May
29
2009
Snake Oil Alert

In a classic application of Snake Oil, Snake Oil Salesman Supreme, Gibbs stated today that Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor “Chose her words poorly” when she made the racist remark that Latino women’s judgments on the bench were superior to white men’s judgments.
First of all the statement is by definition racist.
Secondly, Gibbs claimed that others told him that she thought that she chose her words poorly making his statement a cheap exercise in hearsay and no retraction from Sotomayor at all.
Thirdly, even if she did admit that she chose her words poorly which she has not done, which words were the one’s that were chosen poorly and what words would she substitute?