” Sen. Tom Coburn evoked a 1950s TV show Wednesday in a quip responding to Sonia Sotomayor’s scenario about what he might do if she -- hypothetically, of course -- attacked him.“You’ll have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do,” Coburn said, to laughter from the crowd and Sotomayor. What he said -- and how he said it -- was a riff on a Hispanic television character, Ricky Ricardo, whose accent is now widely considered a broad parody.”
Though this saying is now considered part of popular culture, why wasn’t it used on Chief Justice Alito during his most recent confirmation hearing? Alito, is of Italian heritage, why no television driven catch phrases from the Sopranos. No, “Bada Bing, Bada Boom”? or Will you make abortion “Go swim with the fishes”? Okay, I’m taking this too far so… Forget about it.
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