Matthews misquotes Sotomayor to accuse her of using “little person talk”

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From the July 14 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:

Sotomayor actually said of her “wise Latina” speech and comments by former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, “I was trying to play on her words. My play fell flat. It was bad” [emphasis added].