Today was the Big Day that Randall Terry (here’s the old attention whore himself) and the rest of the anti-abortion ignorami have been waiting for… the start of hearings preceding Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the US Supreme Court. The fetus fetishists were there in numbers proportionate to their importance and influence, doing what they do best: interrupting the proceedings by going bugfuck nuts in public:
The plaintiff in the landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade, who became an abortion protester in recent years, was among four demonstrators arrested Monday for disrupting Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination hearing.
Norma McCorvey, 61, of Texas, better known as “Jane Roe,” began screaming that Sotomayor was “wrong” about abortion during the opening statement of the newest member of the Senate, Al Franken, D-Minn. [...]
The first outburst came during Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s opening statement. A man in the back of the room interrupted the California Democrat’s remarks by shouting: “Senator! What about the unborn!” He called abortion “genocide.”
“What about the unborn!!???” What about the Undead? What about the Unstupid? Way to make the anti-choicers look like a bunch of barking-mad, shrieking headcases. Oh, wait..
On a more serious note, TPM has a live blog that was done during today’s hearing. It summarizes some of the opening statements, which hint at the direction questioning will take when it starts tomorrow. Alas, nothing about the Unborn. The Unsane will be very Unhappy.
And yet, the “librul” Washington Post declared him one of the “winners” of yesterday’s hearing.
JAB – I wonder how they figure he was a winner — very few protesters showed up, and the ones that got any attention (the screamers) were booted out and basically made all of them look batshit.
Though I guess by Terry’s standards, that would be a win. He clearly enjoys attention, even when it’s negative.