Tucker Carlson says Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination is part of an effort to “humiliate and degrade” the country

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From the February 25, 2022, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Let's say you really didn't care about the country you lead. Let's say you wanted to humiliate and degrade it and undermine its ancient institutions. What would you do? Well, you might take the single most important appointed position in the entire government and announce in public that you are filling that position on the basis of appearance. Not on the basis of skill or wisdom or fealty to the founding documents of the United States, but on the basis of the way the person looks.

So, it's not a question of saying, we found the most qualified person who happens to look this way. What you're saying is, we found a person who looks this way, who, by the way, may be qualified. That would send a very clear message that you don't like the country you run and you don't care about the institutions that its ancestors built.