I'm sick and tired of how unsympathetic DU'ers are to Martha Alito.

[King Coal]

You would cry too if it happened to you. Can you imagine just finding out for the first what a bastard you have married? I thought we were the party of compassion.

[derby378]

1. I've a damn good reason to be skeptical of Martha's tears

If Alito is confirmed, we are in really serious trouble as a nation.

[Journeyman]

Woah. Lighten up. . .

read the post before you respond. . .

[derby378]

7. I did...

...but I had to throw my two cents in, too. The Repukes will do anything and everything to get Alito seated.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Go and watch the video

It was a pure performance. Crooksandliars.com has it. She is looking at the camera with her smurk and than, as on cue, she cries. Bullshit. Her husband is a rascists fascists and should be called on it if he is going to effect Americans for years to come. Don't like it? Too fucking bad. Nobody is making you be there!

[WhereThereIsFire]

31. I agree ... structured, staged, planned, - purely an act.

And, TV analysts quickly said they doubted it would persaude anyone. And I'm sure she's known for years she is married to a numbnut ... she arouses about as much sympathy as one would have for Osama bin Laden! Her husband is probably going to be wrecking the USA for lots longer than OSB, and it will affect our great-great-grandchildren. She was crying purely crocodile tears!

[txindy]

44. The Swift Boaters are involved in her act, too.

Although I'm sure the immediate response they sent out was just coincidental. No planning here, move along. :eyes:

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002645.html

[long_green]

2. LOL!

nominated. Still laughing.

[doublethink]

8. Here was my take on the whole crying fiasco ...

it 'cried' out for some mockery.......
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=115118&mesg_id=115118 Peace. :)

[Bluebear]

3. Hehehehehehehe :)

[trotsky]

4. Great post.

:thumbsup: :rofl:

[Selteri]

5. I feel great Sympathy for her, I feel great Sympathy for Alito too

It must be very hard to find out your husband sold his soul and it must be terribly difficult living a life without one.

Seriously though, I can't blame her for crying, if he's turned down she's the wife of a loser, if he is promoted to the Supreme court he'll destroy her country. It must be very hard on her.

[aKinderGentlerDUer]

6. Martha

"Can you imagine just finding out for the first what a bastard you have married?"

Um...I don't think that was what she found out...

[troubleinwinter]

43. Think maybe she was crying over this?

[leftstreet]

9. I felt sorry for her when Lindsey Graham was coming on to her hubby

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[0007]

16. How do the three stooges do it? Yuk Yuk Yuk

[Kurovski]

40. I think it's "NYUK" It's Curly's laugh.

[0007]

49. ....yeah, that's it.

[tatertop]

18. I only feel sorry for..... us

I feel like crying myself.

[Kurovski]

39. Wow, NO WAY ! Shit man...that was HOT!

Roberts will need someone to go clubbing with on Fridays...maybe we SHOULD let Alito pass.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Fuck it

She should've known the type of person she was marrying before she married him. I would never marry a man I did not know about including such things. So where were they when talking trash about Hillary and Cheslea Clinton or Elizabeth Edwards when she had her breast cancer? Fuck it! This is the big boys game and her husband is up for the position of the highest court in the land and he wants to take away MY RIGHTS! So fuck it!

[mopaul]

12. fuck her

i couldn't disagree more.

[Maine-ah]

13. n/t

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

on edit:

where did everyone leave their sense of humor today?

[Bluebear]

17. Methinks they are reading the header only. nt

[Maine-ah]

32. I thinks you is correct!

[checks-n-balances]

50. Yeah, and by the way - "Who's choppin' onions?"

Mourning Seditionists remember those parting words from Mort Mortenson (a/k/a Jim Earl)'s weekly "Morning Remembrance" segment...

Speaking of tears, does anyone remembe when George H. W. Bush's said "Don't cry for me, Argentina" during one of his speeches as president? And how in the world was it relevant to whatever it was he was talking about??

(sorry, off topic)!

[neuvocat]

14. Stop it, you're making me cry!

I have to get out my onion-lined hanky! BOOHOOHOO!!!

[EFerrari]

15. Maybe the thought that the most corrupt government in US history

is nominating him just moved her to tears? :shrug:

[Beaverhausen]

19. At least people aren't talking about her clothes today

yes, today we are talking about the REALLY important issues.

