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Senator-MA Ted Kennedy, along with the usual suspects, tried to paint Bush Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as an anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-minority bigot at today’s hearing. The political accusations from so called “compassionate liberalism” were so bad that Mrs. Alito sat dissolved in her tears at the lies directed at her husband. A new low for Democrats? Not really. Almost nothing is off-limits. Democrats targeted John Roberts’ two adopted children from Latin America, saying they were “too white,” suggesting that Roberts, who was overwhelmingly approved to be Supreme Court Chief Justice in September 2005, was a racist who preferred fair children to dark.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, read from an essay published in 1983 in a magazine put out by the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a group that Judge Alito listed being a member of when he applied for a job in the Reagan administration, in order to tie this statement to Alito’s view:

“Everywhere one turns, blacks and Hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they’re black and Hispanic, the physically handicapped are trying to gain equal representation in professional sports, and homosexuals are demanding that government vouchsafe them the right to bear children,” the essay said, according to Mr. Kennedy.

Alito holds no such views, of course, but interestingly enough, Ted Kennedy was in an all-male club called “The Owl” at Harvard University…

Mrs. Alito crying video (with Fox News commentary via John Gibson)

One of the few successful liberal blogs, Daily Kos, claims Mrs. Alito staged her tearful reaction to liberal Democrats’ pounding her husband during confirmation hearings. Yes, in the face of humiliation for the Democrats in their immature and misguided attempts to smear the judge, the damage control now calls for outing Mrs. Alito’s emotional reaction.

Here are more examples of staging.

Finally, Samuel Alito’s name does NOT appear in the Princeton alumni group records:

Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) — Records support U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s testimony that he was not an active member in a Princeton University alumni group that drew fire from Democrats, said the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

I guess the Democrats attempt to smear Alito was not a success. I wonder who’s crying now?

UPDATE:
Michelle Malkin: “Shame, Shame on the Dems”

Cross-posted at Amy’s Blog

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