The Winkest Link

By Wink

I can’t predict the future. Heck, sometimes I even have a hard time predicting the PAST.

I have no idea whether or not Sonia Sotomayor will be an especially effective Supreme Court Justice.

I know anybody can be a racist, but I really don’t get the feeling that Judge Sotomayor is.

While I have my doubts, Rush Limbaugh does not. His assertion that she is a racist is not based on any pattern of legal decisions, but rather on one flip comment she made sometime in the last decade. It is so innocuous I won’t bore you with it here. And, in fairness, I won’t list all the dumb things said by Rush in the last ten years either, because there isn’t enough memory on my computer.

(By the way, I do not, not even for one second, believe that Rush really thinks she is a racist. This is just part of the game that Limbaugh plays, but I will save that discussion for a later article.)

Another Rush observation about Judge Sotomayor:

“She’s not the brain that they’re portraying her to be. She’s not a constitutional jurist,”

And Limbaugh IS a brain and a constitutional jurist?

Hmmm. Let us compare…. Judge Sotomayor graduated Summa Cum Laude from Princeton and received her J.D. from Yale Law School. She was editor of the Yale Law Journal.

She was nominated by Barack Obama. He must be a lightweight on legal matters, right? Oh yeah, for twelve years he served as a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, so what would he know about constitutional law?

And Rush?

According to Wikipedia, Limbaugh attended college at Southeast Missouri State University. He dropped out after two semesters and one summer. According to his mother, “he flunked everything”, even a modern ballroom dancing class. As she told a reporter in 1992, “He just didn’t seem interested in anything except radio.”

So I guess I will just let Rush tell me who is a constitutional jurist and who is not.

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