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	<title><![CDATA[White House Smacks Gingrich For Calling Sotomayor A Racist]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/27/white-house-admonishes-gi_n_208227.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The White House hit back at Newt Gingrich on Wednesday for a twitter post made by the former House Speaker accusing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor of being a racist.</p>

<p>Early on Wednesday, Gingrich put up a <a href="http://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/1937220697">post on twitter</a> rapping Sotomayor for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15judge.text.html?pagewanted=5&amp;_r=1">saying that her background</a> as a Hispanic female allowed her to understand cases in a different, better, manner than her white male contemporaries.</p>

<blockquote>"Imagine a judicial nominee said "my experience as a white man makes me better...</blockquote>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-05-27T15:09:00-04:00</date_published>
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