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RUSH: Now, I am being criticized in the Drive-By Media, ‘He couldn\u2019t even give her a day. I mean, he couldn\u2019t wait. It was not even 90 minutes and Limbaugh is out trying to say these horrible things about Sonia Sotomayor.\u2019 Forty-five minutes after the Reagan administration announced the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, Ted Kennedy took to the floor of the Senate and said this: ‘Robert Bork\u2019s America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens\u2019 doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy. &hellip; President Reagan is still our President. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate, and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and on the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.\u2019<\/p>\n

That is about as chock-full of lies, misstatements, that is about as personally insulting and mean as you can get. What was the result of this? Bork didn\u2019t get out of committee. The mean-spirited, evil Democrats, lying through the teeth of Ted Kennedy, 45 minutes after he was nominated, succeeded. They did not pay a price, apparently. So imagine if a Republican — pick your favorite Republican Senator — yesterday had gone to the floor of the Senate 45 minutes after Obama\u2019s announcement of Sonia Sotomayor and said this: ‘Sonia Sotomayor\u2019s America is a land in which the rule of law would be turned into the rule of empathy, where quotas would triumph over merit, rogue bureaucrats could break down citizens\u2019 doors in midnight raids, free thinkers could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is and is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy. President Obama is still our president, but he shouldn\u2019t be able to reach out from the muck of Porkulus, from the muck of stimulus, from the muck of TARP, from the muck of $12 trillion in deficits, and impose his reactionary vision, his anti-constitutional vision, on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Imagine what would be happening today if a Republican Senator had taken to the floor and said that. And that, my rewrite, is mild compared to what Ted Kennedy said about Robert Bork. That was 1987. Do you remember that, Dawn, the Borking of Bork? Dawn doesn\u2019t. So this is the first time you\u2019ve heard what Ted Kennedy said? Okay. Okay. All right. Well, I remember it, of course, at the time. And you know what else I remember about it? I remember, I think 1987 was the year, and that year I was in Sacramento, California. You know what I remember about it? I remember that the Republicans of that day laughed. That\u2019s off the deep end, that\u2019s so over the top, nobody\u2019s going to believe this. The Reagan administration didn\u2019t do much to defend Bork. I remember that. I remember watching, ‘Why is the administration letting this guy dangle in the wind all by himself?\u2019 They didn\u2019t do anything to defend him. I concluded because they didn\u2019t think this was going to happen, Bork, he was a perfect jurist; he was ideal for the Supreme Court. You know what else the left hated about him? <\/p>\n

During his hearings he described the job in part as being an intellectual feast. They hated that. I can remember the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee having a cow over that, an intellectual feast. And, of course, they got on him on the Griswold case out of Connecticut, back alley abortions and this sort of stuff. But this had never been done before, this was so over the top, they were laughing about it. And Ted Kennedy\u2019s statement in 1987 has become the blueprint for the way the Democrats react to virtually every Republican president\u2019s Supreme Court nominees, and often cabinet nominees. So somebody tell me, somebody explain this to me, I want to know, I want to know why it is the Democrats never pay a price for being mean-spirited, critical. They can go after black people; they can go after Hispanic people; they can go after white people; they can go after women; they can destroy anybody they want, and somehow it never hurts, and nobody ever says they better be careful.<\/p>\n

Republicans who are not opposing Sonia Sotomayor because she\u2019s a woman or because she\u2019s Hispanic are warned, don\u2019t oppose her at all or you\u2019ll pay the price. And now Republicans, okay, we gotta wave the white flag on this, we can\u2019t oppose her. We\u2019ll go extinct if we do. Republican Party is extinct. And if we\u2019re going to throw in the towel on this, we may as well throw in the towel on Obama, \u2019cause he\u2019s a minority. We\u2019re gonna really make the blacks mad every time we oppose anything he wants to do. So we just better back off and let him have everything he wants. That\u2019s the way to show the people of the country that we love \u2019em. If everybody\u2019s thinking alike, somebody isn\u2019t thinking.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know what Joe Biden said shortly after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court? You don\u2019t? Would you like to hear what Joe Biden said about Clarence Thomas shortly after he was confirmed to the US Supreme Court? Joe Biden said, ‘I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he\u2019s black. I don\u2019t believe he coulda won had he been white. The reason is I think it was a cynical ploy by President Bush.\u2019 So here once again, the sitting vice president, back in the early nineties when Clarence Thomas was nominated, goes out and says he\u2019s only been nominated, he\u2019s only on the court \u2019cause he\u2019s black. He wouldn\u2019t make it if he\u2019s white. Has anybody on our side said that about Sonia Sotomayor? No. Did Biden pay a price for it? No. Does Biden pay a price for any of the stupid things he says and does? ‘No, that\u2019s old Joe, no, he\u2019s got this runaway mouth. He\u2019s kind of fun, fun old guy, old Joe.\u2019 It\u2019s a two-way street, a double standard out there, and there\u2019s no reason the double standard has to exist. <\/p>\n

And, by the way, do you remember Julianne Malveaux? Don\u2019t confuse her with Suzanne Malveaux. Suzanne Malveaux is or was an infobabe reporterette at CNN. Julianne Malveaux used to be a participant in a PBS version of the McLaughlin Group. (interruption) Julianne Malveaux runs a college? What college? I don\u2019t really care. Don\u2019t waste your time looking it up. If you knew it off the top of your head, fine and dandy. Julianne Malveaux once said of Clarence Thomas, ‘I hope his wife feeds him a lot of eggs and bacon so he has an early heart attack and dies.\u2019 And the libs laughed about it. Oh, yeah. That was funny. And when she was called on it some years later, she laughed oh, you know, that\u2019s been thrown back in my face, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, gets away with it. So Joe Biden, the only reason Thomas on the court is because he\u2019s white. That\u2019s just a cynical ploy by President Bush, but of course the first female Hispanic on the court, no way that\u2019s cynical by Barack Obama. And, gee, Julianne Malveaux, gee. Another reason she got away with it is she is a black woman, so she can say I hope Clarence Thomas\u2019 wife feeds him a lot of eggs and bacon, high cholesterol, so he has a heart attack and dies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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