When Ketanji Brown Jackson was nominated to be a Supreme Court justice, the Media Research Center waged heavy partisan war on her — and it’s still not done doing so, even over an innocuous thing like performing a cameo in a Broadway musical. Justine Brooke Murray kicked off the rage in a Dec. 16 post:
No play or musical is safe, at this point, from being re-written into a woke cliche.
But if you didn’t think a classic could be done any more injustice than by turning Oz gay, Broadway just employed our Supreme Court’s DEI judge to ruin Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet!
[…]Broadway recently began offering their audiences a chance to empty their wallets on the musical, & Juliet, a feminist revision of the old bard’s tale that casts Romeo completely out of the picture.
The tortured take, which recycles overplayed pop songs as their official score, decides Juliet doesn’t “need no man” because she’s a strong independent woman, of course! So they thought… What better way to promote that message than by rewarding Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who doesn’t know what a woman is, with a cameo?
In a performance riddled with second-hand embarrassment, Jackson marched out on stage, Saturday night, wearing a pants-dress getup.
“FEMALE EMPOWERMENT! SIIICK!” She recited one line to an audience of shrieking liberal women. The small bits and pieces of her display shared online makes it difficult to understand how her made-up role contributes to even the woke re-write, let alone the undoctored Shakespeare piece.
“I think that what I like about it is that I am having a very strongly negative reaction to it. Like I hate it!” states another line Jackson gave onstage. While we don’t know what exactly her “character” was referring to here, I share that reaction. Just for different reasons[.]
Murray has obviously never seen the musical in person, so she can’t possibly know the full context of the clips she apparently viewed, let alone whether it is actually “woke,” whatever that means. Then again, lack of knowledge has never stopped any MRC writer from spouting uninformed opinions before.
Jorge Bonilla maliciously dumped on Jackson the same day:
Outgoing CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell is making the most of her remaining time at the Tiffany Network. Tonight’s final story stood as an ode to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and to her cameo performance in a Broadway play.
Watch the full report for yourself below, and try not to be overwhelmed with cringe:
[…]Justice Jackson is chiefly known for her unwillingness to define a woman at her Senate confirmation hearings. It is only fitting that she’s now performing in a play featuring sexually confused characters.
Of course, this isn’t the first time that O’Donnell gushes over Jackson’s utterances. The last time we covered O’Donnell-Jackson was during their summer interview wherein, among other things, O’Donnell attacked the legitimacy of the Court. The rest of that interview was syrupy sycophancy and an emphasis on Jackson’s “first” status.
Here, now, is another “historic first” for O’Donnell to gush over. It never ends!
Jackson was cited as having spoken the most words spoken in a session since 1990, which makes absolute sense now that we know she’s a theater kid. Historic.
Is Jackson’s performance really more cringe than Bonilla’s over-the-top partisan hatred of her?
Murray repeated her Jackson-phobic whining in her Dec. 18 “Woke of the Week” video:
Deep down, most of our lawmakers, interpreters and political commentators are truly frustrated theatre kids at heart. Leave it to our DEI judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who’s supposed to uphold justice on the Supreme Court to turn that role into nothing more than a court jester.
Broadway decided what better way to perform their new feminist rendition of “Romeo and Juliet,” than by rewarding the judge, who doesn’t even know what a woman is, with a cameo?!
But in a way, her broadway debut is kind of symbolic. Both in fiction and real life, our most vocal leftists, those same theatre types, have turned justice on its head.
“DEI judge”? Yes, Murray is yet another right-wing white person who believes only white people are worthy of being employed.