Where are the liberals on TVto talk about liberal concerns that Sotomayor isn't liberal enough?

[underpants]

Poll question: Where are the liberals on TVto talk about liberal concerns that Sotomayor isn't liberal enough?

[FLAprogressive]

1. All of the "liberals" are DLC shills.

[jgraz]

2. The few liberals who do raise concerns are excoriated on DU

See Turley, Jonathan.

[underpants]

3. Yeah

I thought that was the GOP thing-everyone in line, no one is allowed to stray even a foot away

[jgraz]

5. Turley's concerns are shared by a lot of progressives, yet we can't get through the gatekeepers here

Once again, we're "balancing" the rabid reactionaries on the court with another vaguely-defined moderate.

[dana_b]

10. and that woman... Rachel somebody??

;)

[Enrique]

4. hopefully it will come out in the hearings

:crossingfingers:

[Marksbrother]

6. Advertisers prefer "conservative" TV audiences

As a general rule, they're more likely to be affluent. If they aren't affluent, conservatives are more ready to be persuaded
after a diet of red meat served up by a talking head.

[rvablue]

7. Conservatives are "more likely to be affluent"?!?!?!?!? That's a good one!

How about they are more likely to be un-educated, dittoheads who take their marching orders from a drug-addled, degree-less manpig on the radio???


:rofl:

[spanone]

8. they are cowering in the corner hoping they can get her confirmed....

[MadHound]

9. This is how the two party/same corporate master system of government gets its way

They have their shills on the right paint anybody nominated by Democrats as uber-liberal, even though in all cases they are pro-corporate moderates. The right keeps up these attacks and the drumbeat about how "liberal" the nominee is. The nomination of the moderate barely squeaks through, which forces the next nomination to be as moderate, or even more conservative than this one.

It is designed to keep true liberals away from the levers of power, and to help corporate America retain the whip hand. Meanwhile, anybody nominated by a 'Pug is automatically described as a "moderate" even when they're to the right of Atilla the Hun, ie Scalia and Roberts.

The SC has moved, along with the rest of the political spectrum, distinctly to the right over the past fifty years, and until liberals wake the fuck up and realize that they are being screwed by both parties, things will continue down that path.