Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Beware of THE SCHLOZ(TM)!
A real paragon of balance and reservedness, that one:
In one email, Schlozman wrote, “I can assure you that [applicant] is a good American. [We] made up a four-member Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy at my former law firm.”
In another, “I have an interview at 1 with some lefty who we’ll never hire but I’m extending a courtesy interview as a favor.”
Schlozman’s racism was also on view in one email that described an applicant with a magna cum laude degree from a top law school as “an idiot … an affirmative action thing … wrote in ebonics.”
And Schlozman cheerfully forwarded to another employee an email he had received from the chief of the voting rights division, saying he liked his coffee “Mary Frances Berry style — black and bitter,” a reference to the longtime head of the Civil Rights Commission. Schlozman’s comment was, “Y’all will appreciate Tanner’s response.”
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“Perhaps the Division will name an award for me or something,” Schlozman wrote when he departed in 2006 to become the US Attorney in Missouri. “How about the Brad Schlozman Award for Most Effectively Breaking the Will of Liberal Partisan Bureaucrats.” [That doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, does it? — Ed.]
What a charming guy. And yet, there’s more where that came from:
In a footnote on page 21 of the report, Schlozman writes a friend contrasting his job as U.S. Attorney with his position in the Civil Rights Division. “I too get to work with mold spores,” he writes. “But here in Civil Rights, we call them Voting Section Attorneys.”
Tell us how you really feel, Schlozenschlong Dingleberry.
