The most racist thing that happened during Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing

Published January 10, 2017 5:19pm ET



Rushing to accuse Sen. Jeff Sessions of racism, liberals have stumbled and revealed their own bigotry instead. That hypocrisy reached a crescendo when MTV writer Ira Madison accused the Alabama senator of kidnapping a three-year-old Asian girl from Toys “R” Us.

The kid in question, bouncing on Sessions’ knee before the Senate Judiciary Committee came to order, was the senator’s biological granddaughter. She’s not, as Madison suggested, a political prop trotted out as a “model minority.”

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