"HATE SPEECH AND MISINFORMATION IN THE MEDIA = A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY"
Saturday, June 6, 2009
PLEASE TAKE ACTION!!! SUPPORT Judge SOTOMAYOR NOW!!!
Sent by Cynthia I.
The Regressive may seem comical at times, and their attacks on Superior Court Nomineee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, are so outrageous that to some they may appear funny, but what they are doing IT IS NOT!!!
Included below, Media Matters for America entries on Twitter: Posts about attacks of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, other related Posts and video player with playlist of clips on Judge Sotomayor.
The attacks against U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor continue. Despite the outrage about these attacks expressed by the Latino community and others, there is no evidence that this nonsense will stop anytime soon. Earlier this week Jon Stewart from The Daily Show ridiculed the shenanigans, making clear how absurd this stereotyping and defamation is not only for Hispanics and other communities of color, but for all Americans.
Please join us in asking Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele, House Minority Leader John Boehner, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to denounce this smear campaign and keep the nomination process civil, respectful, and constructive.
The deafening silence of the Republican party's leadership is leaving many Latinos with a disturbing view of the party. There is much at stake here, including the Latino community's votes. Nearly 3,000 of you have signed the letter asking Chairman Steele to gather his fellow RNC leaders and condemn the statements against Sotomayor. If you haven't yet signed the letter, please do so. If you already have signed the letter, please forward this email to your family and friends and encourage them to take a stand.
==> #Media adopt gender, #racial stereotypes in characterizing #Sotomayor's temperament, intellect http://bit.ly/8sypd6:02 AM Jun 4thfrom web
==> RT @ LimbaughWire Rush Repeats His #Sotomayor Litmus Test: "If She's A Pro-Life Racist, I May Have To Change My View" http://bit.ly/13FkxO11:57 AM Jun 3rdfrom web
==> MSNBC's continued embrace of Pat Buchanan shows it still hasn't learned from Savage, Imus, Matthews fiascoes: http://bit.ly/A9F329:24 AM Jun 3rdfrom web
June 03, 2009 12:17 pm ET by Jamison Foser
But that's just what MSNBC is doing. Here's a compilation of some of Buchanan's recent vile and hypocritical attacks on Sonia Sotomayor:
Given Pat Buchanan's history of clear bigotry - most recently demonstrated in his reminder last night that he supported and continues to defend a white supremacist - there really isn't any good reason for MSNBC to continue putting him on the air. The man is a bigot, plain and simple. In light of the hot water MSNBC has gotten into in the past for bigotedcomments by its employees, you would think they would want to distance themselves from the likes Buchanan.
But what's really extraordinary is that MSNBC brings Buchanan on air to talk about race issues. It gives Pat Buchanan a platform from which to call other people racists. Granted, if there's someone who knows racists better than Pat Buchanan does, I can't think of who it would be. But his is not the kind of expertise MSNBC should be inflicting upon its viewers.
Pat Buchanan's idea of a good Supreme Court justice was someone who said "I believe that segregation of the races is proper ... and the only practical and correct way of life in our states. I yield to no man in the firm, vigorous belief in the principles of white supremacy and I shall always be so governed." Pat Buchanan says calling that person a racist is a "smear."
Paying Pat Buchanan to opine about the Supreme Court, and to call other people racists, is nothing but a sick, twisted joke.
==> WATCH: #Limbaugh Compares #Sotomayor Nomination To Nominating David Duke: http://bit.ly/xIv0x #SCOTUS #tcot #topprog #p210:43 AM May 29thfrom web
==> Blown circuits: Rove levels attack on #Sotomayor based on false claim that she and Alito were colleagues: http://bit.ly/1aCSbw #SCOTUS8:23 AM May 29thfrom web
==> WATCH: Tom Tancredo loses it while going head to head with MMFA's Boehlert, calls Sotomayor a member of the "Latino KKK" http://bit.ly/8XHBH2:35 PM May 28thfrom web
==> Washington Times, CQ uncritically report criticism that #Sotomayor's Supreme Court reversal rate is "high": http://bit.ly/XYZZM #SCOTUS5:55 AM May 28thfrom web
==> WATCH: Race To The Bottom: Conservative #Media Attack Judge #Sotomayor: http://bit.ly/5hOzY #SCOTUS #topprog #p29:27 AM May 27thfrom web#Media uncritically repeat claim that New Haven firefighters case shows #Sotomayor is an activist: http://bit.ly/14euWQ #SCOTUS #p2 #topprog8:23 AM May 27thfrom web
==> Politico ignores history of conservatives' citing importance of empathy in a judge: http://bit.ly/17AoK2 #Sotomayor #SCOTUS #p26:13 AM May 27thfrom web
==> #Media work from opposition's playbook by advancing smears about #Sotomayor's intelligence: http://bit.ly/VHLnt #SCOTUS #p2 #topprog2:27 PM May 26thfrom web
==> Echo chamber: Fox News runs with Rosen's anonymously sourced claims that #Sotomayor is "domineering" http://bit.ly/10QC6R #SCOTUS #p29:47 AM May 26thfrom web
==> Fox's Kelly on #Sotomayor: "Unlike Harriet Miers, [she] graduated summa cum laude from Princeton. She went to Yale Law" http://bit.ly/xSlQF9:22 AM May 26thfrom web
==> WATCH: NBC's Washington bureau chief on #Sotomayor: "It's hard to pigeonhole her as a liberal, as an activist" http://bit.ly/37B6f #SCOTUS8:42 AM May 26thfrom web
==> WATCH: Politico's Mike Allen: GOP Will Attack Any Nominee As "A 'Liberal' And 'Activist" http://bit.ly/qyXAI #Sotomayor #SCOTUS #p27:10 AM May 26thfrom web
==> Will media note political motives behind conservative criticisms of #SCOTUS nominee? http://bit.ly/L2Xbl #Sotomayor #SupremeCourt #p26:26 AM May 26thfrom web
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