Have you noticed how the so-called mainstream media are depicting President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, as a centrist while pressing the Senate to give him a hearing?
MSNBC and the other left-leaning networks, make sure the words, “centrist,” “moderate,” and “middle-of-the-road” appear on the screen during their reports and in bottom-of-the-screen trailers.
(Jimmy Margulies, PoliticalCartoons.com)
Leading liberal newspapers like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have all depicted Garland as a centrist. “Obama’s choice of popular centrist Merrick Garland for Supreme Court puts GOP to the test,” read the front page headline in the LA Times. Other left-leaning papers like the New York Times and the Washington Post followed suit.
Two days after its initial story, the LA Times published a front page news analysis piece in which the reporter wrote that Garland may actually be “the most moderate Supreme Court nominee anyone could expect from a Democratic president,” calling him, “a superbly qualified judge with a cautious, centrist record.”
The reporter went on to say, that with Garland, “the court would tip to the left on several key issues, like abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, gun control, campaign spending, immigration and environmental protection.” So Garland, who is depicted as a centrist, would vote left on essentially every major issue before the court.
While claiming the nominee is a centrist, The New York Times stated that “If Judge Garland is confirmed, he would tip the ideological balance to create the most liberal Supreme Court in 50 years.”
All evidence that the media continue to carry the water for President Obama. And they’re pressing GOP senators to give him a hearing. Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) are the latest to indicate a willingness to meet with Garland. Big mistake.
Meanwhile, a Wall Street Journal article stated that Garland is anti-small business and pro-labor, revealing that in 16 major labor decisions, he ruled in favor of the NLRB. The WSJ editorial board wrote that it couldn’t think of a single issue on which Garland would vote differently from the four liberal justices already sitting on the bench.
A centrist? No
