On Tuesday night, during her confirmation hearings, Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) if she could define the word woman. Proving how woke she is, Jackson said she couldn’t define the word because she isn’t a biologist. As shocking as this answer was, only NBC Nightly News managed to air the exchange. With ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News ignoring the whole controversy.
Instead of airing Blackburn’s question during their roundup of the hearings, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell opened the segment by whining about how the day was filled with “Republicans attacking her record, and Democrats defending her character.” O’Donnell also made sure to mention once again that these were “historic confirmation hearings for the first black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.”
ABC’s World News Tonight was just as obnoxious, with congressional correspondent Rachel Scott wailing that Republicans were once “again going after this historic nominee.” And she bemoaned how the Republican Senators on the committee were “singularly focused” on Jackson’s judicial record of giving light sentences to people “convicted of possessing or sharing child pornography.”
Despite their kvetching, neither ABC nor CBS bothered to air Judge Jackson’s inability to define the word woman.
To their credit, NBC Nightly News did air the exchange with chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander introducing the segment that for “a second straight day Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson facing heated questions from Republicans charging she is soft on crime.”
Alexander then aired the entire exchange between Blackburn and Jackson:
SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN: Can you provide a definition for the word woman?
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: Can I provide a definition?
BLACKBURN: Yeah.
JACKSON: No. I can’t.
BLACKBURN: You can’t?
JACKSON: Not in this context. I am not a biologist. If there is a dispute about a definition, people make arguments and I look at the law and I decide.
ABC & CBS were obviously too embarrassed to inform their viewers that Biden’s Supreme Court nominee either didn’t know or refused to answer what a woman is.
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To read the relevant transcript of each segment click "expand":
ABC’s World News Tonight
3/23/2022
6:39:40 p.m. EasternRACHEL SCOTT: Tonight, Senate Republicans again going after this historic nominee, almost singularly focused on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's sentencing record for people convicted of possessing or sharing child pornography. For the second day in a row, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ticking through individual cases.
CBS Evening News
3/23/2022
6:39:50 p.m. EasternNORAH O’DONNELL: Let's turn now to the historic confirmation hearings for the first black woman nominated to the Supreme Court. Today was filled with Republicans attacking her record, and Democrats defending her character. Here is CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford.
NBC Nightly News
3/23/2022
7:09:02 p.m. EasternLESTER HOLT: In Washington, a final day of questions for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Our Peter Alexander has late details.
PETER ALEXANDER: For a second straight day Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson facing heated questions from Republicans charging she is soft on crime.
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ALEXANDER: Late last night, Republicans pressed Jackson on cultural issues too, including transgender rights.
SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN: Can you provide a definition for the word woman?
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: Can I provide a definition?
BLACKBURN: Yeah.
JACKSON: No. I can’t.
BLACKBURN: You can’t?
JACKSON: Not in this context. I am not a biologist. If there is a dispute about a definition, people make arguments and I look at the law and I decide.
