Sessions' Hate Speech by Tom Gilroy

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Sessions' Hate Speech
By Tom Gilroy
The Huffington Post
July 14, 2009

Much of the progressive blogosphere is aghast at the embarrassing Republican strategy of putting Senator Jeff Sessions, a man with a history of racially insensitive statements, as the central interlocutor of a Hispanic woman. Could they really be that stupid -- again?

Stupid? No. More like strategic. There is a subterranean agenda here has nothing to do with the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice, and subterranean agendas are what the GOP is always about.

Just as torture was not about getting information but about intimidating our foes and exacting false confessions to justify an Iraq-al Qaida link, just as attacking ACORN was not about investigating voter fraud but about intimidating people from going to the polls, and just as questioning science was not about embracing Creationism but about discrediting climate change so polluting corporations could continue their global plunder, Sessions going after Sotomayer's non-existent "bias" is not about vetting a potential Supreme Court justice.

It's about making you afraid.
It's about making the media afraid.
And it's about making the Obama government afraid...

More at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-gilroy/sessionss-hate-speech_b_232246.html

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1. Anyone who's afraid of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions

Probably isn't someone I want in a position of power and authority anyway. The man's a buffoon, and the party that put him front and center for a very serious event (appointment of a Supreme Court Justice) is a gang of buffoons.

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3. Maybe, but I think Graham's role yesterday was to intimidate

to keep the judge "in her place."

I still agree with the author of this article. But if nobody center or left-of-center was scared or intimidated, that's great. I think we all know that the GOP isn't above scaring their own people, and some of them are easily xenophobic; therefore, the party's "mission" would still be "accomplished."

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2. that's what rethugs do, they rub shit in your face.

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4. ...while being total projectionist hypocrites in the process

1. Sessions using the race card in his questioning, insinuating that Sotomayer would do the same from the bench

2. Graham indirectly accusing her of being a bully, while he himself uses a bullying tone and tactics to do so.

The irony was so thick yesterday it would be hard to miss, unless you're a freeper type receptive to their not-so-silent dog whistles.