Gibbs warns: Be “exceedingly careful” in how you criticize Sotomayor

posted at 4:59 pm on May 27, 2009 by Allahpundit

Frum calls it his Ari Fleischer “watch what you say” moment.

Question: why? Why be more careful with this nomination than with those of Miguel Estrada or Robert Bork – never mind Clarence Thomas? On what basis does Gibbs single out this nomination as more sensitive than others, this debate as demanding more care than other debates?

He’s asking rhetorically, of course. On its own terms, Gibbs’s advice isn’t bad — Michael Steele, doubtless concerned about hemorrhaging any more Latino votes, made the same point yesterday — but it’s one thing for the head of the RNC to nudge his fellow Republicans and another for the White House to be warning the opposition. Imagine the nutroots pathos had a Republican press secretary dropped this on them. As it is, no doubt Team Barry’s prepping another round of attacks from the Rush/Newt/Cheney-bashing playbook for tomorrow in response to Gingrich’s latest offering. I love easy content. Click the image to watch.

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BIDEN: “I think that the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black. I don’t believe he could have won had he been white. And the reason is, I think it was a cynical ploy by President Bush.”

Ted Kennedy: “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of the government …”

Really Mr. Gibbs?

diogenes on May 27, 2009 at 6:13 PM

Someone in NYC,

will you give us your take on how Sotomayor put her being New Yorkxxian?

It’s been half a century since West Side Story. Any cultural assimilation beyond the point characterized in the musical? NYC is so neighborhood territorial. Is “ethnic” neighborhood the PC reference for gangland? Is Sotomayor chums with the Obamas, members of the huge chip on the shoulder society? Those chips have been sharpened to be flung as lethal weapons.

maverick muse on May 27, 2009 at 6:13 PM

Is Gibbs saying that telling the truth is out of the question in keeping with new White House protocall?

heshtesh on May 27, 2009 at 6:14 PM

Amazing you were at the Kinko’s!
INC on May 27, 2009 at 6:03 PM

I was stuck there for hours, copying maps. You had to wait in line to fax. Abilene has few amenities and only one Kinko’s. That’s why Bill Burkett drove thirty miles from Baird to get there.
Kinko’s just moved up the street a couple of years ago, and I told them that they needed a State Historic marker or plaque on the old building.

TexasJew on May 27, 2009 at 6:16 PM

Sotomanure to the highest court, parley-voo?
Sotomanure to the highest court, parley-voo?
She has a foul temper and spews such a crock
And her face would stop a cuckoo clock
Hinky, dinky, parley-voo

InkyBinkyBarleyBoo on May 27, 2009 at 6:18 PM

She is a barely competent jurist, and a not too closeted racist, who was selected wholly based on her skin color and gender. How’s that Gibbs?

Vashta.Nerada on May 27, 2009 at 6:19 PM

Screw you Gibbs . . . go some place else and quell free speech.

rplat on May 27, 2009 at 6:22 PM

The Ball-Chinian Speaks.

America Sleeps.

Screw you, Petah Griffin!

Key West Reader on May 27, 2009 at 6:22 PM

While we still have free speech:

F**K YOU, Mr. Gibbs!

F**K YOU, Ms. Sotomayor!

And F**K YOU, Mr. President!

TugboatPhil on May 27, 2009 at 6:34 PM

Sounds like a threat to me!

Johan Klaus on May 27, 2009 at 6:39 PM

hear hear TugboatPhil! I can’t wait to throw these smug bastards out. Let’s just hope they don’t do too much damage before we give them the boot.

marklmail on May 27, 2009 at 6:46 PM

Gibbs Raps Squibs On Lib’s Nibs

What a hump.

RandyChandler on May 27, 2009 at 6:48 PM

Obama plays the race card well. He is much more subtle, but no less racist and manipulative. He is visiting all of the key hispanic states, today, as part of his 2012 campaign.

Star20 on May 27, 2009 at 6:51 PM

diogenes on May 27, 2009 at 6:13 PM

Let’s see. Wasn’t it revealed during the campaign, that Bidens parents lived in an exclusive, whites only neighborhood?

Teddys daddy treated women as sexual objects, to be used. He paraded them in his house, right in front of his wife.

Yup. These are the 2 I’d pick, to dole out moral judgements on others. *rolling eyes*

capejasmine on May 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM

capejasmine on May 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM

Never give up my friend. You are NOT alone!

diogenes on May 27, 2009 at 7:13 PM

Finally. A woman closely associated with Obama who does not look like a Klingon. Any pics of her arms?

Stephen M on May 27, 2009 at 7:19 PM

I would say “up yours, Gibbs,” but you would probably like it.

-Dave

Dave R. on May 27, 2009 at 7:45 PM

Yeah,,, we’re suppose to all bend over and shut up now because the Marxist Obama appointed is an Hispanic woman. Big freakin whoop!
To defend the constitution is to defend all the other Americans of every color, race and faith or no faith at all!
To question or criticize this one woman for her Marxist and idiotic views is to protect and respect the freedom and rights of all the other Hispanic women, men, children as well as every other nationality that resides in our nation! She is not above the rest of America!! Her race is not more important than all the other races or people of her own culture that her idiotic views, edicts and judgments would enslave!!

JellyToast on May 27, 2009 at 8:09 PM

The obama administration needs to take their own medicine and be exceedingly careful how they criticize AIG employees, Rush, Carrie Prejan, Pres. Bush, Fox News, Chrysler bondholders…

If President TelePrompter is exceedingly confident in his nominee, why demand she not be criticized? It doesn’t pass the smell test. One might think Axlerod & Rahm did not properly vett Sotomayer…

TN Mom on May 27, 2009 at 8:27 PM

No wonder gun and ammo sales are up.

wepeople on May 27, 2009 at 8:35 PM

Mr. Gibbs be careful what you say. We are listening. We will say whatever we wish to say whenever we wish to say it. And no spokes whore from Obama’s Ministry of Truth will intimdate us.

Geochelone on May 27, 2009 at 10:11 PM

You know I am getting tired of hearing about how I, as person of caucasian descent don’t matter in politics anymore. Democrats are threatening, and republicans pols are falling all over themselves to court an ethnic vote, a significant portion of which is illegal. I feel I live an a fooked up alternate universe.

paulsur on May 27, 2009 at 10:51 PM

Gibbs has no honor whatsoever.

csdeven on May 27, 2009 at 11:22 PM

GORDO WARNS GIBBS

Ram it, you sawed-off little runt!

gordo on May 28, 2009 at 12:00 AM

Hey Gibbs, (in no way can you be compared to Jethro)
Bite me! I’ll say whatever I feel I have to say about the racist being nominated for SCOTUS. If you think your political play will stop any criticism of your hack lawyer, think again. First, her “story” is no more “special” than that of millions of other Americans who pulled themselves up from the dregs of their childhood, so stifle the gooey “life story” crap.
I want proof of her constitutional smarts and her promise to abide by that document! No “empathy” is required.

hopefloats on May 28, 2009 at 1:07 AM

Why be more careful with this nomination than with those of Miguel Estrada or Robert Bork – never mind Clarence Thomas?

But Gibbs didnt suggest being “more” careful than for other nominations. He just said to be careful.

It was a goofy thing to say, but that’s no need for Frum to make it sound goofier than it was.

orange on May 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM

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