for every reason! unnecessary!
The conservative news mag is upping its controversy quotient with a cover that is already dropping jaws
My first reaction to the new “National Review” cover was that it wasn’t real. I mean I know the caricatures are part of the conservative magazine’s schtick, but outright race baiting has got to be out of the question right? I mean everyone remembers the media storm that followed that ridiculous New Yorker Obama cover and it was obvious that was tongue-in-cheek. But alas, the cover is real and I sigh in disappointment.
The cover evokes SOTOMAYOR’s controversial “wise Latina” remark made in 2001 at the University of California-Berkeley law school (and apparently repeated several times). While addressing students there, she said she “would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
So yeah, probably not a great thing to say as a sitting judge because it reveals a possibly very deep bias. And that’s why it’s been written and talked about a LOT since the speech was uncovered.
But mixing the “wise Latina” remark with a semi-coherent allusion to Buddhist enlightenment and spicing it up with some stereotypically slanted eyes and big teeth? It’s like the National Review thinks controversy sells or something.
Sadly this isn’t the first time a Sotomayor caricature has gone in for race-baiting. The Oklahoman has drawn criticism this week for running a cartoon on Tuesday that depicted Sotomayor as a pinata with President Barack Obama asking a gang of GOP elephants, “Now, who wants to be first?”
