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Sessions calls Limbaugh's and Gingrich's comments on Sotomayor "loaded words," says they're not "an appropriate description"

May 31, 2009 11:18 am ET

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    • Author by canaanxing9025 (May 31, 2009 11:24 am ET)
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      Elephant in the room!! He is projecting again.
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      • Author by John Paradox (May 31, 2009 4:12 pm ET)
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        (a Tom Swiftie)
        "The Elephant in the Room!" trumpeted Limbaugh
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        • Author by eweston8542983 (May 31, 2009 9:14 pm ET)
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          An abuse of one of the classics, but.
          "Your to small for the hocky team Karl, but there is a possible position for you," Rush said puckishly.
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    • Author by pauldeman (May 31, 2009 11:25 am ET)
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      I'm no fan of the Republicans but am glad that Senators Sessions, Cornyn and Graham have spoken out against the right-wing fringe. Good for them.
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      • Author by bluhawk7398 (May 31, 2009 11:34 am ET)
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        It doesn't matter what the repubs. say in response, they're darned if they do and darned if they don't! Cornyn tried to distance himself from it and was chastised by Bill Press(or Hartman I can't remember which) for pretty much just trying to cover his political behind....may as well just let things ride out now, let her defend herself and if she's confirmed, so be it, she is only nominally more liberal that Souter anyway...
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      • Author by canaanxing9025 (May 31, 2009 12:04 pm ET)
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        It appears that a lot of the Republicans are distancing themselves from the right-wing fringe. However, they will use their media puppets again
        when and where they are needed.
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    • Author by dmhack (May 31, 2009 11:29 am ET)
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      What a tepid response to such a straight forward question. Do you consider her a racist, Senator Sessions?
      Answer--No, I do not.
      And yet, ever fearful of the Great Gasbag, he bobs and weaves. How sad and cowardly.

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    • Author by TheThief672 (May 31, 2009 11:34 am ET)
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      Why doesn't Sessions just come out and say "I don't think she is a racist". He danced around the answer. The only reason why is that deep down he does believe it. Nor did he condemn the people of his party for making those remarks. Why do all these people can not understand that someones personal background does indeed take a part in any judgments they make about the world around them.
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      • Author by Preston (May 31, 2009 12:54 pm ET)
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        Exactly. "Loaded words"? That's all he can say? No, Sen. Sessions, how about dishonest, racist, sexist smears that are divisive and evil. That would be too much for Sen. Sessions to say, since like Limbaugh, Gingrich, Buchanan, O'Reilly, Beck and Hannity, he probably believes that Sotomayor is racist, but he knows that the damage the Right Wing Slime Machine has done to the Republican Party for the last week or so is enough to bury the party for generations to come.

        Sotomayor should be someone that they celebrate. She's someone who followed all of the rules and guidelines to succeed and reach the American Dream. She pulled herself up by her bootstraps, excelled high academically in TWO of our top universities in the country, even when she had so many barriers in front of her as a minority woman from a poor background. Don't they understand by sliming a woman like this who has achieved so much in her life when having so little is going to alienate not only Hispanics from their party, but any logical-thinking person who is aspired by her story?

        This PR smear campaign against her has ultimately failed for them, and I don't think it's going to have much positive effects for them in the future. Obama should be applauded for this masterful chess move. They stepped right into his trap he set for them. Bravo, President Obama!
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    • Author by jjamele2880 (May 31, 2009 1:48 pm ET)
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      On the same show, Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) TWICE referred to "leaders in the Republican Party such as Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh"- and Sessions didn't object either time.

      Sessions was treading very carefully- he doesn't want to look like the ugly bigot he is, but he can't afford to tick off Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing yakkers either. So he was stuck bleating the "not appropriate description" milquetoast non-disclaimer, rather than saying what any person still in possession of his own soul would say- that the Limbaugh/Gingrich comments were blatantly bigoted and offensive and have no place in civilized discourse.
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    • Author by tman418 (May 31, 2009 2:31 pm ET)
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      I wonder what the odds are that he's gonna have to apologize to Rush Limbaugh or deny that he was speaking about him?
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    • Author by Dem02020 (May 31, 2009 2:50 pm ET)
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      Nice strategy the Republican party is employing now, and ever since January I guess : their media hacks (limbaugh, hannity, o'reilly etc), they say all the things that Congressional Republicans want said, and not only is the dirt and filth not attributed to them (Congressional Republicans), but they even get to softly disavow (in hollow words) those things said by their media hacks, and appear all fair and clean in the process... nice scheme.

      All the things are still said, and all the dirt and mud is still slung, and the purpose is fully served : but the people who all of this truly serves (Congressional Republicans, who of course stand for re-election), they get to ride along all clean and above it all...

      Those Republican media hacks don't stand for re-election (because if they did, they'd have been dismissed by the American People in 2008, if not 2006, like so many Congressional Republicans were), they're hirelings, highly paid advocates for the Republican party : they make millions of dollars per year doing Congressional Republicans' dirty work for them, and they do it using our Public Airwaves...

      Public Airwaves you and I have absolutely no chance to ever use ourselves, to broadcast our political opinions, whatever they may be.

      Sounds fair, doesn't it.

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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (June 01, 2009 6:04 am ET)
         
      The old good cop, bad cop routine.
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