NPR's Totenberg Drops Quasi Q-Bomb

I was surprised when I heard this over the weekend, so ended up writing about it on BNET Media:

There was great linguistic irony on the most recent NPR Weekend Edition Saturday. In an interview with host Scott Simon, legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg said that racism charges leveled at Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor over a remark about white male judges would not “queer” the nomination. In discussing a question of whether attitudes are biased, Totenberg used one of the more emotionally loaded words in the English language.

Here's the link to the piece.