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Another Reason to Like Chief Justice Roberts

Posted by Steven Hayward

He didn’t think much of Michael Jackson.
1:28 PM / June 27, 2009
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Craig Scanlon

This almost seems too easy, but does that mean that there's a corresponding reason to dislike Ronald Reagan? [Wise-Guy Ed. - Don't do it Craig! He's just trying to suck you in so he can say "Look, I got the troll to come out!" Yeah, probably so, but linking directly to that letter is a public service of sorts]

Posted 4:07 PM / June 27, 2009 | Reply
Hayward

Craig, Craig, Craig, I could keep you in business for days with the show biz folks who rolled Reagan at the White House. . . sometimes on semi-important things.

Posted 5:09 PM / June 27, 2009 | Reply
Craig Scanlon

I'd guess Roberts to be more of an Air Supply fan.

Posted 6:04 PM / June 27, 2009 | Reply
Matt

I always figured Roberts liked Bobby Womack and Slick Rick. I can dream . . .



Oh - and in this dream, Clarence Thomas can't get enough of Nina Simone.

Posted 10:12 PM / June 27, 2009 | Reply
David Frisk

Roberts' memo is inspirational.

Posted 1:03 AM / June 28, 2009 | Reply
Brutus

I read this was Robert's favorite.

Posted 1:14 AM / June 28, 2009 | Reply
Moaner

Dang it Brutus. I KNEW you were going to RickRoll me and I still clicked on it. Thanks!

Posted 2:37 AM / June 28, 2009 | Reply
Craig Scanlon

Little-known fact: Roberts was once the president of the American branch of the Amy Grant Fan Club.

Posted 7:07 AM / June 28, 2009 | Reply
Frisco Andy

Prescient Roberts was...and I figured him to have been a Molly Hatchett sort of dude.

Posted 2:24 PM / June 28, 2009 | Reply
ren

What is worse? Fawning over rock stars or fawning over presidents, and inflating them as if they were rock stars? Reagan and Michael Jackson were actually two sides of the same social phenomenon.

Posted 2:30 PM / June 28, 2009 | Reply
Ben Boychuk

I know for a fact that Justice Roberts is a hard-core Jethro Tull fan.

Posted 9:03 PM / June 29, 2009 | Reply

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