Monday, October 31, 2005
David Corn On Alito
Despite the obviously bigoted "Scalito" moniker being affixed to Sam Alito by the title of this article, David Corn, perhaps the last semi-sane columnist on the Left (if you don't believe me, go check out www.huffingtonpost.com or Eric Alterman's blog on www.msnbc.com) weighs in on the emerging senate battle over confirmation of Bush's latest SCOTUS nominee.
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Why do you say it's bigoted? Isn't it just a play on names?
Let's see. Both are Italian, both are from Jersey, both are Roman Catholic, and both are originalist in their constitutional outlook. Yet both are two different men, attended two different law schools, and in all likelihood, will rule differently from time to time. So they're bound together, more than anything else, by their ethnicity. Why stop there? Let's refer to Breyer and Ginsberg, both Jews, as "Brinsberg". Would that be considered just a bit racist in the liberal world? Conservatives didn't concoct political correctness; liberals did. So if you're going to live by the PC code, you're better off practicing it all the way around.
Uh,I don't really it see it like that. It's not that their Italian, I don't think you can make the argument with a straight face that anyone's being racist.
The "ito" suffix in, at least Spanish, means "little" so a young boy named Miguel may be called Miguelito. The nickname here is intended to express that he's a "little Scalia" after all he is younger and Scalia will have what? Almost twenty years on him?
Nice try Spitfire but, once again, you are wildy and hopelessly off. . .
You're a racist. Repent. In Urdu, if necessary.
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