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    Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings

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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    In response to her critics in the Almanac,, Sotomayor's colleague was quoted in the NYT saying "Some lawyers just don’t like to be questioned by a woman," Judge Calabresi added. "It was sexist, plain and simple."
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    07/15/09

    @Lymed: wow I don't usually find myself agreeing with people named Calabresi.
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    Image of fauxfruit fauxfruit
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    Graham, I hope you appreciate that we live in a world where if a woman senator spoke to a male nominee like this she would be labeled a bitchy, nagging harpy. Women could not come remotely close to your questioning style and survive. It IS wrong, but that's a fact.



    Does that make sense to you?
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    Image of Abra Abra
    07/15/09

    @fauxfruit: See: Barbara Boxer and the "Don't call me 'ma'am'" incident.
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    07/15/09

    @fauxfruit: Also, LYNDSEY, we live in a world where you would never take that tone with a white male candidate.
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    Image of Vivi21 Vivi21
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    The Republicans suck. We allowed Bush to have his picks for the court (Roberts and Alito); they should allow Obama to have his. So long as he is not appointing someone clearly incompetent, unready for the job (i.e., Harriet Miers), or spouting off political views on a daily basis, his pick should go through. The Senate is there for advice and consent, but it's pretty much the rule that, barring some catastrophe of a pick like Harriet Miers, a president should be allowed to appoint whom he pleases.
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    07/15/09

    @Vivi21: well I don't think her candidacy is at risk, they just want to humiliate her a little first.
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    Image of Treeless Treeless
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    SEN GRAHAM: I'm going to enjoy this chance to take you down a peg before I vote however I was going to vote anyway. Thank you, drive through.
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    Image of Anna N. Anna N.
    07/15/09

    @Treeless: Yeah, I have to assume a lot of this crap is just for show -- to try to make her look bad and him look tough and probing.
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    Image of stacyinbean stacyinbean
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    Does anyone have access to these Almanacs on judges? I have no doubt Graham has cherry picked all this bullshit, and that there is no way her colleagues have never been called out either!



    Also, could he be any more condescending with all of this?
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    Image of PinkSoxHat PinkSoxHat
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    Listen to the way Scalia can berate people during oral argument, then have that discussion with Sotomayor again, Senator Graham.



    What's that you say? It's okay because he's a tough Italian and she's just a Latino bitch? Yeah, that's what I thought.
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    Image of Penny_Esq Penny_Esq
    07/15/09

    @PinkSoxHat: No shit! If Scalia doesn't berate the lawyers who appear before him, I don't know who does. He even puts that shit in his opinions, which, while entertaining, is hardly professional or indicative of a "good" judicial temperament.
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    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    I have a different interpretation...



    SEN. GRAHAM: If I may interject, Judge, they find you difficult and challenging, more than your colleagues.



    I really wish you hot Latinoids would let me spank you the way I've always dreamed of doing, but all you crazy bitches hate me for some reason.
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    Image of Little Green Frog (Wise Latina) Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
    07/15/09

    @BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs....: Speaking as a hot Latinoid myself: no way, no how, never in this one or other lifetime.
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    Image of Little Green Frog (Wise Latina) Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    OMG, did you hear when he said "don't become a speech writer, because you then say that things are taken out of context"??????? (yes, I'm paraphrasing, here, 'cause I don't have time to copy the transcript) I'm still fuming over that one.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    07/15/09

    @Little Green Frog: Her retort should have been: "Well, I won't become a speech writer, if you promise not to become a judge." I'm thinking she said that in her head. I so want to ask her.
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    Image of Little Green Frog (Wise Latina) Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
    07/15/09

    @Little Green Frog: Here:

    "Don't become a speechwriter if this law thing doesn't work out, because -- (laughter) -- these speeches really throw a wrinkle into everything. "
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    07/15/09

    @Little Green Frog: *cringes at the laughter*
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    Image of pleppy pleppy
    07/15/09

    @Little Green Frog: oh sure, i won't. know why? because i'm going to be a supreme court judge you asshat.
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    Image of kithkin kithkin
    07/15/09

    @Little Green Frog: She's about to have a much, much better job than writing speeches for dweebs like him. With much better job security, I might add.
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    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    i feel like this was one of those moments where people say, i understand that some people are sexist/racist pigs, but i'm not... but you need to know that as a woman and as a minority, you need to learn the rules of the white man if you want to play in our old boys club.



    i give a lot of credit to sotomayor, cause i would have lost my temper.
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    Image of Anna N. Anna N.
    07/15/09

    @hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE: Yeah I think that is a pretty good "translation" of the whole thing.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    "the only reason I keep talking about this..." is because i have nothing else of substance to talk about.

    Also, little is inspirational about a white male succeeding in american society since it happens all the g-d time. It would be absurd for you to claim the several odds stacked in your favor help you do your job better since that's been the status quo from day one. UGH STFU Linds!
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    Image of EkaterinaBallerina EkaterinaBallerina
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    The "Wise Latina" quote was a lot longer than any of them are actually quoting. They are patently leaving out the rest of the quote which is vitally important to understanding what she was talking about.



    A thanks to Sotomayor for throwing in his and every other fucking senator questioning her on this's face that Alito said the exact same fucking thing at his hearing but apparently they didn't care enough to follow him up on it. They were probably charmed by it. It mean the SCOTUS is only out to serve the white man right?



    God, these people are collection of humanity fails. And they wonder why their party is no longer in power.
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    Image of jenniferhill jenniferhill
    07/15/09

    @EkaterinaBallerina: I've been trying to find the quote. Can you link it? I've had *no* luck with Google.
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    Image of EkaterinaBallerina EkaterinaBallerina
    07/15/09

    @jenniferhill: Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15judge.text.html.



    You just needed to know when and where the full speech was given. It was at Berkeley in 2001.
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    Image of jenniferhill jenniferhill
    07/15/09

    @EkaterinaBallerina: Thank you so much! <3
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    Image of EKane EKane
    07/15/09

    @EkaterinaBallerina: I'm so glad you said this. I'm tired of the news only using a one sentence portion of what she said to make a story. If they read back what she REALLY said there would be no story to report on.
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    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    Maybe he was like this because he wanted to test those anon. comments! That's it! About her bad temperament and all!



    No. No, wait, I think he's just an ass and a bully.
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    Image of Lady Skittlehattington Lady Skittlehattington
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    Hahaha....his name is Lindsey. That's a girl's name.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    07/15/09

    @Lady Skittlehattington: It is also the last name of George "Goober" Lindsey.
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    Image of Abra Abra
    07/15/09

    @Lady Skittlehattington: This is making me giggle far more than it should. Think he's taking out his years of childhood mockery on a Sotomayor?
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    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    SEN. GRAHAM: Okay. Say it to me. Can you recite it from memory?



    That was Graham's "Mexican Hat Dance Moment." Oblique reference to the M*A*S*H episode where Harry Morgan plays the crazy general who asks the black man before him to "dance."
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    Image of lms11 lms11
    07/15/09

    In reply to Graham In Translation: A Field Guide To Condescension In The Sotomayor Hearings
    You know what I think? He's threatened by her, and going to bring her down to his level. There have only been, what, 110 Supreme Court Justices ever? He's threatened that a Latina woman is going to have a better place than him in the annals of history.
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