Clarence Thomas
ProPublica SCOTUS Ethics Stories Rely on Staunch Democrat Experts
The investigative reporting group "ProPublica" has an obvious leftist tilt, most recently against conservative justices at the Supreme Court. The Daily Caller reported seven of the nine ethics experts the group cited in stories on Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have collectively given over $100,000 to Democratic campaigns and left-wing causes.
Hacks Attack! SCOTUS = Anti-Black, GOP Is ‘Inhumane’
Left-wing media hacks were really outraged by the Supreme Court conservatives’ decisions this month. MSNBCers like Joy Reid raged against the Court’s “anti-blackness” having erased “70 years of protected rights.” The Nation’s Elie Mystal disgustingly called Justice Clarence Thomas “A mutilated version of a black justice,” and sneered that Justice John Roberts was the “enemy of black…
A Step Toward True Equality, Courtesy of the Supreme Court
It may not have had the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause is an important advancement toward equality for all. Reaction to the 6-3 decision has been mostly predictable. Many on the left,…
Mystal Smears Thomas As 'A Mutilated Version Of A Black Justice'
Joy Reid, the eponymous host of MSNBC's The ReidOut, welcomed The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal onto her Friday show to recap the week’s Supreme Court decisions and naturally, incendiary hot takes soon followed including that Justice Clarence Thomas is a “mutilated version of a black justice” who is his wife’s puppet.
Flashback: The Media VILIFIED Clarence Thomas Even BEFORE Anita Hill
From the very moment President George H. W. Bush nominated Thomas to the Court on July 1, 1991, journalists employed nasty and often racist language to denigrate Thomas as unfit to replace Justice Thurgood Marshall, whose retirement had created the vacancy that needed to be filled.
MSNBC Rips SCOTUS on Affirmative Action Ruling, Denies Thomas Is Black
Jonathan Capehart, the fill-in host for Thursday evening’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, reacted to the morning’s news of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case by launching personal attacks on the justices who had voted against it. He especially condemned their race and political ideologies as reasons that they had voted the way that they did.
NB Podcast: Media Predict Jim Crow 4.0 Following Major SCOTUS Rulings
Since the last NewsBusters Podcast, three major rulings have come down from the U.S. Supreme Court: affirmative action, free speech, and student loan forgiveness. Your managing editor Curtis Houck and I discuss how the liberal media shrieked in horror at the prospect of fair admissions processes, free speech for the religious, and President Biden getting his underhanded campaign ploy trounced…
After a Week, NBC Still Silent on White Powder Letters Sent to GOPers
It’s been a week and a half since the story first broke on June 17 that Republican lawmakers and officials in Kansas were receiving threatening lettered laced with white powder. The letters have turned up in the mailboxes of Republicans in Tennessee, Montana, and had been intercepted on their way to former President Trump and Justice Clarence Thomas, but still, NBC News has not dedicated a…
PBS: Amanpour, Hill Swap Lies on Affirmative Action, Teaching History
On Monday’s edition of the tax-supported Amanpour & Co., host Christiane Amanpour interviewed Anita Hill, Brandeis University Professor and of course, the woman who accused now-Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Hill has been hailed in the liberal media since her nationally televised 1991 confrontation with the U.S Senate and Thomas, and Amanpour shoehorned her in to…
CBS & NBC Ignore White Powder Sent to Trump, Thomas & KS GOP
After outrageously ignoring the initial story during their flagship morning shows, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News refused to update viewers on a new revelation in the incident involving white powder being sent in envelopes to members of the Kansas Republican Party which is that they were also sent to former President Trump and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. …
O'Donnell Suggests Thomas Be Impeached For Allegedly 'Selling' Himself
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell suggested on Tuesday’s edition of The Last Word that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should be impeached for “selling too much of himself” to billionaire friend Harlan Crow. Later, during an interview with President and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, Michael Waldman, it was essentially admitted that their biggest problem with Thomas and the…
CNN's Breaking News: Conservative Gov. Likes Conservative Justice
CNN This Morning presented viewers on Tuesday with the breaking news that Florida Governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was friends with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and that they first met three years ago at the 2020 Federalist Society Dinner. They also found it scandalous that DeSantis praised Thomas on stage, while introducing him.
ABC Cheers Lefty Saying Conservatives Judges Are ‘Threat to Democracy’
Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos trotted out far-left author Michael Waldman to tout his new book The Supermajority that doubled as a screed with the thesis that, in Stephanopoulos’s summation, conservative justices are “a threat to democracy” for rulings he believes are counter to a center-left country.