Just when reports have suggested that the new leadership at CNN planned to steer the cable network away from its lefty bias, this week’s Liberal Media Scream features one of its stars declaring that President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick is so great that she appears to have descended from Mount Olympus.
Minutes after Biden announced Friday his selection of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates called the nominee “almost a legal deity” despite having served at the appeals level for less than a year.
Gushing on CNN, she said that Jackson’s achievements, “frankly, sounded as if Mount Olympus decided to choose and give her each of the credentials and gave this great, almost a legal deity, of sorts.”
And as if that wasn’t enough, she said, “I’m not sure I’ll be able to remove this smile off my face today. I am unbelievably proud, in this moment, to have witnessed what I just did.”
Coates regularly anchors CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight on Friday nights.
Coates, during CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell, last Friday:
“I have to tell you, my heart feels full. I’m not sure I’ll be able to remove this smile off my face today. I am unbelievably proud, in this moment, to have witnessed what I just did. Not only did I see the vice president of the United States behind her, but also seeing this profoundly talented, eloquent, well-versed in the law and dignity and humanity, to relay why she ought to be exactly where she is today.
“Hearing her talk about not only her quest and love of the law, having her invoke the late Constance Baker Motley, speak about her own relatives having been incarcerated — mine have as well, in some instances — the idea of the intersectionality we’re talking about, about all the different facets of what it takes to be who she is was just profoundly moving to watch and to see, and not the least of which as a mother to watch her speak about her children and about the reverence she has for her mentors throughout the field of law.
“But most importantly, what I think she brings here is the knowledge of, ‘Don’t we want somebody in the Supreme Court of the United States, only nine of them, to reflect the people of the United States?’ Not just in scholarship, although her credentials, frankly, sounded as if Mount Olympus decided to choose and give her each of the credentials and gave this great, almost a legal deity, of sorts. And yet she disrupted the myth that you had to be but one thing in order to be a Supreme Court justice.”
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “Another example of a journalist putting her personal political agenda and identity politics ahead of doing her job. The media are Biden’s base. If you portray a nominee as a God-like figure, it’s pretty hard for viewers to see your analysis as anything serious worth listening to.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
