First NARAL, Now The AP
The child-killers got too candid in their zeal to smear John Roberts as a clinic bomber and it backfired on them, so now the ASSociated Press tries a more subtle approach to smearing John Roberts as a perfumed racist prince:
Yes - in the 1940s. Which isn't mentioned until the tenth paragraph. And the Roberts family's home did not have a racially restrictive covenant in any case.
If Judge Roberts had grown up in Salem, Massachusetts, would Tom Coyne and Ashley Heher, the co-writers of this hit piece, have described his hometown as having "once persecuted witches?"
Why does it matter that Long Beach was "nearly all white"? Doesn't that describe most small towns in this country, even today? Weren't being "Mayberry-like" and "largely insulated from the racial strife of that era" points in its favor?
As to the looting and vandalism, as the article relates it (in the eighteenth paragraph), it was a violent overreaction on the part of three black men toward a local cop for referring to one of them as "boy". Was the town clown out of line for what he said? Sure. But was the other man's retort - a vow to get some of his friends and "take this town apart" - not a day-glo indication that these guys were looking for trouble and willing to take the slightest offense as an excuse to "run wild on whitey?"
"Intense scrutiny" for what? Long Beach sounds pretty darn near idyllic. Right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. What possible reason could Judge Roberts' enemies have to treat it as if it was a Klan hideout?
Don't you just love questions that answer themselves? You almost don't need to read the next three graphs, which remove any lingering doubt:
Ms. Heher must have slipped in the Title IX reference without her editors seeing it. Doesn't fit the meme, unless she is asserting that Long Beach was also a monastarial enclave.
Oh, and did you notice that the Justice Judge Roberts is replacing is the fifth vote keeping reverse-Jim Crow "constitutional"? I think the AP didn't want us to miss that.
And, just to bludgeon the connection home one more time:
In other words, because Judge Roberts grew up in a nearly all-white town, and all whites are racists, that means he is a racist too. That outsiders invaded his hometown to "take it apart" and its restrictions on home ownership were both decades obsolete and not applicable to his family's domicile are irrelevant excuses and diversions from the "truth."
Jed Babbin, sitting in for Hugh Hewitt on the radio today, calls this comparatively silky-smooth sliming worse than the NARAL ad, as well as itself racist against whites and a big, fat "FU" to all of red-state America.
He's right, of course. But as I've said from the day Judge Roberts' nomination was announced, this is going to be a battle to the political death. Further evidence, in addition to this AP hatcheting, can be found here, here, here, and here.
JR will make it to Olympus. But it's going to get uglier than Cindy Sheehan before he does.
[HT: NRO Media Blog]
Like many towns across America, the exclusive lakefront community where Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, Jr. grew up during the racially turbulent 1960s and '70s once banned the sale of homes to nonwhites and Jews.
Yes - in the 1940s. Which isn't mentioned until the tenth paragraph. And the Roberts family's home did not have a racially restrictive covenant in any case.
If Judge Roberts had grown up in Salem, Massachusetts, would Tom Coyne and Ashley Heher, the co-writers of this hit piece, have described his hometown as having "once persecuted witches?"
Just three miles from the nearly all-white community of Long Beach, two days of looting and vandalism erupted when Roberts was 15, barely intruding on the Mayberry-like community that was largely insulated from the racial strife of that era.
Why does it matter that Long Beach was "nearly all white"? Doesn't that describe most small towns in this country, even today? Weren't being "Mayberry-like" and "largely insulated from the racial strife of that era" points in its favor?
As to the looting and vandalism, as the article relates it (in the eighteenth paragraph), it was a violent overreaction on the part of three black men toward a local cop for referring to one of them as "boy". Was the town clown out of line for what he said? Sure. But was the other man's retort - a vow to get some of his friends and "take this town apart" - not a day-glo indication that these guys were looking for trouble and willing to take the slightest offense as an excuse to "run wild on whitey?"
It was here that the 50-year-old Roberts lived from elementary school until he went away to Harvard in 1973, and that decade — as well as the rest of his life — is receiving intense scrutiny as the Senate gears up for its September 6 confirmation hearings on President Bush's first Supreme Court nominee.
"Intense scrutiny" for what? Long Beach sounds pretty darn near idyllic. Right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. What possible reason could Judge Roberts' enemies have to treat it as if it was a Klan hideout?
Don't you just love questions that answer themselves? You almost don't need to read the next three graphs, which remove any lingering doubt:
Some of the attention focuses on Roberts' civil rights record as Bush replaces retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the key swing voter on affirmative action issues.And still other memos, as well as interviews and his time on the First Circuit Court of Appeals, indicate his staunch disbelief in legislating from the bench. A concept around which libs are incapable of getting their minds because they are equally as incapable of refraining from projecting their own tendencies upon their opponents. Which, of course, is why they conflate the idea of overturning past left-wing activist decisions with "conservative activism."
Roberts' criticism of racial "quotas" [note the quotes] in some documents from his work as a White House lawyer has alarmed civil rights groups and some Democrats, who say he may be a partisan for conservative causes. Other memos from his time in the Reagan Justice Department portray an attorney who urged his bosses to restrict affirmative action and Title IX sex discrimination lawsuits. [emphasis added]
Ms. Heher must have slipped in the Title IX reference without her editors seeing it. Doesn't fit the meme, unless she is asserting that Long Beach was also a monastarial enclave.
Oh, and did you notice that the Justice Judge Roberts is replacing is the fifth vote keeping reverse-Jim Crow "constitutional"? I think the AP didn't want us to miss that.
And, just to bludgeon the connection home one more time:
It is hard to know how much Roberts' upbringing in this northern Indiana community on the shores of Lake Michigan influenced his views. Some say the fact that there were riots and restrictions on home ownership is not relevant at all.
In other words, because Judge Roberts grew up in a nearly all-white town, and all whites are racists, that means he is a racist too. That outsiders invaded his hometown to "take it apart" and its restrictions on home ownership were both decades obsolete and not applicable to his family's domicile are irrelevant excuses and diversions from the "truth."
Jed Babbin, sitting in for Hugh Hewitt on the radio today, calls this comparatively silky-smooth sliming worse than the NARAL ad, as well as itself racist against whites and a big, fat "FU" to all of red-state America.
He's right, of course. But as I've said from the day Judge Roberts' nomination was announced, this is going to be a battle to the political death. Further evidence, in addition to this AP hatcheting, can be found here, here, here, and here.
JR will make it to Olympus. But it's going to get uglier than Cindy Sheehan before he does.
[HT: NRO Media Blog]
posted by JASmius at 4:34 PM
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