Kagan Critics: Keepin' It Klassy

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(Rachel/Kent's video at C&L link plus links to Right Wing Watch)

As Rachel noted, the media and the GOP establishment have been pretty quiet about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan lately but that hasn't stopped some of the more extreme on the right from keeping up the attacks. Kent Jones reports on how the right has been trying to paint her as wanting to put the U.S. under Sharia law. Right Wing Watch has more on this nonsense.

Snips...

Frank Gaffney; 'Hats off to Sen. Jeff Sessions. The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee has opened up an important new front in the debate over Solicitor General Elena Kagan's fitness to serve on the Supreme Court: her attitude toward the repressive legal code authoritative Islam calls Shariah and her enabling of efforts to insinuate it into this country.'

...The idea that learning about Islamic faith and culture is, in and of itself, a form of indoctrination into extremism is a common trope on the goofball right. Unsurprisingly, World Net Daily is already touting the Sessions speech, likely soon to be followed by Commentary, the Weekly Standard, National Review, and Frank Gaffney claiming that Elena Kagan “may still be a Muslim.”

'And as Media Matters noted, The Washington Times fabricated a photo of Kagan in a turban in an attempt to tie her to Shariah.'

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/37988

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1. Gaffney is crazier

than a shit-house rat, and Sessions isn't far behind (on top of needing to send his wash 'n wear bedsheet out for cleaning). They just string together any possible combination of button-pushing terms: "sharia", "radical islam", "extremism" following the words "Kagan is _____________" and you have your attack de jour.