James Wolcott sums it up:
Then Mrs. Alito suffered a case of the weepies that was so dramatically well-timed and patently maudlin that I was reminded of the classic stage direction in Private Eye (takes out onion, wipes away tear), and suddenly the proceedings turned into a soap opera with Fox News commentators arriving on cue to deplore the toll taken on innocent bystanders in these brutal proceedings.
And his sympathy continues:
If Alito is confirmed, Mrs. Alito and Judge Clarence Thomas's wife can commisserate by exchanging monogrammed crying towels as their men folk roll back women's rights and civil liberties and go duck hunting weekends with Scalia."
I shake my head in astonishment that this guy acutually believes this.
And you can always count on the DU for...well...more sympathy:
What do you do when you cry? Do you hang your head, cover your eyes? Or
do you sit and stare at a camera so the whole g'damned nation can see your crocodile tears spilling over onto your haughty cheeks?
The DYSFUNCTIONAL WIFE of Alito was traumatized, oh please I'm so sick
of the right wing freaks. GOD I HATE THESE PEOPLE!
Maybe she was crying....because she got a good look at that get up she was wearing in a full length mirror. That was enough to bring tears to anyone's eyes.What a phony snake she is. Just like her husband.
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