CBS on Gorsuch: A 'Predictable Conservative' WIth 'Some Controversial Decisions'

[See NewsBusters for more.] Minutes after Donald Trump selected Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, CBS on Tuesday labeled him a “predictable conservative” with “some controversial decisions.” NBC and ABC also deemed Gorsuch a “conservative.” In contrast, the networks in 2016 rushed to declare Barack Obama’s attempted replacement, Merrick Garland, a “moderate.” In the first 24 hours of that pick, ABC and NBC avoided the “liberal” label while CBS used the word just twice. However, CBS’s Jan Crawford on January 31, 2017 declared, “[Gorsuch has] been a solid, predictable conservative judge, whose philosophy, his judicial philosophy is very much modeled after Justice Scalia.” She noted, “We've seen some controversial decisions that you're going to hear about. He sided with religious employers in a case over the ObamaCare contraceptive mandate.”