{"id":1248290,"date":"2022-01-27T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1248290"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:09:23","slug":"carlson-on-biden-scotus-pledge-identity-politics-always-ends-with-tribal-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carlson-on-biden-scotus-pledge-identity-politics-always-ends-with-tribal-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlson on Biden SCOTUS Pledge: &#039;Identity Politics Always Ends with Tribal Warfare&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcarlson-on-biden-scotus-pledge-identity-politics-always-ends-with-tribal-warfare%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1248290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1052714842-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News Channel\u2019s Tucker Carlson reacted to the suggestion President Joe Biden will appoint a black female to fill the void left behind by the soon-retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson warned that such a pledge could have consequences given it puts a premium on \u201cidentity politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>CARLSON: So here\u2019s a weird story, so many of those these days. If you were anywhere near the Supreme Court in Washington this past spring, you may have seen a black box truck with New Jersey plates and a billboard on the side parked by the side of the road. Here\u2019s the truck case. In case you can\u2019t read the message, it says \u201cBreyer Retire. It\u2019s time for a black woman Supreme Court Justice. There\u2019s no time to waste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those billboards were funded by a group of progressive Democrats called Demand Justice, which weirdly enough is run by an extremely white guy called Brian Fallon, which is a little strange if you think about it. If Brian Fallon is so passionate about giving leadership roles to black women, why hasn\u2019t he resigned from his job and given it to one? You wonder that about a lot of people, Joe Biden, for example.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, you\u2019ve got to hand it to Brian Fallon. Either he is remarkably prescient or someone in power was listening to him because just this morning, it was announced that Stephen Breyer is indeed retiring from the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>You notice the passive construction there, it was announced, because Breyer himself did not announce his retirement. It\u2019s not even clear Breyer knew the announcement was going to happen. Someone leaked that news with or without Justice Breyer\u2019s consent. They didn\u2019t wait for him to do it himself. Why? Well, because Democrats understand they are likely to lose the Congress this November. They want to control Breyer\u2019s seat while they still can.<\/p>\n<p>So what are they going to do with that seat? We don\u2019t need to guess, Joe Biden was very clear about his plans nearly two years ago, as he was running for President. He didn\u2019t tell us what he was going to do about COVID or foreign policy or the economy, but he was very precise about the Supreme Court. Here is Biden in March of 2020 on the debate stage at CNN.<\/p>\n<p>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>JOE BIDEN (D), THEN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I am committed to it that if I\u2019m elected President and have an opportunity to appoint someone to the Courts, it will be \u2014 I\u2019ll appoint the first black woman to the courts.<\/p>\n<p>My Cabinet, my administration will look like the country and I commit that I will in fact, appoint \u2014 pick a woman to be Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>CARLSON: I will appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court, that was Biden\u2019s promise, all right. But which black woman exactly? Biden didn\u2019t tell us. Biden didn\u2019t mention the Supreme Court nominee\u2019s legal qualifications or judicial philosophy or ability to perform one of the most important jobs in the country. He didn\u2019t even tell us she was a nice person.<\/p>\n<p>All he said was she is going to be black, and she\u2019s going to be female, because to him, that\u2019s all that matter. You almost got the impression that Joe Biden believes all black women are the same, they\u2019re identical. It was certainly the assumption that Delaware of Joe Biden\u2019s youth 60 years ago, Biden doesn\u2019t seem to have changed much.<\/p>\n<p>You wonder if anyone is sitting there and seeing its audience that night even noticed this. It\u2019s possible we have all marinated for so long in the casual racism of affirmative action that it seems normal now to reduce human beings to their race.<\/p>\n<p>But imagine if this was happening to you, how would you feel? You go to Law School, you win a clerkship, you get a seat on some Lower Court, one day, you\u2019re nominated to be one of the top nine Judges in the country and you\u2019re proud of that. Why wouldn\u2019t you? Your parents are proud, your friends are proud.<\/p>\n<p>But Joe Biden, all Joe Biden can talk about is your skin color. Patronizing? It doesn\u2019t even begin to describe what this is. This is exactly why decent Americans hated segregation. It dehumanized people.<\/p>\n<p>Now Biden claims that his race counting is essential so that the Court and the rest of his administration quote, \u201cLooks like America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of all the lies that Joe Biden tells, this could be the easiest to check. We have the latest census numbers and we can promise you with dead certainty that Joe Biden\u2019s nominees look nothing like America, not even close.