Would the liberal media stoop to exploiting Martin Luther King Day to push their own left wing agenda? Rhetorical question.
As she guest-hosted Monday on CNN's Inside Politics, Audie Cornish did exactly that, during an interview with Democrat Congressman Troy Carter from Louisiana. Despite displaying a banner at the bottom of the screen which read, THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., for most of the interview, it seemed like the goal was to rip President Trump and conservative policies.
Cornish went after Trump right off the bat.
CORNISH: Typically, this is a day where people might be able to enter National Parks for free, because it's a Federal holiday, nodding to this hero. The President has revoked that and said you can go in free on his birthday.
But it's part of a wider sort of shift, getting rid of anything DEI, getting rid of anything that historically references many black figures. Were these symbolic moves or do you feel like there -- it makes a difference in a way?
CARTER: It makes a huge difference because when you think about Dr. Martin Luther King and you think about the gains that we've had in the recognition of the work that he did for a better United States and a better world... Now, we have a President who wants to roll all of that back. A President that somehow sees words like "diversity, equity, inclusion" as bad words. A President that seems to think that recognizing someone who stood for justice and equality is not a good thing.
Nobody at CNN can imagine that the Left doesn't really embody words like "diversity" or "inclusion," especially of ideology. Then the Congressman resurrected a false Harris/Walz campaign claim trashing the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 blueprint for a second term.
CARTER: The President has made it very clear that his Project 2025 is a well thought-out evil plan to reverse the gains of humanity, to disregard the Constitution, to disregard the tenets of the struggles of the 60s, the Voting Rights Act, health care for individuals, opportunity for people to be educated. This President seems to think an attack on our democracy, an attack on the very people that our country has owed a great debt of gratitude to is something that is a good thing to do.
CORNISH:.. You have the Supreme Court also weighing in on these issues, especially like the Voting Rights Act...they sometimes point to King's words, right? The idea that eventually the U.S. must reach this promised goal of sort of race neutrality. And this has been the argument backing things like gutting the Voting Rights Act. I want you to listen to something that Justice Brett Kavanaugh said during arguments over, I think it's a case involving your state. ..
BRETT KAVANAUGH: This Court's cases in a variety of contexts have said that race-based remedies are permissible for a period of time, sometimes for a long period of time, decades in some cases, but that they should not be indefinite and should have an end point.
CORNISH: Can I get your response to that, because this is very common thinking that the U.S. is at the end of the road when it comes to taking race into account in public life?
The Voting Rights Act is sixty years old. Cornish is suggesting race-based districting should never, ever end. Carter used part of his response to once again go after President Trump.
CARTER: Quite the contrary. We're not at the end of it at all. In fact, in some cases, we've gone backwards... But we know that in 2026, discrimination not only is alive and well, it has been resuscitated by this President who seems to think that creating hate speak and to create further divisions among people is what a president should do.
Sure, Obama and Biden never divided people. Cornish then shifted to ICE and went back to Justice Kavanaugh.
CORNISH: I want to ask you also about Justice Kavanaugh and what have become known as Kavanaugh stops, referring to the legal justification that ethnicity or how people speak could be considered a relevant factor by ICE and immigration stops. And now we're seeing this play out in videos around the country. What is your concern here?
She's quoting leftist lingo, without noting its origins. Cornish failed to mention something very relevant, that Justice Kavanaugh clarified his opinion on ICE stops, in apparent reaction to the "Kavanaugh stops" linguists.
CARTER: I had before our committee on Homeland Security, Secretary Noem came before us and I asked the question, what does an immigrant look like? What does an immigrant sound like? What does a documented versus undocumented person look or sound like? No one at the table could answer that question for me.
....This is America. We're not some third world country. So if the President really wants to root out the best, or the worst, rather, the criminals, the rapists, the murderers, there's ways to do that. Coordinate with our local authorities.
Is he serious? The Democrat local authorities in blue states absolutely refuse to cooperate on criminal aliens in their "sanctuary" territories.
