Tuesday, June 23, 2009

I never thought I'd be saying this, but thank you, reactionary wingnuts

In Think Progress:

On Saturday, Pat Buchanan hosted a conference to discuss how Republicans can regain a majority in America. During one discussion, panelists suggested supporting English-only initiatives as a prime way of attracting “working class white Democrats.” The discussion ridiculed Judge Sotomayor for the fact that she studied children’s classics to improve her grammar while attending college.


Buchanan was referencing a New York Times article, which talked about how hard Sotomayor had to work to graduate at the top of her class from Princeton. The article stated that 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.” Sotomayor never read children’s books as part of her “college work” and the books consisted of classics such as “Huckleberry Finn” and “Pride and Prejudice” — not Snow White, as Buchanan contends.


One salient feature of the event was the banner hanging over the English-only advocates. The word conference was spelled “Conferenece.”Photobucket


Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's really all I can say.

1 comment:

Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...

That is too funny. So ready to toot their own horns and judge everyone else that they don't catch the small details.

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