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August 19, 2005

WaPo still on the anti-Roberts path

Do recall that it was the WaPo who ran and supported the nasty politicking against Roberts by allowing Robin Givhan to attack his wife and children on the Fasion pages. Now we have crap like this

Roberts Resisted Women's Rights
Ooooo. Aaaah. Pretty scary headline, eh? Now, let's read the first paragraph!
Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. consistently opposed legal and legislative attempts to strengthen women's rights during his years as a legal adviser in the Reagan White House, disparaging what he called "the purported gender gap" and, at one point, questioning "whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good."
Well, that tears it. Roberts is definitely one of the "keep women barefoot and preggers in the kitchen" cavemen. Right?

F*CKING WRONG

It is not until paragraphs 12 & 13 that we find out the perfidy of WaPo's opening--
His remark on whether homemakers should become lawyers came in 1985 in reply to a suggestion from Linda Chavez, then the White House's director of public liaison. Chavez had proposed entering her deputy, Linda Arey, in a contest sponsored by the Clairol shampoo company to honor women who had changed their lives after age 30. Arey had been a schoolteacher who decided to change careers and went to law school.

In a July 31, 1985, memo, Roberts noted that, as an assistant dean at the University of Richmond law school before she joined the Reagan administration, Arey had "encouraged many former homemakers to enter law school and become lawyers." Roberts said in his memo that he saw no legal objection to her taking part in the Clairol contest. Then he added a personal aside: "Some might question whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good, but I suppose that is for the judges to decide."

Roberts was making a LAWYER JOKE not a 'barefoot and preggers' statement!

Michael Getler is the WaPo's Ombudsman -- write him:
ombudsman@washpost.com

UPDATE Linda Chavez clarifies the Lawyer Joke for joke-impaired, and the just lying about Roberts' factions.

Posted by Darleen at August 19, 2005 10:15 AM

Comments

- 38,000 documents is simply not enough for the unhinged left. While at the same time many Democrats, no doubt more than a little concerned about upcoming elections in 2006, are trying to walk a thin line and beggining to openly support the administration in drawing that line. The lefty groups have thusfar failed to find the smoking gun, or even some viable redmeat, and are reduced to statements about what this or that small section of a Roberts past comment, "heavily suggests". Thats code for we can find a f**king thing to block him with so this is the best we've got. Rather than draw a line in the sand, and refuse to vote for Roberts, as the wingnuts are calling for, some Demoractic leaders are voicing a growing impatience with the public tomfoolery of their own supporters. The Dems are going to lose this, its a slam dunk, so why should Democratic Congressmen sacrifice their own carrers in a losing battle. Can't you just feel the love within the ranks of the "opposition" party. I'm loving it......

Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at August 19, 2005 03:22 PM

Only Democrats are allowed to joke. ;)

Posted by: FrauBudgie at August 22, 2005 04:45 AM