{"id":1317400,"date":"2019-12-24T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/flowers-column-liberals-overreact-to-neil-gorsuchs-fox-friends-appearance\/"},"modified":"2019-12-24T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T05:44:00","slug":"flowers-column-liberals-overreact-to-neil-gorsuchs-fox-friends-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/flowers-column-liberals-overreact-to-neil-gorsuchs-fox-friends-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers column: Liberals overreact to Neil Gorsuch\u2019s \u2018Fox & Friends\u2019 appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Trump has angered progressives in so many ways recently \u2013 including mean tweets to Swedish teenagers, mean letters to the speaker of the House, and mean comments about women in the Squad \u2013 that it\u2019s difficult to recall the earliest days of their animus. But a recent incident reminded me of one of the first real postelection tantrums from the left: the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Antonin Scalia.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t so much that the Democrats disliked Gorsuch. The thing that annoyed his critics was their belief that the seat should have gone to Merrick Garland, the man who had been nominated by President Barack Obama and who had been denied a confirmation vote by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. I actually agreed that Garland should have had a hearing, but that was Potomac water under the bridge.<\/p>\n

Last week, Gorsuch appeared on \u201cFox & Friends\u201d to promote his book \u201cA Republic, If You Can Keep it.\u201d On the left, some were livid that the justice would appear on a show that is generally considered to be in Trump\u2019s pocket.<\/p>\n

Lawyer and commentator Amee Vanderpool tweeted: \u201cSupreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch just appeared on Fox and Friends this morning, making a point to parrot the \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019 talking point of the GOP. If he\u2019s willing to go on Fox and throw a shout out to Republican narratives, what else is he willing to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone columnist Ryan Bort chimed in with \u201c[I]t\u2019s an especially bad look for Gorsuch, who as a member of the most consequential body of decision-makers in American politics probably shouldn\u2019t be appearing on a network concerned primarily with placating the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNN media commentator Brian Stelter, formerly of the New York Times, wrote: \u201cJustice Neil Gorsuch is on \u2018Fox & Friends\u2019 right now. The Q: How is it appropriate for a Supreme Court justice to try to goose sales of his three-month-old book by chatting on one of the most partisan shows on TV?\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand the outrage, because other Supreme Court justices have appeared in the media without triggering it.<\/p>\n

Take for example, \u201cThe Notorious RBG,\u201d the documentary about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I paid good money to see it in the theater, because I had no idea I\u2019d eventually be able to catch it for free on CNN, the outfit that partially financed the film. I don\u2019t remember people getting upset that a station whose commentators regularly criticize Trump was involved in a hagiographic project about this admittedly exceptional, but left-leaning, Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n

Or the time Justice Sonia Sotomayor went on \u201cThe View,\u201d a show that pretends to be bipartisan by having Meghan McCain as a cohost while the majority of other women around the famous table are loud and proud liberals, who regularly criticize the Trump administration. When Sotomayor went on in November of last year \u2013 around the time of Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s Supreme Court confirmation \u2013 she was there to promote the children\u2019s version of her autobiography, Turning Pages: My Life Story. She was welcomed like a hero, as well she should have been. Like Ginsburg, she has been an exceptional jurist and role model. I didn\u2019t see anyone complain that Sotomayor\u2019s presence on the show, to promote her book, was problematic.<\/p>\n

But Neil Gorsuch appears on \u201cFox & Friends\u201d and people accuse him of inappropriate behavior. They ignore the fact that Fox has numerous hosts and guests who criticize the president, including Judge Andrew Napolitano, Bret Baier, Geraldo Rivera, and perhaps most consistently, Chris Wallace.<\/p>\n

This double standard has to stop. Gorsuch did nothing wrong in going on \u201cFox & Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flowers is an attorney and a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and can be reached at cflowers1961@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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