MoveOn.org's TV Ad Uses Storm's Aftermath To Target Roberts

From USAToday:

The televised images of poverty-stricken evacuees from Hurricane Katrina are part of a provocative, last-minute effort by a liberal interest group to divert federal Judge John Roberts' path to confirmation as chief justice.

MoveOn.org Political Action plans to unveil a TV ad on Monday that questions whether Roberts is sensitive enough to civil rights concerns to lead the Supreme Court. The ad suggests that the plight of the mostly African-American evacuees in New Orleans showed that poverty remains a serious problem among minorities, said Ben Brandzel, the group's advocacy director. In a mix of judicial and racial politics, the ad then suggests that minorities could suffer if the Senate confirms Roberts.

“The connection is obvious,” Brandzel said. “The images after Hurricane Katrina show we still live in a society where significant racial inequities exist. We believe John Roberts' record on civil rights … is clearly not the direction our country needs to head now.”

Conservative groups such as the Committee for Justice accused their opposition of playing politics with the disaster on the Gulf Coast and said that the conservative Roberts has favored several legal positions that would benefit minorities and the poor.

My Comments:
The Dread Judge Roberts - bombing abortion clinics and killing black people with hurricanes.

The ads that the left has decided to run against Roberts can only be described as the worst sort of demogoguery. I suppose there is nothing left for the left other than this politics of histrionics, so intellectually bankrupt and devoid of substance have they become.