Tucker Carlson, who’s paid a lot of money by the Murdoch family to be a jackass on TV because that kind of entertainment is popular with people who can’t get into law school,* wants to know what Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score was.
(* He’s one of them. He was kicked out of a private school for affluent low achievers; see details here.)
Jackson went to Harvard Law, and was on Harvard Law Review. You can safely assume she has a killer LSAT score and made top grades.
She also has all the traditional credentials of a future Supreme Court justice: Besides Harvard Law, she clerked at the district, appellate, and Supreme Court levels; was in private practice with a high-profile D.C. law firm; and also has government legal experience (as a federal public defender, and a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission). She was minted, trained, and groomed for the Supreme Court.
That’s not good enough for Carlson. We know who he wants on the highest court: Conservative white males. He doesn’t give a damn what their LSAT score or law school grades are. And that sells very well to the kind of audience Fox caters to.
To the Murdochs, ratings and audience share is all that matters. They don’t care that Carlson is a racist woman-hating jerk, although his rightwing politics dovetails nicely with their own. They’re perfectly happy to sell his racism and misogyny as part of their business model.
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Photos: Carlson (top left), Rupert Murdoch (lower right)