To read past the headlines.
Or to even read papers other than the ones that they agree with.
You may remember Joe Sudbay of AmericaBlog. He was the one who, after the SOTU speech, said that Condi and Bush “didn’t have a lot of brain power between them.”
Must be a gag at parties, that Joe Sudbay!
Once again, Joe fires away and blows off the foot he has stuck in his mouth. Check it out:
“New Conservative majority” on Supreme Court rules for Phillip Morris
He’s talking, of course, about the SCOTUS tossing out the $79.5 Million Oregon Supreme Court judgement against the Marlboro cigarette maker.
He got his opinion from the folks at the LA Times who used their superior intellect to divine that the court is heading towards a “Conservative Scalia-Led Majority”, which Joe Sudbay eats up like it was an Obama-pizza with Howard Dean sauce
Unfortunately for Joe Sudbay and the LA Times, Scalia voted with Thomas to give a thumbs-up to the Oregon judgement (along with Stevens and Ginsburg), while it was Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Souter and Breyer who voted to vacate the judgement from Oregon.
So just to make sure we’re all on the same page here: According to the LA Times and Smokin’ Joe Sudbay, Scalia, Thomas, Stevens and Ginsburg are the new Conservative majority, who were in the minorty.
What is Smokin’ Joe smoking?