Rush Limbaugh: Shhh! Don’t Tell Robert Gibbs We’re Talking About Sotomayor
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 30, 2009
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Rush Limbaugh had a terrific show Thursday, and here is a transcript of his take on Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor. The link to the transcript below will be active on his website for a few weeks for all readers, and available indefinitely for members of Limbaugh’s 24/7 Club.
Shhh! Don’t Tell Robert Gibbs: We’re Talking About Sotomayor
Rush Limbaugh Show
EIB Network | Broadcast May 28, 2009RUSH: As I was saying, Robert Gibbs at the White House yesterday warned people like me to be very careful about what we say about Sonia Sotomayor.
So, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to turn your radio up because I’m going to have to whisper this so that they don’t hear this at the White House. In fact, those of you who can if you’re in your cars, roll up your windows. Those of you who are at home, take your radios to the bathroom, close the doors. Make sure that no one else hears what I’m about to tell you about Sonia Sotomayor.
Are you ready? Got the windows up? There we go, three, two, one. In the year 2004, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ruled that ownership of a gun is not a constitutional right. That case is at present being appealed before the US Supreme Court, as are a couple other of her cases. In 2004, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said owning a gun is not a constitutional right. She ruled in this fashion as a judge.
President Obama could have chosen a different Hispanic or a different female, but he chose Sonia Sotomayor because she reflects his own racial attitudes. Let’s be honest about this. He’s got anger about race in this country; so does she. It cannot be denied. Can I give you a Thomas Jefferson quote? Thomas Jefferson quote in a letter he wrote to Charles Hammond August 18th, 1821. It’s 188 years later. “It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression… that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary;… working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped.”
Our Founding Fathers were fortune tellers; they were prophets; they were wise beyond measure. It never fails to amaze me when I go back and read their warnings of the future after they had crafted the US Constitution. … Thomas Jefferson warned 188 years ago that the federal government and the germ of its dissolution was in the way the federal judiciary was constituted. Ergo, 188 years later, he’s right. We have Sonia Sotomayor who thinks that the court is where policy is made. Okay, you can lower the windows now, come out of the bathrooms. I’m through.
(BREAK)
RUSH: This is Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary yesterday, responding to a question from CBS’ Chip Reid on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.
GIBBS: I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation.
RUSH: That’s a threat. That’s a threat, right? That’s a warning. The White House warning those of us who are critical of Sotomayor and the nomination to be very careful.
From the AP today: “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country has boosted its capacity to enrich uranium, another sign of anti-Western defiance by the leader seeking re-election. ‘Now we have more than 7,000 centrifuges and the West dare not threaten us.’”
Well, shazam, you know, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sounds like Robert Gibbs. Robert Gibbs: “Be very careful what you say about this nomination.” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “The West dare not threaten us.” Just wanted to point out the similarities.
Video of Robert Gibbs’ Warning at White House Press Conference about Being Careful of Words Used to Describe “Impending Confirmation”
RUSH: AP has a story today. It is one of their spin meter stories. It’s like a fact-check sorta story. The author of the AP story is Matt Apuzzo, and it’s about Sonia Sotomayor: “Do judges make policy? Will a white man and a Hispanic woman who look at the same facts and apply the same law often come up with different conclusions? Judge Sonia Sotomayor has said the answer to both questions is ‘Yes,’ and that’s rankling conservatives.
Critics say the remarks offer a window into her judicial philosophy. Supporters say she’s only reflecting the reality of the judicial branch.” And, of course, the AP conclusion is “both sides are right.”
However, if you read the entire AP story, you get to the last paragraph.
The last paragraph, in an AP story, says this: “The problem for Sotomayor is that she went beyond the experience-is-important line. She said the Latina experience leads to ‘better’ decisions than the white experience. It’s hard to imagine a judge getting nominated to the Supreme Court after saying white men made better decisions than black women, or Catholics better than Jews,” and that’s exactly right.
Related reading:
Hot Air: Gibbs warns: Be “exceedingly careful” in how you criticize Sotomayor
Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: The Wisdom of the White Male
NewsMax.com: Limbaugh: Sotomayor ‘Reverse Racist, Hack’
Mike Sargent: NewsBusters: Coulter’s Cajun Barbecue: Coulter Vs Carville On Good Morning America
Michelle Malkin: Sen. Graham to Sotomayor: “Unless you have a complete meltdown, you will be confirmed.” and Day One: Spotlight on Sotomayor and The Supreme Court high hurdles contest and Hey, Claire McCaskill: Meet Clarence Thomas and SCOTUS pick: Sonia Sotomayor and Courting trouble
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: You Win, I’m Racist!
Hot Air: The Opportunity on Sotomayor and NYT: Political considerations, life experience only good if we like the results and Sonia Sotomayor’s greatest hits and McCaskill fumbles the “incredible life story” meme and Obama picks Sotomayor for SCOTUS slot
Jules Crittenden: Blood Sport
Frugal Café Blog Zone : How Racially Biased Is Supreme Court Judge Nominee Sonia Sotomayor?
Pronk Palisades: Rule of Law or Rule of Judges–Yakkety Yak–You Know–It Takes A Racist To Appoint A Racist!
Lloyd Marcus, Bob McCarty Writes: Black Conservative: Say ‘No!’ to Sonia Sotomayor
Politico: White House urged to address ‘racist’ charge
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: The Reign of Race
Fort Hard Knox: Thanks, Obama, Now Dump Her
Frugal Café Blog Zone: “Clarence Thomas & Miguel Estrada’s Backgrounds Didn’t Impress Democrats”: Ann Coulter Rejects Getting All Weepy about Ultra-Liberal Hispanic Sotomayor’s SCOTUS Nomination (video)
CQ Politics: Sotomayor Spin Wars Have White House Working Overtime and Did Obama Just Use the Sotomayor Nomination To Lock in Florida?
James Hudnall, Big Hollywood: What’s ‘Latina’ Got to do With It?
GayPatriot: Do We REALLY Need Identity Politics To Extend To SCOTUS?
Burt Prelutsky, Big Hollywood: A Little Straight Talk
Grand Rants: Sotomayor on Video (Sotomayor’s Outrageous Comments)
First Things – The Anchoress: Sotomayor for SCOTUS? (UPDATED)
Jeffrey Jena, Big Hollywood: Sotomayor: Justice Denied
Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online: Empathy vs. Impartiality
The Autopsy: The Sotomayor Story
Latest Technology News – Business News and Expert Advice: Couric and Schieffer Gush Over Sotomayor’s ‘Very, Very Compelling’ Bio
John Romano, Big Hollywood: Race Only Matters When it Favors Democrats
NewsMax.com: Sotomayor Hostile to Gun Rights, Scholar Says
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Sonia Sotomayor – Racist and Sexist hispanic picked by Obama to replace David Souter for SCOTUS
Pundit Review: Obama White House offers the GOP some tremendous advice
Stuff about Stuff: How to Stop Sotomayor
Washington Times: Sotomayor reversed 60% by high court
Ed Whelan, Bench Memos, National Review Online: Her Majesty Sonia Sotomayor vs. the Rule of Law
Swampland: Sotomayor and The Culture Wars
National Catholic Register: Sotomayor’s Catholicism
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