Sonia Sotomayor: "A Product of Affirmative Action" (VIDEO)

Michael Goldfarb nails it on Sonia Sotomayor:

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From the moment Sonia Sotomayor was nominated, Democrats have pointed to her academic pedigree as evidence that she is highly qualified for the job. Some conservatives doubted whether those credentials were, on their own, evidence of anything other than the success of liberal social policies like affirmative action. This blog stated that Sotomayor, because of her ethnic background, had been the beneficiary of preferential treatment from both Princeton and Yale. Such a statement would seem beyond dispute -- affirmative action policies were in place at both schools and designed specifically to provide someone with Sotomayor's background an easier path to admission. Yet the left was outraged that anyone would suggest Sotomayor had benefited from affirmative action.

Now the New York Times reports that among the documents Sotomayor submitted to the Senate in advance of her hearings is a videotape in which she concedes the point entirely and without any qualification ...

Goldfarb's Times link goes to this piece, which links to this long-version video, "Practising Law Institute Panelist: When Judge Sonia Sotomayor submitted background information to the Senate for her nomination to the Supreme Court, she included video clips of past speeches, interviews and panel discussions. In this early 1990s clip, she appeared on a panel organized by the non-profit Practising Law Institute."