NRO's Judicial Attack Dog Calls Elena Kagan A Prostitute
For Immediate Release
May 9, 2010
Contact: Chris Harris
202-756-4120
Burns: "Imagine the rightwing firestorm that would erupt if a prominent progressive insisted Sarah Palin was selling her body. This should be no different."
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Media Matters President Eric Burns released the following statement after Ethics and Public Policy Center president Ed Whelan implied possible Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is a prostitute:
"Ed Whelan's appalling attack on Elena Kagan degrades the political discourse and women everywhere.
"It is disgusting, yet not surprising, that the conservatives' favorite judicial attack dog would stoop so low as to imply a woman is a prostitute merely because she didn't to allow her personal views to stand in the way of our military's recruiters.
"Imagine the rightwing firestorm that would erupt if a prominent progressive insisted Sarah Palin was selling her body. This should be no different.
"Conservatives should stand up to Whelan, demand he apologize, and refuse to parrot his imminent attacks against whoever the president nominates to the bench."
Background:
Ed Whelan, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, is at the forefront of the fight against President Obama's judicial nominees. Writing at National Review Online on May 7, 2010, Whelan attacked Kagan for allowing military recruiters at Harvard Law despite her opposition to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Whelan wrote:
But, as George Bernard Shaw would have said to Kagan for selling out her supposedly deeply held principles, "We've already established what you are, ma'am. Now we're just haggling over the price."
Fearing the backlash he deserves, Whelan updated his post today to claim his use of the Shaw quote "obviously doesn't carry (and in my case certainly wasn't intended to carry) the particular stigma that a narrowly literal understanding would convey."
That's too little, too late.










Many on the right remind me of my niece whose father (my brother) asked me to bake him an old fashion bread pudding. I asked her if she would eat any of it. She said no, turned up her nose and said she didn't like it. I asked whether she'd ever had bread pudding, and she said no. I then asked her how would she know she didn't like a certain type of food if she'd never had it. She just smiled and looked at me. My niece is younger than those on the right, but their reaction to the unnamed SC nominee is the same.
Unsupported bias, ginned up controversy, acting without thinking, using their supporters as cash cows, opposition based not on merit but on prejudice, immaturity, all can be clearly seen in these attempts to discredit an unnamed SC nominee, only because President Obama is entrusted by the Constitution to make the choice. It's funny how the party that screams loudest about following the Constitution only wants it followed when it is in power. They fail to see that the Constitution grants them no power to select a SC justice. They can rant and rave and run their mouths as much as they want while making complete fools of themselves but the Founding Fathers established the guidelines in the Constitution, and they are powerless to do anything about it.
"It's funny how the party that screams loudest about following the Constitution only wants it followed when it is in power."
That statement is referring to Democrats, right??? Sure sounds like it, to me. Give me a break, that can easily be said for both sides.
Now, when someone calls me out on the previous statement, I will simply tell them that they have misunderstood my meaning and taken the sentence out of context. Limbaugh uses this tactic constantly.