Grey Meanies At The NYTimes

At the tolerance-loving NYTimes, it's OK to drive a woman to tears, as long as she's a Republican.

In its "Sink Alito" editorial today, the grandiose Gothamites declare,

If Judge Samuel Alito Jr.'s confirmation hearings lacked drama, apart from his wife's bizarrely over-covered crying jag, it is because they confirmed the obvious.

Was the incident "bizarrely over-covered?" It was only if you think it's OK to shamelessly and falsely tear down a person's reputation with such viciousness that you drive those who love that person to tears. And, Mrs. Alito's tears were over-covered only if you think it's appropriate to use a Supreme Court nomination hearing for something much more cruel than a cool review of a person's ability to serve.

That is the NYT's position. The rag may proudly wave a feminist flag, but psychological abuse of Republican women at the hands of Dems is A-OK with them. Also A-OK is ignoring a president's right to select a candidate that represents the mainstream viewpoints of the people who elected him.

Unlike the NYT, WaPo editorialized in favor of approval because, like Alito or not (and they don't), he is mainstream and he represents a president's perogative. The Gothamites cling to the belief that denying a Supreme Court seat to a man who reflects the majority of the electorate is not only good, but possible:

The White House has tried to create an air of inevitability around this nomination. But there is no reason to believe that Judge Alito is any more popular than the president who nominated him. Outside a small but vocal group of hard-core conservatives, America has greeted the nomination with a shrug - and counted on its senators to make the right decision.

Of course, that's the view of a group of Ivory Tower dwellers who feel that the current Supreme Court "has kept American law on a steady and well-respected path," and that the "right" decision is very much the wrong one.

It doesn't matter that Bush's popularity has diminished since the election, because the media's negative news drumbeat on Iraq and its NSA sensationalizing have nothing to do with the mandate Bush received on election day to move the Supreme Court towards sanity.

The NYT needs this reminder: 62,040,606 to 59,028,109. Like it or not, Bush gets to pick the next Supreme Court justice, not you. And like it or not, most of America shared Mrs. Alito's shocked reaction to what Kennedy & Krew were doing to her husband.