Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is a bigot and a racist. He's prejudiced. It's not that hard to say because it's true.

Most of the talking heads refuse to acknowledge that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, who was denied a federal judgeship because he's a racist, is still a racist. But, he is. And, it's been on full display at the Sotomayor hearings.

Fortunately, there are some great minds online who get it. First, probably the best quote to-date on Sessions came from of Matt Yglesias:

I would pay good money to hear Sonia Sotomayor say, “Senator Sessions, I think it’s ironic to be facing these questions from a man whose judicial nomination was rejected by this very committee on the grounds that he’s a huge racist.”

Greg Sargent cuts right through the DC BS and nails Sessions for what he is. Greg notes that Sessions has repeatedly attacked Sotomayor for saying her heritage influences her. Sessions sees that as inherently evil. But, Sessions voted for Samuel Alito, who testified that his heritage guided him.

Here’s what Samuel Alito acknowledged during his 2006 confirmation hearing:

[W]hen a case comes before me involving, let’s say, someone who is an immigrant — and we get an awful lot of immigration cases and naturalization cases — I can’t help but think of my own ancestors.…

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

This sort of garden-variety hypocrisy is so constant in Washington that no one blinks at it, except perhaps for legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who said today that Sessions implied that “being a white man, that’s normal. Everybody else has biases and prejudices.”

It’s actually weirder than that: Sessions’ questioning, combined with his vote for Alito, suggests that it’s okay to have biases and prejudices — as long as you’re a white man.

That hypocrisy is rampant in DC. Because Jefferson Sessions is a Senator, the Villagers all treat him like he's normalish. They did the same thing to Jesse Helms. You can imagine people saying of Sessions, "But, he's very nice and polite." He's a racist. The DC media elite excuse bad behavior from racists and homophobes all the time. Otherwise, why would any of them sit on the same set with Pat Buchanan? It's actually appalling -- and makes the media elite complicit.