Stuart Taylor catches Charles Babington of the Washington Post in a revealing front-page slander, or at least slantedly mistaken criticism, of Judge Alito:
The December 3 Babington article stressed that Alito had written in 1985 that he was “‘particularly proud’ of fighting affirmative-action programs.” But Alito had not used the words “affirmative action.” He had expressed pride in opposing “racial and ethnic quotas.” (Babington noted this in a second reference, without making it clear that this was all that Alito had said.)
Conservatives who oppose racial quotas and preferences are frequently and widely, though incorrectly, criticized for opposing all “affirmative action,” suggesting that these critics, and reporters like Babington (distinguishable from the critics?) in fact themselves equate “affirmative action” with preferences and quotas.
