Buchanan Mocks Sotomayor For Learning English By Reading Children’s Books
Buchanan Mocks Sotomayor For Learning English By Reading Children’s Books
Yesterday, C-SPAN invited right-wing pundit Pat Buchanan onto its hour-long Washington Journal show. In recent days, Buchanan has made headlines for spewing hatred toward Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Yesterday, he continued, mocking the fact that she was still struggling with English while in college:
BUCHANAN: Well I, again in that Saturday piece, she went to Princeton. She graduated first in her class it said. But she herself said she read, basically classic children’s books to read and learn the language and she read basic English grammars and she got help from tutors. I think that, I mean if you’re, frankly if you’re in college and you’re working on Pinocchio or on the troll under the bridge, I don’t think that’s college work.
Watch it:
Buchanan is referencing a recent New York Times article, which talked about how hard Sotomayor had to work to graduate at the top of her class from Princeton:
Judge Sotomayor is not known to have identified herself as a beneficiary of affirmative action, but she has described her academic struggles as a new student at Princeton from a Roman Catholic school in the Bronx — one of about 20 Hispanics on a campus with more than 2,000 students.
She spent summers reading children’s classics she had missed in a Spanish-speaking home and “re-teaching” herself to write “proper English” by reading elementary grammar books. Only with the outside help of a professor who served as her mentor did she catch up academically, ultimately graduating at the top of her class.
Nowhere did the article say that all of this was Sotomayor’s “college work.” But Buchanan has been doing all he can in the past week to make it seem like Sotomayor is unqualified and simply an affirmative action nominee.
Buchanan has long claimed that Hispanic immigrants are resistant to learning English and has said that it would be easier for them to “assimilate” if they did so. When writing about Mexican immigrants in 2006, Buchanan said that in contrast to Italian immigrants, “millions of Mexicans are determined to retain their language and loyalty to Mexico.” Similarly, he has also said that “the road to culture is language” and “they want to keep their Spanish language.”
So basically, Buchanan yells when Hispanics are allegedly unwilling to learn English. However, when they make an attempt to do so, he mocks them as being dumb.
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When I was in Germany recently, I watched kids’ shows to improve my German. I was also in college, no one seemed to complain. Instead, everyone loved that I was making an attempt to learn German.
People like Buchanan who hate non-English speakers, shouldn’t they be commending a Hispanic woman for learning English?
Nope, just beat them down some more!
June 1st, 2009 at 8:05 pmBoocannon: “…if you’re in college and you’re working on Pinocchio or on the troll under the bridge…”
These are the first two children’s books that comes into his mind?
How verrrry interesting….
June 1st, 2009 at 8:06 pmOnly someone dumber than a pile of cow dung could conflate learning a foreign language WHILE earning a degree WITH HONORS with stupidity.
Then again, these shysters would be extremely well versed in stupidity…
June 1st, 2009 at 8:06 pmPat Buchanan is a mean spirited bigot. That’s all there is to it.
I went to college with a woman who was raised in a Spanish speaking home. Her school taught her in her native language due to bi-lingual education rules. She could speak English well enough to communicate, but her writing skills and comprehension skills were lacking. And you know how we helped her come up to speed? By reading children’s books. It has nothing to do with intellect and everything to do with learning the basic structure of the English language well enough so that you can apply it to what you are learning in College. And this friend went on to graduate with honors.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:08 pmOn my last nanny gig, when I was tutoring my charge, I had her read Grimm’s fairy tales to me while I worked in the garden. I taught her how to use the unabridged so that when she found a word that wasn’t so easy to define offhand, she could look it up and read the definitions to me. Then we would discuss which definition seemed to apply the best. Children’s classics aren’t all written like Disney books.
When I was tutoring a Korean grad student, I used articles from the Onion.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:08 pm….
which “troll under the bridge” was
buchanan referring to? proud,
johnintexas, merdad, cfp…?
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June 1st, 2009 at 8:09 pmWhat an idiot.
Reading children’s books is how EVERYONE learns languages. I grew up in the USA, but moved to Spain in 1998 at the age of 38. I learned Spanish by reading children’s books, then worked my way up to newspapers, then on to more advanced books. That’s called LITERACY. I’m surprised a former SPEECHWRITER like Pat Buchannan hasn’t heard of it.
