>> it certainly works in sergeant crowley's favor to suggest he's not in fact a bigot not a bigot and perhaps more sensitive. >> people say if he taught about diversity and about how not to racially profile and lives in cambridge, he should have known professor gates. >> that's part of it. but you still have to be on your guard for your own self-conscious and implicit attitudes to come to the forefront. i teach african-american politics. i study this for my living. but that doesn't mean i don't have to deal with my own prejudiced attitudes and i have to check them. you're quite capable of having a racist moment if you're on the whole racially progressive. >> five years ago when i wrote my memoir "white like me" i tell a story in there even after 11 or 12 doing anti-racism work, diversity work that could mean anything and nothing, but anti-racism work, even after that experience of doing that for 12 years, i got an airplane to go to a conference that we were going to be discussing racism at the conference, and i got on the plane and for the first time i had two black men at the pilot c

do i think he's a bigot from meeting him personally? no, i don't. i was not at the house. i'm sure the truth is somewhere in a middle. we are not discussing that. that is a catalyst. we want to talk more about this conversation and how we bring resolution to this, a solution. more from this distinguished panel after a break. plus, standing by their man. take a look. >> there has been a tremendous rush to judgment and i think the thing to be learned first and foremost from this is to look at all of the evidence, to consider all, to weigh all. i think professor gates has done a very good job of throwing up a very effective smoke screen calling race into this. it had nothing to do with it. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my a

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>> aim note any kind of a bigot. >> no, sir, you're not, judge alito, iemz you had to go through thisiemz your family has been, had to sit here and listen to this. >> yale law professor steven carter. >> and we're hoping and praying, seriously those grown up enough whatever charts may be brought, whatever opponents may want to stand up and say they'll be done with some decorum. >> and it's an uncomfortable vote, i'm not advocating you get a witness like anita hill and lie through her teeth about clarence thomas, but i'm iemz judge sotomayor, but you have not answered my question, this is serious business for the sense of liberty and if the republicans articulated that concern, then, we could see sotomayor to them. >> senate judiciary committee chairman patrick leahy a democrat and will take the lead in tomorrow's hearings, tonight, carl cameron puts them in the hot seat. hot seat. that's next on[ male announcer n a towel become a tango? ♪ when can a t-shirt be a pacifier? when you add ultra downy with renewing scent pearls. you get 3x longer lasting freshness so you feel more connecte

>> aim note any kind of a bigot. >> no, sir, you're not, judge alito, iemz you had to go through thisemz your family has been, had to sit here and listen to this. >> yale law professor steven carter. >> and we're hoping and praying, seriously those grown up enough whatever charts may be brought, whatever opponents may want to stand up and say they'll be done with some decorum. >> and it's an uncomfortable vote, i'm not advocating you get a witness like anita hill and lie through her teeth about clarence thomas, but i'm iemz judge sotomayor, but you have not answered my question, this is serious business for the sense of liberty and if the republicans articulated that concern, then, we could see sotomayor to them. >> senate judiciary committee chairman patrick leahy a democrat and will take the lead in tomorrow's hearings, tonight, carl cameron puts them in the hot seat. that's next on fox news reporting. financial advice you need? where will you find the stability and resources to keep you ahead of this rapidly evolving world? these are tough questions. that's why we brought together

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. >> these bigot's get on this website and they say very nasty, personal, racist things, even against their own colleagues. enough is enough. >> the lawsuit alleges the department anchorage racism and claims officers are on the site while at work. the department did not comment on the lawsuit, but the solicitor general said it is a private website. >>> it is nelson mandela out's 81st birthday. -- is nelson mandela's 81st birthday. he is encouraging people to devote their time to community service. south africans have responded by collecting clothing, planting trees, and building homes for orphans. stevie wonder and aretha franklin will perform for a benefit for his aids foundation. >>> d.c. has named a fire station after its first african american fire chief. mily members, community leaders, and relatives were on hand were the fire station was named in honor of burton johnson. he was fire chief from 1973 to 1978. he joined the department in 1943. yet he died in 2007. -- he died in 2007. >>> volunteers of a rescue project pick up trash and other debris at haynes'. and southwest. they e

