Sotto Voce

This whole whisper campaign against Supreme Court prospect Sonia Sotomayer has been very strange. It hadn’t really been on my radar until I was channel-surfing last night and stumbled across a sketch on Letterman’s show portraying her as the stereotypical hot-blooded Latina. Since when do prospective Supreme Court nominees get this kind of treatment before being nominated? So Brian Beutler took a look for us and finds a whisper campaign that so far is marked by a paucity of on-the-record sources and very little concrete evidence of her alleged poor judicial temperament. Makes you wonder who has the knives out for her and why.