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Misty Water-Colored Memories of the D.C. Press Corps

07/15/2009 by Jim Naureckas

Number of stories in the Nexis news database dated today that mentioned Sen. Jeff Sessions' (R.-Ala.) questioning of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, in which Sessions accused Sotomayor of harboring ethnic prejudices: 69

Number of such stories that recalled that Sessions was rejected as a judicial nominee in 1986 in part because of his approving remarks about the Ku Klux Klan: 2

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One Response to “Misty Water-Colored Memories of the D.C. Press Corps”

  1. kate lundy Says:
    July 17th, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    I watched the hearings on PBS…I would switch to other stations periodically. I did note that MSNBC folks
    mentioned Sessions Klannish roots many times…..I did not realize the depth of his White Male raciest be-
    havior…btw…mayb I heard about Sessions roots on Countdown and the Rachel Maddow show…thanks for this…k

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