Here's one of the tips: spin her positives as negatives.
Referring to a New York Times article from May, Colbert noted that Sotomayor “spent summers reading children’s classics she had missed in a Spanish-speaking home.” Then he played a clip of pundit Pat Buchanan expounding, “I think that, I mean if you’re, frankly if you’re in college and you’re working on Pinocchio or on the troll under the bridge, I don’t think that’s college work.”
“He’s right,” Colbert agreed, “children books are inappropriate when you’re in college.”
Colbert added, “You read them when your country’s under attack.” Colbert showed a brief clip of former President Bush continuing to read “My Pet Goat” to children on September 11, 2001, shortly after being told that a second plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center.
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