Roberts: He’s so dreamy
August 29th, 2005 by JoshArmando over at Kos already beat me to it, but what the hell is going on with the John Roberts fanboys over at the New York Times?
It was a typical remark from a legal scholar who is said to have never lost a local spelling bee as a child and who once wrote an entire White House memorandum in French. In fact, an obsession with rhetorical precision is a central Roberts trait, said friends and former colleagues of the man nominated by President Bush to become a Supreme Court justice.
A cheerfully ruthless copy editor over the years, Judge Roberts has demanded verbal rigor from his colleagues and subordinates, refusing to tolerate the slightest grammatical slip, and boasting an exceptional vocabulary and command of literature himself.
Now as I’ve said before here, I don’t think it’s necessary to have a knee jerk anti-Roberts reaction to everything he says or does. Yes, we need to be concerned about his feelings on privacy and it’s become pretty clear that he’s pretty much a corporate sponsored corporate whore. But the bottom line is he will almost certainly be confirmed. Democrats have plenty of political currency that they could spend in other places. (Hillary – swallow your damn pride and drop the whole “I like war even more than you do” thing).
Yet why does the New York times, the paper of record and supposedly the greatest bastion of journalistic liberalism, insist on constantly cheering on Roberts? Why did they allow Judy Miller to commit near criminal acts in her WMD writing? What dirt does Karl Rove have on Arthur Sulzberger?
