Jul 17

Pat Buchanan show his real colors on Maddow.

Let’s start with some of the factual inaccuracies:

  • Judge Sotomayor was born in New York, not PR.
  • On having never written anything – She edited the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law.
  • I’ll leave the affirmative action discussion to Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic.
  • That half of  the class graudates cum laude – Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude.  At Yale, at most the top 30% of the graduating class graduates with honors.  Summa cum laude graduates are at the top 5%, in the case of the class of 1979.  I don’t know the size of that class but it would put her, at the very most, in the top 10.

Visual aids after the cut.

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Jul 16

Orbitz has a commercial featuring a character wearing a polo shirt for the GLBT PAC, Human Rights Campaign.  HRC’s website has this quote from Orbitz President and CEO, Steve Barnhart:

“Since our company’s inception, Orbitz Worldwide has been a leading supporter of the LGBT community. We’re proud to be honored by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and proud to be recognized as a leader in promoting a non-discriminatory workplace, and one that continues to be proactive in its efforts to best serve the LGBT segment of the market.”

Of course, he’s using a long putter, so I almost didn’t post the link. . .