Adoptive Families Outraged Over Times Investigation of Roberts' Children

Michelle Malkin has reader reaction to the news that the New York Times was investigating the adoption of Judge Roberts' children, both of whom came from Latin America. Here's a sample:

It seems clear to me that the goal and hope of the Timesfolk was to find the birth mothers of the two Roberts children; send a reporter (and photographer!) to some poor Latin American village and interview the two women. After some coaxing and editing the following would appear on the front page of the (Sunday) NY Times:
Maria Sanchez earns twenty five cents a year and survives without medical care and in a cardboard shack. Five years ago an American helicoptered into her poor mountain village (there are no roads) and offered her the equivalent of four year's salary to hand over her newest child, one month old Jose. Eighteen year-old Maria, who couldn't feed her other six children went to her local Priest who advised her that it would be best for all the children if she accepted the "Gringo's generous offer."

The New York Times has now learned that Jose is Jack. The adorable adopted son of John Robert, George Bush's nominee to the US Supreme Court. The Times was able to interview Maria who has never forgotten the day that Jose waved goodbye from the window of the departing helicopter.

"Maria, do you want your son back?"

"Maria: Si."

"Maria, do you think that fellow Catholic, ultra-conservative Supreme Court nominee John Roberts stole your baby?"

"Maria: Si."

Although the editors of the New York Times are proudly ignorant of how incentives and disincentives alter human behavior the rest of us know better.

Action: America's best-known newspaper tries to find dirt on a public figure by investigating the figure's adoption of two children.

Reaction: There will be fewer adoptions.

Some good has come of all this, I suppose. At least we can now be sure of at least one thing: John Roberts has never rented an X-rated video. If he had we'd surely know about that by now.