As if this needed to be refuted in any way: Because it doesn't, of course. It's absurd on its face. The difference here (and I do feel stupid even explaining this, but for the sake of routine) is the difference between an in-the-moment epithet (Allen), which was hurled out of frustration and with palpable vitreal (go watch it on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r90z0PMnKwI; it was fully intended to demean and diminish, to "call out" the non-white person at the rally--who was a journalist by the way); whereas, Sotomayor's comment was not an epithet; she was not trying to demean anyone; they were planned, written remarks, which, in their full context are FAR more mild than they are being portrayed. (And I just want to point out that I'm not saying people have taken her comment "out of context"; I hate when people say that even when it's true; I've said on this blog before that I think she chose her words stupidly, in a way that invites selective quoting; I just think the conclusion she comes to in the speech in which the "wise Latina" line appears severely undermines the argument that the line was racist). The Huffington Post has a blog on this here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/limbaugh-sotomayors-wise_n_230899.html