and they say having a bigoted cops is not a good thing, so they fired him and his rights do not come back. the judge dissented, and what is interesting about this is that there has been a lot of talk about her own background, her ethnic background, gender, influence and her in her decision. what concerns her is, it is she going to take her back and see everything through that lens and never have said that before people who do not look like her? in this case, she said, "i think this police officer, as repulses me by his speech, has a first amendment right." that speaks to her ability to see cases from a different perspective. >> what do you think? >> i think that there was a difficult question for the panel members in applying this balancing test, a highly -- she was protected in the context that was ugly and vicious, so i think that is encouraging in and of itself. i simply look more broadly at the judge's first amendment cases and her record and have concerns about whether she has a broader defense. right away, with her strong endorsement of finance restrictions and limitations impo

wound up in lindsey graham having to rehabilitate him and saying are you a bigot, sir? and mrs. alito was crying in the background and judge alito, now justice said, of course i'm not. lindsey graham said of course you're not. that was a theme of that man's confirmation hearings. he was a part of the group and barely remembered it. she was on the board of this organization for 12 years, so is this hypocritical? >> not at all. i think there is a difference there. i think there has got to be a higher standard for whites in the majority in an and a lead institution like princeton when you have people acting to somehow say the introduction of women or minorties, blacks, puerto ricans, hispanics, whoever, is somehow not going to be accepted or somehow acting against that, given the history of the country, and i think that is obvious to me. >> two different groups and one deals with whites and the other deals with minorties and it's not hypocritical to focus on one because it deals with white membership and the other because it is minority membership? >> yes. if you're asking me in a

. >> are you really a closet bigot? >> i'm not any kind of bigot. >> no, sir, you're not. >> this is a circus. for blacks who in any wane dayne to think for themselves. >> he talked about pornographic material, depicting people with large penises or large breasts. >> i did not show any of that material. >> he spoke on some of occasions of the pleasures he had given to women with oral sex. >> i heard enough lies. >> one of the oddest episodes i remember was an occasion in which thomas was drinking a coke in his office. he got up from the table at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the coke. looked at the can and asked, who has put pubic hair on my coke? >> well, needless to say, that was one of the most controversial moments in the history of supreme court nominations. from the clarence thomas hearings in 1991. just a little while ago, i talked to the last nominee who was actually rejected by the senate that was robert bork, a former federal appeals court judge and the author of a time to speak selective

another leader of the republican party called her a bigot. to senator mcconnell's credit, he has not used those things, but the leadership of the republican party came out against her long before we ever had the hearing, long before they had a chance to look at her record. i think that's unfair. >> all right. let's go more with the political status behind it and let's look more at her view, including this. the white house asked democratic senators, please don't ask her about roe v. wade, don't press on abortion or any specific cases, because if the democrats start pressing, it opens the door for the republicans to start pressing. but democratic al franken ignored the white house pressure and asked her specific questions about abortion rights, including this -- >> do you believe that this right to privacy includes the right to have an abortion? >> the court has said in many cases in this, i think has been repeated in the court's jurisprudence in casey that there is a right to privacy that women have with respect to the termination of their pre

in an interview with whdh's kim kazee, crowley said he wasn't a bigot, he isn't a bigot and he told hisf what happened to him when he got to gates' cambridge home. >> first of all, there were reports that there was two individuals. i see one, and it could be him, so where's the second person? or there's two people in the residence that he doesn't know are there. either way, i wasn't expecting his response, which was, "that's none of your business." >> that's the interview with kim kazee in boston, a reporter. now our reporter, ron allen. i understand the president has come out and backed off of his comments he made the other night during his press conference. can you give me an update after we take a look at this one bite. ron? >> reporter: i'm sorry, i thought you were going to -- >> ron allen? >> reporter: can you hear me? >> i sure can. can you give me an update on whether the president has backed off? >> reporter: i'm not sure the president is the correct

