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Racism Down Under

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I'm in Melbourne, Australia today as the release of latest Mel Gibson tapes has made TV news.

Think these two deserve each other?

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Think these two deserve each other?

It's a story of the Australian-raised local-boy made-good gone-bad.

I feel dirty just listening to the tapes. He's a racist. Former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva comes across as a piece of work for taping him -- and having spent time with him.

These days you hear the word racist bandied about too freely. With Gibson, however, the R-word truly applies. You can always spot a racist because he'll bring up race on any issue, no matter how unrelated.

Posted By: Debra J. Saunders (Email) | July 09 2010 at 04:06 PM

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Elena Kagan, meet your tormentors

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If you were Elena Kagan, which torment would you choose -- being waterboarded just once or having to sit there and listen without comment -- until the end of Monday --to the 19 bloviating members of the Senate Judicary Committee?

Three Senators who can make minutes feel like hours.

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Three Senators who can make minutes feel like hours.

What must Kagan have been thinking? Probably she was trying to decide which Senator is the biggest windbag -- Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., or Sen. Arlen Specter, ?-Pa. That could take hours.

But it's the question and answer sessions that started Tuesday -- with long-winded solons asking such wordy questions that she barely has an opportunity to answer -- that really separate the wheat from the gaffe.

I see newcomer Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, is fixing to give Hatch, Leahy and Specter some competition. He actually congratulated Kagan for her "responsiveness," after she said precious little, while allowing him to ramble.

Posted By: Debra J. Saunders (Email) | June 30 2010 at 11:00 AM

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