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Alito Fits Mold Of Classic Nerd
Hartford Courant ^ | Nov 3, 2005 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 11/03/2005 5:56:05 AM PST by BooksForTheRight.com

The Senate is witnessing a real-life revenge of the nerd.

(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...


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KEYWORDS: alito; milbank; nerd
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(Dana Milbank wrote an article in the Washington Post where it is available with registration. The Hartford Courant has the same article, without registration.) It is amazing that serious newspapers can actually publish this sort of thing! It casts doubt on their objectivity! Perhaps a word or two to the Post is in order: letters@washpost.com
1 posted on 11/03/2005 5:56:05 AM PST by BooksForTheRight.com
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Great! Who will be the first Senator to ask "boxers or briefs"? This is what we've come to?


2 posted on 11/03/2005 5:57:38 AM PST by rhombus
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3 posted on 11/03/2005 5:59:38 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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I actually thought it was pretty funny. But it was something I'd expect to see in a high school or college newspaper.


4 posted on 11/03/2005 6:05:10 AM PST by Rumierules
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To: BooksForTheRight.com
He looks scarily similar to my daughter's piano teacher.
He's about as nerdy as they come.
5 posted on 11/03/2005 6:08:57 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Ham & Eggs: A day's work for a hen, A lifetime commitment for a pig.)
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Although this is a trite article, it is very true. Alito is a total nerd, even by standards of dorky politicians.


6 posted on 11/03/2005 6:11:17 AM PST by nwrep
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To: BooksForTheRight.com; billorites; bjcintennessee; Lancey Howard; MEG33; jennyjenny; Prime Choice; ..
Alito Fits Mold Of Classic Nerd

OK.... I'm going to try to tell this story as accurately as I heard it yesterday on 'Quinn in The Morning' in Pittsburgh.

As I remember.........a few years ago Alito was working somewhere as a judge (I think) and some big Democrat had a new office in a building nearby and had decided to get a couple of those ostentatious, large concrete or marble lions put outside his office ............ one on each side of the door at the entrance.

Alito, along with everyone else, thought the sculptures were way over the top in "degree of pomposity". So...... he asked a couple of his staff to go out on the town and try to find him a couple of those PINK FLAMINGOES you put in your yard............ he then put them outside the entrance to his office for a few laughs. It supposedly was a riot!

I'll take the nerd any time!

7 posted on 11/03/2005 6:16:23 AM PST by beyond the sea (Gloria Borger is Andrea Mitchell on Peyote)
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A Phillies fan! I knew he couldn't be all bad!

(Maybe it helps him with Arlen Specter).


8 posted on 11/03/2005 6:19:14 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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I like strict constitutional nerds :)


9 posted on 11/03/2005 6:20:31 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: BooksForTheRight.com
Dana Milbank wrote an article in the Washington Post where it is available with registration.

Anyone can log on to the W.P. and many others by clicking my screen name and using my log on info.

Copy and paste the info somewhere for future use if you want to.

10 posted on 11/03/2005 6:22:48 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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Let's see. Is this the worst thing Dana Milbank can say about Alito? That he coaches Little League baseball and takes his duties to the kids seriously? That he has enough politeness to shake hands with a Democrat, and is somewhat confused for a moment when the Democrat refuses to shake hands with him?

Sounds pretty refreshing to me. What, no Yuppie Self Importance? Good.


11 posted on 11/03/2005 6:25:14 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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And she doesn't think that Ruth Bader Ginsberg is a bit nerdy?
12 posted on 11/03/2005 6:26:21 AM PST by linkinpunk
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To: beyond the sea
A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first Steelers football game.

They had great seats right behind the team's bench.

After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience.

"Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "Especially the tight pants and all the big muscles. But I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents."

Dumbfounded, her date asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, they flipped a coin, and one team got it. Then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like...helloooooo!!! It's only 25 cents!!!"

13 posted on 11/03/2005 6:26:32 AM PST by Enterprise (The modern Democrat Party - a toxic stew of mental illness, cultism, and organized crime.)
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To: rhombus

Call me booger.
14 posted on 11/03/2005 6:26:43 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: BooksForTheRight.com

Wow, is the left really that desperate? It can't think of anything else to attack him with, so it goes out and calls him a nerd.


15 posted on 11/03/2005 6:29:08 AM PST by NatsFan
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and when it comes to q and a time, then we will see who the real nerds are.


16 posted on 11/03/2005 6:29:14 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
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Alito does seems well...nerdy.

But that's fine with me, introverts are good people, especially Italian introverts.


17 posted on 11/03/2005 6:33:52 AM PST by Pondman88
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To: BooksForTheRight.com

This news writer used the words "bespectacled, dweeb, wonk, nerd, geek, Bobblehead, misfit, dork." in describing Alito.
The news writer is on the left.
It is the left that crows and preaches about tolerance, sexism, lookism. Milbank is showing his intolerance.
This writer (milbankd@washpost.com) has lost any credibility.
I suggest that you tell him so.


18 posted on 11/03/2005 6:37:26 AM PST by BooksForTheRight.com (what have you done today to fight terrorism/leftism (same thing!))
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Milbank has been known for his extreme disrespect for President Bush since at least 2001, going beyond other members of the Washington press corps. There is some interesting material about him in the book Bill Sammon wrote about Bush's handling of 9/11 and its aftermath.


19 posted on 11/03/2005 7:00:52 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Better a nerd than a turd.


20 posted on 11/03/2005 7:06:22 AM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for our country than any of us will ever know. God bless him.)
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