The Ones That Got Away

By Versha Sharma - May 31, 2009, 11:04AM

Obama's announcement of Sonia Sotomayor as his pick for Supreme Court Justice dominated much of the news cycle this week - but it certainly wasn't the only news.

artwrite beseeches the media to "calm down" and notes that the "All Sotomayor, All The Time" syndrome is pushing other pressing issues to the side: North Korea, Obama's meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, and of course, the still-struggling economy.

TPM readers, as we all know, are a good antidote to the mainstream media, and focused on important news outside of Sotomayor:

astral66 points out a little-talked about report from a UN human rights investigator that states that "the U.S. is failing to properly investigate war crimes committed by soldiers."

astral66 and coonsey note an interview with General Petraeus where he admits that we violated the Geneva Conventions and have been "rightly criticized" for it.

Bill Bowman shares a rather scandalous tweet from Michael Savage that appears to have slipped under the radar, in which he calls Secretary of State Clinton "Clitler." Seriously.

And if you're in the mood for some seriously old-school prose, dickday has a fun retelling of one of Cicero's famous orations, in which the great Roman philosopher calls out Cheney for his eight years' worth of lies. (This isn't exactly one that got away, judging by the 55 comments on it, but I had to note it!)