if something is bigoted and if your intent is to see to it that it does not continue, then i did not understand the leadership of congress or the white house in saying that the time is not right. my position is the president has said he wishes that this matter be repealed. my colleague patrick murphy now has more than 170 cosponsors on a measure to repeal it. secretary gates has said i'm glad he is now saying when we change our policy. last year he would have been saying "if" but my view is that the time is now to eliminate this bigoted law once and for all. >> when you are hearing that the time isn't right, when you're hearing from fellow democrats, even from fellow opponents of "don't ask don't tell" that the time's not right for your amendment, that this ought to be delayed, that there is a more strategic way to do it are you also hearing that there is a white house endorsed strategy for when to get rid of it or is it just being put off indefinitely? >> very good question. i have not heard anything other than the rhetoric. i wrote to the white house on june 22nd and had 76 other m

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. >>> for his part, sergeant crowley doesn't want people to see him as a monster or a bigot. gates gave him no chance but to arrest him, says the sergeant. gates says the incident was a bat of the the wills. >>> also, we'll button up this week's debate involving the wing-nuts who say president obama is not an american. >>> and a dozen elected members of the u.s. congress are pushing this damn story. not to mention the on-air asian tour who love pushing the nativist buttons every night and every afternoon. >>> the american standard magazine says the so-called birthers should take a trip back to reality. my friend joins me to talk about that. >>> plus, if you think the birthers are the only ones crying conspiracy, wait until you hear what some people now think the government is hiding about ufos. >>> and sarah palin's last day in office comes this sunday. i have a suspicion we are going to hear a lot more from her once she is flying down here among the lower 48. that's in the politics picks tonight. >>> we begin with president obama, our president, heading back in front of the

. >> i'm not a monster, the bigot, the racist that he portrayed me to be. >> reporter: do you think, and discuss the group think it would have been best for sergeant crowley to simply walk away? >> he encountered a full lack of cooperation and he was fully within his discretion when that behavior persisted to make the arrest. we're not going to second guess it. >> reporter: sergeant crowley, in hindsight do you think you should have just walked away? this time, at least, he did just walk away. president obama's spokesman said today that it was actually sergeant crowley's idea for the president, crowley and gates to get together for a beer. professor gates' attorney says his client doesn't drink beer, but he's willing to attend. charlie? >> all right, dan harris in cambridge, thank you. and george stephanopoulos, host of "this week" is joining us. george, take me through what brought the president into the press room today. >> reporter: well, the white house did not want to do this. they were frustrated by the amount of attention this was getting on talk radio, on the news, in boston.

that a comment or an action or a joke or whatever was racist, the person thinks i'm calling them a bigotthis is not so much about bigotry. it's not about individual level biases except insofar as we're all conditioned to have them. what racism is, is a social condition, a structural reality. and if you were raised in an environment in which that is everywhere, the odds of you somehow escaping it, not being affected by it are infinitesimally small. it's not going to happen. if we acknowledge it isn't personal. as the old saying goes, this ain't personal, it's business. and understand that we must be about the business of undoing it, both at the individual and institutional level, we wouldn't have to get so tense -- >> isn't it in a sense that sometimes people are not even aware of it? i've been saying, if you don't live it, you don't know it. sometimes i talk to people and they're not even aware. sometimes it's a culture. sometimes it's something you have been taught through media or the way a certain neighborhood works or a company works or an environment works, that you're not even awar

>> the man who was a bigot, anti-semites a really unpleasant man who had a newspaper in minneapolis. he was willing to put himself in this position of calling people terrible names but at the same time exposing corruption. he was sued by the state of minnesota under a state law that said essentially he could not people names and be disagreeable if but people in authority of state government did not want it. it took to the supreme court at that moment to say the constitution overrode the state laws which were everywhere. four instance before the civil war if you live in the southern part of this century, if you express opposition to slavery that is against the law. that does not know people think of the first amendment they think it happened in 1791, the bill of rights but that is not so. >> host: is that what is happening in the blogosphere people can have their opinions or whenever they consider to be fact posted online for the girl to see? >> absolutely and under the situation now. people in this country no matter their political persuasion realizes the importance of the first amen

