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8:52

Jason Linkins - Hello, is this thing on? I would like to get confirmed today as a Jezebel Crappy Hourist. Don't Bork me!

8:52

Megan - As long as you can swear to me you are not, have never been and never will be a Wise Latina, I think you're good. Also, you're not going to take my guns, right?

8:54

Jason Linkins - I am not going to take your guns, you live in Queens, and people blare their horns, remember? Also, I am not a wise Latina. I am an erratic Swede. Bust you open with my activist Allen wrench and whatnot.

8:54

Megan - I mean, because I love my guns. The Founding Fathers wanted me to have them, and you seem like you might take my guns. DON'T TAKE MY GUNS JASON I AM ENTITLED TO MY GUNS AND ALSO NUNCHUCKS.

8:57

Jason Linkins - When you are eventually confirmed for the Supreme Court, I would like you to wear your KILL BILL outfit.

8:59

Megan - And bring my nunchucks, obviously. I'll show that Roberts guy who the fuck is Chief.

9:01

Jason Linkins - I see that the GOP is going to work overtime to penetrate the mystery of Sotomayor's Hispanicness. You'd think that knowing there's nothing they can do to alter the outcome of this confirmation, they'd go to work defining what their judicial vision is. Right now, I'm left to assume that they are crossing their fingers that Obama will continue to appoint Latinas.

9:03

Jason Linkins - “Part of it goes to her honesty,” said Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who led some of the toughest questioning of what Sotomayor meant in her “wise Latina” speech. “What she said here would mislead the ordinary person who hadn’t read the speech.”

Uhm...what's to be dishonest about? Kyl's basically admitting that IF YOU READ THE SPEECH IT MAKES SENSE. He's basically saying, WOO THANK GOD MOST OF THE RUBES IN MY DISTRICT CAN'T READ.

9:04

Megan - Yes, God forbid anyone try to be honest about that speech. I'm sure that makes exactly zero sense to Jon Kyl.

And, I'm sure Latinas all over this country also got quite the thrill listening to Lindsey Graham talk about how hurt white men everywhere were when they discovered that Sotomayor had the audacity to consider herself smarter than them. You were hurt, right Jason? Shed a few bitter, privileged tears that other Latinas might be inspired to become lawyers and even judges?

9:07

Jason Linkins - There's also the whole matter of Alito saying the same thing about being from an Italian family, something Glenn Greenwald highlighted yesterday:

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Sam Alito used his opening statement to emphasize how his experience as an Italian-American influences his judicial decision-making (video is here):

But when I look at those cases, I have to say to myself, and I do say to myself, "You know, this could be your grandfather, this could be your grandmother. They were not citizens at one time, and they were people who came to this country" . . . .

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

9:08

Jason Linkins - The underlying message here is that Italians with cocks need never worry again about having been inducted into the League of Extraordinary White People.

9:11

Megan - Man, why did you have to make me think about Samuel Alito's cock? It's all, like, shriveled and slimy and shit.

I personally liked when Sotomayor quoted that shit back to Kyl's face yesterday.

9:12

Megan -

I think that's what Justice Alito was referring to when he was asked questions by this committee. He said, you know, when I decide a case, I think about my Italian ancestors and their experiences coming to this country. I don't think anybody thought that he was saying that that commanded the result in the case. These were students and lawyers who I don't think would've been misled either by Justice O'Connor's statement or mine in thinking that we actually intended to say that we could really make wiser and fairer decisions.

I think what they could think and would think is that I was talking about the value that life experiences have in the, in the words I used, "to the process of judging". And that is the context in which I understood the speech to be doing.

9:14

Jason Linkins - Kyl and Sessions were probably like: "Hissss! The Latina she-devil speaks Caucasian to bewitch us!"

9:16

Megan - No, I think they've just determined that the experience of being a white man in America is an acceptable basis for legal decisions and all other bases are inappropriate because they discriminate against white men in America.

9:18

Jason Linkins - From The Quotable Jeff Sessions: Bullshit Stuff This Shit-Filled Leprechaun Said To The Senate Judiciary Committee Back In The Day:

"I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or communist, but I meant no harm by it."

9:20

Megan - C'mon, now, let us not discriminate agains leprechauns by counting Jeff Sessions among their numbers.

http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/leprechaun4.jpg

Or else this guy is gonna be pissed.

9:21

Megan - We could, however, call him "boy" since that's apparently NOT insulting to refer to a grown man in that way, right Jeffie?

9:28

Jason Linkins - Some of the people on this witness list perplex me. What is David Cone going to be saying at these hearings? I hope he will be putting an end to all the baseball metaphors. I hope he's there on behalf of Major League Baseball, to put an end to that.

9:29

Megan - The only thing I'm hoping about the witness list is that each of those people will only get 5 minutes to speak with their full statements entered into the record and that the Senators will each get 10 minutes to ask the panel questions and then it will mercifully be over.

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