[Miss Marple]

Please cite for me where I mentioned Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, or said that any of this was Ted Olson's fault.

I would like you to tell me what conservative groups, besides Landmark Legal Foundation, were stunned by this brief.

[holdonnow]

Whenever I have a discussion with you, you become defensive. I didn't say you mentioned those people. You did your usual diversion -- attacking Rush rather than addressing the substance. You simply will not accept any honest criticism of the president, even by those who adore him.

I mentioned only some in the legal conservative community who have spoken out today about this brief -- Coulter, Ingraham, and many others. You asked for others: Ward Connerly of the American Civil Rights Center; Linda Chavez and Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity; Perry Pendley of the Mountain States Legal Foundation; I could name many more, but you can do your own lexis/nexis and google research.

I'm not "stunned" by what this brief said. In fact, I'm disappointed. Race-based discrimination is deplorable. What happened to all those folks who demanded Trent Lott's head for his statements, but who either defend this race-based discrimination, or disparage those who question it?

[TLBSHOW]

1980s: A strong opponent to affirmative action, President Reagan cuts funding to the EEOC, rendering it 'toothless'. He also appoints Clarence Thomas, an opponent of affirmative action who is also black, to head the organization.

and

The power of rhetoric. George Bush justified his veto of the 1990 Civil Rights Act with repeated references to the word 'quota', which sounds bad. But in his 1995 speech, Bill Clinton justified the idea, if not the word, when he suggested that "there is still a need for set-asides".

http://www.duke.edu/~as1/aa-handout.html

[habs4ever]

Are things really this predictable??lol ;-)Knock me down with a feather!

[TLBSHOW]

I would like you to tell me what conservative groups, besides Landmark Legal Foundation, were stunned by this brief.

I would hope conservative free republic would be stunned.
When I listened to Rush he was stunned. I was stunned.

Rush broke this story at 12 noon today.

It took me an hour to decide if i should post this.


Posted on 01/17/2003 12:58 PM EST by TLBSHOW
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/824514/posts

Rush Limbaugh says the affirmative action brief is not what the speech said.

Does not even start to put a nail in the coffin of affirmative action and instead keeps promoting race preference. Does not know why Bush keeps doing this? He is not happy and spent the first hafe hour on it and first call had to do with this subject.