Posted on 07/10/2018 1:17:18 PM PDT by Morgana
Seconds after it was revealed that Donald Trump had selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court choice, MSNBC on Monday night immediately freaked out and deemed him an extreme“right-wing” “conservative.”
Liberal MSNBC host Chris Hayes anchored the conversation just prior to Trump’s live announcement. He fretted: “This is a guy who cut his teeth on the Starr report. He has moved in conservative, right-wing legal circles for the entirety of his career.” A few seconds later, Hayes again warned that Kavanaugh “spent his life in conservative, right-wing legal circles.”
MSNBC brought on Jess McIntosh of the liberal ShareBlue organization. She yelled at the network’s audience: “Everybody who is in D.C. right now needs on get to NARAL Pro-Choice America’s rally! Go to the Supreme Court! Stay there!”
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A transcript is below:
All In With Chris Hayes 7/9/18 8:52pm ET
[On breaking news that the nominee is Brett Kavanaugh.]
CHRIS HAYES: This is a guy who cut his teeth on the Starr report. He has moved in conservative, right-wing legal circles for the entirety of his career. He was largely seen as someone like Neil Gorsuch who would be in this position.
JESS MCINTOSH (ShareBlue Media Executive editor): Absolutely. And I think the least surprising thing about it is the point that Pete made earlier, which is we know about Kavanaugh is sympathetic to the idea that a commander-in-chief shouldn’t be dealing with questions from investigators, shouldn’t be indicted, shouldn’t be subpoenaed, and we know that Donald Trump makes decisions about everything based on what that person can do for Donald Trump.
So as soon as that kind of legal thinking became paramount in Kavanaugh’s resume, of course Donald Trump would pick him. It is the least surprising thing we could see. It is not about the pick. It’s about the vote. No matter who he put in, the fact a President under investigation for possibly colluding with a foreign adversary to take the White House is deciding to take our policy for the next generation, is absolutely insane. Everybody who in D.C. right now needs on get to NARAL Pro-Choice America’s rally. Go to the Supreme Court! Stay there! The reason why we have Kennedy in the first place is because America got really, really mad about the possibility of Bork and they stopped it. And they got Anthony Kennedy instead. We can do this again but it’s going to be really, really hard.
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HAYES: My reaction, twofold. One, I’m not surprised. It seemed like this was the most Gorsuch like pick of the bunch. And by that, I mean someone who had punched all the tickets. All the elite credentials and who had spent his life in conservative, right-wing legal circles in which people can be sure they’re not going to get a Soutor. There is an entire infrastructure built up on the right to create processes, to create associations, pipelines of cultivation, to make sure that they get conservative justices appointed by Republicans who end up ruling in ways that align with their policy preferences and their constitutional theories.
ShareBlue is the David Brock scam, right?
I pray that this causes them as much distress as possible. If some of them start jumping out of buildings or jumping in the ocean with ankle weights, so much the better.
Their panties are always in a wad about something.
Freak Out! Le Freak c’est chic!
If President Trump [I love typing that!] gets another SCOTUS pick, they will be suicidal...................
I like hearing it as well, too bad the media calls him Mr. Trump while still referring to Obama as President Obama.
George W. Bush was not a Conservative.
George W. Bush was the lessor of two evils. He wasn’t Al Gore.
So in the quest for fairness then there is no problem or disagreement with the sages of pmsnbc that both of obamas womyn kagan and the wise Latina sotomeyer are both "left wing liberals"?
I noticed.
Some have even stop using ‘Mr.’.......................
Trump could have nominated a left wing pro-abortion black female justice and MSNBC would still freak out.
You realize President Trump might get 2-3 more picks? I am buying stock in KoolAid as I type this.
If Trump had nominated Van Jones the Left would still have an insane fit.
Typical. They did the same with Bush.
But ... I have referred to presidents by last name only for decades. It's just easier.
I don't know when I've laughed so hard!
Their panties are always in a wad about something.
Further confirmation that Trump once again got steel on target.
Democrats had given up on state legislatures, governors, and federal congress. They didn’t mind losing 1000+ seats or 3 or 4 elections.
They staked the future of the world (the world they wanted) on the white house and supreme court. 6 people could literally control the world - LA, SanFran, Chicago and NY guaranteed them that power (electoral votes) for the foreseeable future.
Then Trump won. And they lost the white house. YUGE LOSS but fixable in 4 years.
And now Trump is denying them the other 5 pieces of world domination for the next few decades.
They still have no plan to win at the state level (legislature and governor). Federal house and senate are a long shot this year and they have no clue how to change that in 2020. They cannot appeal to the masses they want to control which they must do to regain power.
It’s possible there has never in history been this big a lose in (expected) power that didn’t involve guillotines. The older ones (Pelosi, Hillary) won’t see the utopia (massive power) they’ve been working for their whole life. They younger ones have decades of work ahead of them to get back to what they almost had 2 years ago (and they will have to work with deplorables to get there.) To say they are distraught and angry is an understatement.
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