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Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

DaveinHackensack — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:20:43 -0000

Go for it. I give you even odds on getting a humiliating, Maoist-style apology from Rosen. It would serve him right. If he wants to advance the lefty cause, he should realize that its orthodoxies apply to him too.

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

DaveinHackensack — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:18:11 -0000

Rosen wasn't sloppy, he just used some deliberate ambiguity in his first piece on Sotomayor, claiming he hadn't read enough of her work to decide whether he agreed with the views of her detractors. Reading between the lines, it seems pretty clear that he shared those detractors' views but didn't want to take the heat for personally criticizing the intellect and temperament of a Latina judge. Hence, the "hadn't read enough" dodge.

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

DB Cooper — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:15:12 -0000

That's one of the few lessons I actually took from J-School: Never blame the reader. If he doesn't understand, it's YOUR fault, not his. You're the one whose job it is to communicate.

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

rikyrah — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:38:09 -0000

He wrote a SMEAR PIECE.

Straight up SMEAR PIECE.

Folks called his ass out and now he's trying to backtrack.

English is our primary language...Nobody misinterpreted a damn thing.

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

mj — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:35:20 -0000

Rosen wasn't sloppy, he was honest. Originally the question was within the party: who should we nominate?

Now the choice is made and he has to support the team. So of course he claims criticisms are misunderstood, apparently hoping his teammates will help him hide his intellectual dishonesty. No risk there, they know this part of the game.

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

MikeCee — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:24:18 -0000

He used this most recent explanation to defend and re-launch his unsubstantiated attack....

"Of course, Judge Sotomayor should be confirmed to the Supreme Court. She obviously wasn't my first choice, for reasons I reported three weeks ago, having mostly to do with concerns about her temperament reported to me by former clerks and New York prosecutors."

Sloppy, no, orchestrated hit job yes. In that regard he did his job, just not the job we think should be done by a so called journalist. Good news is that if all they have is this gossip and calling her a racist she is in good shape.

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

CitizenE — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:53:54 -0000

As I age creepy dyslexia is becoming an embarrassment. Thanks Jingo--Yoo, mea culpa.

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

Craig — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:30:59 -0000

I don't know, Paycheck was pretty torturous. Ahahahahahahahaha! (Seriously, it's terrible. Maybe not "crush a child's testicles" terrible, but terrible enough.)

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

formerly sy — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:30:27 -0000

Saying Rosen was sloppy gives him the benefit of the doubt. Only Rosen, however, disputes the clear meaning of what he wrote about Sotomayor.

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

eric k — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:27:27 -0000

Yeah people keep making that Typo.

John Woo's US movies haven't come anywhere close to the quality of his Hong Kong work but the man has done nothing that justifies confusing him with a War Criminal like Yoo:-)

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

LarryGeater — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:19:23 -0000

If they really believed that she was the light weight that they claim she is on the right; they would not opose her. They know that Obama is going to appoint a liberal. An ineffective liberal is their best case scenario.

I do not think she is going to be that ineffective because she folows TNC's first rule. She does her fucking job.

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

Jingo Killah — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:19:06 -0000

Careful, Citizen E. Yoo, not Woo. Don't pull a Fuckabee.

Re: Rosen On Sotomayor

CitizenE — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:08:18 -0000

John Woo (http://blog.american.com/?p=11... on Sotomayor:

"Obama had some truly outstanding legal intellectuals and judges to choose from—Cass Sunstein, Elena Kagan, and Diane Wood come immediately to mind. The White House chose a judge distinguished from the other members of that list only by her race. Obama may say he wants to put someone on the Court with a rags-to-riches background, but locking in the political support of Hispanics must sit higher in his priorities.

Sotomayor’s record on the bench, at first glance, appears undistinguished. She will not bring to the table the firepower that many liberal academics are asking for. There are no opinions that suggest she would change the direction of constitutional law as have Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court, or Robert Bork and Richard Posner on the appeals courts. Liberals have missed their chance to put on the Court an intellectual leader who will bring about a progressive revolution in the law."

Sounds like plagiarizing Rosen to me.