Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:32:32 PM · by kellynla · 55 replies · 1,986+ views
youtube.com/ABC ^ | 5/27/2009 | Ann Couter and James Carville
2007 Ann Coulter photo by Mark Sullivan/WireImage.com
Posted on 05/27/2009 3:16:43 PM PDT by Syncro
I FEEL YOUR PAIN. NOT THEIRS. YOURS.
May 27, 2009
God save us from liberal "empathy." After President Barack Obama announced his empathetic Supreme Court nominee this week, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, we found out that some people are more deserving of empathy than others.
For example, Judge Sotomayor apparently "empathized" more with New Haven, Conn., government officials than with white and Hispanic firefighters who were denied promotions by the city on the basis of their race.
Let's hope she's as empathetic to New Haven residents who die in fires fought by inferior firefighters as a result of her decision.
In the now-famous firefighters' case, Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven Fire Department administered a civil service exam to choose a new batch of lieutenants and captains. The city went so far as to hire an outside consultant to design the test in order to ensure that it was job-related and not racially biased. (You know, just like all written tests were pre-screened for racial bias back when we were in school.)
But when the results came in, only whites and Hispanics scored high enough to earn promotions.
Such results never entice Democrats to reconsider their undying devotion to the teachers' unions that routinely produce students who can't read, write or do basic math. Obviously, disadvantaged children from single-parent homes suffer the most from inadequate public schools -- and their tragic outcome bedevils the entire society for the rest of the students' lives.
Instead, Democrats hide the failure of government schools by punishing the high-scoring whites, Asians and Hispanics, who presumably learned everything they know at home. (If only successfully applying a condom were relevant to firefighting, public school graduates raised in single-parent homes would crush the home-learners!)
So naturally, New Haven city officials decided to scrap the exam results and promote no one.
Seventeen of the high-scoring whites and one high-scoring Hispanic sued the mayor, John DeStefano, and other city officials for denying them promotions solely because of their race.
The district court ruled that there was no race discrimination because the low-scoring blacks were not given promotions either -- citing the landmark case, One Bad Apple v. The Rest of the Barrel. (That's the sort of sophistry we're taught in law school.)
Concerned that Sotomayor's famed "empathy" might not shine through in cases such as Ricci v. DeStefano, the Democrats are claiming -- as Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said on MSNBC -- that she was merely applying "precedent" to decide the case. You know, just like conservatives say judges should.
This was an interesting claim, in the sense that it was the exact polar opposite of the truth.
To be sure, there is "precedent" for racial discrimination by the government, but Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned in 1954 by Brown v. Board of Education. If Sotomayor had another case in mind, she wasn't telling: The lower court's dismissal of the firefighters' case was upheld by Sotomayor and two other judges in an unsigned, unpublished opinion, titled, "Talk to the Hand."
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
The truth is liberals couldn't care less about Sotomayor being Hispanic. Indeed, liberals often have trouble telling Hispanic people apart, as James Carville illustrated on "Good Morning America" Wednesday morning when he kept confusing Miguel Estrada with Alberto Gonzales.Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
"Empathy," in Liberalspeak, is nothing but raw political power.
for later
The district court ruled that there was no race discrimination because the low-scoring blacks were not given promotions either -- citing the landmark case, One Bad Apple v. The Rest of the Barrel. (That's the sort of sophistry we're taught in law school.)PingBump!
Who did eventually get the promotions? Did they just do without? Journalism..what ever happened to it?
I ask the question, “What was the purpose of testing for promotions to Lieutenant and Captain. If the test had no meaning or validity why, pray tell, administer it?” That “empathy” trumps intellect in this case and in liberal philosophy is very telling indeed.
Queen Ann Rox and she’s smart too.
Pray for America
Bravo Ann!
