So what do the saner pundits think of Judge Sonia Sotomayor

Glenn Beck

At last someone whom I have as much respect for as...well newt and rush and savage and sean put together...has come out with the statement of the year, a plea for all of us to put down our arms and attempt to have a dialogue as adults in what is now a most raucus playground:

Beck: "When did we get to the place in America to where we can't have disagreements without demonizing each other?"

Yeah, when did all this Simonizing begin anyway? I mean we are all Americans and some of us are adults and well some of this just goes over the top.

Rush Limbaugh

This is the problem as rush sees it as transcribed by Media Matters:

"She said that because she is a Latina, because she is a Hispanic woman, that she'd -- because of the richness of that experience, she'd be a better judge than a white guy. What if she had said because of her rich experiences as a Latina, as a Hispanic woman, that she'd be a better judge than a black guy? http://mediamatters.org/limbaughwire/2009/05/29#0031

Boy this guy has a point. I mean all we need are a bunch of angry, racist bigoted Hispanics running our judicial system. And rush is able, at the same time to address the concerns of even more minorities than just your average black man.

"If we want to talk about richness of experience, there's a group of people that were here before we got here, gang: the Indians, the Native Americans, the chiefs, the redskins. I don't see any of them being put up on the courts. Talk about a richness of experience -- hell, these clowns beat Custer. They have cred. You don't see them being put up, do you?" 

Look at the 'touch' this man of sensitivity has toward our Native American Brothers--I kind of stick with brothers here since rush has an adversity to women sometimes, I mean mostly because women are the weaker sex and everything--and he does this with the type of aplomb that we have all enjoyed so much over the years. I mean these redskins are real clowns.  And if you wish to beat one of the greatest U.S. generals of all time, get some redskin clowns, that's what I always say.

I'll tell you, there's another concern they've got, and you've seen this being reported if you've been paying any attention: She's not an intellectual heavyweight. They are thus afraid that Scalia and Thomas and Roberts might get her mind right. They're worried about this."

See rush is able to use words like 'thus' in such intriguing ways. And I am glad that he understands that 'she' is no intellectual heavyweight. Now rush for instance is a real heavyweight. I mean ever since he got rid of that body trainer as a girl friend some years ago. He is ready to take up the mantle and fight these airlines on getting two seats for the real heavyweights that understand this country and its citizens.

Now we move onto the important analysis of another serious journalist, karl the rover as transcribed by Media Matters:

ROVE: Well, they clearly said that they were sensitive to the criticism that they've received from Hispanic groups for the failure of the Obama administration to make more Latino appointments. So they not only get to put -- appoint a woman, but a Latino woman, and this is obviously a political advantage to them. They've gone out of their way to emphasize that.

What's interesting to me, though, is the question of how effective she's going to be on the Supreme Court. We know that David Souter was a cipher. We know from her record on the 2nd Court of Appeals that she's not a particularly effective colleague. I first got wind of this when Sam Alito, who was her colleague on the court while we were reviewing his record, it -- you know, people who were familiar with the workings of the court said that she was combative, opinionated, argumentative, and as a result, was not able to sort of help create a consensus opinion on important issues. http://mediamatters.org/research/200905280037

This is so important.  I mean here we have a man who speaks regularly with members of the Supreme Court of the United States, probably because they wish to get rover's 'take' on things before coming to any conclusion regard a case that is pending. And do you see that rover gets to call a Supreme Court Justice 'Sam'. Wow. Everybody else has to refer to him as 'Your Honor', or 'Your Worship', or 'Your Eminence'. But old rover just says things like: 'Hey Sam, how ya all doin!'  I know liberals would castigate rover for this, but that is because liberals are not privy to the type of inside info rover is.

Now it was pointed out that our favorite Hispanic was on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and that old 'Sam' had been on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, but hey. I mean its like being in neighboring villages or living in adjacent gated communities. I would bet that old Sam could have heard her screaming from where he sat at the time.  Besides you acannot tell me that the two never met with each other at judicial functions. Of course, Judge Sotomayor probably had to refer to Sam as 'your eminence or some such.

Pat Buchanan

That bastion of racial equality, Pat Buchanan has noted the 'she' is a bigot and a racist and ought not be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice. And who better to understand the true nature of bigotry and racism:

n 1992, he said:

He says an open Mexican border invites the drug trade, which he does not consider a victimless crime.^[81] In Where the Right Went Wrong he claimed:

In a memo to President Nixon, Buchanan suggested that "integration of blacks and whites -- but even more so, poor and well-to-do -- is less likely to result in accommodation than it is in perpetual friction, as the incapable are placed consciously by government side by side with the capable." (Washington Post, 1/5/92) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2553

In another memo from Buchanan to Nixon: "There is a legitimate grievance in my view of white working-class people that every time, on every issue, that the black militants loud-mouth it, we come up with more money.... If we can give 50 Phantoms [jet fighters] to the Jews, and a multi-billion dollar welfare program for the blacks...why not help the Catholics save their collapsing school system." (Boston Globe, 1/4/92)

In a column sympathetic to ex-Klansman David Duke, Buchanan chided the Republican Party for overreacting to Duke and his Nazi "costume": "Take a hard look at Duke's portfolio of winning issues and expropriate those not in conflict with GOP principles, [such as] reverse discrimination against white folks." (syndicated column, 2/25/89)

But nothing really comes close to this great comment concerning one of the twentieth century's great leaders:

In a 1977 column, Buchanan said that despite Hitler's anti-Semitic and genocidal tendencies, he was "an individual of great courage.... Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path." (Guardian, 1/14/92)

But our buddy beck always wishes to come up with a softer approach to things:

BECK: I don't like the charges of, "Oh, you're a racist. They're a racist." Very few people are racist.

There are racists and they're bad people. And -- but it's -- most Americans are good, just decent people, and I hate the charges and cries of racism. But when I hear this -- I mean, gee. She sure sounds like a racist here.

BECK: Well, we've got a -- we've got a Supreme Court justice nominee that is going to be all compassionate and empathetic. I think she's a racist. I think she has decided things based on race. I think she says that a Hispanic woman with the experience of being a Hispanic woman can make decisions that a white man can't make.

I can't imagine -- I can't imagine saying that. That's like saying, "You know what? Hispanics can't make money decisions like them Jews." Can you imagine that? I mean, they just can't -- "Look, I don't mean any offense by that. It's just that Hispanics, they're generally on the lower end of the economic spectrum, and Jews, they have so much experience with money and running financial things. They can -- Jews can just make financial decisions that Hispanics can't."

Who would say that? Who would say that? In what setting besides a Klan rally -- that strangely had respect for Jews in this one case -- in what setting would that be said that everybody wouldn't go, "Wow, you're a racist"? http://mediamatters.org/research/200905270013

What more can I add. I mean beck is so straightforward and everything. And I mean, if you need to borrow some money, well, you gotta find a Jew.

But, then again, if you need some good whiskey, find an Irishman and tacos, I mean really fine tacos, well you just have to find an Hispanic.