Monday, January 16, 2006
Alito: "He Did A Brilliant Job"
Echoing my previous post on this subject, Bob Herbert of the New York Times, on January 16, 2005 wrote:
On January 15, 2006, on ABC News This Week, in the Roundtable Discussion, ABC's Claire Shipman and George Stephanopolous confirmed the farce by openly admiring Alito's automaton-like ability to dodge and weave in response to questions:
The confirmation hearings have become farcical, an obnoxious hide-and-seek
ritual in which the administration's ultimate goal is to have the public
know as little as possible - as opposed to as much as possible - about
individuals being appointed to the most powerful court in the land.
On January 15, 2006, on ABC News This Week, in the Roundtable Discussion, ABC's Claire Shipman and George Stephanopolous confirmed the farce by openly admiring Alito's automaton-like ability to dodge and weave in response to questions:
CLAIRE SHIPMAN (ABC NEWS): I think, George, also people keep talking about did
the Democrats fail? I think we're overlooking the fact that Alito succeeded. He
did a brilliant job. Expectations were so low. Nobody thought he'd be able to
charm the Senators the way John Roberts did and indeed he did not but he did a
brilliant job at not taking their bait. I mean not only did he not answer
questions he barely showed any emotion.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC
NEWS): Well, and he sort of answered the questions. He just would analyze them
to death and take all the air out of it.
CLAIRE SHIPMAN (ABC NEWS): Yes,
exactly.
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