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The Souter to Kagan Media Yardstick

by: Dean Barker

Mon May 10, 2010 at 06:08:59 AM EDT


The inevitable Gay or Not Gay??!? media phenomenon will provide a useful yardstick on the devolution of journalism in the two decades from Souter to Kagan.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, the charge is being led by one of my daily reads, Andrew Sullivan.  Why does it not occur to some that the spectrum of personal investment in sexuality is as broad as the spectrum of sexual orientation itself?  Is it so hard to fathom that certain people, perhaps from a surfeit of mental profundity, are disinclined toward physical relationships?  Some folks would swim every day if they could; others detest the water.  Life is big and large and full of all kinds of fascinating people.  

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Your line from the linked diary bears repeating... (0.00 / 0)
It is one of my favorite pieces of commentary.

From the above linked diary:

"So Souter was too bookish to have sufficient empathy, but Sotomayor was too Latina to have insufficient empathy.  And Kagan is either not gay enough, or too gay."

Seems SCOTUS nominees just can't win.



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