Guess who interviewed conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch for Fox News this week. It was Ainsley Earhardt, a longtime TV journalist and co-host of Fox & Friends.
Guess who interviewed liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for CNN in late 2018. It was David Axelrod, who ran Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served as his senior White House adviser.
Guess what the difference is between these two. It’s that Brian Stelter, the media critic for CNN, is only mad about the Gorsuch interview.
“Justice Neil Gorsuch is on ‘Fox & Friends’ right now,” Stelter tweeted Tuesday. “The Q: How is it appropriate for a Supreme Court justice to try to goose sales of his three-month-old book by chatting on one of the most partisan shows on TV?”
This is literally how liberals in the national media view the world: An interview with a Supreme Court justice, or really any high-level government official, is only legitimate if it happens on their turf.
If it’s not appropriate for Gorsuch to grant an interview to a veteran TV journalist like Earhardt, I’d like to know why it’s appropriate for Sotomayor to grant an interview to an explicitly partisan political operative.
I’ve requested comment from Stelter.
