The broader context, however does not dilute the essential meaning – that she hopes a Latina woman would reach a better conclusion than [a member of…(plug in any group)] who had not lived the Latina woman’s life. It’s just a hope. It might not happen. It’s a hope that the Latina woman’s life offers some perspective that would produce a better judgments than would the life experience of another group. If that’s racism, it’s racism light, for sure.

It’s really a way of saying “I hope my life affords me superior capability to make wise decisions than has the life of a white male.” Me too, because she will on the Court. And not a white male. And we can hope she was right.

On the other hand, he did step up to defend her (and his choice of her as the nominee) by saying (paraphrase) that she might have chosen her words more carefully (to avoid negative sound-bytes taken out of context) but in the grand scheme of her speech/essay, what she said was fine.

Whatever Obama said, whatever Sotomayor said, in any case would be twisted around to make it something else. There is no way to “win” if you are a Democrat in this stupid game. And it’s discouraging to see so many Dems playing along.

I’m new here. This is the second time I clicked on ’reply’ to a comment, and failed to have my comment reflect that it was a reply, with one of those grey bands under my name saying ”In reply to Edward Teller @ 31 (show text)”

Would anyone care to tell me how to get it right? Also, the preview doesn’t work for me today.

On Friday, June 5, 2009, at an event featuring aspiring politicians Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich that was broadcast over the global media networks of GodTV, a rising leader in the rapidly reconfiguring Christian right who has publicly called for acts of Christian martyrdom, prayed over and blessed Huckabee and Gingrich: TheCall founder Lou Engle.

Clearly there is coded language here, referring to the ’martyrdom’ of Scott Roeder.

And why is it that the media always faithfully gloms onto the GOP fake outrage meme to the exclusion of real journalism?

“I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hadn’t lived that life.” WOW!! WOW!! If that sounds racist, then the reverse is, too.

The comment, in context, was about discrimination cases. Even Rachel and KO — and sometimes FDL commenters — leave out the CONTEXT, which is discrimination.

EDIT: and I agree 200% with newtonusr @ #30 and Twain @ #32

i dont think the obama admin “validates the opposition’s frame” — i would quite prefer that they naively offer real and genuine opinions and interpretations of reality. i naively assume that most people weigh things according to reality when they hear it and aren’t led by the nose by horses’ asses who twist and spin…

but of course, in the technological age, everything is propaganda and so we all play the propaganda game, twist and spin, and no one is genuine or authentic.

liberal, radical or conservative — it’s all perception and frame… or pr, or, perhaps, simplistically, nihilism.

if sonia said white men suck because they have, in general, a grandiose assumption of privilege, and newt fuckin’ gringrich sez that’s racist, why isn’t it okay for obama to say sonia could have been clearer about why most white guys are assholes? it makes sense to me.