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The real question about Sonya Sotomayor

May 30, 2009 - 4:50 am - by Roger Kimball
Nicholas Stix
2009-07-09 22:36:46

David Sucher, I was going to call you a “liar,” but somehow that pithy four-letter word just doesn’t do justice to your offense. It’s as if we were in a room, looking out a picture window at a monsoon-style storm. I say, “It’s coming down like cats and dogs,” to which you counter, “What sort of evidence do you have (which is of course the implication of your statement) that ‘It’s coming down like cats and dogs’? You have no such evidence, of course, or else you would have offered it.”

The woman has made many public statements expressing her racism and contempt for the rule of law; even the New York Times has quoted her and linked to the videos. For but two widely quoted and widely available statements, she said that a “Latina woman” (her redundancy, not mine) is inherently superior in judgment to a white man, and that non-English-speaking Hispanic “immigrants” have a right to come before a Spanish-speaking, Hispanic judge.

Sucher, the first law of lying is plausibility.

On second thought, I will call you a liar. But you are also a very stupid man.