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Limbaugh Stuck on Fail

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zombie5/27/2009 4:06:32 pm PDT

OK, unlike 99.9% of other bloggers, I just now got off my ass and tried to do some actual investigating.

I just got back from making a little tour around Berkeley, going to the Center for Latino Policy Research, the La Raza Law Journal Offices, and the Henderson Center for Social Justice, asking if, as the co-sponsors of Sotomayor’s speech at Berkeley in 2001, they had an audio or video recording of the speech on file, in their archives, or online anywhere.

The short answer to a long afternoon: Nobody knows. Nobody can find it.

I pointed out to each person I spoke to that typing up a speech transcript live, while the speech is being given, is nearly impossible, so the person who made the transcript must have been working from an audio or video recording. This elicited a “Y’know, that’s true — there must be a recording somehwere around here” answer at each place. But no dice. There’s a high turnover rate in academic organizations, so the people who were there in 2001 are no longer there, and no one who’s there now can find where the old stuff is filed.

So, I failed in my quest, but at least I tried. So I’m proud of myself anyway.