How Dumb Is the HuffPo?So dumb that Arianna features this foolish little post on the front page this morning. Harry Shearer
watched Meet the Cuomo Aide yesterday and has a scoop for us:
MR. RUSSERT: The interesting thing in all this is that when you have John Roberts arguing on behalf of his client, he's saying it should be overturned; then in seeking to be on the Court of Appeals, he said, "Well, it's settled law, it's precedent." But once you're on the Supreme Court, anything can be unsettled. Brown vs. Board of Education was settled law, separate but equal.
MR. THOMPSON: Plessy vs. Ferguson.
MR. RUSSERT: And he could, as Supreme Court judge, decide that it was not properly decided and should be returned to the states, but we'll never know that until he becomes a justice.It's entirely possible, indeed likely, that Thompson actually did mean Plessy. But wouldn't a "tough" questioner at least make sure he wasn't dropping a hint about the future of Brown? Not in this country.Apparently Shearer didn't realize that what Thompson was doing was correcting Russert, who clearly meant to say
Plessy vs. Ferguson had been settled law, enshrining separate but equal, until it was overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education. But Shearer, obviously a constitutional scholar, detects a hidden menace to Brown.