Idiot!
June 1st, 2009 at 8:09 pmThe very fact that the woman has learned the English language to the point where she can be considered one of the top jurists in the country sort of says however she did it, it worked.
How much Spanish can you speak, Pat?
June 1st, 2009 at 8:12 pmI dont think reading ‘My Pet Goat’ is presidential material…
June 1st, 2009 at 8:12 pmjoe cantwell Says:
….
which “troll under the bridge” was
buchanan referring to? proud,
johnintexas, merdad, cfp…?
That’s unclear, joe, all of them have verrrry long noses…
June 1st, 2009 at 8:13 pm;)
Buchanan is a complete hack. Since all he can do now that Nixon is no longer around and his political party of his choice has been reduced to rubble, all he can do is squawk and whine about everything he’s lost by his own doing – TOUGH.
Time for Pat and his gang of fools to fade into the woodwork..he has no sway over anyone for any reason anymore.
Now, time to go away Pat…
June 1st, 2009 at 8:16 pmBuchanan learned German by memorizing Mien Kampf.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:16 pmBuchanan has also insinuated that Hispanics shouldn’t be allowed to migrate to the US, since they threaten American culture.
The logical conclusion is simple: Buchanan doesn’t like Hispanics, whether they speak English or not. End of story.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:18 pmMoral for brown folks: No matter what they say to your face, hite folks will never like you, whatever you do.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:19 pmSo is Pat trying to imply that Judge Sotomayor graduated Summa Cum Laude because Princeton gave her credit for reading “Pinocchio” and “The Troll Under the Bridge” during her summers?
Seriously, WTF is he suggesting???
June 1st, 2009 at 8:20 pmBuchanan has long claimed that Hispanic immigrants are resistant to learning English and has said that it would be easier for them to “assimilate” if they did so.
So now he’s ticked at Sotomayor for disproving his crackpot theory?
June 1st, 2009 at 8:20 pmPat, what does it matter? She taught herself. I find that people who can self-educate are quite astute and resourceful.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:27 pmsherifffruitfly Says: “Moral for brown folks: No matter what they say to your face, hite folks will never like you, whatever you do.”
I have to take exception to this statement.
I work in a mixed racial environment, and work very diligently to demonstrate that I consider them equals, and as simply being fellow human beings.
As an older white male, I struggle against this very stereotype that you label me as, and I firmly believe that healing for the human race is possible.
If you are of the brown persuasion, please understand that there are many “hite folks” who do not hate, and are willing to consider equality and justice for all.
Otherwise, if you are “hite”, I suggest you go arrest a rotten peach.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:29 pmThe more I read and hear about what Judge Sotomayor did to get to this point, the more respect I have for her. Not that I didn’t have that for her already. Really amazing.
Oh, and Pat? Go F/uck yourself.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:31 pmLook up the word “nativism” and there will be a photo of Pat next to it. Of course, “nativism” was a 19th century political stance, not a 21st century political stance, so Pat really needs to find a time machine and fkc off back to the 1800s.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:32 pmThat’s the irony of the whole protest, Jim Wolf359. They can’t make anything stick when they try to attack her actual record and accomplishments. So? They keep making up ridiculous strawmen or call her a racist cause they got nuthin else. And they know it.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:38 pmSometimes, I really feel sorry for people like Pat Buchanan. In this case, his bigotry and hatred have completely blinded him to appreciating the obstacles that someone like Judge Sotomayor has had to overcome to master a second language, and how truly great her accomplishments are.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:39 pmPat Buchanan is an ol’ fogey that just needs to STFU! He’s really grasping at straws. Trying to find something, anything on Sotomayor. I wish he’d just retire.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:40 pmIt no longer matters what the right says about the Supreme Court pick, they already lost the Hispanic voter for a least 2 elections, and maybe a lot longer. So they have nothing left to lose so they rant on, I guess to make the pundit fees, just going on and on, spewing whatever conservative, GOP garbage they can dream up for the moment. We have to thank Buchanan for his contribution to the death of the GOP, he is small potatos next to Rush or Steele in this respect, but he is doing his part.
I noticed something about Buchanan, I have seen him on MSNBC at various times, on almost every day of the week, does this guy have a life outside of being a right wing talking head?
