(Responding to a former classmates inquiry) “Oh, I’m a journalist now, but don’t tell my poor, sweet mama: she still thinks I’m a piano player in a whorehouse.”

The Democrats’ lickspittles get their word for the day and off they go

TownHall:

We showed yesterday how numerous news divisions were putting out the same interpretation of Senator Josh Hawley's look into the sentencing records of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and now as the hearing is underway, it is taking place again. It begins with Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates putting out his interpretation of the look into KBJ's sentencing history.

Seriously, QAnon?! The conspiracy outlet that has been dormant for over a year, and shown by The New York Times to have been run by a pair of randos, is held as the driving force behind the Republican Party. That was all that was needed to be declared marching orders for the press. They had their perfect framing device.

JEFFREY TOOBIN - "A way that was quite clearly an appeal to the QAnon folk, the cult that is now a bigger part of the Republican Party and this weird obsession that QAnon has with Democrats and pedophilia."

MALIKA HENDERSON - "There's a lot of dog whistling to folks in QAnon with some of these questions."

ABBY PHILLIP - "Definitely a dog whistle to the kind of QAnon Right."

PAUL WALDMAN - "...an apparent attempt to secure the QAnon vote when he runs for president."

JOY REID - "a direct shout out to Qanon & the right-wing fanatics"

IAN MILLHISER - "I think the press is, for the most part, doing a very responsible job of covering Hawley and others' QAnon attacks on Judge Jackson."

LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS - "Josh Hawley's disgusting QAnon slur"

TALKING POINTS MEMO - "Senators Question Jackson Again After Day Of QAnon-Tainted Attacks"

JONATHAN WEISMAN - "a fixation of those wedded to the QAnon conspiracy theory."

SALON - "Republicans turn Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings into a QAnon circus"