WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) joined the Larry Elder Show to call out the liberal media’s effort to manipulate the facts to fit their narrative during day two of the Senate Judiciary Hearing with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The Liberal Media Are Manipulating The Facts To Fit Their Narrative

Elder: “I watched some of the hearing this morning, and I was thinking about when I ran for California. It's not about me obviously, but there was a big negative article about me in the New York Times center. It didn't mention my race at all nor did it mention that if I had I won, I would've been the first black Governor of California. I'm fine with that, frankly. I think after Barack Obama, everything else, anti-climactic, but the very same day, there was a big article about the same length about the first female governor of New York. She had a ‘D’ at the end of her name. I had an ‘R’ at the end of my name, and as far as New York Times is concerned, I ceased being Black. And I'm thinking about this Senator because of the treatment of Judge Janice Rogers Brown, as you know, she was held up for two years, for a position on the DC court of appeals…”

Blackburn: “Larry, I’ve got to tell you the New York Times, they’re after me. MSNBC is after me—CNN, Washington Post. Because I dared to ask tough questions. I told her yesterday, what we were going to talk to her about, most people would appreciate a heads up. But you would've thought by saying, ‘here is what you said, and tomorrow I'm going to ask you why you said that, why you believe that.’ Most people would've appreciated the heads up, but oh no. You know, it's like heresy for WaPo to hear that, they don't want that. It's the New York Times says, ‘oh, you're just really blistering this person,’ but no, we're not. We're trying to get answers that the American people deserve.”

Tennesseans Want To Hear Judge Jackson Answer Tough Questions

Blackburn: “One of the things that we have heard from people all across this country, and I hear from Tennesseans is, these appointments are lifetime appointments. This individual will be on the Supreme Court until the day they die or choose to retire. Therefore, these hearings are important. It's the only way the American people are going to be able to know what is a person's judicial philosophy. What do they believe on issues that are relevant today? Like CRT? Like court packing, like crime in the streets? This is why they are having us. Tennesseans want me to be asking tough questions.”

Judge Jackson’s Progressive Record Is Soft On Crime

Blackburn: “What concerns me the most about her record is how she has been soft on crime, that she actually wrote an opinion during COVID that she thought all 1,500 individuals that were being held in DC prison, federal prison should be released. Now she did go ahead and release a fentanyl drug dealer. She released a bank robber addicted to heroin. She released a guy that had murdered a US Marshal. She is part of the progressive wing. So to her, releasing these criminals would've been the right thing to do during COVID.”