After listening to the screaming outrage over the past week from the GOP machine over a remark Sonia Sotomayor made eight years ago, I hope the media gets around to asking those selfsame screamers why they weren't outraged a whole lot sooner. From Greg Sargent at The Plum Line:
I’ve just obtained a speech that Sonia Sotomayor gave in 1994, in which she made a comment virtually identical to the "wise Latina" one from 2001 that has generated so much controversy.
And though the 1994 speech was disclosed to Republican Senators as part of her confirmation for Court of Appeals in 1998, there’s no sign that anyone objected to it in any way. [...]
A copy of the 1994 speech was included with the questionnaire she submitted for the 1998 confirmation. A Sotomayor supporter sent both to me. [...]
There’s no sign that any Republican Senators at the time — seven of whom are still in the Senate — had any objection whatsoever to the comments when they reviewed them in 1998.
After a week of having "Sotomayor is a racist" jammed down our collective throats, it turns out that when a white man nominated her, she wasn't a racist. but when a black man nominated her, she is?
Was the the whole point of this line of attack an excuse to paint Obama as a racist?