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by Obama Pundit
How ironic.
Was a time when Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer drew the ire of the Left when he cautioned that Americans should ‘watch what they say’ after the 9/11 attacks.
Naturally, this was evidence of the Bush Administration’s intent to destroy everyone’s civil rights, starting with freedom of speech. Next would come the fascist dictatorship, as soon as all the oil was acquired from the Middle East.
Now, this:
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs issued a pointed warning to opponents of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination Wednesday, urging critics to measure their words carefully during a politically charged confirmation debate.
“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation,” Gibbs said.
I guess being ultra-sensitive to someone’s race is FAR MORE important than being mindful of volatile speech following an inconvenient ‘man-made disaster’ like 9/11.
Too bad Sotomayor never took Gibbs’ advice about racial sensitivity.
