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AlexanderProgressive Donating Member (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:07 PM
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Dana Milbank suggests Sonia Sotomayor not smart enough for the Supreme Court
Edited on Wed May-27-09 12:20 PM by AlexanderProgressive
Yesterday, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post wrote about Sonia Sotomayor:

Some thought Obama would nominate Judge Diane Wood or Solicitor General Elena Kagan -- big brains who could serve as a counterweight to the court's conservative philosophers. Others expected a well-known politician such as Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

In selecting Sotomayor, Obama opted for biography over brain. As a legal mind, Sotomayor is described in portraits as competent, but no Louis Brandeis. Nor is Sotomayor, often described as an abrasive jurist, likely to be the next Earl Warren. But her bio is quite a hit. In Spanish, her surname can be translated as "big thicket" -- and that's just where Republicans could find themselves if they oppose this up-from-poverty Latina.


There you have it. In Milbank's world, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia are "philosophers," while Sotomayor is of sub-par intelligence.


Today, media critic Bob Somerby reminds us that Milbank once slammed Al Gore for being too smart:

Avatar of Post culture: To Milbank, Sotomayor is lacking in brains. Of course, the same silly scribe landed on Gore two years ago for using too many big words in a speech. Yep! Milbank bellowed when Gore used such smartest-kid-in-the-class formulations as “the marketplace of ideas” and “the exchange of goods and services” (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 5/30/07). But the script on Gore was: Thinks he’s sooo smart! The script on Sotomayor is different: Just isn’t brainy enough!


The 2007 Milbank hit-piece on Gore was titled "Is It Wise to Be So Smart?"
I will just let you email Milbank and give him your thoughts:

His contact page: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/29/AR2007052902038.html
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Badgerman Donating Member (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:09 PM
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1. Sotomayor, suggests Milbank doesn't have a brain at all! n/t
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:09 PM
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2. And what passes for Dana Milbank's brains..
.. mush?
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:18 PM
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3. He's another Yale skull and bones idiot. nt
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:22 PM
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4. Dana Milbank is on his way to becoming full of himself
Edited on Wed May-27-09 12:25 PM by bridgit
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AlexanderProgressive Donating Member (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:27 PM
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6. He had to stop going to Olbermann's show after misrepresenting Obama's words
For nearly a week we'd been waiting for him to offer a correction or an explanation for his column from last week in which he apparently reported an Obama quote without a full context turned the meaning of the quote inside-out.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/05/dana-milbank-leaving-coun_n_116997.html
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:24 PM
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5. "Some thought...." Why didn't he just SAY, Jon Turley and the New Republic..
:eyes:
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Submariner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:49 PM
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7. I guess she should have been first instead of second in her Princeton class
thus she was not smart enough to be first. Other than that. go F yourself Milbank.
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:57 PM
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11. zzzzing
:thumbsup:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:51 PM
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8. He's channeling Turley
Hit ignore.
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Bobbie Jo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:54 PM
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9. I can't wait until she hands these dopes their collective ass
at the confirmation hearings. :popcorn:
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:55 PM
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10. So she's a Hispanic woman and can't possibly be all that smart?
Edited on Wed May-27-09 12:55 PM by Lex
Just go ahead and say it, Dana Milbank.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 01:00 PM
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12. Milbank is another WaHoPo warmonger.
Downing Street Memo Activists "Wing Nuts," "Paranoid"
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 01:01 PM
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13. We know what went out of Grover's Wednesday fax tree this morning.

"She's not smart".
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 01:35 PM
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14. milbank was big on the "popular wartime president" & the Iraq war
back in the day. He has no credibility.
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