Bill Bennett and Fred Barnes are "wonder"ing about Sotomayor

[underpants]

BARNES: I think you can make the case that she’s one of those who has benefited from affirmative action over the years tremendously.

BENNETT: Yeah, well, maybe so. Did she get into Princeton on affirmative action, one wonders.

BARNES: One wonders.

BENNETT: Summa Cum Laude, I don’t think you get on affirmative action. I don’t know what her major was, but Summa Cum Laude’s a pretty big deal.

BARNES: I guess it is, but you know, there’s some schools and maybe Princeton’s not one of them, where if you don’t get Summa Cum Laude then or some kind of Cum Laude, you then, you’re a D+ student.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/28/barnes-sotomayor-affirmative-action/

[kentuck]

1. Fred Barnes was Stupid Cum Laude..

What a nitwit!

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Tht ought to be a DUzey!!!!!

Stupid Cum Laude!

:rofl:

[Kahuna]

13. DUzy!

[BlooInBloo]

15. You win.

[rurallib]

2. OMFG! what a couple of intellectuals there

Bennett got any bets on her confirmation yet? What's the odds right now?

[predfan]

3. This snippet of conversation is a sad commentary on Bennett's listenership........

for Barnes to denigrate someone graduating from Princeton Law Summa Cum Laude, and the listeners not catch onto the fact that's crazy as hell, well, it doesn't say much for them.

[Sal Minella]

8. Yeah. There wasn't none of them Cum Loude things cluttering up W's college career.

He had a clean record his supporters can show off with pride.

Getting into Yale as a legacy is good; keeps out the non-white non-rich trashy folks.

[underpants]

11. That is the glaring inconsistency here

the rightwing noise machine was heavy on the grad inflation in IVY LEAGUE schools in the late 90's. This was big shakes to them.

As soon as W was clearly their guy they dropped it....and we both know why

[yellowcanine]

5. "there’s some schools and maybe Princeton’s not one of them" ??? I know Barnes is digging furiously

to say something negative about Sotomayor but that is just pathetic. Do these fuckwits ever listen to themselves before they let the shit fly?

[predfan]

9. Is Princeton like Harvard and Yale, which gives extra consideration to "legacies"?

You remember, Fred, like GW Bush?
Was Sotomayor a legacy?

[yellowcanine]

12. They were talking about graduating "summa cum laude" at that point so admission details are not at

issue. In fact, it was Bennett's grudging admission that you don't get "summa cum laude" by affirmative action that triggered Freddy's pathetic little observation about "some schools but maybe not Princeton."

[predfan]

17. Actually, admission details were discussed, as to whether she got in

by affirmative action.

[spanone]

6. headline 'shit stinks'

[monmouth]

7. Wasn't Bennett Sec. of Education????..Dear gawd....n/t

[Dappleganger]

10. Fuck them both!

They wouldn't be saying that if she was a white male, geez!

Why do these racists automatically think that someone who looks different than they do aren't deserving of everything they have *earned*??

[safeinOhio]

14. Could we just compare

Barnes and Bennets LSATS scores with those of Sotomayor. OH, and throw in Limbaughs and Roves.

[blogslut]

16. Sad old white men

...running out of reasons to claim their superiority.