason why.
          Report Abuse
    • Author by seeryer (June 05, 2009 11:24 am ET)
      4  
      Pat,
      I notice how you have changed from an out right charge of racism to "discrimination against white males". Is this because you noticed that the racist charge did not fit considering her siding against minorities in many discrimination cases? But not in the Ricci case which involved white males huh? So she is not a racist because she did not side with a Latina woman in one case and a black couple in another case but she does "discriminate against white males" due to the ruling of the panel in the Ricci case? Come on Pat, you can't point to one case over a 17 year career and know the personal philosophy of a judge.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (June 05, 2009 12:35 pm ET)
        3  
        It's bizarre to hear statements like Buchanan's, but this is a good demonstration of how the conservative echo chamber works in our media.They've spent weeks dumbing down Sotomayor's career to an inaccurate sound bite or two.

        Buchanan has been hearing himself, and his co-horts, progressively distorting the subject, to the point where he can just blurt out the stupidity above, and he may have even convinced himself that it's fact by now.
        Report Abuse
    • Author by wolf kotenberg (June 05, 2009 12:54 pm ET)
      2  
      Keep thinking that, Mr Buchanan. You aren't voting.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by nerzog (June 05, 2009 12:56 pm ET)
      5  
      [http://nefariouslabs.r30.net/Dead%20Horse.jpg]

      Sorry, I couldn't resist.


      Report Abuse
    • Author by Brabantio (June 05, 2009 1:48 pm ET)
      4  
      "Of the thousands of cases decided by Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the one that could have the most influence on her confirmation for the Supreme Court involves the defense of New York City Police Department employee who was fired for distributing bigoted and racist material."

      I'd really like to see Buchanan address this. If she really is acting on some inclination to discriminate against white people, what better opportunity is there than to support the job termination of a white bigot, as opposed to dissenting with the opposite conclusion?
      Report Abuse
      • Author by Preston (June 05, 2009 2:31 pm ET)
        3  
        ^^ Exactly. It's amazing that not a single media person at MSNBC used this example against Uncle Pat whenever he goes on his tirades about Sotomayor's discrimination against white males. Why would she rule in favor of a racist white guy, defending his rights of "political expression," if she hates white males so much? I think this was one of the many examples that made Newtize dial it back some lately. If she's a judge out the punish white men why didn't she do it in this case?

        It's quite pitiful that Tweety hasn't brought this up to Uncle Pat whenever the latter is on OddBall whining and moaning about "reverse-racism" and "discrimination against white males".
        Report Abuse
    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 05, 2009 2:54 pm ET)
      4  
      Maybe Pat isn't discriminated against because he is a white male. Maybe he is discriminated against because he is so gullible and an easy target.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by davemccarthymusic9410 (June 06, 2009 3:37 pm ET)
         
      Pat is an agent provocateur, pure and simple. He's pretty funny a lot of the time, but he doesn't present his stuff as comedy, and therein lies the rub.
      Report Abuse