In case you haven’t heard yet, Mrs. Martha-Ann “Red Dress” Alito burst into tears and left the room toward the end of questioning yesterday, only to return a few minutes later after sobbing in an anteroom. The story is being spun that the mean old Democrats, who had the nerve to try to get a straight answer from a SCOTUS nominee about his membership in a bigoted organization, made her cry, even though she started to “sniffle audibly” while her husband was being defended by conservative Lindsey Graham.
This just stinks to high heaven. Might Mrs. Alito have genuinely been overcome with emotion? Yeah, maybe. And maybe monkeys will fly out of my ass, too, but I think it’s unlikely.
Of course, it’s just too mean to consider that it might have been a ridiculous stunt, or too unsympathetic to expect that she keep her shit together, instead of turning a SCOTUS nomination hearing into an episode of Dynasty. And it’s just too tempting for the idiotic media to play on stereotypes of hysterical women and dutiful wives, uncritically reporting that she was overcome as a result of the Democrats picking on her husband. Whatfuckingever.
[UPDATE: I see I’m not the only heartless wench who thinks Mrs. Alito is an outlandish specimen.]
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