June 1st, 2009 at 8:41 pmI have no desire to have any of Pat’s “culture”.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:44 pmI went back and listened to Buchanan’s justification for calling Judge Sotomayor a “lightweight”. It’s interesting to me that he justifies his opinion by cherry-picking his way through a list of second hand, superficial assessments, rather than doing any real analysis himself. In effect, he is demonstrating his own lack of depth, in making his case for her lack of depth.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:47 pmPat’s culture has shriveled, died, and now encrusts the bottom of a petri dish.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:48 pmWhen Republicans cry, we win. When they whine, it means we’re doing the right thing. When they cry, it means we need to do it again. When they pout, it means Santa’s going to pass them by again this year.
Keep on complaining, Republicans. Music to my ears.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:52 pmOK, so she read children’s classics. But obviously that didn’t hurt her as she graduated 2nd in her class.
Not to mention that one of the more effective and enjoyable ways of brushing up on a language is to read well-written children’s lit.
Not to mention, that I’m assuming from the story that she felt her brand of english was not in line with the accepted “business english”. So she worked at it. Sounds good for her.
Does Buchannan want to dilute the English language into a mixture of street English and street Spanish ? And didn’t Buchanan want to launch a drive to “English Only” etc. what a hypocrite!
June 1st, 2009 at 8:53 pmwhich “troll under the bridge” was buchanan referring to?
I think he was referring to his sister, Bay Buchanan. I hear that this is the working title for her autobiography.
As far as Pat is concerned, I am wondering what he read to learn all those other languages he knows how to speak. Certainly, Pat is fluent in at least one foreign language. Otherwise, what standing does he have to criticize anyone who has learned English as a second language?
As for his reference to Mexicans, I wonder if Pat understands that Puerto Rico is not a suburb of Acapulco.
Poor Pat. Stupid is forever.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:56 pmWhen I was 21 years old, I went to Munich for a semester to learn German by immersion at the Goethe-Institut there. I acquired a number of “children’s books” to help me in my efforts – I had no previous knowledge of the language.
A couple of years ago, I decided to learn Turkish by studying with a UC Berkeley grad student from Istanbul. Same drill: the children’s books were indispensible.
I long for the day when the conservative, right-wing political movement in this country abandons its toxic anti-intellectualism. If it does not, this country will never meet its potential.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:56 pmSooo…. Pat never read a childrens’ book? Really?
I guesss that explains his stunted anti-social condition and his lacking intelligence…
Since when did learning English and becoming a success become a problem with the RePugniScums?
I thought they were the “English Only” and “Pull Yourself By Your Bootstraps” party.
WTF???
June 1st, 2009 at 8:57 pm“…Buchanan has long claimed that Hispanic immigrants are resistant to learning English and has said that it would be easier for them to “assimilate” if they did so. When writing about Mexican immigrants in 2006, Buchanan said that in contrast to Italian immigrants, “millions of Mexicans are determined to retain their language and loyalty to Mexico.” Similarly, he has also said that “the road to culture is language” and “they want to keep their Spanish language.”
Buchanan doesn’t understand U.S. history. Spanish isn’t a ‘foreign’ language; it’s one of the U.S.’s domestic languages, and has been since the U.S. acquired the largely Spanish speaking southwestern territories. This is one of the most misunderstood facts about the far right’s anti-immigration mania. Apparently no one on the right knows when and how the western portions of the country came into being, thus they fail to recognize Spanish as a domestic language.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:57 pmI watched C-Span yesterday morning and it was just disgusting…..there was no one on to balance Buchanan and that tool Steve Scully only took calls from republicans. There was no attempt towards objectivity…..if it’s Sunday morning and Scully is on you can take it to the bank that it will be wingnut day.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:58 pmIt seems to me that the hooplah over Judge Sotomayor is more or less the explosion of built-up resentment of the Hispanic Community.
Judge Sotomayor represents what can happen when you give a young person of color the chance to raises above their born station and become something greater than what they were supposed to be. For this, I admire and commend her for her achievements.
As a person of color, I see why the right-wing commentors are having a hard time adjusting to the fact that this nation is finally living up to it’s promise of the American Dream. These men and women would condem her for speaking about her heritage because it sends the message that you can “assimilate” without losing your sense of racial haritage and history. This nation is built on the backs of immigrants and slavery and to state that learning the english language by way of reading (whatever the book may be) is somehow uncooth or unbecoming, than there is a entire section of well-read and well-to-do businessmen and women that are guilty of being unbecoming.
