On Friday night’s show, Rachel Maddow pulled together the jaw-dropping statements that have been made by Republicans in response to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court.
I’ve been watching all of the hubbub surrounding the nomination. There has been a lot of nastiness going on, but most of it has rolled off of my back. I mean, how can we take calling Sotomayor “David Duke” seriously. But this, this Maddow compilation of horrifying comments by people like Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy has really stuck in my throat.
Limbaugh said, “How do you get promoted in a Barack Obama administration? By hating white people. Make white people the new oppressed minority . . . [Sotomayor] brings a form of bigotry or racism to the Supreme Court.”
Liddy, said, “I understand that they found out today that Miss Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, which means in illegal alien ‘the race’, and that should not surprise anyone because she’s already on record with a number of racist comments . . . let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something.”
And Glenn Beck, Karl Rove, Pat Buchanan and others chime in with their racist comments as well.
The very thin silver lining? Nate Silver thinks that this strategy will cost the GOP even more Hispanic voters in 2012 and 2016 and make winning elections even more difficult for them.
It is very much worth your time to watch the entire 10-minute Maddow clip to see just how closely violent bigotry lies to the surface of these people.
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