Ms. Sotomayor is being nominated because she is unqualified.  Only an unqulified person will make the reckless and unlawful rulings that a reasonable person wouldn't.  It's the same reason we have an unqualified person as President.   Socialism is a fantasy dreamed by fascist and ego driven personalities that believe their only goal in life is to help their fellow human beings.

Could the majority of the msm try to use a new word beside "compelling?"

It should be an embarrassment by now to them.

I forgot...they have no shame. 

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

From the article on her mother: 

Mr. Sotomayor’s death of a heart attack at 42, when Sonia was 9, made Mrs. Sotomayor the family’s sole support. She scrimped to put the children through Roman Catholic schools and to buy the only set of Encyclopaedia Britannica in their Bronx housing project.

“My brother and I plagiarized many a school report from those books, but I can remember the enormous financial burden that purchase placed on my mother,” Judge Sotomayor recalled in 1998.

Now imagine the reaction from the MSM if Clarence Thomas or Sarah Palin blurted out something like that. 

That's where the saying, "I don't wanna know your life's story" comes in. I don't care where you were raised. And neither do the Democrats -- that's all crap and propaganda. They know she'll vote correctly on all the issue they care about -- regardless of law, Constitution, facts, or justice. So they're for her.

 That's the way Ayatollahs are appointed to rule over us. "It's a free country"? Don't make me laugh!

Sotomayor is a racist, and Thomas isn't.

Sotomayor is a Constitutional dunce, and Thomas isn't.

Sotomayor authored a bunch of screwy opinions, and Thomas didn't.

Lots of interesting parallels.

And I thought jurisprudence was inportant.

With me the biggee -- it's the character of the person, Thomas has it, Sotomayor nope.

A caller to Rush Limbaugh made a good point yeaterday when she said she was getting tired of all of these "compelling" life stories being heralded for these nominees. She said her father had passed away when she was four and her mother struggled to raise her and put food on the table but she ended up a success. Her point was that not many people are born with "silver spoons in their mouths" and have had to fight and struggle in one or another to make it. When they spotlight these nominees life struggles, it's like diminishing everyone else. It reminds me of the media making heroes out of sick celebrities, while everyday people, who struggle with illnesses without the money or the support, go unnoticed. 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Funny letter to NRO at The Corner:

[quote] I've been hoping that someone might be bold enough to rain on the Sotomayor "compelling life story" parade. The woman grew up in the capital of the world, went to two Ivy League schools, and was blessed by Providence with the precisely correct right race-gender two-fer for the moment.

This is a story of privilege, dammit, not adversity.

Show me a Montana girl of un-useful ethnicity who put herself through law school waiting tables, after being left with two young children when her Army husband was killed overseas, and I'll start oohing and aahing over her compelling story.

Of course, such a person would never ever end up on any President's short-list, no matter if she graduated first in her class at her non-Ivy institution, no matter how extreme the intelligence and dedication and hard work she displayed over the subsequent course of her career. That's simply how the world –and especially the legal world — is constructed today.

It's so much easier to take a properly-credentialed member of the East Coast elite and hold her up as a shining example of American meritocracy instead, because she is conveniently hued and delayed her entry to the world of the well-heeled until the age of 18 or so. Easy, and misleading. Feugh! [end quote]

Never have I seen, heard, read (felt??) so much perspiration spent to highlight such awesome inspiration.....

I think the MSM needs a good brush-down to remove the lather coating them after breathlessly racing each other to the news deadline to see who could produce the most orgasmic, ecstatic fluff piece on this "piece" of a SCOTUS nominee.

Pass the barf bag.

What else can we expect?  The MSM have already honed their propaganda skills to a fine, razor's edge in pursuit of getting their Savior elected to his Peter Principle pinnacle.

They, in turn, are displaying their own Peter Principle position in the rapidly decaying realm of journalism.

In their sycophantic slobbering they continue to expend perspiration over "inspiration" (of the PC kind) on their way to corporate and individual expiration.....

....one can hope!