If ever there was a competition for knee-jerk propagandist on Fox News, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo would get some very tough competition from daytime “news” anchor Harris Faulkner.
Here, Media Matters caught Faulkner earning her Murdoch TV paycheck by pretending to “just ask,” “a plain blank question that I have seen all over the internet in recent days with U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Is Amy Coney Barrett a true conservative? What is the metric around her joining liberals?”
Apparently, Barrett’s votes to overturn Roe and grant Donald Trump presidential immunity, among other conservative votes, is not enough for MAGA world. They were seething on Monday over the fact that she wrote the court’s decision in support of mail-in ballots. Then, on Tuesday, Barrett voted on behalf of the Constitutional right to birthright citizenship. Both of those decisions thwarted Trump’s desires.
So, it was no surprise that Faulkner suggested that Barrett is some kind of dirty, hateful liberal for supporting voting rights and the U.S. Constitution.
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