Think Again: Sotomayor and SCOTUS, Captured on a Carousel of Time

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings are not scheduled to begin until mid-July, but her punditocracy hearings are already well underway. This week they’re all about her now infamous (and almost always decontextualized) "wise Latina" comment.

Pat Buchanan regularly reminds the public that Obama's nominee can’t wait to get her hooks into the rights of white men. Michael Steele concurs, explaining: "God help you if you're a white male coming before her bench." Shelby Steele, in a triumphant act of hyperbolism, claimed that “Sotomayor has demonstrated a Hispanic chauvinism so extreme that it sometimes crosses into outright claims of racial supremacy.”'