Posted on 08/01/2005 1:05:11 PM PDT by kennedy
A parody of herself? NPR's Nina Totenberg, who has tagged Supreme Court nominee John Roberts as "very conservative," "very, very conservative" and "very, very, very conservative," as well as "a really conservative guy," "a hardline conservative" and "a clear conservative," to say nothing of being "a conservative Catholic," on Inside Washington over the weekend relayed that after she "spent five hours reviewing all of his documents from when he worked in the Justice Department," she "was actually quite surprised at how, how very, very conservative he was." Apparently, she didn't listen to herself.
Inside Washington is a weekend show carried Saturday nights at 7pm local time by NewsChannel 8, a Washington, DC area all-news channel owned by the ABC affiliate, and Sunday mornings at 10am, right after This Week, by that affiliate, WJLA-TV.
On the edition aired over this past weekend, Totenberg asserted: "I've known John Roberts for years. I think it's a very sensible pick in all serious ways. But I must say that when I was, spent five hours reviewing all of his documents from when he worked in the Justice Department, I was actually quite surprised at how, how very, very conservative he was. He fought with people much more senior than he was, who we would all consider very conservative like Ted Olson and Rex Lee, who was Solicitor General. They weren't conservative enough for him. And even William Bradford Reynolds, the head of the civil rights division, on a couple of occasions, there was Roberts saying to the Attorney General you shouldn't authorize this employment discrimination lawsuit, Reynolds is wrong about it."
Previous CyberAlert items on Totenberg's labeling of Roberts, both with pictures of her:
# July 21 CyberAlert: There's no doubt in NPR reporter Nina Totenberg's mind that Judge John Roberts is "very conservative," it's just a matter of how "very." On NPR's All Things Considered on Tuesday night, she prefaced "conservative" with three verys, describing him as "a very, very, very conservative man." But in a taped soundbite on the next day's Good Morning America on ABC, she cut back to two modifiers, dubbing him merely "a very, very conservative man." For the quotes in full: www.mrc.org
# July 25 CyberAlert: NPR's Nina Totenberg, who last week tagged Supreme Court nominee John Roberts as "very, very conservative" and "very, very, very conservative," on Inside Washington over the weekend described him as merely "very conservative." But she couldn't resist adding a modifier every time she applied the conservative label, also dubbing him "a really conservative guy," "a hardline conservative" and "a clear conservative." Plus, she emphasized how he's "a conservative Catholic." See: www.mrc.org
I just hope Roberts is not very very very very conservative....
Could you imagine her saying 'very, very, very, liberal' referring to a Pelosi, Kerri, etc.?
That Nina .... she certainly is eloquent and has an unsurpassed command of the English language!
As long as he is very, very, very conservative...I am happy.
LOL - as long as its an odd number of "very's" he's ok with me.
I would rather have somebody who rated 12-14 VTs. (Each VT represents a ten-fold increase over the previous number on the scale.)
What exactly is her opinion of him?
The poor lunatic left is in a frenzy! LOL
No.
In the MSM world, there are only moderates, conservatives, really conserviates, really, really conservatives and really, really, really conservatives. It is sort of like the fast food restaurants that only sell "large," "extra large" and "super size" drinks.
In her world three "verys" puts him somewhere in the moderate camp as far as most real conservatives are concerned.
If she would add one more "very" I would consider him possibly a true conservative by our standards!
I actually owe this woman a great deal of gratitude. She and her little friend Anita went after Thomas just about the time I was really questioning my college-induced liberal philosophies. When I saw the way they treated Clarence Thomas, I came over to the dark side in a major way and have never left.
So, may I just say, thank you very much Nina. You changed my life for the better.
That he is (a) very, (b) very, very, or (c) very, very, very conservative.
It sounds like they are trying to make Shillary only "very" conservative...
It's worse than that. He's very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very conservative.
Actually, I am quite worried. I remember when Nancy Pelosie described herself as a very conservative Catholic. Since Nina only describes Robersts as a conservative Catholic, I am terrified. (sarcasm)
If Nina T. did not say very, very, very conservative I would be alarmed. I am starting to feel better and better about Dubya's pick.
I think Nina is very, very, very, liberal... but she works at NPR so she must be mainstream... right?
Separated At Birth: Nina T and Ernestine, the telephone operator
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