The recurring theme

Betsy Newmark is wondering what David Broder is all about as he writes that – oh, gosh – John Roberts’ life might have been a little too insulated – he may not have lived enough in the “real world.”

Despite his youthful summer jobs in the steel mills at Burns Harbor, Ind., where his dad was an executive, Roberts has led a sheltered life, absorbed in the law. Private Catholic schools, Harvard, appointed jobs in the White House and Justice Department, a million-dollar-a-year corporate practice, married to a fellow lawyer — all commendable but insulated.

Betsy makes the wickedly good point: I guess suffering is now a requirement for a justice. Because, I guess, we need more feelings in how the Justices decide the law…Hmmmm, I wonder if Broder showed such sensitivity to the importance of life in the real world when Clarence Thomas was nominated.

Heh. The press is just making up things to complain about, now, and then erecting goal posts, there and calling them “concerns.” I can’t help but wonder how much time this gasbag Broder and his children spend in the “real world.” Will he approve, someday, if his kids are denied an opportunity because they’ve been “too insulated?” It’s a recurring theme, this week: the press wants to hold those they disdain to standards they themselves would not wish to be held to.

I wonder how much time, for that matter, how much time John Kerry spent in the “real world,” too. It’s a phony-baloney concern from an increasingly phony-balony press, who live in an increasingly insulated, phony-baloney little, quite “unreal” world.