{"id":25840,"date":"2007-06-06T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:25:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:25:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:25:22","slug":"drive_bys_put_out_another_contract_on_clarence_thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/06\/drive_bys_put_out_another_contract_on_clarence_thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Bys Put Out Another Contract on Clarence Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: There\u2019s a book out. I don\u2019t even know the name of the book, but it\u2019s a giant hit piece on Clarence Thomas, and this book has led to ancillary op-ed pieces being written, and it\u2019s obvious that the Drive-Bys have put out a contract again on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and they\u2019re getting a lot of takers on this contract, one of them a guy named Adam Cohen, &#8216;editorial observer\u2019 at the New York Times. He uses this new book as a pretext for his shameful hit piece on Justice Thomas. Now, the book is called &#8216;Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas.\u2019 They talk about in the book how he\u2019s so &#8216;conflicted,\u2019 and he\u2019s destroying&#8230; I know Clarence Thomas, and I\u2019m telling you, he is not conflicted. He is not conflicted. He\u2019s one of the happiest, robust individuals you would ever meet. He\u2019s not conflicted about anything, particularly his work. He\u2019s extremely proud of it. Now, this book. Cohen complains that the book &#8216;doesn\u2019t explain why Justice Thomas regularly rules for the powerful over the weak and has a legal philosophy notable for its indifference to suffering.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125110.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Well, that is because his job doesn\u2019t require him to take into account &#8216;suffering.\u2019 His job as a judge, as a Supreme Court justice, does not call him to take into account the powerful over the weak. You have this idiot, Adam Cohen, who blatantly tells us what the liberal view of the judiciary is. It\u2019s to right the injustices, the social and economic injustices of society. It has nothing to do with the law. It\u2019s merely an arm of liberalism. It\u2019s an arm of big government, and it\u2019s designed to do what liberals think is just and right and proper. Clarence Thomas knows, &#8216;I\u2019m here to judge the constitutionality of law. I am here to adjudicate cases. It doesn\u2019t matter to me if the powerful win or the weak win. Whoever is supposed to win according to the law is going to win, in my judgment,\u2019 which is what his job is, and this guy, Adam Cohen, in this piece, does not even bother to explain Clarence Thomas\u2019 legal arguments. He just paints him as openly supporting torture, which is another template of the left. At Abu Ghraib and Club Gitmo, we\u2019re just a nation of torturers, and he &#8216;openly supports torture.\u2019 He does not. What an outrageous thing to say. He says, &#8216;He can be counted on to reflexively oppose discrimination claims of minorities and women.\u2019 There we go: women and minorities, hardest hit. It\u2019s a liberal template. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[C]ounted on to reflexively oppose discrimination claims of&#8230;\u2019? No! He opposes discrimination claims that are invalid, whoever brings them. He supports discrimination claims which are valid regardless who brings them. He says even this. &#8216;More vexing,\u2019 to Adam Cohen, &#8216;is that Justice Thomas is beloved on the far right with friends like Rush Limbaugh.\u2019 Oh, so Justice Thomas is now to be disqualified because of his friends who happen to be on the, quote, unquote, &#8216;far right.\u2019 I\u2019ll tell you, Mr. Cohen, we are far more in the mainstream than you pointy head intellectual, pseudointellectual elites who occupy the great Northeast of this country will ever hope to be. &#8216;Thomas, according to this observer,\u2019 Adam Cohen, &#8216;appears poised in the next few weeks to achieve his long-standing goal, dismantling the integrationist vision of his predecessor Thurgood Marshall.\u2019 There could be nothing further from the truth! There could be no such agenda in the mind of any of the so-called conservatives on the Supreme Court. Dismantle the integrationist&#8230;? I\u2019ll tell you something, folks. Mr. Cohen, you and your ilk, if anybody in this country is destroying integration, it\u2019s the civil rights coalitions in this country who are doing everything they can to separate us after having achieved integration. <\/p>\n<p>It is people in the Senate pushing an immigration bill that\u2019s going to Balkanize this country. Talk about dismantling the integrationist vision of their god Marshall. And then he whines that American &#8216;will be much less just if Justice Thomas\u2019 life experience and moral truth start to shape the court\u2019s agenda and the nation\u2019s.\u2019 Well, they don\u2019t. His view of the law and the Constitution shape his agenda. He doesn\u2019t have an agenda, and this is what the libs can\u2019t get through their heads. It\u2019s you people on the left that have the agenda. The conservatives on the court, that\u2019s why we call them &#8216;originalists.\u2019 They believe in interpreting it as it was written. They don\u2019t believe it bends and shapes and &#8216;breathes\u2019 to accommodate the latest liberal perversions of our culture and society, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re attacked. But to say that Justice Thomas\u2019 &#8216;life experiences and moral truth\u2019&#8230;? I\u2019ll guarantee you his life experience has been far tougher than yours, Mr. Cohen. He knows far more about tough, hard breaks than you will ever know, Mr. Cohen. Let me give you an observation on this, because this frosted me. It is at times amusing, but sometimes very frustrating that these Drive-By, pseudointellectual thugs accepting these contract hit pieces let out by the media&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who are these people, by the way? These are the people that leak classified secrets to America\u2019s enemies. These are the people trying to destroy the United States victory in the war on terror and the war in Iraq. These are people who are doing everything they can to tear down the institutions and traditions that have made this country great. These are the people who have never met an abortion they didn\u2019t love! These are the people who demonize as many political opponents as they can for the express purpose of destroying them. Robert Bork, any number of people that they\u2019ve tried to take out &#8212; and for them to sit here in judgment over somebody\u2019s soul, like Clarence Thomas\u2019, and to clear Clarence Thomas\u2019 moral truths? This country is in a battle for survival against liberalism, and these people dare to question the morality and the soul of somebody who is, as a person, as clean and pure as the wind-driven snow? The fact of the matter is that these little thugs, these pseudointellectuals that accept these contract hit pieces put out by the Drive-By Media wouldn\u2019t recognize the truth if it smacked them in the face. As I said today, in the stellar morning update, you, Mr. Cohen, nor any of your buddies, are worthy. You are not worthy of either tying Justice Thomas\u2019 shoes or shining them. You\u2019re not even qualified to be his shoeshine boy! Nor are you qualified to tie the shoes or shine the shoes of his friends, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There\u2019s a book out. I don\u2019t even know the name of the book, but it\u2019s a giant hit piece on Clarence Thomas, and this book has led to ancillary op-ed pieces being written, and it\u2019s obvious that the Drive-Bys have put out a contract again on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and they\u2019re getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drive-Bys Put Out Another Contract on Clarence Thomas - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2007\/06\/06\/drive_bys_put_out_another_contract_on_clarence_thomas\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Drive-Bys Put Out Another Contract on Clarence Thomas - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: There\u2019s a book out. 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