The RNC's Director of New Media, via Twitter, piled on to the right wing meme, fostered by Newt Gingrich, that Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. Greg Sargent has the tweet and asked the question:
Does Todd Herman, the director of new media for the Republican National Committee, agree that Sonia Sotomayor is a racist?These guys are so desperate and just plain hateful. Newt recently converted to Catholicism. He must have been absent when they were teaching the lessons about loving one's neighbor (or maybe because he's pals with church leaders, he could skip those teachings.) Clearly, Newtie is still a primary messenger of hate and divisiveness.
Herman just Re-Tweeted Newt Gingrich’s earlier Tweet claiming that Obama’s SCOTUS pick had indulged in “racism,” which is catching some flak from some media figures today.
For now, "racism" is the talking point about Sotomayor for the Newt's other right wing pals, as Media Matter shows us in this video:
They are pathetic. And, it's weird how these wingnuts are just so afraid of Sonia Sotomayor.
UDPATE: Okay, this is getting to be too much. Besides the racism line of attack, one of the wingnuts has added the "rice, beans and pork" critique. Not kidding. We've already passed the point of absurdity. Talking Points Memo found this item in Alexander Bolton's article in The Hill:
Sotomayor also claimed: “For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y pernir — rice, beans and pork — that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events.”Wow. The right-wingers have become delusional in a very short period of time. The combination of an Obama presidency and a Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination has pushed them over the edge.
This has prompted some Republicans to muse privately about whether Sotomayor is suggesting that distinctive Puerto Rican cuisine such as patitas de cerdo con garbanzo — pigs’ tongue and ears — would somehow, in some small way influence her verdicts from the bench.
Curt Levey, the executive director of the Committee for Justice, a conservative-leaning advocacy group, said he wasn’t certain whether Sotomayor had claimed her palate would color her view of legal facts but he said that President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee clearly touts her subjective approach to the law.
“It’s pretty disturbing,” said Levey. “It’s one thing to say that occasionally a judge will despite his or her best efforts to be impartial ... allow occasional biases to cloud impartiality.
"But it’s almost like she’s proud that her biases and personal experiences will cloud her impartiality.”
And, was Alexander Bolton writing this as comedy or does he think it's news that right wingers are "mus[ing] privately" about Sotomayor's food choices? I can't tell. It's so bizarre.