i think if he is being portrayed as a racist and a bigot, that's -- >> but is that a problem?s been portrayed as that. >> guys, come on. there is a difference -- you guys are just melting them together, you are saying the guy that did the varsity training, and the guy that has a wide range of friends, and say, you know what, you are a good guy, but in this instance you acted in a way you would have acted if the guy was right. >> that's not what people are saying about him, including the professor. he has been -- when this story broke, it was -- there were people hyperventilating on all networks, saying this is was racial profiling at it's worse, and come on, what has happened to this guy's career. do you think it's fair given the details that we know now, do you think it's fair that there has been a rush to judgment in the public realm? >> i don't think that it's a rush to judgment. i am really clear, again, on two things. i am clear in my belief, and i think mike is, too, the guy reporting in boston on this story, if professor gates would have been white, he would not have wa

. >> i am not the monster or bigot or racist that he has portrayed me to be. >> this conflict shows how complex the relationship between police can be. 76% of blacks in a recent abc news poll said african- americans do not receive equal treatment from police as whites. this explains why some african americans follow strict rules when dealing with police. >> be politic in front of the policement your life may depend on it. >> do not get sarcastic. do not be over the top. be respectful. and just keep it under the radar. >> no word on when sergeant crowley and professor gates might go to the white house. viviana hurtado, abc news, washington. >>> tonight many in the academic role are hoping this controversy will turn into a learning experience for the entire nation. a sellout crowd involved quite a match at m&t bank stadium tonight featuring two of the world's top soccer clubs. delia goncalves was there for it all and joins us live from outside the stadium. delia? >> reporter: well, you know, fans are heading home right now. it took a long time to get here. and now with all this rain, it w

it was a man who was a bigot, anti-semite, really unpleasant man who had a newspaper in minneapolis, and he was willing to sort of put himself in this position of calling people terrible names at the same time he was exposing corruption he was sued by the state of minnesota case state law that said he couldn't call people names and be disagreeable if people of authority and state government didn't want it. it took the supreme court at that moment to say that our constitution overrode those kind of state laws which were everywhere. for instance before the civil war if you lived in the southern part of the country if you expressed opposition to slavery that was against the wall. that's not the way most people think of the first amendment. they think it happened 1791 part of the bill of rights, the guarantees were there from the beginning. not so. >> is in that representative of what is happening today in the blogosphere? people can have opinions and whatever they consider to be fact posted online for the world to see? >> absolutely they can for the situation people matter their politic

you ask him if he is a bigot, he said of course not. his affiliation with that group wanted -- became a running theme. sotomayor sat on the board of the group for 12 years. are you worried about having the same charge made against you? >> my concern with judge alito was that they were trying to make him killed by a seat -- guilt by association. during her time in the puerto rico legal defense fund, they took on some very liberal causes. i will not disqualify a lawyer for backing a cause that i do not agree with. most americans do not want their money used to fund abortion, i would love to be on the other side of that issue. i will expose her record for what i think it was as a lawyer, extremely liberal. looking at her 12 years on the bench, a left-of-center, but not activist. her speeches of the most troubling of all to me. megyn: i am sure that we will hear a lot about those today. senator gramm, always a pleasure. >> you bet. bret: we are getting some new video of judge sotomayor are arriving at capitol hill. a minivan pulling up just

that he was saying about me warranted a response and allow people to see that i am not a monster or bigot or racists that he portrayed me to be. >> he is an expect on racial profiling. gates is demanding an apology, erhedgean s ssay he is not sorry. they will set up an independent view in the community to review what happened. >>> what could be good news for our economy. today the stock market opened at numbers above 9000 for the first time in months. the dow continues to hover around that mark. >>> the economy and health care taking center stage on capitol hill. they confirm the senate will not vote on health care next month. it's a delay the republicans see as a win. we have a report from capitol hill. >> the news drove the dow oer the over the 9000 mark for the first time since january. and even ford out did expectations. is it a sign of a turn around? >> i am from chicago! i don't break. >> president obama last night sounded bullish, but he said a full recovery and health care reform go hand and hand. >> we have to lay a new fountion that will allow the united states of america to thr

