Did Orin Hatch just play the race card?

[journalist3072]

So I'm watching Orin Hatch on Meet The Press, and I can't believe he just pulled out the race card, re: Alberto Gonzales.

While singing Gonzales' praises, Hatch said "He's the first Hispanic in this position."

What does that have to do with this situation with the fired prosecutors, Mr. Hatch? The fact that Mr. Gonzales is Hispanic is totally irrelevant to the situation at hand.

One other side note: Hatch went on to say that there's no doubt that Gonzales was "inaccurate" about his role in the prosecutors' firings. So, I guess from now on, no one lies. They are just "inaccurate."

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

1. MTP just started here in Chicago. Haven't heard Hatch say that

yet.

[IWantAChange]

2. Hatch is so far out of touch w/reality his FM tuner is set to AM

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. He certainly did and I cursed at him through the tv when he did! Not a great way to start

a Sunday AM.

[havocmom]

4. Well, it's a GOOD sign! Means the junta is desperate to save their asses

and keeping Gonzo at the office is one of their last defenses.

If they are gonna try and frame any criticism of Alberto Gonzales as an attack on a Hispanic who did well, they are really sweating bullets. They got nuttin! :woohoo:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

5. Love the split screen with Leahy shaking his head at what

"Whorin" Orrin in saying. :rofl: :rofl:..

[BR_Parkway]

6. So now he's the first Hispanic in this position to lie to Congress - what is

Hatch's point?

[ecstatic]

7. I agree. Completely irrelevant. I'm sure when Condi Rice's scandal

gets going, they will remind us that she is black.

[LSK]

8. Hatch is totally whoring for Bush on this, is he running in 08?

[librechik]

9. It;s Meet the Hatch, not Meet the Press

I guess Leahy decided to let the asshole hang himself with his own silly mouth.

[LiberalFighter]

10. If all Hispanics were like Gonzales then I would say shoot them all

but they aren't. Just as whites like Orrin Hatch and gwBush are evil there are other races with their evil people.

If race was the determining factor in identifying evil people it would make it easier to lock them up automatically. Or maybe we should lock up all the Mormons because Hatch demonstrates the evil they have inside them.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. What they're TRYING to say is that because he's Hispanic, he should be untouchable, no matter

what he did or does.

How they're FRAMING it is, the Democrats are racist for going after the Hispanic AG, and they're trying to say it in every indirect, mealy-mouthed way that they can.

[journalist3072]

12. Well, as Ann Coulter would say, it's the right's "doctrine of infallability"

Remember how Ann Coulter accused the Democrats of having a "doctrine of infallability?" She accused the Dems of purposefully putting up people like the Jersey Girls, and then saying 'you can't touch them' because they are grieving wives, etc.

As you pointed out, it's the same principle here. This is the right's "doctrine of infallability."

[Shipwack]

13. This week's talking point unveiled?

"...Hatch went on to say that there's no doubt that Gonzales was "inaccurate" about his role in the prosecutors' firings."

I have a feeling on Monday that is the "I" word we'll hear most...

My response is going to be that if Gonzales was merely "inaccurate", then so was Bill Clinton when denying "sexual relations".

[butterfly77]

14. Nothing new he has been doing it for years,...

look him up through the Reagan years...