:eyes:

[txindy]

26. You mean her "I'm the good guy" white outfit?

What's not to love? Symbolism is charming, not to mention effective, particularly in propaganda situations.

[EFerrari]

28. Yes! And that Nancy Reagan Red didn't hurt either.

:)

[txindy]

33. Well, I always saw red when I looked at Nancy, so it worked.

She was well-coordinated that way. :toast:

[Kurovski]

67. Ya know, Martha kinda looked like John Travolta in drag today.

"Fever night, fever night, fe-vaaar! We know how to do it..."

[txindy]

46. BTW, have you seen how the Swift Boaters are Martha's new friends?

They apparently sent out a release within minutes of her 'spontaneous' crying episode. Coincidence, I'm sure.

:rofl:

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002645.html

[EFerrari]

59. She was in Viet Nam with Kerry, too?

Did she cry there, too?

:rofl:

[galloglas]

20. Isn't that a MoTown lyric??

You would cry too if it happened to you


Long before her moment of Thespian glory, I saw Ms. Alito, sitting in back of "Swing 'em High" Sam, but did not know who she was.

But on Tuesday evening, after watching her on PBS/McNeil-Lehrer, I was of a mind to write that if the woman sitting behind Alito's right shoulder (actually, she seemed more to perch on his shoulder, advising, like some evil parrot at a pirate's ear) was in any way related to the nominee, it should be grounds for the dismissal of the nominee!

Did *anyone* see how GD smug she looked in the first couple of days hearings?

If the public is to watch Mrs. Alito's weeping and moaning because Sam got a Soap Opera Softball thrown from Sen. Lindsey Graham, then it should be on a split screen with Tuesday's pictures of the same woman looking like the Queen of Hearts waiting to shout "Off with Their Heads!"

IMHO, that's a lady with an agenda. If we want to known how Alito will vote, we should have her weepy butt up on that stand. The damned parrot is the real brains of the Alito family.

[Journeyman]

22. Lesley Gore. "It's My Party." (Early '60s). . .

british, if i'm not mistaken. . .

[galloglas]

24. Busted!

Being from Missouri, I tried try slide that past... (uh, hunh :eyes:!)

[EFerrari]

27. Hey! It's good to see you!

:)

[Surya Gayatri]

34. "It's My Party & I'll Cry If I Want To"

Leslie Gore, May 1963 (not Motown, I think)

[Vektor]

21. She can cry if she wants to, I'm fine with that - it's the news

stations making a huge sensational deal out of it, and politicizing it that offends me. A person crying is not news...unless you want to use it as a means to an end. (Make the Dems look mean and unsympathetic for "picking on" the Alitos.)

Nobody gave hours and hours of coverage to Teresa Heinz Kerry when her husband was the brunt of baseless attacks and outright lies during the 2004 election. CNN and C-SPAN did not devote a whole day's headlines to how upset she was to see her spouse smeared. Alito's hearing is a necessary one, that is part of every judicial nomination. He is being interviewed for one of the most important positions there is to fill. Yes, some of the questions will be tough. I'm not really sure why his wife was present at all, (is this common with these hearings?) but I'm sure she knew it would be a tough time. If she got upset, so be it, I don't fault her that.

I do fault the corporate media for making it news. It isn't. The Democrats did not "make Mrs. Alito cry." She cried because she got upset after sitting in on a tough questioning of her husband which she knew full well was going to happen.

[MadJohnShaft]

23. who are these conservatives - crying at your husband's job interview?

Grow a pair, what a couple of twits they must be.

[Spinzonner]

25. Well, the Republicans are her party

and she can cry if she wants to.

[Kurovski]

41. BWAHAHAHA!

Why can't Leslie Gore be the nominee?

[B Calm]

29. I'm sick of republican justices that legislate from the bench. Never

forget Bush vs Gore!

[Kurovski]

30. The day she files the divorce papers, is the day my compassion flows.

I'm one of those "conditional" bastards. :-)

[Little Star]

35. Why feel bad that Martha cried?

What about us? We are going to be crying longer, harder and more often than her when he takes the bench.

[Generator]

36. I know, she thought that hood he wore to bed

was just for naughty love games. Poor woman.

