As the elitist left attack Sarah Palin for being stupid, they need to listen to Sonia Sotomayor:
I want to play four sound bites for you here of Sonia Sotomayor from several times in her career and show how she butchers the English language, which is fine and dandy. We all butcher the English language, but were it not for I or not for me pointing it out you wouldn't know about it. A Republican nominee doing this kind of thing, it would be laughed about all over the media. They'd be talking about how this guy's not smart enough, he's gotta go, if it were George W. Bush. Here's the first example. This is from oral arguments December 10th, 2007, in the Ricci v. DeStefano case. That's the firefighter case.
SOTOMAYOR: This first seven who are gonna be hired, only because of the (pause) uh, vagrancies (sic) of the vacancies at that moment.
RUSH: She meant to say "vagaries" but she said "vagrancies." In fact, that whole clip... We don't have it but there's a clip, this audio, from which we culled this is Sotomayor interrupting the lawyers for the firefighters. The lawyers for the firefighters are making a brilliant case as to why only qualified people should be hired. And she makes it very clear that she's not concerned about any of that; she's only concerned about race being accounted for by coming up with a test where minorities have a better chance to pass it. So, "This first seven who are going to be hired only because of the vagrancies of the vacancies..." She meant vagaries. Here's the next example.
SOTOMAYOR: Under New York, law if you are being threatened with eminent (sic) death or very serious injury --
RUSH: It is not "eminent." It is "imminent," with an "I" in front of it. Here's the next one.
SOTOMAYOR: -- is educate themselves. They build up a story (sic) of knowledge about legal thinking.
RUSH: It's a "store" of knowledge you build up. Now, remember, we're told, "This woman, she worked hard. This woman is brilliant! This woman is fabulous." These are... (sigh) (drumming fingers) You don't find too many learned people making these kinds of vocabulary mistakes. "Vagrancies" for vagaries, "eminent" for imminent, "a story of knowledge" "for store of knowledge." And here's the last one.
SOTOMAYOR: All questions of policy are within the providence (sic) of Congress first.
RUSH: Province. It is "province" of Congress, not providence. Providence is a city in Rhode Island. Providence is also a record. Say you're a wine collector, and you have some old classics, and you want to sell 'em. You've got to be able to prove the providence. You've got to be able to prove they're real. How you got them, where they've been how they've been stored that's the providence of something. The providence... Questions of policy are the province, the right of Congress. So there she is, Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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