santos. republican leaders refused to no matter how many times he s bizarre lies are exposed. and forget gas stoves. even more outrageous nothing burger involves a made-up story about a pregnant batman villain. it was in april 2010 that justice john paul stevens, after serving 34 years on the nation s highest court, announced his intention to retire in a letter to then president barack obama. the news, naturally, set washington into a tizzy, of all things. scotus usually do. overnight, every tom dick and harry had suggestions for who obama should name as a replacement. republicans got in on the action as well. even conservative republicans like the then long serving of utah. he proclaimed he had found the perfect candidate, a, quote, consensus nominee, a small seat conservative, a jurist who would bipartisan support. quote, no question. the man was merrick garland. yes, merrick garland. the same merrick garland who, a few years later, in 2016, would be catapulte
santos. republican leaders refused to no matter how many times he s bizarre lies are exposed. and forget gas stoves. even more outrageous nothing burger involves a made-up story about a pregnant batman villain. it was in april 2010 that justice john paul stevens, after serving 34 years on the nation s highest court, announced his intention to retire in a letter to then president barack obama. the news, naturally, set washington into a tizzy, of all things. scotus usually do. overnight, every tom dick and harry had suggestions for who obama should name as a replacement. republicans got in on the action as well. even conservative republicans like the then long serving of utah. he proclaimed he had found the perfect candidate, a, quote,
consensus nominee, a small seat conservative, a jurist who would bipartisan support. quote, no question. the man was merrick garland. yes, merrick garland. the same merrick garland who, a few years later, in 2016, would be catapulted to superstardom within that liberal imagination after being rejected by mitch mcconnell and the senate gop as a nominee to fill not john paul stevens seat but antonin scalia s spot on the supreme court. you are forgiven if this slip to your mind. mcconnells smoke and mirrors routine has a way of fogging up the past that was not more obvious then with merrick garland who went from our inheritors small seats conservative strain trist to woke liberal pin-up almost on a level with rbg herself. you may be startled to hear that back in 2016, it wasn t garlands left-wing bias that was the top of the town, but his rather staunch habit of backing the blue, rolling in
the joker has not become a transgender character. the right is so upset with it and fearful of the transition that they are inserting it into fictional stories where they are not part of the story. writes in her substack, and the president age, quote, even if it were true the host of fox news almost certainly didn t know trans character in it, this is an absolute over the top response that needs to stop now. indeed, it does. joins me now. parker, thanks for coming on the show this evening. which culture war story is the dumbest of the week? if he woke feminist m&ms, and the non existent gas stove bands, or this made-up story about a trans pregnant joker? it s hard for me to keep up. there are so many of them. they keep coming and coming. yeah. it was a big week for fake outrage. just last week, as you said, there was the joker outrage, the m&ms outrage.
it is the american public, american society is a coal that has sent spent decades sent a club suffocation of martin luther king, santa ties -ing and domesticate-ing doctor luther king. to quote doctor. westover christmas i d family visiting me in california why took them to d.c. late civil rights leader. we took photos by the legendary mlk quote up on the walls there, you know the ones, the arc of the moral universe is long but offense towards justice. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. but you know what was missing at that memorial? the quotes from the late doctor king that show what a radical he was. for example, when he said in his beyond knit vietnam speech, a year before his death. and they quote, i knew that i could ever again raise my voice against the violence of the