Posted on 12/03/2005 4:52:41 AM PST by billorites
Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall publicly apologized yesterday for making an off-the-cuff and - politically speaking, at least - off-color joke about “red states” during a commencement speech in May.
The Judicial Conduct Commission investigated Marshall after a complaint was made by an unidentified Bay State resident “intimately involved in the political process,” said one source familiar with the probe.
Marshall has become a controversial political figure, particularly with the anti-gay-marriage movement, because she authored the SJC’s ruling legalizing homosexual marriage in 2003.
JCC executive director Jill Pearson said she could not divulge the name of the complainant, who contacted the commission after Marshall’s May 22 graduation speech at Brandeis University.
The complainant did not attend the speech, Pearson added.
The speech began with Marshall greeting the audience, acknowledging the hundreds of blue and white balloons at the ceremony and joking: “No red states here.”
Marshall said in her apology released by the JCC yesterday: “The comment was an unconsidered, spontaneous attempt to connect with the exuberant, celebratory feeling in the audience, reflecting the ballons I had seen. I did not intend to say anything of a political nature . . . I regretted the comment as soon as I said it, and that has never waned.”
It is no accident whatsoever.
Just another one of those "little", "unimportant", "minor" things that the media does in their successful efforts at taking a side or malingning someone else without overtly doing so.
I always tell people: Things that you see in a newspaper or on the network news did not get there by accident, and that is most definitely true at the national level. A good deal of thought goes into it (not always constructive or intelligent, but definitely purposeful) If you see a story on the front page, it is there for a specific reason. If it is buried on page 12, same thing.
Sorry to disappoint you, WCF.
She was appointed Associate Justice by Gov. William Weld and made Chief by Gov. Paul Cellucci. Both Republicans. Sort of... technically...
Well, in a way that's no surprise either. Linguine spined Republicans catering pod people and warmed over socialism to their conservative base is getting to be pretty common.
It sure helps take a degree of SPIN off of their message.
And let's face it: they're a bunch of red, pinko commies anyway.
This isn't about being offended.
Red...as in Healthy Red blooded Americans.
Blue...the color of the effete elitists & corpses.
pingy
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