This is just plain mean:
Actually, I think it’s more like “stupid.” Does anyone else get the sense that she’s really not sure who Curt Schilling is at first?
Or is she just making a lame joke? Here’s the transcript, courtesy of NRO:
Dan Rea: Umm Would Barack Obama be in if this thing was not this close?
Martha Coakley: Umm it’s hard to know, I think that he uh is welcome in Massachusetts and I’m sure everybody is happy to see a president come.
Rea: 62 to 36
Coakley: But I think probably if it weren’t so close Rudy Giuliani would be here and besides he’s a Yankee fan (Laughter) I just want people to know (Laughter)
Rea: Uhhh yeah but now Scott Brown has Curt Schilling
Coakley: and another Yankee fan
Rea: Schilling?
Coakley: Yes
Rea: Curt Schilling a Yankee fan?
Coakley: nooo, alright I’m wrong on my, I’m wrong
Rea: The Red Sox’s great pitcher of the bloody sock?
Coakley: well he’s not there anymore.
To paraphrase a line I’ve used before about Gov. Deval Patrick, “Martha Coakley doesn’t have a tin ear. She has an aluminum foil head.”
"The truth is something [Warren] probably prefers not to confront. Harvard doesn’t come calling just because you’re a smart lawyer and a terrific teacher — not with Warren’s modest, Oklahoma upbringing and non-Ivy League education. She is not your typical Harvard professor. At a certain point, when the law school was under pressure to promote diversity, she represented a three-fer: a great lawyer with a national profile, a woman, and a minority, at least by virtue of family lore. "
-- Joan Vennochi
