Hatch distances himself from right-wing attack ad on Sotomayor.
By on Jul 15th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Hatch distances himself from right-wing attack ad on Sotomayor.
Earlier today, Think Progress pointed out that Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) was present at a fundraiser for the right-wing Committee for Justice, a the group that is now sliming Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a terrorist. We wondered whether Republican senators are willing to defend CFJ’s ad. Huffington Post’s Sam Stein asked Hatch’s office, which responded by distancing itself from CFJ:
Asked if he agreed with the ad pushed by the group for which he once raised money, the senator’s spokesperson, Andrea Saul, relayed the following message from Hatch himself: “I haven’t seen the ad, but it sounds pretty harsh. Not the type of ad I would run.”
Is Jeff Sessions prepared to follow Hatch’s lead?
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Ah, the repiggies…
The voice for the oppressed southern white guys everywhere…
Gosh…It just brings tears to my eyes.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:31 pmAs expected. Hatch isn’t a a complete fool; he knows bad PR when he sees it.
Sessions, on the other hand, would revel in it. Probably defend the KKK (again) from charges of domestic terrorism while labeling SNCC and SCLC racists and criminals.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:35 pmSessions will be hitting his own little personal Appalachian trail this evening, savoring each delicious moment of this ad.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:35 pmplausible deniability?
July 15th, 2009 at 4:36 pm. . .
ot,
is the right wing noise machine
on the verge of collapse?
sinclair broadcasting close to bankruptcy.
***
karma.
:)
h/t tpm
* * *
July 15th, 2009 at 4:39 pmSounds like the CFJ has some splainin’ to do.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:40 pmIt seems that the GOOPers are working diligently at painting themselves into a corner. Whenever a ridiculous smear, claim or strategy floats to the surface, everyone immediately assumes that they will back it or originated it.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:41 pmJust like the Bush family distanced themselves from that whole
Nazi thing after they helped finance it.
Political whores don’t sleep over.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:48 pmI’ll wait to see what Hatch says AFTER he’s seen the ad before I’m ready to say he’s disavowed it.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:50 pmMentioning Bush and political whores in the same sentence reminds one of Jeff Gannon…your statement may be truer than we know… ;]
July 15th, 2009 at 4:51 pmNot exactly a condemnation, is it? When I think of the hoops these dimwitted GNOPers made then-candidate Obama jump through with respect to Rev. Wright and Ayers…
PEACE
July 15th, 2009 at 4:54 pmYou have to watch this clip of Tom arnold and Sean Hannity debating issues like Sotomayor, Health care, Sarah Palin, etc. Arnold does quite well.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2185
July 15th, 2009 at 4:58 pmMr. Hatch deserves no pass on this at all, there have been plenty of other instances when he has gone along with his ignorant party’s attacks so this sheepish, half-hearted, distancing of the subject means nothing.
RIP
July 15th, 2009 at 5:03 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Remember the fuss over the (rather stupid) ‘General Betrayus’ ad?
This anti Sotomayor looks like slander to me.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:06 pmListening to these Republicans take aim at this woman is like a neon sign screaming racists.
This brilliant woman, smarter then the men doing the questioning, and trying to field the racist comments. Can you imagine being taken to task for the suggestion that empathy and her minority status might weigh in her decisions? And a few years ago Alito who was questioned for the Supreme Court said exactly the same thing. He was confirmed. Evidently if your a conservative Republican it is alright. But if you are a woman and a liberal it is not allowed.
As for Hatch, he knows she is going to be confirmed. He wants to be re-elected, and he is too old to find another job. The kind of questions she has been asked have had little to do with her judiciary experience. The American Bar Assoc. has called her the best candidate in the last 70 years.
We are all looking at these nasty men. What they are is so obvious. As for Sessions, he was nominated by Reagan with a Republican dominated Senate and House for a judgeship that this woman has now, and he was rejected as unqualified by his own party. Now he is the head of this hearing by virtue of his seniority, not his qualifications. What an irony. He is passing judgment on someone he is not qualified to judgment.
It is possible to find empathy in your judgments, while you make law that will effect millions of people for generations. That does not mean you cannot defend the law, it only means there is the realization that you are dealing with the lives of human beings.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:15 pmjoe cantwell says:
May Sinclair broadcasting be struck down with bankruptcy, and I hope it never recovers. May it soon be followed by Clear Channel.
no snark
July 15th, 2009 at 5:26 pmIs Jeff Sessions prepared to follow Hatch’s lead ?
WHAT LEAD ???
Saying he wouldn’t run the ad is NOT the proper response
considering he did a fundraiser for them.
Hatch needs to forcefully criticize this ad and RWCJ OR HE OWNS IT.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:27 pmjoe cantwell, I saw that about Sinclair. I was waiting for one of our pet trolls to bring up Teh Awesome power of right-wing media and its ratings, or to crow about “failing” Air America before I brought it up.
Still, it’s kinda cool, huh?
July 15th, 2009 at 5:30 pmHatch isn’t as dumb as he looks. Oh heck, sure he is, he just got lucky this time.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:31 pmSessions is one of the most blatant white male anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-Dem, lying buffoon ever to gain office. Oops- I almost wrote “orifice”.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:35 pmIt’s too late, Senator Hatch. The time to stop or speak out against these types of attacks has passed. You could have come out looking like a star if you had had the fortitude to speak out against unsubstantiated attacks on the president, progressives, immigrants, LGBT persons, and minorities instead of taking the coward’s way out and remaining silent when you knew the attacks were unwarranted. No change here. I still feel the same way toward you and your lying, racist brethren inside and outside of the halls of Congress.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:36 pmHatch is a Mormon. He sees Ms. Sotomayor as one of the mud people that his religion claims will have no place in the after-life.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:38 pmWatching the hearings today, I’m wondering whether Hatch is trying to pitch himself so that he can vote for Sotomayor. It’s the easiest way out for him, so long as he can make a case with the Right that he pushed Sotomayor and got the “right” answers from her. Graham may go the same route, now that he has lectured her on her “poor temperament” (in a condescending manner, as though she were a naughty child).
It seems to me that Sessions, Kyl, and Coburn will definitely vote against her confirmation.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:40 pmI wonder what sort of ad Harch would run to slime Sotomayor.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:51 pmYou think he will vote for since he got to call her a b!tch (in code).
July 15th, 2009 at 5:54 pmGiven the opportunity to disavow this type of ad is doing the Republicans a favor. If they fail to distance themselves from it they are stupid. I wouldn’t actually like to see them asked that question, I’d rather hang that ad around their necks like a burning tire.
July 15th, 2009 at 6:53 pmMore cannon fodder for the 2010 election. The Latino vote might get up near the African American vote. That will put some very conservative southern seats in the firing line. I just can’t wait for the 2010 election.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:31 amMaybe even a Texas senate seat if it does become vacant.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:32 am