Freaking AP! "[Leahy] lined up a series of friendly questions for Sotomayor to help her counter GOP

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lined up a series of friendly questions for Sotomayor to help her counter GOP criticism"

How they fuck do THEY know that? Liberal media my ass. :mad: :puke:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sotomayor_senate

[kentuck]

1. They wweren't "friendly" questions..

They were questions the Repubs were going to ask and he beat them to it. By doing so, he took away some of their ammunition.

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4. They obviously were, but I don't feel that

such a characterization is all that appropriate outside an editorial. Maybe I'm overreacting.

[meegbear]

2. Am I missing something?

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor stoutly denied racial bias Tuesday at her Senate confirmation hearing and said an oft-criticized remark about her Hispanic heritage affecting her decisions was a rhetorical device gone awry.

An attempted play on words "fell flat" in a speech in 2001, Sotomayor told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., referring to remarks in which she suggested that a "wise Latina woman" would usually reach a better conclusion than a white male.

"It was bad because it left an impression that I believed that life experiences commanded a result in a case, but that's clearly not what I do as a judge," Sotomayor said.

Sessions, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, sounded unconvinced.

"As a judge who has taken this oath, I am very troubled that you would repeatedly over a decade or more make statements" like the one in 2001, he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sotomayor_senate

Where does it say "(Leahy) lined up a series of friendly questions for Sotomayor to help her counter GOP criticism" in that story?

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3. Oops, looks like they changed the story - that was a copy and paste from

what appeared earlier.

[tabatha]

5. Crappy journalism.....

"During the questioning, Sotomayor leaned into the table in front of her and spoke deliberately. She used her hands to reinforce her words, raising and lowering them to the table with palms flat and fingers extended. She scribbled notes to herself as senators spoke and bobbed her head to underscore her statements in reply."

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6. Exactly. Translation: 'Sotomayor is all show, no substance.' What unmitigated bullshit!

How far they have fallen. Bunch of hacks, esp. that guy they have running it from DC, forget his name, French-sounding? He was the biggest Bush shill on Earth.

[Kalyke]

7. Ron Fournier.

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8. $64,000 for you.

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