Greetings, you're listening to Podcast No. 151 of Blast the Right.

I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.

Today, the focus is on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

You just won't believe the onslaught of disinformation and outright lies coming from the

right.

But actually, that's just what you'd expect, isn't it?

Here you'll find all the ammo you'll need to shoot down their propaganda.

Also be sure to stick around for the credits at the end of the show for an important summer

scheduling announcement.

Let's get right into it.

Our sources today include the New York Times, Media Matters.org, CNN, MSNBC, the Wall Street

Journal, the Financial Times, scotasplog.com, the Nation magazine, common dreams.org, the

Associated Press, the websites of the organization's La Raza and Latino Justice, dictionary.law.com,

and the Chicago Sun Times.

In the next half hour or so, you'll hear all about the right smear campaign against Sonia

Sotomayor.

I'll debunk each one of their talking points for you.

This won't just be relevant for the Sotomayor and future Supreme Court confirmation hearings

or even just for confirmation hearings in general.

No, any time a right-winger is attacking a person, they use similar tactics.

So I'll categorize the propaganda techniques as I tell you about them to make them more

recognizable the next time you encounter them, and encounter them you will of that you

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