one person complained to a letter that the messages were racist and bigoted.ld spivek the items sold are not neutral enough to be in the mall. spivek said nobody is selling anything from a conservative perspective. plenty of people are selling things with a liberal perspective, with a pro-obama perspective, and given we're in america and not north korea, we probably should have some stuff on the other side. that's what he had to say. the mall's owner, simons property group, would not comment on the story citing policy. spivack says he's careful to sell things that are not personally attacking a politician and wants a fair exchange of ideas. did the mall cross his line? why bump him for the bumper sticker? he wants the other side of the debate. you tell me. or is it crossing the line for someone to drive their car with a bumper sticker? >>> it is almost 4:00 in the east coast. we're just getting started. just ahead, fact checking the president and the republicans when it comes to health care. does reality match the rhetoric? >>> and news from the michael jackso

some officers accused of posting bigoted rants on the website and the lawsuit alleges the departmento happen. >>> the house intelligence committee is set to investigate whether the cia broke the law. barbara starr has an in depth report on counterterrorism and how far the u.s. is willing to go. >>> and patients with incurable diseases getting better after traveling abroad for some highly controversial stem cell therapy. some doctors say it's all a scam. drew griffin of cnn's special investigations unit digs deeper. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> president obama's vowing that health care reform will be passed this year, despite some increasing obstacles and fractious democrats. let's go to our senior democratic correspondent, dana bash. she's working this story for us. >> i'm told by a democratic source that there was so much concern here about losing momentum on health care that democratic leaders actually called the white house and asked for presidential help in pushing back, and they got it. >> reporter: damage control, in the form of a pep talk. >> i wanted

and they say having a bigoted cops is not a good thing, so they fired him and his rights do not come back. the judge dissented, and what is interesting about this is that there has been a lot of talk about her own background, her ethnic background, gender, influence and her in her decision. what concerns her is, it is she going to take her back and see everything through that lens and never have said that before people who do not look like her? in this case, she said, "i think this police officer, as repulses me by his speech, has a first amendment right." that speaks to her ability to see cases from a different perspective. >> what do you think? >> i think that there was a difficult question for the panel members in applying this balancing test, a highly -- she was protected in the context that was ugly and vicious, so i think that is encouraging in and of itself. i simply look more broadly at the judge's first amendment cases and her record and have concerns about whether she has a broader defense. right away, with her strong endorsement of finance restrictions and limitations impo

the senator had suggested in the past that that was a potentially bigoted statement and he made that remark in much offered -- much softer terms today. >> it bothers me when someone who wears a road takes it off and says that their experience -- wears a robe takes it off and says that their experience makes them better than anyone else. it can add a lot to the court, it does not make a better than anyone else. >> having a bit of an audio problem here. there was another highlight of this editorial side, arlen specter, who used to be a republican, very supportive. al franken also had his first appearance as a u.s. senator. shepard: carl, thank you. tomorrow, the tough questions. chances are that her troubles will not be on par with those of robert bork. it was his confirmation process and ultimately rejected that even got the name borking into the english language. he joins us live in a moment. 90s slacker hip-hop. ♪ singer: buckle up, everybody 'cause we're taking a ride ♪ ♪ that can strain your relationships and hurt your pride ♪ ♪ it's the credit roller aster ♪ ♪ and as you can see

makers say sotomayor's claim to be wiser than others because she is a woman and latino is itself bigoted. >> to the credit of the republican senators i have talked to, they're embarrassed by those kind of comments, and they may disagree with her at the end and may vote against her, but to base it on the facts of what they hear in the committee. >> monday morning when the hearing begins, it will be opening statements an introductions, a full day, eight hours worth. tuesday, the actual question and answer begins an each senator will have a grueling 30 minutes to go one on one with the nominee. it could be exhausting for the senators, for the nominee and for the audience. chris. chris: thanks, carl. we will be there for every bit of it. fox news will have complete coverage of the sotomayor story beginning sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern with a news special "judging sotomayor," and we will bring you the confirmation hearings live monday beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern, programs anchored by bret baier and megyn kelly. shell v-power. our most advanced fuel ever. nitrogen-enriched for optimum

