Mrs. Alito's tears in pictures and in words

[DoYouEverWonder]

A lot of people think that Mrs. Alito was crying because the Dems had called her husband a bigot. Yet, not a single Dem during the hearings ever mentioned the word 'bigot'.

Actually, it was the Alito's coach and friend, Lindsey Graham who set off Mrs. Alito's tears. Funny thing though, if you actually listen to what Lindsey Graham was saying while Mrs. Alito is crying, it had nothing to do with bigotry either. It was all about himself and his own looming troubles? So why is Mrs. Alito crying? Because Graham might get caught taking money from bad people? Or someone might find pictures of him posing with bad people? That was what he was talking about while she was crying? Seems odd?


GRAHAM: If you don't mind the suspicious nature that I have is that you may be saying that because you want to get on the Supreme Court; that you're disavowing this now because it doesn't look good.





And really what I would look at to believe you're not -- and I'm going to be very honest with you -- is: How have you lived your life? Are you really a closet bigot?

ALITO: I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.




GRAHAM: No, sir, you're not. And you know why I believe that? Not because you just said it -- but that's a good enough reason, because you seem to be a decent, honorable man. I have got reams of quotes from people who have worked with you, African American judges -- I've lost my quotes.

Judge Higginbotham -- I don't know where they're at. But glowing quotes about who you are, the way you've lived your life; law clerks, men and women, black and white, your colleagues who say that Sam Alito, whether I agree with him or not, is a really good man.




You know why I believe you when you say that you disavow those quotes? Because the way you have lived your life and the way you and your wife are raising your children.

Let me tell you this: Guilt by association is going to drive good men and women away from wanting to sit where you're sitting. And we're going to go through a bit of this ourselves as congressmen and senators.

People are going to take a fact that we got a campaign donation from somebody who's found out to be a little different than we thought they were -- and our political opponent's going to say, "Aha, I got you!"




And we're going to say, "Wait a minute. I didn't know that. I didn't take the money for that reason."

And you know what? I'm going to believe these senators and congressmen for the most part, because that's the way we do our business. We meet people here every day. We have photos taken with people -- and sometimes you wish you didn't have your photo taken.

But that doesn't mean that you're a bad person because of that association.





Judge Alito, I am sorry that you've had to go through this. I am sorry that your family has had to sit here and listen to this.

[arcane1]

1. "I am sorry that your family has had to sit here and listen to this"

perfectly scripted to follow Bush's prior babblings about the need for "dignity" in the hearings

did Graham and the Alitos pay their S.A.G. dues yet?

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. A weapon of mass distraction?

You bad Democrats and your Roe vs. Wade made her cry. BAD Democrats.

[MADem]

3. I still think she got a look at herself on a TV monitor

...and realized that she looked like a walking Barcolounger. That get-up looks like the upholstery of Archie Bunker's favorite chair, and is a cousin of the one Frasier's dad liked to put his feet up on. Put a little duct tape on it, and you'd be sittin' in her lap, and scrounging around for the remote!!!

[txindy]

7. Umm,....

Yes. Yes, absolutely. Every word that you said. That, and she missed her cue to cry when a Dem was talking. Upset her no end, that did.

:rofl:

[Cronus Protagonist]

12. I think her piles were hurting from sitting so long

Occam's razor and all that...

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. Whew Martha Ann

that was a real stinker you just cut loose. Wow, you could knock out the entire Judicial Committee with that bomb.

[adigal]

4. Mrs. Alito's tears

are BS.

[Botany]

5. best supporting actress .... the winner is .. for The Crying Game 2

Mrs. Alito aka Martha-Ann Bomgardner

She did not cry but was smiling and talking as Ted Kennedy was ask her hubby ?s in the AM.
The women on her right was a republican handler with connections to Creative Response Concepts
AKA the swift boat people ......

what a crock of shit ..... and Norah O'Donnell, Gloria Borger, and the rest of the paid stooges did
their part too.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. The woman to her right is her sister

do you mean the woman to her left? Is there any way to find out or prove who she is?




edit: to switch to better picture.

[Botany]

11. Check Raw Story or follow the DU home pg story

I meant the other right :rofl:

[Junkdrawer]

6. I expected spin from FAUX and CNN, but when the CBS Evening News...

led with "Did the Democrats go too far?" and "This will be the image that people will most remember", I KNEW it was a fake.

[superconnected]

9. She's wearing the ugliest dress suit I've ever seen.

Is that tweed from the 60's? The cuts bad, the sleeve cuff is awful, the blouse is ugly, it's just bad.

Even the giant gold broach is bad. You don't stick that on a pattern, ever. That should go on a dark solid.

Her taste in desing is as bad as her taste in men.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. I think she dressed bad on purpose

to draw attention to herself and take away attention from the questioning and her husband's inadequate answers.

[Junkdrawer]

15. Absolutely. Mrs.Joe Sixpack is meant to feel "They're attacking me"...

I'd bet she NEVER dresses like that - except for these hearings.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. I wonder if Graham had any quotes at all

He "lost" them.