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August 18, 2005
So let me get this straight. . .
The Captain points me to this article from the AP about where SCOTUS appointee Judge John Roberts grew up.
Like many towns across America, the exclusive lakefront community where Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. grew up during the racially turbulent 1960s and '70s once banned the sale of homes to nonwhites and Jews.
The article suggests that Roberts' is somehow responsible for where he grew up. Excuse me, but generally, that's your parents decision, not yours.
BUT WAIT. . .
It turns out that the Roberts home did not have the caveats described in the first paragraph:
The family purchased land a few blocks from the beach in 1966 and built an unassuming tri-level house. The Roberts property did not include a racially restrictive covenant, according to LaPorte County deed records, and the restrictions had begun fading away by then.
So are we supposed to believe that somehow Roberts is responsible for events that transpired in the community DECADES EARLIER???
Other homes built decades earlier in the town had covenants. Deeds on file from the 1940s in Long Beach ban the sale or lease of houses to "any person who is not a Caucasian gentile."
So exactly what the HELL is the story here. That when Roberts was growing up (from elementary school til he left for college) he was living in a community where decades before there were covenants in property deeds (but not his family's) restricting the sale of property to non-whites and non-gentiles?
Or is the story in the second paragraph, which damns Roberts (WHEN HE WAS 15!) for living near another community where racial strife broke out?
Just three miles from the nearly all-white community of Long Beach, two days of looting and vandalism erupted when Roberts was 15, barely intruding on the Mayberry-like community that was largely insulated from the racial strife of that era.
Later in the article, it does try (but not quite succeed) to balance the smears of the first few paragraphs, by ending with:
"I think it's legitimate to look at the past if it tells you anything about the person. But so what if there were race riots? Did he cause them? No. He was a 15-year-old kid. We don't shape the events that take place in our hometown."
So there we have it, now it's considered improper form to grow up anywhere that decades before there MAY have been (even if there weren't) mechanisms of racism, and that while you're in elementary and high school, if you live NEAR racial strife, you are somehow tainted. The Democrats and MSM are really having to stretch to find something to use against Roberts. They went after his kids, then they used a BLATENTLY FALSE ad by NARAL to smear him, and now we see they are going after his parents (falsely as well) and their descision on where to raise him.
Newsflash for the lefties who are trying to smear Judge Roberts:
This guy IS going to get confirmed. I'm quite sure he's going to remember how your side of the aisle went after his children, his parents and how your side has lied about his record. If you think that telling lies about him, slandering his family or misleading the public is going to endear your causes to him in any way, YOU ARE MISTAKEN. In fact, I'd suggest that by attacking him in this way you are driving him further to the right, making him more adversarial to your causes and generally shooting yourself in the foot not only with the next SCOTUS Justice, but the American people in general.
It's high time we end this new "false but accurate" style of reporting. Telling lies, making false accusations and suggesting guilt by "extremely loose" association isn't proper political discourse, it's certainly not doing the Democrats and the left any good judging by the last decade and a half of elections and it's certainly not in any way shape or form good for America.
But then again, the left isn't about what's good or honest or proper for America anymore, are they???
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at August 18, 2005 11:30 AM
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