Jackson Nomination

Two years ago, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Eighteen months earlier, liberal journalists fumed when a nearly mirror-image Senate vote elevated federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett, but Jackson’s confirmation was a time for “celebration” of a new Justice who “represents excellence” and the “American Dream.”

On January 26, 2023, Jimmy Kimmel Live! debuted on ABC and 20 years later, Kimmel will celebrate with a special edition of his late night talk show. It has been 20 years of reliable liberalism, but is has gotten worse in recent years.

Between calls for gun control, the demise of Roe v. Wade, and the regular news cycle, it was a year where the hosts of late night traded in their jokes for liberal rants, lectures, and other wandering pontifications. So, without further ado, here are the top -- or maybe bottom 10 -- moments of late night 2022.

On Monday’s installment of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, host Trevor Noah declared that Republican senators who did not stay and applaud Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court were “assholes” who wanted to get their “free N-word passes.” After crediting Mitt Romney for staying and applauding the vote results, Noah turned his attention to other Republicans, “All…

The Monday after the confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the cackling coven of ABC’s The View kicked off the show by boasting about it with co-host and NeverTrump Republican Ana Navarro lashing out at Florida’s (her home state) Republican senators for not supporting Jackson’s nomination.

Supreme Court nominees having to answer questions from senators is part of the process, but  MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross used her Saturday show to declare that Ketanji Brown Jackson having to answer questions from her “basic ass” “intellectual inferiors” is proof that black women face hurdles in America that others do not.

ABC, NBC, and CBS all gushed over the “history” making Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson on their respective Saturday morning programs. Of the three, only CBS put in minimal effort to show substantive criticisms of Jackson existed.

The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC decided Friday afternoon that they had to up their game for the White House’s celebration of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation, waxing poetic about the “extraordinary” “party” for Jackson, who exudes “excellence” in the face of “persistent sexism,” “racism,” and “attacks” from Republicans and those who haven’t joined in “this moment of…

All three networks on Friday praised the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first female African American on the Supreme Court, as “history made” and “an inspiration for everybody in this country.” And while all Americans should rightly be proud of another racial barrier falling, liberal journalists were not as excited when Condoleeza Rice became the first female African American…

Reaching to new Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation vote, Friday’s CBS Mornings debased itself with cartoonish fluff and hero worship over Jackson and the “emotional,” “exciting,” and “proud” moment that so many had “people...watch[ing]” that the country’s “collectively...beaming with...pride” for her.

Bianna Golodryga twisted herself into a logic pretzel on Friday’s CNN Newsroom as she condemned Republicans for not appreciating Ketanji Brown Jackson’s to the Supreme Court while Vladimir Putin seeks to divide Americans and while waging war in Ukraine.

Sara Sidner joined New Day on Friday to promote her show on CNN+, Big Picture with Sara Sidner, and Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Towards the end of the segment, Sidner would accuse Republicans of not just turning their backs on Jackson, but on all black women.

During NBC’s live special coverage Thursday afternoon of the Senate confirmation vote for President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Nightly News anchor Lester Holt and a parade of network correspondents swooned over “history” in the making while taking partisan jabs at Republicans.  

If there were two takeaways viewers got from ABC’s Thursday special coverage of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson officially being confirmed to the Supreme Court they would be that Jackson is amazing and Republicans are bad for opposing her.