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| Ginsburg: 'I Wasn't 100 Percent Sober' For State Of The Union Address |
| 2015-02-13 |
[WASHINGTON.CBSLOCAL] WASHINGTON (CBSDC) -- We now know why it appears that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared to fall asleep during President Barack ObamaMy friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... 's State of the Union address last month ‐ she was drinking beforehand. In a lighthearted moment before an audience at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Thursday night, the 81-year-old Ginsburg cracked up telling the story that she "wasn't 100 percent sober" before going to the State of the Union. "The audience ‐ for the most part ‐ is awake because they're bobbing up and down all the time and we sit there stone-faced, sober judges," Ginsburg said. "At least I wasn't 100 percent sober because before we went to the State of the Union we had dinner." Ginsburg said that Justice Anthony Kennedy was the culprit, bringing wine to dinner. "Justice Kennedy brought in ... it was an Opus something or other, very fine Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, wine that Justice Kennedy brought and I vowed this year just sparkling water, stay away from the wine," Ginsburg told the audience. "But in the end, the dinner was so delicious, it needed wine to accompany it." She continued: "So I got a call when I came home from one of my granddaughters and she said, 'Bubbe, you were sleeping at the State of the Union." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Possibility #1: She was drunkblogging. Got the idea from Stephen Green. Or maybe it was part of a drinking game where you have to take a swig every time Obama says "I" or "me". Talk about living dangerously. That'd give a body alcohol poisoning. |
| Posted by: charger 2015-02-13 20:24 |
| #5 I'd have brought a flask; keg's too obvious. |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-02-13 18:31 |
| #4 I got this mental image of Scalia throwing an empty beer bottle at the podium... |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-02-13 18:26 |
| #3 Being forced to sit in the front row listening to that POS speak, I would need more than a few glasses of wine... Bless her heart! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2015-02-13 18:22 |
| #2 MD20-20 will do that to you same as Ripple... Too bad she didn't get the giggles... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-02-13 17:26 |
| #1 Justice Anthony Kennedy was the culprit, bringing wine Justice Kennedy probably brings it prior to all the crucial Supreme Court decisions. It would explain a lot. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-02-13 16:18 |