Posts tagged “Sonia Sotomayor”
The Dysfunctional Politics Of Despair
The last eight years have not been demographically kind to the Republican Party: In 2001, respondents were asked for their party affiliation, and independents were encouraged to pick one of the two major parties. Democrats had the narrowest of leads over the GOP, 45% to 44%. This year, Dems are up to 53%, while Republicans [...]
Sound-bites, Context And A Rash Of Religious Conversions
On Wednesday night, in the first segment on MSNBC‘s Countdown, Keith Olbermann exposed the hypocrisy and dishonesty of the Republican attack machine’s smears of Sonia Sotomayor. He showed how the attacks were based on a) misrepresenting and twisting around out-of-context quotes which have a very different meaning when viewed in context, b) ignoring the fact [...]