On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Wrecks<[email protected]> wrote: > > It would be so welcome, at least by me. > > The media news people out there must be incredibly frustrated at the > prospect of making such a boring session sound interesting.
Well, Senator Franken did not make a Night Court reference, but he did liven up the proceedings with some extended riffing on Perry Mason. Soto has earlier mentioned that she was inspired to be a prosecutor because of something Hamilton Burger said to Perry at the end of one of his many losses, when Perry said something like "it must be tough to lose so often" and Burger said "no, as a prosecutor, I win whenever a guilty man goes to prison or an innocent man goes free, because my job is doing justice". Al, started with a little story about how he was watching Perry Mason every week with his family in MN at the same time that Soto was watching it in the Bronx, and now isn't it "cool" that she is answering questions as a supreme court nominee (he did not add, but clearly could have, that the only thing more improbable than Soto going on the Supreme Court - other than the election of the dude who appointed her, was the election of the guy asking her questions). Al closed his 30 minutes by asking Soto about the one case that Burger won (both she and Al had referenced that earlier). Soto was unable to name it. Well known comic and Committee Chair Pat Leahey broke into to ask Al the name of the case, which he was unable to name as well. Leahey then says that since Al doesn't know the name of the case, they won't disqualify Soto from serving on the Supreme Court because she did not know it. I heard this last exchange on the radio and have not had time to check out the post-game coverage on the news yet today - I presume if not already then tomorrow they will be providing the name and particulars of the Case that Burger won and Perry lost. Can anyone supply the details here? (I knew this as at one time, but would have to go ask the wikis now to remember). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
