MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Associate Professor of Politics and African-American
Studies Melissa Harris-Lacewell discussed Rush's recent slam of Sonia Sotomayor:
“I think I’m going to send Sotomayor and her club a bunch of vacuum cleaners to help
them clean up after their meetings,” Limbaugh sneered.
Limbaugh was referring to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s acknowledgment
that she belongs to an organization for “influential women who are key decision makers.”
The group calls itself Belizean Grove in mockery of “the Bohemian Grove, a 130-year-old,
elite old boys’ network” and states that its aim is to “help women pursue more significant
dreams, ambitions, purposes, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment, while also opening
up more leadership opportunities.”
“Would [liberals] have forgiven the judge’s involvement in an old-boys’ club?” Limbaugh
fulminated. “Or would they have erupted in a full flow and five-alarm rage? It’s safe to say
any conservative in this situation would find their nomination dead in the water, clubbed
like a baby seal, no doubt about it.”
