Nets Attack... Gorsuch's Mom
Just throwing it all at the wall and seeing what sticks.
2.1.2017
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The mainstream media are busy working various angles in their attempt to discredit President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick, Judge Neil Gorsuch. While much of the Left focuses on the judge's defense of Hobby Lobby and other cases in which he's defended religious liberty, some networks are instead honing in on Gorsuch's... mom.
Judge Gorsuch's mother, Anne Gorsuch Burford, was head of the EPA under Ronald Reagan, but because she cut the agency's budget by 22 percent and streamlined its staff, the Left was none-too-pleased.
Newsbusters scoured the big networks to measure how each invoked Gorsuch's mother to suggest he comes from a long-line of far-right "radicals."
On Monday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, Pete Williams reminded veteran journalist Andrea Mitchell of Neil Gorsuch’s family line: “[He is the] son of someone you know, Andrea.”Mitchell retorted, “Very controversial. We should not visit the controversies of the mother on the son.” On February 16, 1983, the New York Times trashed the elder Gorsuch in the opinion section with this headline: "Mrs. Gorsuch Pollutes the E.P.A.”
After Neil Gorsuch's nomination went public on Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC played video of Gorsuch’s mom at the EPA. She ranted, “Judge Gorsuch's family has a famous political history because his mom ran the EPA for Ronald Reagan in a tenure that ended really, really badly and is a fascinating story. But that was his mom.”During The 11th Hour, Brian Williams reminded, “Gorsuch is the son of Ronald Reagan's controversial head of the EPA.”
Andrea Mitchell and Pete Williams also invoked Anne Gorsuch Burford.
"Neil Gorsuch from Denver, fourth generation Colorado," Williams began.
"Son of someone you know, Andrea, Anne Gorsuch Burford, who was the head of the EPA under Ronald Reagan."
To which Mitchell replied, "very controversial" but you know, "we should not visit the controversies of the mother on the son."
But while we're "not visiting" them, let's make sure to say they are "controversial."
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