{"id":22817,"date":"2005-08-19T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:45:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:51:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:51:29","slug":"humorless_libs_portray_roberts_as_neanderthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2005\/08\/19\/humorless_libs_portray_roberts_as_neanderthal\/","title":{"rendered":"Humorless Libs Portray Roberts as Neanderthal"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So we had the news earlier in the week in the Washington Post that the Democrats basically said, “There\u2019s nothing we can do about this Roberts guy. He\u2019s got 70 votes. He\u2019s not worth spending the political capital,” and that story was, I am convinced, designed to rabble-rouse the extreme left-wing groups like Ralph Neas at People for the American Way to get in gear and try to change the minds of some of these Democrats who have said that they are tending to vote for Roberts. So all hell broke loose the next day, and demanding that certain Democrats, not just rubber-stamp this nomination. “We got to fight for this! This guy is horrible, he\u2019s rotten!” and ever since, newspapers — Boston Globe, Washington Post, New York Times — have been filled with stories replete with warning flags, red flags about the danger posed by this Neanderthal, this racist, this bigot, this anti-Semite, John Roberts,” and today, the Washington Post has a piece headlined, “Roberts Resisted Women\u2019s Rights – 1982 – 86 Memos Detail Skepticism.”<\/p>\n

It is hilarious. We know that the left has no sense of humor. We know that they are incapable of laughing, and you have to just have to be suspicious of people who cannot laugh. There is so much to be amused by, so much to find pleasure in, but not them. These people are wound so tight they are constantly on edge, and remember they\u2019re guided by a template. They\u2019re guided by an agenda. They\u2019re guided by their own prejudicial bias.<\/p>\n

“John Roberts is a conservative. Therefore, he has to be a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. We just have to go find the proof because we know he is, because he\u2019s a conservative and he\u2019s been nominated by Bush and he worked for Reagan. He\u2019s got to be the lowest of the low. All we got to do is go find it,” and so with that mind-set, they\u2019re poring over documents, documents that Roberts wrote while working for the Reagan administration and in the solicitor-general\u2019s office, and they think they\u2019re finding evidence that, indeed, he is a racist, a sexist, a bigot, and a homophobe. The big red flag in this Washington Post story is this paragraph: “His remark on whether homemakers should become lawyers came in 1985 in reply to a suggestion from Linda Chavez, then the White House\u2019s director of public liaison.<\/p>\n

Chavez had proposed entering her deputy, Linda Arey, in a contest sponsored by the Clairol shampoo company to honor women who had changed their lives after age 30. Arey had been a schoolteacher who decided to change careers and went to law school. In a July 31, 1985, memo, Roberts noted that as an assistant dean at the University of Richmond law school before she joined the Reagan administration, Arey had ‘encouraged many former homemakers to enter law school and become lawyers.\u2019 Roberts said in his memo that he saw no legal objection to her taking part in the Clairol contest. Then he added a personal aside: ‘Some might question whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good, but I suppose that is for the judges to decide.'”<\/p>\n

\"\"This reference has them convinced that Roberts is a Neanderthal, right out of the Jimmy Caster bunch, and he wants to grab all the Butts sisters and drag them back in the cave and he wants to keep them barefoot and pregnant. He wants them homemaking. He wants them baking cookies, cakes, and he wants them making his coffee. He wants them to get his slippers when he comes from a hard day at the law office. He doesn\u2019t want them to become lawyers. This guy\u2019s a sexist. They don\u2019t have the slightest idea that he\u2019s cracking a joke here: “Oh, good, this is the last thing we need is more lawyers.” This is nothing more than a guy making a joke that we all make. Oh, yeah, that\u2019s great. The next thing we need is more lawyers. Oh, yeah. That will fix the country, great. They don\u2019t get it and the reason they don\u2019t get it, they don\u2019t see the humor, is because they are convinced that this guy\u2019s a sexist. They are convinced he is a Neanderthal.<\/p>\n

They are convinced that he probably thinks that women ought not even be able to show their face in public. That\u2019s how conservative he is, and remember where he grew up. Oh, yes. We learned yesterday he grew up in an all-white neighborhood with no blacks and no Jews. (whispering) Jews! And the day before that, we learned that his father had it very good in life and John Roberts did not know what tough times were at all. John Roberts was rich. (whispering) Rich! And so now here comes this. “He\u2019s so out of touch, he hasn\u2019t figured out that women don\u2019t want to be homemakers. He wants to keep them in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant and so forth and under his thumb.” It\u2019s laughable. It is comical. The number of women that put this piece together is a testament itself. Let\u2019s see. We got Amy Goldstein, R. Jeffrey Smith and Jo Becker. Two of those three are women. Ceci Connolly worked on this story and Amy somebody — a bunch of women basically wrote this story, folks, a bunch of feminist women, a bunch of activist women.<\/p>\n

An activist feminist is already a member of the group that\u2019s constantly angry about something, on edge or mad or waiting to be, looking for some reason to be mad, and they have stumbled right into it here. “Some might question whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good, but I suppose that\u2019s for the judges to decide.” He\u2019s making a joke about lawyers. He\u2019s making a joke about, “Oh, my God, do we need more lawyers in this country?” It\u2019s something that everybody jokes about, but these people don\u2019t get it. So now they\u2019ve got this story out there and they\u2019ve written it as a hit piece and as a warning flag to all the activists on the left. “Look what we\u2019re finding about this guy. Look what we\u2019re digging up about this guy.” Well, as I said yesterday, Ted Kennedy grew up in an all-white neighborhood, John Kerry grew up in an all-white neighborhood. Hillary Clinton grew up in an all-white neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Ted Kennedy still lives in an all-white neighborhood. John Kerry still lives in a bunch of all-white neighborhoods. Hillary Clinton makes sure that she is in a bunch of all-white neighborhoods where she lives. At the same time, Clarence Thomas grew up in an all-black neighborhood in Savannah, Georgia and, you know, I don\u2019t look at that as having been much help to him when he was being confirmed for the US Supreme Court. The same liberals upset that Roberts grew up in Long Beach, California did not say to Clarence Thomas, “You know, you\u2019re eminently qualified. You grew up in a poor black neighborhood.” It didn\u2019t matter a hill of beans, did it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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