{"id":23283,"date":"2006-01-10T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:35:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:35:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:35:20","slug":"alito_slam_dunks_joe_biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/01\/10\/alito_slam_dunks_joe_biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Alito Slam Dunks Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Another audio sound bite from the hearings. This was this afternoon. The Alito confirmation, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nutsandboltsguide.com\/plagiarism.html\">Senator Joe Biden<\/a>. Biden says, &#8220;Sheer personal antipathy is okay even when the employer\u2019s reason for not hiring the person toward whom they showed sheer personal antipathy weren\u2019t true. How do you distinguish that from discrimination, subtle discrimination, sheer antipathy, subtle discrimination, that\u2019s a tough one for me, judge. How do you draw a difference?&#8221;<\/line><BR\/> ALITO: It gets into a fairly technical question involving a Supreme Court case called the McDonnell Douglas case. But to put it in simple terms, courts of appeals have divided into three camps on this. There was the pretext-plus camp, which was the one that was the least hospitable to claims by employees. There was the pretext-only camp, which was the camp that was most favorable to employees, and there was the middle camp. And my position was in the middle camp, and when the issue went to the Supreme Court, and it did, a couple of years later, in Reeves vs. Sanderson Plumbing, Justice O\u2019Connor wrote the opinion for the Supreme Court, and she agreed with my analysis of this legal issue, that in most instances, pretext is sufficient.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Bzzzz. Your time is up, Senator Biden. Because of course, it\u2019s a shame we had to lose Justice O\u2019Connor. They asked her to hold on, they asked her not to retire, even Senator Specter. So here\u2019s Biden who thinks he\u2019s the smartest guy in the Senate, he thinks he\u2019s got Alito trapped. He\u2019s got a question on discrimination. He wants to prove this guy discriminated, because he\u2019s a conservative. He\u2019s a Republican, of course he discriminates, that\u2019s how they live. So he\u2019s got this little case that he thinks he\u2019s going to trip this guy up on because he\u2019s smarter than Alito, he\u2019s smarter than everybody. So he gets through this question, he says, &#8220;I don\u2019t understand, sheer personal antipathy is okay, but how do you distinguish that from discrimination, subtle discrimination? That\u2019s a tough one for me.&#8221; <\/line><BR\/>Alito says, &#8220;Well, let me simplify this for you. There were three camps. I was in the middle camp, when the case went to the Supreme Court Justice O\u2019Connor agreed with me.&#8221; Not I agreed with her, Justice O\u2019Connor agreed with me! Biden may as well have thrown up. He may as well have ducked under the desk and surrendered the rest of his time. But you know, going into this, his staff or himself, &#8220;We\u2019re going to get this guy on this one. My other compatriots, they\u2019re going to try to nail him on abortion, they\u2019re going to try to nail him on &#8212; but I\u2019m going to get him on the racist charge, he discriminates, he\u2019s for big business.&#8221; Slam-dunk, no contest.<\/line><BR\/>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n<paragraph\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Another audio sound bite from the hearings. This was this afternoon. The Alito confirmation, Senator Joe Biden. Biden says, &#8220;Sheer personal antipathy is okay even when the employer\u2019s reason for not hiring the person toward whom they showed sheer personal antipathy weren\u2019t true. How do you distinguish that from discrimination, subtle discrimination, sheer antipathy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alito Slam Dunks Joe Biden - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/01\/10\/alito_slam_dunks_joe_biden\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Alito Slam Dunks Joe Biden - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Another audio sound bite from the hearings. 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