any other nominee, and certainly since you and i have been -- >> the republican leader says she is a bigot. you've overstated that. there is nothing wrong with us asking her her views on legal positions that she took as a member of any organization. that's a normal thing to do, and i don't think that was unfair. she said that she thought she was fairly treated. other commontators, civil leaders have said that. we've given our absolute best to make sure this was a fair hearing, but it had to be vigorous. we had to ask about her speeches, her prior pleadings that she did and some of her opinions. you've given us a fair hearing. i appreciate that. a lot of people felt we were pretty tight on time, but when a hearing came up, we had an opportunity, and i appreciate that. >> and i appreciate that. >> newt gingrich did not get a vote. he called her a racist at the beginning. take 30 seconds, please, because we'll probably be back at it again. what did you learn in this process? couldn't we learn more about these people we're going to give a 30 or 40-year job on the supreme court? what did we lea

a person was fired for distributing terribly bigoted and racist materials.t, what do you think of the speech that this officer was distributing? >> nobody including the police officer was claiming that the speech was not offensive, racist, and insulting. there was a question about what its purpose was in sending the letter, but my opinion, dissent , in that case pointed out that offensiveness and racist-ness of the letter, but there was is dismissing -- there was his being dismissed from the force. >> it was, quote, "patently offensive and insulting," and these are your words in the dissent, whenç the majority was on the other side, "three decades of jurisprudence and the first amendment freedoms in our lives, "-- in our lives," and these are your words, if a it has to be respected." -- these are your words, "it ha# to be respected." >> i do not think anyone has sympathy for what was undisputed lly a racist statement, but the first amendment requires that we respect people's rights to engage in hateful speech. >> right. now, i am just going to go to a group

hispanic group called presente action has put out this ad >> she doesn't have intellectual depth she is a bigot. she is a racist. >> that's republican leader rush limbaugh. bill: what exactly is presente action? joining us now from d.c. our internet cop amanda carpenter from the "washington times" has been investigating. all right. i'm going to withhold comment until you tell us what you found out about presente action. >> sure. this group is son sored by something -- sponsored by the citizen engagement laboratories which seeks to be incubator for, excuse me, identity based campaigns. that's what they are seeking to do. they are seeking to build people based on different identities, in this case hispanic groups for political advocacy. one of the co-founders of citizen engagement laboratories came to us from moveon.org. his name is james rutgers. he used to be in charge of grass roots campaigns for moveon.org. that's kind of the background on that group. bill: george soros ten calls come out of the headquarters to identity politics. just to be clear, identity politics is basically running people

as you may know, if you criticize a minority group in america, you will be labeled a bigot. if you criticize a woman, say, helen thomas, you might be labeled a sexist. but if you hammer white men, you could wind up with a great media job. enter "new york times" columnist maureen dowd, a pew itser prize winner for her columns excoriating president clinton. miss dowd is one of the few columnists who writes interesting stuff whether you agree with her or not. her view emembraces the politically correct left-wing point of view. it doesn't make her a bad person. it's just what she believes. ed to mace dowd did america a big favor by writing a column entitled "white man's last stand" in defense of sonia sotomayor. she stated basically what the new york times believes. white men have screwed up america. they need to get out of power replaced by minorities and women. a few years ago i wrote "culture warrior ." i predicted what's happening now, that the left-wing media would promote minority candidates and causes because they despise the white men power structure. one aside, american

>> it gets down to whether she's a bigot and has a racial bias, or is she a mainstreamer?body from both sides was trying to make their case through the media, naturally, because the liberals control the main stream media. we have two big newspapers, "washington post" and the "new york times," printing absolute valentines about her. citing studies from every liberal academic you could find. laughingly referring and doing a whole piece on report released by the brennan institute for justice, which they pose as non-partisan, because if alec baldwin is on advisory board i don't know how you get to that conclusion. but the old game again. the liberals is going to push her. and the republic republicans wh to tread carefully because they're not exactly getting votes in the hispanic community that they'd like are going to be at each other's throats. >> eric: some say she has judicial temperament, life experience for this. of course, we have the controversial comments about a wise latina woman. >> that is going to be hard to get away from. you know that frank ricci, the man who fil

