During yesterday's confirmation hearings for Judge Sotomayor, Alabama Rethuglican Sen. Jefferson Beauregard "Cornpone" Sessions III kept coming back to Judge Sotomayor's "wise Latina" speech in an effort to make her look prejudiced against the historically oppressed white male. While his questioning of the Judge flopped big time, we should point out that Sen. Cornpone is a Senate expert on prejudice.
Associated Press has this story about Cornpone's ill-fated bid for the Federal bench back in the mid-1980s. He was rejected (even by his own state's Senator), among other things, for his view that the KKK wasn't so bad (especially if you're white). Back then, the lop-eared product of Southern inbreeding also accused the NAACP and the ACLU of being Communist-inspired and of forcing civil rights down the throats of his fellow defectives.
Judge Sotomayor, who was extremely impressive in her responses to the baiting, was calm, intelligent, and stately throughout the botched inquisition by Cornpone and Co. She'll make a terrific Supreme Court Justice.