<\/p>\n<p>Is that a problem? Well, the problem for Biden is that once he starts saying things like this, once he begins to promise to represent every possible ethnic voting bloc equally, like some ward boss in 1950 Chicago, people are going to start to wonder about their quote, \u201crepresentation.\u201d As long as we are divvying up the spoils like carrot cake, where is my slice?<\/p>\n<p>So Biden will nominate a black woman. Great. She\u2019ll represent about seven percent of the population. But where is Biden\u2019s Pacific Islander nominee? Mazie Hirono is probably writing an outrage letter about that right now. No doubt she is. And why isn\u2019t there an American-Indian on the Court or a genderqueer? Or someone from the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Community or Justice with Cognitive Disabilities? Why isn\u2019t there an Afghan refugee under consideration?<\/p>\n<p>You can laugh, but suddenly these are entirely fair questions. And by the way, Joe Biden, you claim that trans-lives matter? Really? Do you really mean that? Then prove it.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of woman is this any way you plan to nominate? What are her pronouns?<\/p>\n<p>You can see where this is going. It always goes, identity politics always ends with tribal warfare. It\u2019s funny the Biden people can\u2019t see that, maybe they can see it and don\u2019t care or maybe it is the entire point of the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the explanation, the White House has no choice at this point to make good on Joe Biden\u2019s promise. The usual race monger spent all day demanding it. Here is CNN.<\/p>\n<p>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: I mean, it is a history making moment.<\/p>\n<p>It will change the way the Court looks, and I think we cannot understate that,<\/p>\n<p>ABBY PHILLIP, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: For this particular President, where he is today, with a need to give something that is of great importance to his supporters, people who put him in into office, especially black women, this is a really important moment.<\/p>\n<p>LAURA COATES, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: I\u2019ve never had the luxury of leaving any part of my identity at the door before I walked into a courtroom, walked into a boardroom, walked onto these various sets on CNN, I brought with myself the entirety of being a black woman, the lived experience of what that\u2019s like in a country like this.<\/p>\n<p>And I think it is incumbent upon our country to recognize that if we do not bring all of America and the holistic views of people, including black women, then we are doing a disservice to any objective evaluation of laws in this country.<\/p>\n<p>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>CARLSON: Oh, this is so great. That lady especially. Here you have the most privileged people in the United States of America telling you at high volume with total certainty, they are victims.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that could describe most of CNN\u2019s programming actually, but today was especially hysterical and amusing. That oppressed woman you just saw it\u2019s called Laura Coates.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Coates went to an expensive private school in Minnesota, and she headed off to Princeton and then she went to Law School. Now, she is on TV, all because of how victimized she has been. It\u2019s almost enough to make you like America, when you learn that someone that completely marginalized is now so powerful.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like a success story, but no, explains Laura Coates. In fact, it is still more evidence that America is evil and racist place.<\/p>\n<p>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: What would it be like for somebody on the Supreme Court, finally, who looks like you?<\/p>\n<p>COATES: I would be overjoyed and thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>CARLSON: How much does John King hate himself? I mean, he\u2019s got, too, right, on some level? Saying stuff like, \u201cWhat would it be like to finally see some of the Supreme Court that looks like you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thank God, finally, Laura Coates is going to have some justice in this country, at long last. Maybe someone will send her to Princeton for free again, just to make it official. She has been liberated.<\/p>\n<p>But wait a second, color counters. What about Clarence Thomas? He sort of vaguely looks like Laura Coates, the lady you just saw on TV, same race anyway. Does he count? No, he doesn\u2019t count. Clarence Thomas isn\u2019t a race monger. He believes in the Constitution of the United States. He\u2019s a Supreme Court Justice, therefore, he\u2019s not really black.<\/p>\n<p>See how that works? He doesn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n<p>So who are the potential nominees that CNN has declared are authentically black and therefore eligible for this job? Let\u2019s see.