. >> you called the guy a bigot what was that based on. >> long record of bigotry in almost every departmentou can point to a specific example. >> you can look it up. i have written about it go. and google it. >> i read the article and i think you took him out of context. you owe him an apology. >> i think he owes me an apology. bill: hertzberg is comparing jimmy carter to isaiah. >> he spoke as a prophet and i mean by that not as someone who is predicting the future but as someone who is diagnosing the national soul. this was something that an awful lot of people in the white house, vice president mondale foremost among them did not want him to do. bill: might have been a little bit better if president carter fixed the economy or the gas lines in america but fixing the nation's soul being a prophet is rather time consuming. so now we know. unbelievable. check four as you may know the fox program family guy loves mocking conservatives and religious people. >> all right. i will be the one to say it how do we know you are really jesus? you can perform miracles? >> sure. how about this. >> oh,

of this boston police officer who sent this e-mail to this boston globe reporter where he sounds b bigoted, angry and hateful? >> i think he should look for other gainful employment. he has embarrassed his profession and supported the notion that policemen or law enforcement officers overall are racist and it isn't the truth. it has helped facilitate more dialogue in an area we don't need to go. >> sergeant crowley, did he act stupidly? >> no, sir. quite candidly, sergeant crowley acted within his legal rights. i am not suggesting i would have handled the case the same way. the fact of the matter is, when people act in a loud or boyster rows or disturbing fashion, one of your options is to implement the law. that's what he did. it wouldn't have been my judgment. he was within his legal rights. >> so the president, you would argue, was wrong to use that word stupidly, when describing crowley's actions. >> so the president acted inappropriately when he used that word? >> i think he got ahead of himself a little bit. maybe the byproduct of his relationship with professor gates. let the invest

when she was announced, there was a huge outcry from conservative pundits some of whom called her a bigotnd you saw republican senators pulling back on that we saw a continuation of that during this hearings. they treated her with respect but also asked tough questions at the same time, but was the feeling that the capitol hill and senate judiciary committee had a lot to lose if it got out of control? >> i don't think that there was any sense that it was going to get out of control. remember, on the first day we heard from senator lindsey graham, he said to judge sotomayor, unless you have a meltdown, i expect you're going to be confirmed and he said he didn't expect her to have meltdown and certainly there was none. >> so, candy, this early on into this administration, how much of a feather in the skap a potential confirmation for this white house at this juncture? >> listen, it is also a feather in the cap, you know why? because presidents last four or eight years and supreme court justices last for decades. so the fact of the matter is this is probably the most me meaningful thing, cer

as you may know, if you criticize a minority group in america, you will be labeled a bigot. if you criticize a woman, say, helen thomas, you might be labeled a sexist. but if you hammer white men, you could wind up with a great media job. enter "new york times" columnist maureen dowd, a pew itser prize winner for her columns excoriating president clinton. miss dowd is one of the few columnists who writes interesting stuff whether you agree with her or not. her view emembraces the politically correct left-wing point of view. it doesn't make her a bad person. it's just what she believes. ed to mace dowd did america a big favor by writing a column entitled "white man's last stand" in defense of sonia sotomayor. she stated basically what the new york times believes. white men have screwed up america. they need to get out of power replaced by minorities and women. a few years ago i wrote "culture warrior ." i predicted what's happening now, that the left-wing media would promote minority candidates and causes because they despise the white men power structure. one aside, american

no one has demonstrated that anything in that test was bigoted or biased against african-americans. >> that's not exactly the point. >> they got those things honorably. this is the fundamental point -- >> no, the point is whether or not the test was the right test. >> her whole life sonia sotomayor has argued for ethnic and racial preferences in hiring and promotions, in going to colleges, and in getting jobs, and that has been the theme of her life, and the question is can she sit on the supreme court and forget everything she brings to the court from her life? >> she's been on the court for 17 years. there's not another case that anyone pointed to that raised any issue along those lines at all. the question is -- >> let me raise one. >> that test was fair to all of the people taking it, and new haven concluded it was not. i think i said the last time i was on the show if we had a fairer test, no one would be complaining because everyone is better off when everyone is treated fairly. new haven thought that the test -- >> why was it an unfair -- why was it an unfair test? because blac

