Bad drivers, and plaigiarists

I did note, last week, that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor did some speechifying at Georgetown.  Remember?  She said ''attacks on the judiciary by some Republican leaders pose a direct threat to our constitutional freedom."  I just assumed O'Connor was bridling over the great glee her retirement caused amongst  ''some Republican leaders (and everyone else with sense),'' not so much because she had been a liberal life jacket on the Court, but because she practiced judging with the same skill an Oriental woman drives a Volvo, that is to say, she was all over the place. Not a good thing for drivers, or judges.  Of course one likes to lash back in these cases (see Jimmy Carter). Anyway, now I learn that the only report filed on the speech was by NPR's Nina Totenberg. I learned that from Quin Hillyer, in today's Spectator [Judges Judging Judges, Quite Judiciously]. ''The speech was not available for broadcast, but lefty NPR reporter Nina Totenberg was there. Unless Ms. Totenberg merely heard (and reported) what she wanted to hear, and thus skewed the intent of Justice O'Connor's speech, the justice sounded less like a conservative or even a centrist than like a disciple of the late liberal Justice William Brennan.'' So, it's 50-50 whether O'Connor even gave a speech. Totenberg, you will remember, was responsible for ''discovering'' famous perjurer Anita Hill, in the Left's failed effort to keep Clarence Thomas off the Court.  Totenberg was also fired for plagiarism when she worked for the National Observer, a fact she left out of her Wikpedia bio. But wait, let's not end here, in the swamp with Nina.  Read Hillyer's article about two other speechs given last week, by lady judges Edith Jones, and Diane Sykes.  Two speeches that Totenberg, and friends,  would  not approve of, but that actually made sense.