Chewing the rag

You knew this would happen didn't you?

First, US right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh compares President Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court to the nomination of David Duke, former KKK Grand White Sheet Wearer David Duke and, I might add, an elected Republican.

Okay, in one sense, that's fair. He probably would say that of any non-white nominee, male or female, because, as you know, whitey is super oppressed right now.

Except, as one of my Twitter pals noted, it's hard to think of Limbaugh as white, "fair-complexioned,'' what with his head so far up his own butt. (Edited to add: A friend noted that some people may misinterpret the joke. I hope not.)

So, anyway ...

Via Think Progress, comes this, out of the mouth of ex-con and tax evader G. Gordon Liddy, who must love judges, on his radio show.

LIDDY: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then.

Give a listen:

So here's what I'm thinking. if an when Sarah Palin, whom jackasses like these seem to adore, runs for the White House in 2012, think we'll hear Liddy express concerns about PMS and going nuclear?

Tick, tick, tick ...

UPPITY WOMAN DATE: More on the oppressed white man from Salon. (reg. req'd.)

You might not think, in that world, that early opposition to the court nominee would involve accusing her of being racist and sexist, and steadily questioning her intelligence in a way that implies she's an affirmative action pick. That might seem, in fact, like a fairly self-destructive strategy, one that even the opposition party's most hardcore base would want to avoid. But welcome to 2009.

"White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw," wrote Newt Gingrich -- whom conservatives routinely fall over themselves to praise as a driving force of ideas for the Republican Party, and who is also, at least for now, making noises about running for president in 2012 -- on Tuesday on his Twitter feed. The ex-House speaker managed to make the sentiment sound even more Neolithic by compressing it to fit Twitter's 140-character limit. "Latina woman racist should also withdraw." He seemed to be grunting, not tweeting. (Gingrich was then forced to fend off questions about whether he had posted that item while touring Auschwitz -- which he denies, and which you couldn't make up.)

UPPITYER WOMEN DATE: MOMocrats has a gruesome photo of Liddy.

Comments

[cynematic]

Thanks for the link love! ;)

[The Stygian and his Shemitish Dogs]

"former KKK Grand White Sheet Wearer David Duke and, I might add, an elected Republican"

and about the only Republican one, and only at the state level. Pretty well every elected Klansman, including all this in the House and the Senate, was a Democrat. Liberals have no business complaining about David Duke until they disown Senator Robert Byrd, who still lets the mask slip from time to time.

check out Bruce Bartlett's "Wrong on Race", where this embarrassing history is covered in full.

http://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Race-Democratic-Partys-Buried/dp/0230610994

[The Stygian and his Shemitish Dogs]

oops

"all this in the House and the Senate"

should be "all those in the House and the Senate"

[The Stygian and his Shemitish Dogs]

meanwhile, Sonia Sotomayor herself seems to be getting a free pass on her membership in "La Raza". If the Republicans are serious about scrutinising her nomination, they should make sure she is asked very closely whether she really favours the American South-West splitting off to become part of "Aztlan", and if not, what is/was she doing in that organisation to begin with.

Coupled with inviting Frank Ricci to testify, as suggested by Charles Krauthammer in today's National Post (can't find it on that website, have to make do with the New York Daily News), that should change the terms of the debate, a "teaching moment", as he puts it.

Read more: "The case: Sotomayor vs. Ricci; Firefighter was denied equal justice because of the color of his skin" - http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/05/29/2009-05-29_the_case_sotomayor_vs_ricci_gop_must_use.html?page=1#ixzz0H2uwuPW4&A