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Bob Ray Sanders and White Robes/Black Robes
hughhewitt.com ^ | 11/1/05 | Hugh Hewitt

Posted on 11/01/2005 7:50:58 PM PST by Buck W.

Bob Ray Sanders and White Robes/Black Robes While the DNC was getting its Italian slur campaign ginned up, Fort Worth Star Telegrapg columnist Bob Ray Sanders was warming up the racist accusations.

Last week, in an entry on his blog for the paper, Sanders wrote:

[G]et ready for the next nominee, who is likely to be a judge as comfortable in a white robe as a black one.

I received an e-mail asserting that Sanders applied the "white sheet" slander to Judge Alito on a Dallas television show this morning. Today I interviewed Sanders, who denied saying that about Judge Alito. While he would not retreat from this slanderous assertion generally, he would also not name a single name from the short list to whom this slander applies.

That proves, of course, that his is empty rhetoric, a pose, and an indictment of his credibility on such matters.

Radioblogger will post a transcript and the audio later. If anyone has audio of Sanders' appearance on Dallas Channel 4 this morning, please send it along.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bobraysanders; hughhewitt; racecard; unhingedliberals
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Did anyone else hear this segment of Hewitt's show? He absolutely tore Sanders to shreds. Sanders literally could not respond, although Hewitt gave him every opportunity.

I've read and listened to Sanders for 20 years. He has made a career of being a race baiting lightweight, which plays well on NPR. My thanks go to Hewitt for calling him on his hypocrisy.

1 posted on 11/01/2005 7:50:58 PM PST by Buck W.
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To: Buck W.

Uhhh...as to the white sheet...he's Italian. The Klan doesn't dig on us much either.


2 posted on 11/01/2005 7:52:12 PM PST by andie74 (A charter member of "Italians for Alito")
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To: Buck W.
It was particularly sweet when Hugh invited him back tomorrow so Sanders could have time to think up his response.
3 posted on 11/01/2005 7:52:40 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Merry Alitomas!)
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To: Buck W.
Thanks, but I'd rather listen to Bob AND Ray...
4 posted on 11/01/2005 7:53:04 PM PST by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: Buck W.

Beating to death an inacticulate kook was a bit of a bullying exercise by Hewitt. I did not find favor with it. Let him take on those who are more closely his intellectual equals. Not everyone can manage to secure a JD from the University of Michigan.


5 posted on 11/01/2005 7:53:29 PM PST by Torie
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To: decal

And now, Mary Backstage, Noble Wife, brought to you by Einbinder Flypaper...I love Bob & Ray!


6 posted on 11/01/2005 7:54:48 PM PST by Buck W. (Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
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To: Buck W.; RonDog

I listened to Hugh for a few weeks when he first came on up here, and wasn't hooked. I really only continued because RonDog here liked him so.

But then I heard him interview this aide to Gray Davis. He was polite, but he was absolutely bare-knucks -- asked him great questions, and didn't take s#!+, if you'll pardon my French. (I remember one point where he exclaimed, "Oh, come on -- do you think my listeners are STUPID?")

He is simply the best interviewer going; I honestly can't think of a better.

And I'm hooked now. Even though he ignores my blog!

Dan


7 posted on 11/01/2005 7:56:19 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Buck W.
"___ly Ballou pretending to be in Herkimer, New York"
8 posted on 11/01/2005 7:56:57 PM PST by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: davidtalker

I am pinging you to this thread....

I KNOW that you love to spar with Bob Ray...and I wonder if you saw this interview on Channel 4...or would be able to get a copy of it...

We would appreciate it!!!


9 posted on 11/01/2005 7:57:04 PM PST by Txsleuth (I am the real TXSLEUTH...please freepmail me if you doubt it.)
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To: Torie

Sanders is not, in general, inarticulate. Hewitt's insistence that he support his statement, or at the very least, provide an example is what drove him to the point of incoherent babbling. IMO, that's not bullying.


10 posted on 11/01/2005 7:57:21 PM PST by Buck W. (Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
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To: decal

Every afternoon from 3-6 on WOR.


11 posted on 11/01/2005 8:00:07 PM PST by Buck W. (Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
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To: Buck W.

Hewitt verbally punched the guy, again and again, and he was just sitting there, like a deer in headlights. He had no tools at all. It was an embarrassment.


12 posted on 11/01/2005 8:00:48 PM PST by Torie
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To: Torie

Yes--Sanders deserved to be embarrassed. Should his KKK assertion have gone unchallenged?


13 posted on 11/01/2005 8:02:16 PM PST by Buck W. (Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
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To: Buck W.

E-Mail: bobray@star-telegram.com


14 posted on 11/01/2005 8:04:04 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Buck W.
You have made clear, Mr. Saunders, that you are unwilling to name anyone that Bush was considering as more comfortable in white as opposed to black robes. Thank you for your time. Call me back if and when you are prepared to name names, and explain why, and we shall chat again. Have a good evening.

See how easy that is?

15 posted on 11/01/2005 8:05:07 PM PST by Torie
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To: Buck W.

Hugh had a battle of wits with an unarmed man, I laughed MAO. I almost drove off the rode.


16 posted on 11/01/2005 8:07:55 PM PST by blastdad51 (Proud father of an Enduring Freedom vet, and friend of a soldier lost in Afghanistan)
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To: Torie

Yes, and that's almost a verbatim recap of Hewitt's close. He had to get to that point first.

This was a conversation. As such, Sanders's hypocrisy, coupled with his own occasional jabs, grew over time.


17 posted on 11/01/2005 8:08:58 PM PST by Buck W. (Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
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To: Buck W.

It was the 10 sanguinary minutes before of a nausiating repetition of Hewitt unchallenged pugilism that was the rub. It went on for about 8 minutes too long. Maybe Hewitt had nothing else as a backup for the Saunders time slot. The moral of that story, is always have a back up.


18 posted on 11/01/2005 8:11:21 PM PST by Torie
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To: Buck W.
I was listening to that interview. The man writes for a major metropolitan news daily. He had to know that what he said was not much different from making watermelon jokes about a black nominee. He had to know he was going to take some heavy flak for that. If he can't come up with any better answers than he was giving Hewitt, he deserves to get bitchslapped live on a national broadcast. And Hewitt's a nice guy. If Hewitt can bang him around like that, God help him if he goes on with anybody else.
19 posted on 11/01/2005 8:19:07 PM PST by RichInOC (Stupidity is its own punishment...but not as often as it should be.)
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To: RichInOC

Hewitt is or should be a national treasure. His scorcher with "Jim-Bob JumpBack Jr" was a "whooping", justly deserved, but a rare one, because Hewitt is too class an act for spanking every fool he runs into.
Hewitt is genius. A remarkable ear and eye for "key facts" and an opinion leader's knack for bringing out the best in great people. Ok! So he is a damn smarty pants!
Learn to love it.


20 posted on 11/01/2005 8:41:47 PM PST by CBart95
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