My own story as a GED recipent and a college studant is one built on the belief that my economic station can be changed through hard work and determination. I will not become the thug on the street corner, I will be the man in the suit driving past him. That is my American Dream and if that is unbecoming, than so be it. I will not change because someone who doesn’t know me, know my story, or care..tells me too.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:58 pmHell, I have DAR-qualified US citizen college students whose grasp of English would benefit immensely from a close reading of Grimm. Or USA Today, or The Amazing Spider-Man, for that matter.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:59 pmraises = rise
June 1st, 2009 at 8:59 pmWiz Says:
… does this guy have a life outside of being a right wing talking head?
No.
He’s one of the original neocon cheerleaders/ass-kissers. Heck! One could make the argument that Patsy was a troll before the internet was invented.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:00 pmHispanic immigrants are resistant to learning English and has said that it would be easier for them to “assimilate” if they did so.
Scheisse Kopf.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:05 pmSersi Says:
You are absolutely right about the Reichwing’s view of anyone outside their 21%. However, the screechers would be screeching if Obama nominated Jesus or Patsy himself. I really don’t think most of the protest is racist in nature, it’s political.
The shrinking, lunatic, core of the wreckage that was the GOP has committed itself to increasing fanaticism. That’s dangerous and disturbing but, most failed political movements go whimpering into the night. History may concentrate on the traumatic and bloody but, usually, movements that are as dysfunctional as modern American Conservatism just splinter.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:14 pmI refuse to watch any show with this senile old bigot on it. Buchanan is a White Supremist who has lost touch with reality.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:28 pmCome on. Everyone knows that intelligence requires that English be your native language. I don’t care how many languages you can speak, if you didn’t become literate in English as an adolescent, then you really can’t be expected to use higher level thinking skills.
I know this because Rush told me so. And then Buchanan, Liddy, and Beck repeated it, so it must be true.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:34 pmSince when is Buchanan a justice expert?
June 1st, 2009 at 9:40 pmPat Buchanan is just a nasty old Irish-catholic fart, whose musings can be heard on an almost weekly basis on the McLaughlin Report. I agree with Pat about protecting American jobs by building up our low tariff walls (Japan has a 30% tariff on American cars, while we levy a zero (0%) percent tariff on Japanese cars sold here), but not much else.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:54 pmYes, Pat, God forbid that someone try to better themselves instead of some of “your” people (you know, white) who are so ignorant that they don’t know the difference between “than” and “then” and “their” and “there.” How these people passed English class in school is beyond me. Perhaps the teachers themselves were also too ignorant to know when their students were using the wrong word.
Example:
“I thought white people were better then that.”
June 1st, 2009 at 10:21 pmWhy?
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Wasn’t that how Bush did it?
June 1st, 2009 at 10:27 pmWasn’t that how Bush did it?
It appears Sotomayor at least read them right side up.
June 1st, 2009 at 10:32 pmIt’s time for Buchanan to leave the stage.
June 1st, 2009 at 10:34 pmWhat an insult to all Hispanics!! They should be outraged over Buchanan’s remarks like when McCain was angry and said “you people” because the Hispanics didn’t vote for him.
What’s so baffling is that GOP will be out pandering for the Hispanic vote come 2012.
June 1st, 2009 at 10:35 pmIn my experience, immigrants who tackle English have a mastery of the language that people born into the language do not have.
June 1st, 2009 at 10:35 pmMexicans had most of their country taken from them by the United States back in the 1800s. They should not be expected to assimilate. They are our neighbors to the south, if these “right” wingers are really Christian they need to learn to love their neighbors as Christ taught and let them have their culture they love. It’s time for this old bigot to retire, period.
June 1st, 2009 at 10:45 pmI have a friend–a street guy, really–who never got beyond 6th grrade and who lived life on various hustles, but who read whatever was in the 10¢ bin at the Am,vets thrift store–which was anything from Teach Ypurself Hypnotism to Dialogues with Alfred North Whiehead. He would constantly use words that he pronounced wrong: he understood them, but had never heard them spoken aloud.
