Cable news viewers won’t even get a reprieve from Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing during commercial breaks.
The Judicial Crisis Network is putting $600,000 into a two-week ad buy starting Wednesday, launching a 30-second commercial nationwide touting Kavanaugh on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. The ad consists almost exclusively of soundbites from Kavanaugh’s opening statement on Tuesday. That’s a quick turnaround. “Over the past 12 years, I have ruled sometimes for the prosecution and sometimes for criminal defendants, sometimes for workers and sometimes for businesses,” he says. The ad then jumps to the end of Kavanaugh’s statement, where he pledged, “If confirmed to the Supreme Court, I will keep an open mind in every case. … I will always strive to preserve the Constitution of the United States and the American rule of law.”
“Tell your senator: Confirm Kavanaugh,” a narrator concludes.
In a statement, JCN chief counsel Carrie Severino said the ad is intended to cut through the Left’s noise. “We’re tired of the Democrat carnival. It is time for the American people to meet Judge Kavanaugh for themselves — here he is in his own words,” she explained.
And that’s a perfectly fair goal, given that Democrats and progressive activists are orchestrating distractions that steer attention away from Kavanaugh’s testimony and towards their stunts and screeches. But even those tactics are unlikely to put a dent in the support Kavanaugh already seems to have from Republicans and embattled Democratic incumbents, though a pricey ad-buy from JCN certainly won’t hurt his odds of joining the high court.
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