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
Nina is very, very much a dog.
Do we have any calibration reference? On the Totenberg scale would Stevens and Ginsburg be moderate, Souter conservative, O'Conner very conservative and Scalia very, very, very, very, very, very, very conservative?
I disagree, I hope he's merely very conservative
Submit that to the newspaper. But remember that they have a 300 word limit.
I was kinda hoping he'd be very, very, very, very, very conservative.
From your keyboard to God's ears.
We need to get Registered to come up with a 'Very Conservative Meter' graphic or something like that. Then we can rank our Consevatives by their 'Very' count. I give Roberts 5 Very's. Scalia is almost a 10-Very!
NINA ivery very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very DUMB
Good idea !
I don't care about his politics. I hope:
1. He reads the constitutin and understands what plain words mean.
2. Is not so bound by stare decisis that he will overturn extra-constitutional decisions of the past 80 years when they need to be. [When they need be, I mean when they are not mooot or when he can not support them with Constitutional logic.]
"Verily I conserve unto you...."
LOL - The NPR/Totenberg Conserv-O-Meter.
And was justtice Ginzburg a very very very big commie.
And that is why we admire make-up artist and creature creator Rick Baker very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.
But is he a triple dog dare conservative???
"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'."
Yeah, Nina, when you're on the outer fringes of the Fever Swamp of the Left, people do appear to be "very, very, very conservative" on your radar screen.
< She and her little friend Anita went after Thomas... >
Wasn't she actually one of the instigators who supposedly "begged" Anita Hill to go to the committee?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.