in the p pay who want t to call her the clif of the ku klux klan, another reblican who called her bigoted. i think k to the redit, most of the publican s senato have rely shied away from those nd of cments. ey'll ask some t tough questions. i'm make sure thee hearing is a reectful one. the jue deserves respect. ceainly with her backbone s she es. and i wiwill prect in thehe end she'll be connfirmed. i'm alalso willlling to grantee the will be republblicans o will votote for her just as republilicans voted for r in ththe last two confmations. >>>> senat, let me ask you about this mosost rect news story about didick chey telllling peop around him to coonceal informion from thecongress, so things that the cia was working on. what do you want attney generaral eric holdero do a this pointnt with is formation? what areour expectatioions? >> welell, i'll pot out whahat happened -- one e of the asons, as younow, i propoposed an accountability c commissio bibipartisan accountability commisission, toind out what everybody did, why t theyid it. but if somebody in govement is telling otothersot to ob

. >>> for his part, sergeant crowley says he does not want people to see him as a monster or a bigot.hoice to him but to arrest him, that's what he says. the sergeant. gates says the incident was a battle of wills on his part and he said a series of unspoken slights, the words of the professor, he saw them in the way that crowley treated him that evening. >>> also, we'll button up this

he can lift up all black people so people that are bigots don't see us as a monolith imgroup.ve all the problems. he has enough problem selling health care let alone racism. >> what he needs to do, if he needs to address all problems. accident need to overlook the problem that exists in the african-american community. he has to address it. and the very fact he had to say it was unfortunate that he said it shows that we're not where we need to be. >> all right. let me go back to bill bennett. we did get his satellite back and let him finish making his point. bill, are you with us? >> yeah, sure. look, he wasn't dragged into this. he dragged himself kicking and screaming into this. stupid mistake. and so then we have to go through this whole series and now all the rituals and symbols. well, it was a huge mistake. they didn't act stupidly. the only person that acted stupidly is -- >> may i make my statement? >> bill, i want bill to at least make his point. and then we can discuss your take on his point. but let him finish his perspective here. go ahead. >> he was bringing these f

according to leading republican pundits, judge sotomayor is a hot-tempered, dim-witted bigot whose judiciald nutty identity politics, could play havoc with the constitution. amazingly, these are the same people who continue to insist that sarah palin is qualified to run for president of the united states. i thought -- this grabbed me as a brilliant comparison. it really is. because the very qualities of sotomayor, which is up by your boot straps, studying hard, you know, bringing yourself up, and then this other person that they seem to like based upon no preparation like that, no homework, no scholarships, no effort to manifest, what's the story on the republicans? why do they like someone who has shown no sweat equity? against somebody whose shown nothing but sweat equity? >> because the question is ideology. where do these two women stand on the issues? one is a liberal, one is a conservative. they like conservatives better. there's a confusion in this column. aside from what you quoted, which was the most sensible part, the author goes on and says sarah palin is a train wreck. she's the

one of the leade the republican party call her the uivalent of the ku ux klan, another cald her a bigot, to the credit of the republican senars, none o them have used those terms. i think they know those are way out - way out of the balpark, so i have aru. i will not meet with prescient -- with pressure groups either the right or the left when we have a spreme court minee, i make upy mi based what i have read abouthem and wh i hear in the meeting room. i tookll her major cases with me to environmentduring the urth of july i read them at my home the, i studied thm, i've talked with her at leng on several ocasions. thas what i make my mind on. >>ehrer: senator, let me ask you this. ev to a casual observer who just is barely watching these hearings and paying with ju kind of mild attention to these hearings, it's very ear that yound all the democrats came in to support judge tomayor. most of the estions have been supportiv. you, senatorgrassley, you and your fello rpublicans have either declared questio -- serious estions, and it's been strictly by party. is that what's goi on here, senato