Beck guest host Pagliarulo distorts Sotomayor remarks to claim it's “racism personified, if in fact Latina is a race”

Written by Media Matters Staff

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From the June 5 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' Glenn Beck Program:

As Media Matters for America has noted, Supreme Court litigator Tom Goldstein wrote in a May 29 SCOTUSblog post that after reviewing 96 race-related cases Sotomayor decided on the court of appeals, “it seems absurd to say that Judge Sotomayor allows race to infect her decision making.”

Previously:

Conservatives react to historic Supreme Court nominee by smearing Sotomayor as “racist,” “bigot”

POTUS picks “bigot” “liberal” “radical” “racist” “reverse racist” “activist” “socialist” “Marxist” “anti-constitutionalist” “affirmative action” nominee for SCOTUS