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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Excuse Me? Care to Provide Proof?

Contributed by The Crank Liberal

Trolling though the Google News page today, I stumbled across the following tidbit over at American Daily:

Bill Clinton flooded the federal judiciary with liberal activist judges. If an attempt to legislate from the bench is made--it is a safe bet it came from a Clinton judge. The Clinton judges are made up largely of under-qualified, left wing activists. They are tearing this country apart at the seams. They frequently hand down decisions which present an assault upon the family and traditional values. They ignore the law in favor of leftist agendas.

Now that was a tidbit I didn't know. Did you realize that Bill flooded the judiciary with liberal activist judges? Well that's funny since so many (at least 60) of President Clinton's nominees were blocked by the Republican led Senate. That's why in March of 2000, there were 73 judicial vacancies (10% of the total) because Mr. Clinton stacked the courts with unqualified candidates. That's why the appellate court that ruled against Terry Schiavo and the Supreme Court that failed to hear her case - even though we know that in both cases we had a conservative majority. Yep, all President Clinton's fault.

I don't know what scares me more - someone believes such nonsense without doing some fact checking, OR that I found it on Google News. Blame Clinton for that, too.

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Activist judges scare me and I don't care which side they're on. Was that presented as "news" without quoting someone? That would appal me too.

Posted by: Doug | Apr 27, 2005 7:53:44 PM

Ah Google News, bastion of all sources, viable or not, yet supplier of no real news of their own. For anyone else, it would just be a collection of feeds from random "news" sources, but for the almighty Google, it is all allowed. I get so much amusement out of Google News that I link to them, though rarely do I find anything truly newsworthy on there I haven't seen before.

Posted by: Frank Castle | Apr 27, 2005 11:22:02 PM

what a load of hog wash, you believe everything your told. Bush is trying to do the excact thing you claim Clinton to have done.

Posted by: Benjamin Solah | Apr 28, 2005 9:45:13 AM

Hey Benjamin,

Did you read Cranky's last line?

At RWN we like to debunk the radical right's untruths, and this is a great example. It also happens to be very funny.

I for one would love to have the Constitution amended so that Bill could be president for life. But that would set a horrible precedent.

Posted by: pia | Apr 28, 2005 10:51:01 AM

Meant to add that I think the person who wrote it was serious.

Posted by: pia | Apr 28, 2005 10:52:33 AM

Cranky rocks!

Great post.

Posted by: Kevin | Apr 30, 2005 3:05:21 PM

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