[See NewsBusters for more.] As the Senate prepared to vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Thursday, MSNBC MTP Daily host Chuck Todd wondered if she would get more votes if it wasn’t for the “echo chamber conservative media.” Irony is dead at MSNBC.
During a conversation with former Sen. Doug Jones, who is currently the White House’s nomination advisor for legislative affairs, Todd wondered, “How many of these Republican senators do you think, if they didn't think voting for her would get weaponized against them by their—by—by--, you know, some—some-- echo chamber conservative media, would have been voting for her today, just by, based on the conversations you've had?”