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January 13, 2006

A Heartless Attack on Alito

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his suggestion at Crooks and Liars that Sam Alito does not love or care about his wife is as disgusting as it is baseless. Is it not likely that Alito simply did not know that his wife had been crying? (She was, after all, behind his back when she cried, and he was at the witness table.) Or that, if he did know, he felt better comforting her out of the public eye than in it?

Folks on this side of the blogosphere should be condemning this sort of thing rather than repeating it. Honestly. It's totally heartless.

Posted by Eric at January 13, 2006 2:42 PM

Comments

Yes. I would expect no less from a bunch of worthless hacks.

Posted by: john a at January 13, 2006 8:05 PM

The two events were on different days -- she cried on one day, the next day he scurried out, without stopping to escort his wife. (Note that she is wearing a different outfit on the crying video.)

Whether she cried the previous day or not, the sight of him leaving without stopping for his wife was odd. I can't imagine my father leaving a public room like that without my mother. I would be furious at my husband if he did the same to me.

I think perhaps you are missing the point. No one said he hated or didn't care about his wife. They just pointed out that he left her hanging there when he left the room. If you watch the video, she had a confused look on her face, unclear where and when she should go.

Not very chivalrous, which was Atrios' comment. I agree, however I am willing to cut him some slack considering the pressure of the situation. But it was funny.

Posted by: mlr at January 13, 2006 9:27 PM

This picture was taken at the last day of the hearings for Justice Alito, with his wife wearing the red blouse. She was in very good spirits that day. It was the day before this that Mrs. Alito became upset during Sen. Graham's questioning. The remarks by Crooks and Liars are not an attack on Alito for being uncaring about his wife being upset. Rather it seems to be a slam against him for not publicly embracing his family immediately after the adjournment of the hearings, instead of walking off without acknowledging them.

Posted by: David Yuguchi at January 13, 2006 10:08 PM

Oh geez, what a nation of girly men you all are. This is a guy who justified a shooting of an unarmed kid fleeing from a police officer and a strip search of a ten year old girl. Take your little pity posse and go make some doilies.

Posted by: Valdron at January 14, 2006 1:33 AM

Not only is it irrelevant, not only is it cruel, but it's sloppy.

Let's face it, after a couple of days of being the subject of televised Senate hearings, we might be a bit shell-shocked and forgetful, too....

Posted by: Jonathan Dresner at January 14, 2006 4:56 AM

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Thanks to my perusing your blog, specifically, "Is That Legal?", I have arrived at what I believe is a defensible inference. Both you and your readers would welcome news of in-your-face overt opposition to your "smirking chimp", my "dum'ya botch".

In plainer terms, I want to run for Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District on a platform calling for the impeachment of President George Walker Bush.

Incidentally, I deliberately referred to your blog, to indicate that I visited your blog as an individual, and not as a spammer. Yes, that last is an illustion to a "pre-deconstruction" chick flick with a rating of two and a half hankies.

Ah, before you click on any of the enclosed hyperlinks, please read the entirely of my comment. For example, the three planks I nailed together in my platform out to get me elected. "impeach bush" is the first plank. The second is "impeach bush". The third is like the second, "impeach bush".

To continue, the first hyperlink below leads to the opening salvo of my campaign.

http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/01/danger-senator-specter-danger.html

As for the second hyperlink, it leads to evidence that my candidacy is about more than opposition solely for the sake of opposition.

http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/01/dispelling-stench-in-oval.html

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oh, yeah, I should add that, in Epimethean Comment, I make the case that nominating Judge Alito to the Supreme Court is tantamount to treason.

Posted by: A Alexander Stella at January 15, 2006 4:09 PM

I honestly suspect it was staged.

I hope that doesn't make me a criminal.

Posted by: JS Narins at January 16, 2006 9:00 PM