[notadmblnd]

47. That woman wouldn't know a naughty love game

to save her life. These people have only had sex for one reason and that was to procreate. Still I wouldn't be surprised to find out their children were purchased just like roberts.

[BikeWriter]

37. #### her and Eva Braun.

[EFerrari]

42. And their little dogs, too.

I'm supposed to show "compassion" for this person that is conspiring with her husband to take away my nieces' reproductive rights for their personal gain?

I think I'll just pass on that.

[Obamarama]

38. CBS whore Gloria Borger implied Dems went too far with questioning

She intimated that was perhaps the reason Mrs. Alito was shedding crocodile tears.

Fortunately, Bob Sheiffer balanced it out with some comment at the end of the story (can't remember exactly what he said) that more or less said the Democrats weren't THAT vicious.

[wryter2000]

58. I'm glad you remember Schieffer's balance

I watched it, but I don't remember him saying anything but, "So, you think this means the Democrats have gone too far?" I'd prefer it if you're right.

[BadGimp]

45. let the b#*%h suffer

[Jose Diablo]

48. Gosh yes, where is our decorum ,civility and above all, our sensitivity

I am not feeling the love that I thought we on the left had for all those lost souls that have wandered.

[BikeWriter]

52. Gone along with thousands of lives, our nation's prosperity...

our freedom, our votes, ad infinitum. Pity the bastards? I want revenge!

[applegrove]

51. I don't think we need to loose our ability to empathize. At the same

time we can talk about the issue - that Dems are finally fighting back as adults and asking tough questions... not smearing. So the hypocrisy of the right is exposed - as they wail for her bad moment. Because they have done much worse to many. And if they don't see the hypocrisy they are indeed totally tribal. They don't see the pain they cause. In Iraq with Rummy sitting on the defense budget and refusing to anti-up so he has a kick ass legacy of transforming the military. As governance is diminished by anti-bureaucrats who take perverse pleasure in the crisis in people's lives they think will lead to political & social transformation. At so many levels - the cries are ignored.

I'm uncomfortable that she cried. Surely she should have been better prepared. What was her husband thinking in not preparing her for the worst. Tough, tough questions. And the reaction of freepers shows again the unbelievable way they share their empathy only with those who narrowly reflect their own dam selves. It is not only hypocritical - it is also a national tragedy.

[txindy]

53. She got empathy from a curious source within minutes: The Swift Boaters

How's that for coincidence? A statement available within minutes of the spontaneous tears.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002645.html

[applegrove]

56. Oh - yeah - it went into the noise machine. And that is a tragedy.

[skygazer]

55. Obviously she was well prepared

She cried right on cue.

It's all so ridiculous - even if there were valid reasons to leak tears in this situation, what's more important? The "feelings" of the nominee's wife or whether or not he'll be an honest and effective justice in a position that is held FOR LIFE?

[applegrove]

57. Of course she should have been prepared. Neocons & GOP are

well aware of how politicized the situation is.

[EFerrari]

64. Are you asking me or the Faux audience?

:)

[truebrit71]

54. ROFLMAO!!!!

:rofl:

[leesa]

60. It's a damned shame, ain't it? I'd cry too if I were married to that

asshole. I'll bet it ain't the first time either.

[MrSlayer]

61. I wouldn't cry.

I'm not a crier. I'm a get pissed off and kick someone's ass type.

[tyedyeto]

62. This is a JOB INTERVIEW.......

Did you accompany your husband/wife for their last job interview? The crying came during the 'questioning' from a Repug, not a Democrat. If she can not handle the questioning, why is she there?

edit: typo

[EFerrari]

63. So that she could cry:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=123140&mesg_id=123140

[tyedyeto]

66. So Corporate Media could say a Dem made this poor woman cry

What a bunch of crapola.

[tyedyeto]

65. Can't stand the heat...stay out of the kitchen

that's what 've been told since I was born.

Mrs. Alito ... STAY AWAY

[T Town Jake]

68. Recognizing sarcasm, or anything else intelligent, is obviously

beyond your ken.

[Faux pas]

69. What's she doing at her husband's job interview anyway?

I have compassion, but not when I'm suspicious of her motives. Nothing like some well timed female tears to make men fold, ya know?