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s Sherrilyn Ifill. Sherrilyn Ifill is not even a Judge. She\u2019s some kind of political activist who works at the NAACP. Her primary credential, and she listed this prominently in her online biography herself, is that she was one of \u201cGlamour\u201d Magazine\u2019s Women of the Year in 2020. Laugh if you will, but I mean, why is that not a qualification? Glamour Magazine\u2019s Women of the Year in 2020? Send her forth to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Then you look at her Twitter page. Ifill\u2019s Twitter page is full of racist attacks against dreaded white people. Here\u2019s one example from July of 2018. Quote: \u201cTruth and reconciliation efforts have little chance in many places, because whites view truth telling is an act of violence.\u201d Really? They do? All whites?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes, says Sherrilyn Ifill. They\u2019re all the same. Same skin color, same belief.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that\u2019s a common attitude on the left. It\u2019s not a reassuring attitude for a Supreme Court Justice. We\u2019ll see how she does.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CNN is also recommending a woman called Eunice Lee. Now, Eunice Lee may be a perfectly nice person, we don\u2019t know, but she first became a Judge in August of 2021. That was \u2014 let\u2019s do the math \u2014 less than six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Candace Jackson-Akiwumi has even less experience, and that, she may be nice as well, but she reached the bench for the first time in July of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The other nominees on CNN\u2019s list have more judicial experience. We\u2019ll give you three guesses as to how they got that experience, how did they get there? Wilhelmina \u201cMimi\u201d Wright became an Associate Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court back in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the sad thing about what we\u2019re about to tell you is Mimi Wright maybe the best Judge ever, the smartest person ever. But as always, the media minimized her, dehumanized her in its coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The media celebrated her nomination not because of her legal ability, which they barely described, but because of the way she looks, her skin color and that is a big part of why Governor Mark Dayton appointed her in the first place. He said that. Here\u2019s how \u201cThe Star Tribune\u201d covered her appointment, quote: \u201cDayton\u2019s historic choice: First black female Supreme Court Justice.\u201d That was the headline. Unmentioned is how she might do on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Again, nobody wins in identity politics. The people designed to help are completely dehumanized and patronized, reduced to colors rather than human beings, and in some cases the rest of us get really crappy service because the best people aren\u2019t being chosen. That\u2019s just true.<\/p>\n<p>Ability is the only criterion that matters. Skin color is irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Ketanji Brown-Jackson got the same treatment. To be fair, we should note that unlike other candidates CNN is putting forward, Brown-Jackson has authentically suffered in her life. She is not joking. She literally went to Harvard with Joy Reid.<\/p>\n<p>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>JOY REID, MSNBC HOST: I happen to know Ketanji Brown-Jackson. I knew her Ketanji Brown when we were in college. So, I think she\u2019s wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>CARLSON: Imagine what that was like. You went to college with Joy Reid? I was in Fallujah, you went to college with Joy Reid, who suffered more? Well, after leaving the rough and tumble of Cambridge with Joy Reid, Brown- Jackson wound up on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last summer were here credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here is how ABC News covered her confirmation at the time they told us the Jackson is, quote, \u201cThe first black woman confirmed to an Appellate Court in a decade, and she will now be one of five black female Circuit Court Judges currently serving,\u201d but hey, who\u2019s counting? Again, you have to wonder Brown-Jackson, we don\u2019t know, maybe a super great person, really smart person. How would you feel if you were her?<\/p>\n<p>What about her achievements? Irrelevant. The media focused on her race. And maybe there was a reason for that because her actual record as a judge honestly, pretty awful. She\u2019s been overturned unanimously by the D.C. Appellate Court multiple times in just the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>So you have to wonder at this point, since we are going by skin color and gender, why Joe Biden is ignoring the obvious choice. Why doesn\u2019t Biden strike a real blow for equity and just nominate Bridgett Floyd. Who is that? Well, it is George Floyd\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n<p>She is not a judge or a lawyer or whatever, but at this stage, who cares? Clearly, that\u2019s not the point anymore, this law stuff.<\/p>\n<p>As Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska once said, in Defense of what Richard Nixon\u2019s dumber judicial nominees quote: \u201cEven if he is mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They\u2019re entitled to a little representation, aren\u2019t they?\u201d Well, sure they are.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgett Floyd could be a Justice for the rest of us, or at least a slice of the rest of us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News Channel\u2019s Tucker Carlson reacted to the suggestion President Joe Biden will appoint a black female to fill the void left behind by the soon-retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}