I have another friend who works as a handyman (he at least avails himself of the public library) who once reshingled my garage roof for the price of materials ifI would explain quantum mechanics to his satisfaction.
I won’t go into how many ‘well-educated” idiots I know.
June 1st, 2009 at 10:47 pmBuchanan is an idiot. knowing English is not a benchmark of intelligence.
Why is this gasbag still stinking up the airwaves?
June 1st, 2009 at 10:47 pmHere is a partial list of children’s classics from a wikipedia list:
# Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
# The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
# Aesop’s Fables – William Caxton (Translation)
# Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
# Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery
# Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights
# At the Back of the North Wind – George MacDonald
# Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
# The Blue Fairy Book – Andrew Lang
# The Call of the Wild – Jack London
# The Children of the New Forest – Frederick Marryat
# The Coral Island – R. M. Ballantyne
# David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
# Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
# Five Children and It – E. Nesbit
# Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm –
# Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
# Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates – Mary Mapes Dodge
What percentage of the American public who learned English as a first language reads anything remotely approaching the quality of this literature once they leave high school?
June 1st, 2009 at 11:19 pmWhat percentage of American high school graduates in this day and age have ever read them at all?
June 1st, 2009 at 11:22 pmOK. I cannot let this thread go by without comment. Nobody else will say it so I must. Judge Sotomayor would be Puerto Rican. Puerto Rico would be part of the USA. She is a Natural Born American citizen. How is an “educated” person like pat buchanan(not sic) not aware of this? Racist pigs (apologies to pigs)like this dimwit (aspires to be ragarded as a true “dimwit” — would be a step up) must get really confused when they look at a world map and see those regions where all those “nasty brown people” live that have a little U.S. next to them. After all, only white people are real Americans, right pat?
June 1st, 2009 at 11:28 pmThanks Wiley, the only two from that list that I haven’t read yet are:
# The Children of the New Forest – Frederick Marryat
# The Coral Island – R. M. Ballantyne
So I now have to make a trip to the library!
I highly recommend Five Children and It, by the way, it’s one of my all-time favorites. Very dark and surreal.
I credit my childhood reading with my grasp of grammar and vocabulary. It certainly wasn’t school.
On the other hand, I am trying to learn Spanish, and children’s books are about my beginning speed!
Every time Buchanan opens his yap he gives me more reasons to dismiss him as irrelevant and out of date.
June 1st, 2009 at 11:41 pmI know what you mean SkdeAnt. I used to skip school to go to the public library and book stores.
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 amBuchanan has crossed that fine line that he’s been straddling for the past year or so with his naturalist, bigoted remarks that show just what a racist is nowadays.
People shouldn’t be mocked for how they assimilate into our culture, or how their accent is, or for just being because they are different. But good old coot Pat Buchanan…if you’re not on his bus, he’ll run you over three times with it!
I’m so glad the Buchanan lineage came over on the Mayflower and multiplied by incest and that that proud tradition kept on going to this day!
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June 2nd, 2009 at 12:52 amI teach American college students educated in American high schools with American tax dollars. They can’t write to save their lives. I don’t care if she got ESL lessons from the AARP–she’s still done more than the vast majority of Americans, including Pat Buchanan.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:04 amI was a fan of Pat Buchanan the last previous year particularly since he hated the Iraq war, LIKE ME, before, during and after.
But NOW he is out of touch and he and his weird sister are reminding me of the movie
“Endless Love” 50 years AFTER!
creepy creepy
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:59 amPat is afraid of going back to the days when black people set up separate water fountains for ‘whites only’.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:01 am…and how many languages does Buchanan speak?
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 amHas anyone pointed out to that idjit that Pinocchio and The Troll Under The Bridge had to be translated into English so *he* could read them?
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:12 amExactly what I was going to say.
How much Spanish does Pat know?
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:13 amJ. Fred Smug Says:
I long for the day when the conservative, right-wing political movement in this country abandons its toxic anti-intellectualism. If it does not, this country will never meet its potential.
They never will, J. Fred. It’s crucial to their strategy. The right wing knows that they can never win any debate on the merits of their position because they know that, deep down, they aren’t really right. They just want to have their own way and keep as much of their money as possible (legally or otherwise.)
