Laura Ingraham's Attacks On Sonia Sotomayor Miss Her All-American Heritage

[GandD 5,966]

I wonder what the census participation rate is among Spanish speakers.

So............ you're guessing?

[mota bhai 2,675]

Wondering. There's a difference.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

So............ you're guessing?

Much like the census.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Why do you all hate Spanish speakers?

I wonder what the census participation rate is among Spanish speakers.

Census participation??? Do you know what a census is? Do you know the extraordinary effort the gov goes to to count everyone? It cannot be perfect but they hire people to go in the woods and knock on doors of old coot's cabins, and they know which households have reported and which have not using utility data about where people live. Then they knock on the doors of people's houses/apt who have not reported.

omfg, this is so stupid.

I'm sorry guys, global warning is not real because there is ice where I live right now, and when I turn on the radio I hear spanish so that means that Spanish is the majority language in America. Facts! Critical thinking!

[mota bhai 2,675]

not a fan of sampling?

(this is a response to the postmaster)

Edited February 5, 2014 by mota bhai

[GandD 5,966]

Well, F it, I guess who knows anything.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

not a fan of sampling?

(this is a response to the postmaster)

No problem with it. However, the census has become a political tool and there is some deliberate bias in the numbers. But, hey, it is what is.

Well, F it, I guess who knows anything.

Exactly. Let the critical thinking begin.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham launched an ignorant smear against Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, suggesting that she has to choose between her "immigrant family background" or the Constitution.

Ingraham's smear is both rooted in the premise that immigrants are separate from mainstream American culture and is completely off the mark given the fact that Sotomayor is an American citizen and the daughter of American citizens.

In a February 3 speech before Yale Law students, Sotomayor commented on the fact that she was the first Supreme Court Justice to use the term "undocumented immigrant," instead of "illegal alien," saying "[t]o call them illegal aliens seemed and does seem insulting to me."

Ingraham highlighted Sotomayor's comment on her radio show the following day. Ingraham suggested that using the term "undocumented immigrant" demonstrated a failure of Sotomayor's duty "to defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America." According to Ingraham, the word choice shows that Sotomayor's "allegiance obviously goes to her immigrant family background and not to the Constitution of the United States."

Sotomayor is a Puerto Rican American who is both an American citizen and the daughter of American citizens. Puerto Ricans have had U.S. citizenship since President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act in 1917. Ingraham's claim that Sotomayor's heritage somehow conflicts with her mission to uphold the Constitution is both baseless and nonsensical.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/04/laura-ingrahams-attacks-on-sonia-sotomayor-miss/197915

One could argue that Igraham's claim conflicts with the evolutionary process of the human brain... She should consider returning to the rock under from which she crawled.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

One could argue that Igraham's claim conflicts with the evolutionary process of the human brain... She should consider returning to the rock under from which she crawled.

Way to take the discussion into the mud!

[mota bhai 2,675]

One could argue that Igraham's claim conflicts with the evolutionary process of the human brain... She should consider returning to the rock under from which she crawled.

You libruls are so intolerant of dissent.

[JohnR! 5,495]

You libruls are so intolerant of dissent.

In her case, my intolerance is to her stupidity, not her dissent.

Way to take the discussion into the mud!

I am sucker for symmetry....

[mota bhai 2,675]

Dismissing as 'stupid' any and all opinions that run contrary to librul orthodoxy is the very definition of intolerant.

[GandD 5,966]

Dismissing as 'stupid' any and all opinions that run contrary to librul orthodoxy is the very definition of intolerant.

I suppose libt**d is a complement.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Dismissing as 'stupid' any and all opinions that run contrary to librul orthodoxy is the very definition of intolerant.

What you say is correct, however unrelated to the topic.

Her comment is moronic on its own, regardless of political persuasion. But then again, what else should one expect from Fox news?

Edited February 5, 2014 by Gegel

[mota bhai 2,675]

I suppose libt**d is a complement.

i, not e.