NewsBusters Upset That Historic Event Is Described As Historic

MRC VP Brent Baker was channeling Stephen Colbert — for him, the facts really do have a liberal bias.

In an Aug. 6 MRC item, Baker portrayed the evening news programs’ noting the historic nature of Elena Kagan being confirmed to the Supreme Court — making the first time in American history that three women have sat on the high court — as making them, in the words of Baker’s headline, “as Giddy as Liberal Democrats”: 

“The number that really excited Democrats is three: Think Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan,” NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell excitedly announced Thursday night while leading into a clip of Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who exclaimed as he bounced on his heels on the Senate floor: “Three women will serve together on the United States Supreme Court for the first time in our nation’s history!”

The news equally excited the TV network journalists. “History was made in this country today when the Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court,” declared fill-in NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt as viewers were treated to a “Making History” on-screen graphic.

“Tonight on World News, a day of high court history. Elena Kagan confirmed. For the first time ever, three women will be part of deciding the law of the land,” spouted a giddy Diane Sawyer in matching NBC by making Kagan her lead story. Sawyer could hardly contain her excitement[.]

Baker, it seems, has a little trouble letting his partisan hate blind him to history.