[See NewsBusters for more.] Sunday’s coverage of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia included attacks on the judge as a “homophobe” who “coarsened” the dialogue. The network also offered the analysis that Republican’s shouldn’t be worried because Barack Obama doesn’t choose “bomb throwers” for the Supreme Court. Regarding the last two picks, Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for Slate, parroted, “The qualities [Obama] was looking for, and he was very explicit about this when he seated Sonia Sotomayor, he said ‘I want empathy. I want someone who can walk in the other guy's shoes.’”
