After asserting that there is a quota permitting only one black justice on the Supreme Court, NYT columnist Bob Herbert pulls a Maureen Dowd, purporting to read George H.W. Bush's mind and then attributing a quote to him with the weasel words "seemed to be saying":
In 1991, the first President Bush poked a finger in the eye of black America by selecting the egregious Clarence Thomas for the seat on the Supreme Court that had been held by the revered Thurgood Marshall. The fact that there is a rigid quota on the court, permitting one black and one black only to serve at a time, is itself racist.
Mr. Bush seemed to be saying, "All right, you want your black on the court? Boy, have I got one for you."
Journalists just can't pass up the faux mind-reading.
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