Was it "accidental" that Sen. Whitehouse mentioned Linda Chavez works for FOX NEWS?

[brooklynite]

Even the Republicans on the Committee were circumspect in voicing their concerns and the Ricci supporters were able to bring up constitutional issues worth discussing; Ms. Chavez appears to going straight for the Jugular.

[ellenfl]

1. explain, please. cryptic posts are not helpful. eom

[brooklynite]

4. Chavez is the first and ONLY speaker to explicitly say Sotomayor should not be appointed...

..using all the buzzwords the Republican base loves. Brought in as a witness by the Republican's on the minority. Senator Whitehouse was chairing the meeting at the time and seemed to want to lower her profile before she spoke.

[Captain Hilts]

2. I caughter her parking in the handicapped spot at the GIANT on Arlington Rd., Bethesda once.

Shook my finger at her. Boy, was she pissed!

Jeane Kirkpatrick parked in the general lot like the rest of us, but not Chavez.

[SpiralHawk]

26. Typical republicon. No respect for the handicapped. Thinks' she's 'special'

Prattles the propaganda points. Wants America to FAIL -- as her republicon FOX cronies have so exellently FAILED America for 8 agonizing years.

[MineralMan]

3. What's this post about? What's the context.

Words are free. Use as many as you need to convey adequate information.

[hlthe2b]

5. I remain lost too...

:shrug:

[cal04]

6. Linda Chavez who is an analyst with fox news

Linda Chavez, chair of the Center for Equal Opportunity and a contributor to Fox News as an analyst, who opened her testimony by saying, "I testify today not as a wise Latina woman..." and urged Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) directly not to vote for Sotomayor).
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/07/ricci_citizens_as.php


here's some info on her
Linda Chavez (born June 17, 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American conservative author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Industries Inc. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Bush's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet.


comment from dkos
Linda Chavez Is Still Seeking Revenge Ever Since
she was dumped as a potential cabinet member in the Reagan Administration after she was found to hire slave labor and then not pay taxes.

She is a disgrace to America.

[blondeatlast]

11. That she used the popular, but incorrect, redundancy of "Latina woman" is enough to

turn me off at the phrase. Since I know her history it just pisses me off even more.

[elehhhhna]

15. "I testify today not as a wise Latina woman..." lol ...

who wrote THAT crap? TOO FUNNY.

[blondeatlast]

17. May that phrase haunt her career evermore...

:rofl:

[Cha]

20. It wasn't in the Reagun admin..it was bush..

and she was very unwise to open herself to be "dumped".

I didn't start paying attention to politics until 2000.

<snip>>>

"Chavez Withdraws Bid to Be Labor Secretary
Jan 10, 2001, By OH EDITORIAL STAFF

'President-elect George W. Bush is looking for a new person to be Secretary of Labor, as his embattled first choice, Linda Chavez, pulled out of the process..."


http://ehstoday.com/news/index263.html

[cal04]

21. thanks for the correction

:hi:

[Cha]

22. No Problema ..I guess

the dkos poster had it wrong.

:hi:

[southernleftylady]

7. In the Sotomayor confirmation hearing..

while intro. that sleeze of a lady.... They also said that she worked for Fox news... and the poster is asking if they did that on the sly to let everyone know that she is a whack job.. is my understanding on this ;)

[Cha]

18. Exactly..I'm not watching it and

I got that.

[devilgrrl]

8. As if Linda Chavez has any credibility.

:eyes:

[LaydeeBug]

9. Linda Chavez is a LONG TIME Republican operative. She ran for US Senate-MD against Mikulski in 1986

and lost. Then I think she moved to California or something. But she is a repig, and a homophobic one at that.

[LaydeeBug]

10. Linda Chavez is a LONG TIME Republican operative. She ran for US Senate-MD against Mikulski in 1986

and lost. Then I think she moved to California or something. But she is a repig, and a homophobic one at that.

[Cleita]

24. Yes, she used to write Op Eds all the time in praise of Saint Ronald when

he was the Prez.

[mitchum]

12. Chavez is honest about only one thing...

"I testify today not as a wise Latina woman"

That is indeed the truth

[Cleita]

25. That is the truth.

For people who don't remember, Bush wanted her for Sec. of Labor but they caught her with an undocumented alien woman working as a domestic for her. She's just another Latina elitist who survives exploiting the underclasses. She then tried to lie her way out of it saying the woman was a guest in her house who occasionally did laundry and washed dishes.

:rofl:

[TahitiNut]

13. Who's next? Eva Braun?

[brooklynite]

14. Coming up in the next panel...

Dr. Charmaine Yoest - Americans United for Life
Sandy Froman, Esq. - Attorney, Gun Rights Advocate, and Former President, National Rifle Association of America
David Kopel, Esq. - Independence Institute ("Free Market Think Tank")
Ilya Somin - Professor, George Mason University School of Law (Cato Institute)

[elehhhhna]

16. Zorro's sidekick, Bernardo, will complain of ill and unfair treatment

at the hand s of his latin boss.

[Cha]

19. "Straight for the jugular" as per her order from fauxsn00ze..

from the very unwise Latina woman.

[burning rain]

23. There Chavez was refreshingly honest and forthright, as Fox News people go.

She attacked Sotomayor in the open rather than snipe at her from behind "fair and balanced" cover.