NY Times Continues its Front-Page Lobbying for Sotomayor

Boycott The New York Times ^ | June 1, 2009 | Don Feder

[AIM Freeper]

True to form, in an alleged “news” story yesterday, The New York Times continued its front-page campaign for the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Why The Times isn’t required to file as a federal lobbyist is a mystery.

The article claims Obama “bemoaned” racial “identity politics” during the campaign, but his Supreme Court nominee is said to embody them.

As proof that Obama rejected identity politics during the 2008 campaign, The Times says he disavowed “the inflammatory rhetoric of his minister,” Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In reality, he first tried to rationalize Wright’s racism. Finally, when it was starting to take a toll on his popularity, Obama admitted that he was disappointed in the lunatic racist.

The Times tries to deflect complaints about Sotomayor’s firm commitment to racial spoils and her belief that skin color somehow bestows virtue.

At one point, the story petulantly notes, “Of the 110 who have served on the [Supreme] court, only four were not white males.” Who cares? Most of us don’t think of race or gender as qualifications for the high court.

The article observes that Obama’s selection process “was geared from the beginning toward finding a female or minority candidate or both.” It further informs us that Obama’s political advisors thought the choice of Sotomayor would help the Democrats to get a “lock” on the Hispanic vote. (Obama got 67% in 2008.) If this isn’t identity politics, I’d like to know what is.

The Times has yet to mention, even in passing, Sotomayor’s membership in the National Council of La Raza — the Hispanic equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan. (La Raza is Spanish for “the race.”) For a rundown of what this fringe group believes, check out the exposé on David Horowitz’s DiscoverTheNetworks.org.

At the end of the tendentious piece, The Times approvingly quotes Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez declaring that she couldn’t see the difference between Samuel Alito saying he thought of his immigrant ancestors when deciding immigration and naturalization cases, and Sotomayor saying a “wise Latina woman” possessed a special wisdom that white males could only aspire to.

Since The New York Times sees everything through the lens of race and gender, naturally, it can’t figure out what the problem is with Sonia Sotomayor.

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[Ben Mugged]

I posted this on another thread but it is applicable here.

I want to get a point off my chest. All the media and the dims are promoting Sotomayor as Hispanic and that insulting her will result in Hispanics not liking the Republicans very much. Well Sotomayor is Puerto Rican. Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans and many other flavors of Hispanics do not care for Puerto Ricans. Mexican Americans were dissed by Dims during the Bush administration with little negative impact. Now they are pushing a Puerto Rican as the preeminent example of Hispanic. Not a very popular image among non-Puerto Rican Americans.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"The article claims Obama “bemoaned” racial “identity politics” during the campaign, but his Supreme Court nominee is said to embody them."

As our enlightened ruler President Obortion is so kindly teaching us, It is not that there is anything wrong with bigotry, but only WHOSE bigotry it is.

[paulycy]

Well Sotomayor is Puerto Rican. Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans and many other flavors of Hispanics do not care for Puerto Ricans.

In my experience, both in southern california and in virginia, this is both true and simply accepted in the "hispanic" communities. There are great geographical and racial tensions among these communities and everyone knows it.

[Deb]

Pretty popular with Geraldo and Rosie Perez.

[freekitty]

We don’t need no Ls Raza member on the Supreme Court of the United States.

[Vaquero]

THE NEW YORK SLIMES

“all the news that’s $h!t, we print”

[Vaquero]

jerry Rivera is a liberal whore who can’t even wank it right.

[mosesdapoet]

Ah the problems with identity politics!
You might get a kick out of this
http://www.theusmat.com/

[Question_Assumptions]

I would like someone to ask Sotomayer what "La Raza" means. And once they get her to say that it means "The Race", ask her what that means. What "race" are they talking about? Is this girl a member? How about these two girls? Do Dominicans count? How about this guy? And I haven't even touched on the Iberian elements yet. So are you claiming that people with Northern European ancestry, Iberian ancestry, Native American ancestry, and African ancestry, both in isolation and in various combinations, all constitute "a race"? So maybe "La Raza" is talking about the human race?

[STE=Q]

The Times approvingly quotes Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez declaring that she couldn’t see the difference between Samuel Alito saying he thought of his immigrant ancestors when deciding immigration and naturalization cases, and Sotomayor saying a “wise Latina woman” possessed a special wisdom that white males could only aspire to.

So what's the analogy?

Samuel Alito "thinking" about his immigrant ancestors is comparable to racism?

I have immigrant ancestors -- as many Americans do -- but I didn't know that it bestowed "special" wisdom upon me that fellow Americans of a different race can only aspire to.

Amazing the "wisdom" one can gain from a Yale indoctrin...I mean, 'education'.

STE=Q