Gingrich: Sotomayor a racist
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- May
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Here’s former Rep. Newt Gingrich on Sonia Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” line:
“Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman.’ new racism is no better than old racism,” he tweeted Wednesday.
Moments later, according to CNN, he followed up with the message: “White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.”
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs responded to Gingrich’s criticism at Wednesday’s briefing, CNN wrote.
“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation,” Gibbs said.
PHOTOS:
In this April 2003 photo released by the American Philosophical Society, judge Sonia Sotomayor stands in front of the organization’s official roll book during her induction ceremony in Philadelphia, Pa. (AP Photo/American Philosophical Society, Linda Lloyd)
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gestures as he makes his points during a conference on health care reform last week in Columbia, S.C.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
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