They have struggled for more than half a century to get people to have the idea that the reason they were winning is because their aside wasn’t “being heard.” This was a ridiculous lie because the truth was that the media had always been owned and dominated by conservatives. They just couldn’t accept the fact that the vast majority of us didn’t agree with them. So they complained that we needed “balance” in our news and political programming.
The problem with this approach is that they often put two people up against each other and present them as having equally valid views, when the truth is that the person on the right has based his argument on lies, distortions, and falsehoods. And when the media person moderating refuses to correct people on their facts, the public is left with the idea that the right-winger’s premises are all true. We know from listening to them carefully that they are not.
The right-wing is anti-intellectual because they know that an informed public will reject their side of the argument (usually because the public will understand that the argument is not fact-based.) So they ridicule us. Isn’t that what the dumb kids did in school? Make fun of the smarter kids? That’s why they like to call us “pointy-headed liberals.” They’re jealous of our brains, and see our ability to educate people as a threat to their plans for world domination. And make no mistake – they ultimately want world domination.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:19 amThis is hardly a surprise from Mr. Buchanan. Buchanan is a firm believer that English is the language that America must maintain and that its disappearance as the majority language would lead to the upheaval of America by immigrants.
I actually believe that English should be the primary language here, but I also believe that it is extremely pigheaded to believe that it should be the ONLY language spoken here. I find it healthy and humbling to be able to speak Japanese fluently and to have learned Spanish and French in the past. Learning a language allows the capacity to see another culture from their perspective and understand the undercurrent of thought coming from that culture.
Buchanan’s inability to accept the idea that English can be learned by children’s books shows that he has no authority on understanding language at all. Just because Sotomayor used children’s books to learn English that doesn’t indicate that is her current daily reading regimen.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:36 amI noticed that Pat “Grumpy Pants” Buchanan is making these particular comments on C-Span. Meaning, he’s getting paid there.
The more irrelevant he and his type become, the more over-the-top he and his pals have to be when ever a camera is pointed their way in order to insure those precious cable news “commentary” checks keep coming in.
Pathetic.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 amCorrection:
I noticed that Pat “Grumpy Pants” Buchanan is making these particular comments on C-Span. Meaning, he’s NOT getting paid there.
The more irrelevant he and his type become, the more over-the-top he and his pals have to be when ever a camera is pointed their way in order to insure those precious cable news “commentary” checks keep coming in.
Pathetic.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:59 amI’m sure Pat Buchanan learned Spanish, so that he could tell the maid what to do.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 amNote also that she wasn’t learning English, she was improving her English skills. As Mr. Buchanan apparently badly mis-read the Times article, he might want to consider doing the same. If he wishes to do so, I highly recommend Ms. Sotomayor’s techniques. I myself read the Newbery winner every year (”The Graveyard Book” was magnificent), and sometimes other children’s and young-adult books. As for studying grammar, well, let’s just say that there is at least one former President who could have benefited greatly from that.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:57 amHe’s suggesting, both broadly and specifically with regard to Ms. Sotomayor, that anyone who’s not white and/or doesn’t speak English as their first language, yet manages to achieve…is an affirmative action baby.
The man is a racist, plain and simple. And he knows that in the very near future, he’ll be a minority. And that scares the shit out of him.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:05 pmBuchannon is preaching to the knuckle dragging choir. He won’t convince anybody else he knows what he is talking about.
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:10 pmHe is filling his role on MSNBC as resident bigot.
How does this racist get on some many talk shows?? Pat HATES Hispanics as well as African Americans. Hell it’s safe to say Pat HATES Minorities and Women.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:07 pmThe mack daddy of hate politics is twisting words to attack a latina?
the MORANS in the No/Nothing Party can’t figure out how to cut holes in their hoods without poking themselves in their eyes.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:03 pmMy Yiddish-speaking grandma learned English by reading her children’s school books – the earlier grade the better. I thought it was a terrific idea. Unfortunately she never did learn cursive writing as a result – when sending her postcards from trips and college I was always reminded to print my messages.
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:20 pmBuchanan may have no English words which add-up to ‘inclusive’; that is lexically challenged !
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June 6th, 2009 at 5:07 amIt’s a bit in tune with the Zeitgeist film. See, if all of our knowledge was shared, we couldn’t make money of it. Siki?
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