pepto bismol for fast relief when you need it most. we have been talking about truth, lies, and equivalence. now we turn to a special day here on the beat. we call it chai day. it s when political strategist and this cartoon operative chai komanduri, joins us. thanks for coming back, sir. good to be back, ari. how are you? i m great. we just walked through a lot of evidence which was not to offer my view of our own channel s work. but to look at why a president you once worked for, obama, and the current president, biden, draw this equivalence and whether you think they are correct. well, frankly, it s unfortunately conventional wisdom in the media, in d.c., in much of the country that fox is a legitimate news source like
one nonpartisan washington post writer capturing the mood by saying the court pick can help biden draw clear contrast with republicans moving off the focus on democratic infighting associated with the spending battles and tee up a much needed biden victory in congress. now, that s a projection. it s a long ways from naming a nominee to getting to that victory, but others are also pointing to a very real-world victory that s already happenin in decades amidst biden s stewardship and the economic packages he already won and pushed. we quoted rachel. on this story, we re going to quote another colleague, joe scarborough, who this morning was reporting on the economic numbers and saying that biden can excel by focusing on this more than endless internal negotiations in congress. he overperformed on job creation, record job creation in the first year. 5.6% growth for our economy. that s an overperformance.
we begin with the top story, the president moving to put his imprint on the supreme court, where democrats say biden has a turning point opportunity to deliver on politics and substance. rallying his side with a big decision about who will fill the new vacancy with justice breyer s appointment. the spotlight is on the court, which has in its entire american history featured just two black people as supreme court justices ever. that s just a fact. both of them men. biden famously pledging to put the first black woman on the court. and standing by that pledge, the white house telling reporters and everyone this week they will nominate a black woman. that s the plan, to deliver on the campaign vow he made, which also echoes another candidate, ronald reagan, who vowed he would put a woman on the court. the person i will nominate
segment about the topic. but other independent journalists have roundly rejected that kind of claim. the washington post said bill maher misfires on saying msnbc equals fox. they went into the facts, notice that key fox claims about benghazi faced a punishing year and a half of challenge and debunkment, so the story itself was off base, while writing msnbc reporting on bridgegate used on the report allegations of public officials, a core journalistic responsibility. and that s the point. this stuff matters. it affects politics and democracy. and i m not here tonight to tell you what we think of our own work at this channel. and that wouldn t be evidence. i am here to report that this biden/obama/mahr equivalence does falter in the face of actual independent reporting. take independent researchers. they found fox is so routinely misleading that just watching it would make you less informed. and not just on hot political topics or your shoes of, say,