"...The truth is liberals couldn't care less about Sotomayor being Hispanic.ANN can tell them apart! :o)Indeed, liberals often have trouble telling Hispanic people apart, as James Carville illustrated on "Good Morning America" Wednesday morning when he kept confusing Miguel Estrada with Alberto Gonzales." - Ann Coulter
From www.time.com:
COURTESY ANN COULTER
D.C. Days
Coulter with pal Miguel Estrada, right, and an ex, Democrat Christopher Putala, in Washington D.C.
egalitarianism = sacrificing everybody
My husband almost didn’t get his current job because of such a test. The company had spent months testing employees for the position. NO black person passed the test. So the company started advertising far and wide....INCLUDING in black churches. Still, no black able to pass the test.
So finally they let my husband take the test. One of the black guys testing the same day came in very confident...chatting in a “knowing” way with the test administrator. He made some comments indicating the test was just a formality...(found out later that he had been given a chance to preview the test). Even with that distinct advantage, the black guy was not able to pass the test.
After about 6 months, they hired my husband...who DID pass the test. No, can’t say the name of the company or he’ll lose his job. But my husband definitely was a victim of racism. Yes, I am bitter, as is he.
:o)
It's from here:Ann Coulter Debates James Carville Regarding Sotomayor Supreme Court Nomination ( Video )
Click the youtube.com/ABC link above to see the video.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Coulter On Sotomayor: Clarence Thomas & Miguel Estrada's Backgrounds Didn't Impress Democrats. Were They Racists? Posted by: Greg Hengler at 1:04 PM I've never seen Carville so weak in a debate. His poor performance wrests more in his shallow Obama Administration talking points than in his skill. Obama and his media foot soldiers have been regurgitating the same rhetoric: Putting all focus on Sotomayor's impressive academic and diverse personal background. Coulter points out the obvious: Thomas and Estrada had just as much of an impressive academic and diverse background, but they were vilified. Touche, Ann.
Ever since the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, media figures like GMA's Diane Sawyer have been trying to pin conservatives in a corner--oh so subtly--in order to expose either Latino and female bigotry. The same tactic was used with President Barack Obama. Talking heads would say, "Putting politics aside, aren't you excited about the first black man running for President of the United States?" Well, Ann finally calls out Sawyer's intellectually bankrupt, liberally-based more than identity-based talking points. Let's hope Ann's perspective is contagious.
If its wednesday night it must be time for an Ann Coulter column. Love it.
It is the identity politics which the armor they surround their true goal: Fabian Socialist Communism.
"Empathy," in Liberalspeak, is nothing but raw political power."
It is identity politics which is the armor with which they protect their true goal: Fabian Socialist Communism.
Video: Coulter Almost Calls Sotomayor A RacistLOL, Puppage!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:01:56 AM · by careyb · 21 replies · 618+ views
Today ^ | 5/27/09 | Ann CoulterShe claims Sotomayor made a racist statement.
-- snip --
To: careyb
Rush came right out and blatantly called her a racist, because she did make racist remarks against white males.
3 posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:04:53 AM by Joann37
To: Joann37
because she did make racist remarks against white males
Is this the part where I become enraged and burn down half of Main St?
I am new at this enraged thing.
4 posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:07:50 AM by Puppage
Sonia Sotomeyer threw a latino under the bus,
to preserve the right of the state to apply it's racist policies.
I hear you. I am bitter also. My hope is that it won’t be long before enough of us are not only bitter, but angry and fed-up. If we’re ever going to put a stop to this unfairness, now is the time, while we still have the numbers to do so. We’ve already relinquished political power, thanks to the indoctrinated guilty white liberals amongst us. Hussein is attempting to confiscate what economic power we have left. before long we’ll be outnumbered, and there’s nothing like the vengeance of those who know that even with years of AA, quotas, and boosts up the ladder over the more-qualified, they were never able in general to measure up. When we let go of the last vestige of any power we still have,or have it taken, all America will become what Detroit, Haiti, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mexico, etc, are now. And with us will go western civilisation, the civilisation which others have copied but never produced.
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