Do conservatives grasp the concept of cognitive dissonance?

Since when do facts matter to Fox News? I'm sure they will spin Ricci's story to suit their own radical-right agenda regardless of the facts. They know most of their viewers will swallow the pill whole and without skepticism. Fox News, on several occasions when damaging news stories have broken, reported that the offending [person] was a member of the Democrat party when, in fact, they were a Republican.

One such case in point: South Carolina Gov, Mark Sanford's recent adultery scandal. Another example: Rep. Mark Foley (a Republican) was reported by Fox News to be a Democrat while Fox News was reporting on the scandal surrounding allegations that he engaged in sexually explicit electronic communications with underage former congressional pages.

To be fair, Fox News isn't the only one to be trigger happy when it comes to erroneously accusing a bad seed to be a Democrat. Fox just does it more often and isn't known for correcting their errors publicly. Read more about it here: http://mediamatters.org/research/200610130010

Wait... are you trying to say that minorities are at a mental disadvantage and that's why the exams should have been thrown out? That's not very nice.

I could potentially see the value of a case involved testing and learning disabilities. For example, a dyslexic person might take longer to complete a test than the test normally allows for. It might not make them any less capable at doing their job, but at a disadvantage while taking a test. It /could/ make sense for some situations that a learning disability unfairly excludes someone from competing on an exam. I don't know what his specific claim was or any of the details. I'm just saying it could make sense and be a valid claim.

However, race doesn't have any such impact. So how is the attempt to throw out test results because not enough minorities passed it at all similar to the other case?

the problem with your firefighter story is that since this lady is going to try and become supreme justice material she needs to look at her cases as if nothing else ever happened in the world. just because a fireman cheated the system earlier does not mean that his claim at the moment becomes invalid. plus he was not the only person to get discriminated against. there were 12 people who jointly filed a complaint.

and the whole reverse racism is a wrong choice of words. it is just plain racism and it happens every day, every time a minority with no education gets hired over someone who has skills and experience just because of their skin or some quota needs to be filled. that is the problem. because there were not enough blacks ( quota) that scored high enough these men missed out on promotions or pay raises when they themselves scored high enough to get them. that is the discrimination. if those blacks had scored higher then they would have gotten raises.

so when looking at his case we are not trying to see what kind of person eh is but weither there is discrimination at this point in time. the case has nothing to do with him personally. you should stop trying to throw out his case because you don't like the guy.

I find it offensive how you are trying to link conservatives to those Republican pieces of scum. The GOP doesn't represent real conservatives anymore than the Democrats would.

Both of those parties blow, don't link the rest of us to them.

what you fail to say is that all 9 justices said there was no legal set precedent for the lower court to argue. all of them! she has been over turned 8 of 10 times.so 8 out of ten she got it wrong.not just ricci.

Some of your own party have a few doubts.

Alan Spectar said, paraphrasing, "I have 'no comments' on your testimony, but your record is exemplary".

He couldn't find one word of approval in her testimony?

Others had little or nothing to add.

If the GOP were champions of meritocracy, they wouldn't have an issue with Affirmative Action.

Did you just draw an association between conservatives and the GOP?

The key is that the phrase is almost always used exclusively by liberals who can't find a better argument.

You mean like Obama's attending a racist church for over a decade but not noticing the racist messages?