Arrogance in Context

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“Yes, on every question, including the question we asked about Latina women, she just knocked it out of the park.”
 — Senator Schumer

{link » Sonia Sotomayor In Context}

“In Washington, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a "clarification" when people realize what was said. The clearly racist comments made by Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Berkeley campus in 2001 have forced the spinmasters to resort to their last-ditch excuse, that it was "taken out of context." If that line is used during Judge Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings, someone should ask her to explain just what those words mean when taken in context. What could such statements possibly mean — in any context — other than the new and fashionable racism of our time, rather than the old-fashioned racism of earlier times? Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.”
 — Thomas Sowell

Consider the arrogance of Chuck Schumer, in or out of context. This is the same Phuck who declared to the "chattering class" that "the American people really don't care" about pork-laden spending.

This personification of the arrogant-bastard class presumes to speak for the American people, having been elected to the Senate by the lunatics of the Empire State, which along with the lunatics of Califorclosure, have foisted upon the American people such luminaries as Eliot Spitzer and the Bat-Out-of-Hell Pelosi. So, "she just knocked it out of the park" did she? And this we know because you declare it to have been so, Chuck?

Well, what would be the point of confirmation hearings now? Our presumptuous spokesman has spoken.

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