I've been falling away from Rachel Maddow since the election - at the end of the day, I don't like the brain-dead left any better than I like the brain-dead right. Last night's piece on Sotomayor finished it for me - no going back. Her coverage ("Oh, my God, she's not really a leftist!") was so uninformed, off-target and ideologically driven that I fled all the way to Democratic Underground, where I never, never, never go.
And that's where, among the ranting, I found this:
i saw her report and what she did was cherry pick decisions to make Sotomayor sound like a conservative without even reviewing what the cases were, or even a detail about them (for example, were they good cases?)
if you bring a bad case in favor of civil rights and you lose, does that mean the judge is against civil rights? this is the key information that Rachel, quite irresponsibly, left out.
Ah, yes - judicial reality. Context. Facts. But they won't do what I want them to.
Time to move on...
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