Colbert gives GOP ’sound advice’ for ‘Borking’ Sotomayor
Published: July 14, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
Republicans may be able to derail Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court if they follow “Stephen’s sound advice.”
Referring to Sotomayor as a “dangerous, liberal, activist judge” on Monday’s show, faux pundit Stephen Colbert taught his audience “how to Bork a nominee.”
Among other things, Colbert advised Republicans to paint Sotomayor as “unqualified.”
“That’s what the Democrats did to Bush nominee Harriet Miers just because the only legal precedent she could name was Alien v. Predator,” Colbert said, “a huge miscarriage of justice, by the way.”
Colbert suggested Republicans spin Sotomayor’s “positives as negatives.”
Referring to a New York Times article from May, Colbert noted that Sotomayor “spent summers reading children’s classics she had missed in a Spanish-speaking home.” Then he played a clip of pundit Pat Buchanan expounding, “I think that, I mean if you’re, frankly if you’re in college and you’re working on Pinocchio or on the troll under the bridge, I don’t think that’s college work.”
“He’s right,” Colbert agreed, “children books are inappropriate when you’re in college.”
Colbert added, “You read them when your country’s under attack.” Colbert showed a brief clip of former President Bush continuing to read “My Pet Goat” to children on September 11, 2001, shortly after being told that a second plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center.
This video is from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, broadcast July 13, 2009.
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The sad thing is, Colbert is SO good, and has studied the far right and National Hate Radio so closely, that half of a Fox audience would think he’s perfectly serious, and be emailing Richard Viguerie to tell him what a great supporter he has in Colbert.