Subject: [big campaign] NRO's Judicial Attack Dog Calls Elena Kagan A Prostitute
From: Chris Harris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 17:41:45 -0400
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FYI -  Ethics and Public Policy Center president (and NRO contributor) Ed
Whelan is likely to be one of the main attackers of whoever Obama
nominates.  It would be helpful to preemptively marginalize him a bit, so we
just sent this out.

http://mediamatters.org/press/releases/201005090009
NRO's Judicial Attack Dog Calls Elena Kagan A Prostitute

*For Immediate Release*
May 9, 2010

*Burns: "Imagine the rightwing firestorm that would erupt if a prominent
progressive insisted Sarah Palin was selling her body. This should be no
different."*

*WASHINGTON, D.C. - **Media Matters* President Eric Burns released the
following statement after Ethics and Public Policy Center president Ed
Whelan implied possible Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is a
prostitute<http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005070030>
:

"Ed Whelan's appalling attack on Elena Kagan degrades the political
discourse and women everywhere.

"It is disgusting, yet not surprising, that the conservatives' favorite
judicial attack dog would stoop so low as to imply a woman is a prostitute
merely because she didn't to allow her personal views to stand in the way of
our military's recruiters.

"Imagine the rightwing firestorm that would erupt if a prominent progressive
insisted Sarah Palin was selling her body.  This should be no different.

"Conservatives should stand up to Whelan, demand he apologize, and refuse to
parrot his imminent attacks against whoever the president nominates to the
bench."

*Background:*

Ed Whelan, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, is at
the forefront of the fight against President Obama's judicial nominees.
Writing at *National Review Online* on May 7, 2010, Whelan attacked Kagan
for allowing military recruiters at Harvard Law despite her opposition to
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

Whelan wrote<http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fbench.nationalreview.com%2Fpost%2F%3Fq%3DYTY2MTNiMGRjY2VkNDk0Yzc2ZTg3NTMyYjVkNGVjNTQ%3D>
:

But, as George Bernard Shaw would have said to Kagan for selling out her
supposedly deeply held principles, "We've already established what you are,
ma'am. Now we're just haggling over the price."

Fearing the backlash he deserves, Whelan updated his post today to claim his
use of the Shaw quote "obviously doesn't carry (and in my case certainly
wasn't intended to carry) the particular stigma that a narrowly literal
understanding would convey."

That's too little, too late.

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