Wednesday, January 11, 2006

At long last, Senator, have you left no sense of decency?

From Fox News – “Sparks fly at Alito hearing”:

After two days of accusations about the judge's relationship to a Princeton alumni group whose founder reportedly had written racist and elitist comments in the group's magazine, Martha Alito, the nominee's wife who has been sitting steadfastly behind her husband for the last three days, broke into tears.
The left-wing blogs will be characterizing this breakdown as a staged attempt to garner sympathy in 3…2…1….

Follow-up - GO!

DU message #1 – “She's sat there like a potted plant for two days just waiting to make her big splash! It's a set up!”
DU message #2 – “SHE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A DAMN STEPFORD WIFE! She's been sitting there with an evil smile on her face for days, and NOW she breaks into tears...give me a break, b---h!
Kos comment #1 – “This is the MOST blatant attempt to manipulate public emotion. She should go…[deleted]”
Kos comment #2 – “Yes, it was all timed. read the diary i posted. i believe this was staged.”
Kos comment – “Staged tears

That didn't take long.

2 comments:

Tom said...

Haha.

Anonymous said...

The McCarthy reference is ill-considered and inane. It's something HITLER would do!

Re-posting random unsympathetic comments from predictably shrill message boards evades the real point. Who gives a crap what Martha Alito thinks?

This is nothing but a high-tech whimpering.

Breaking news: Jose Padilla's wife is sad. Let him out!