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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (704074)	9/26/2005 6:39:19 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Who's Crying Now? Our discussion last week on Democrats who wanted John Roberts to share his feelings prompted our friends at the Media Research Center to e-mail us about MRC's 1993 award for "Dumbest Question of the Year." It came in an exchange between NPR's Nina Totenberg and Justice Harry Blackmun on "Nightline." Totenberg was asking Blackmun about death-penalty cases: Totenberg: Have you ever cried over these cases? Blackmun: Have I ever what? Totenberg: Have you ever cried over them? Blackmun: No. Now, in fairness to Totenberg, Blackmun did have a tendency toward the maudlin in his dotage. His opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), which we noted Wednesday, read like a lament for a lost love. Maybe Totenberg was trying to illustrate that Blackmun had just become too bathetic to administer justice impartially. Still, imagine if Geraldo Rivera interviewed Justice Ruth Ginsburg and asked her if she ever cries over cases the court hears. Would this not be universally recognized as invidiously sexist, not to mention idiotic? Women have proved that they are capable of reaching the pinnacles of business, politics and law, and they deserve to be treated with seriousness and respect. But so do men.