CNN, MSNBC hosts fail to update viewers after promoting botched NPR report on SCOTUS feud

Some of the biggest stars on CNN and MSNBC peddled the debunked narrative alleging Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor were feuding over masks.

The liberal media went wild on Tuesday after NPR published a report claiming that Sotomayor was working remotely because of Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask despite all the justices having been asked by Chief Justice John Roberts to do so due to Sotomayor having diabetes, making her vulnerable to COVID.

MSNBC star Joy Reid told viewers Tuesday that Gorsuch "loves COVID — which makes him the perfect Republican" and thinks "very little" of pandemic precautions, calling him a "rotten co-worker, dangerous to be near during the pandemic and tonight's absolute worst."

"All In" host Chris Hayes called the NPR report a "shocking story" and slammed Gorsuch's "deeply obnoxious behavior."

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper took a swipe at Gorsuch, noting that the associate justice who "recently wrote a book decrying the lack of civility in the country." He then spoke with CNN correspondent Ariane de Vogue, who said she confirmed NPR's reporting though she acknowledged she did not know what Roberts did with Sotomayor's voiced concern about unmasked colleagues.

Cooper read an excerpt from Gorsuch's book "If You Can Keep It," which he wrote in part, "to be worthy of our freedoms, we all have to adopt civic habits that enable others to enjoy them too." The anchor called it "interesting," suggesting Gorsuch was guilty of being a civility hypocrite.

CNN's Don Lemon later reported on the "COVID mask controversy" at the Supreme Court as reported by his network.

On Wednesday morning, CNN's "New Day" invited NPR's chief legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, who authored the botched report, to talk about the so-called feud.

CNN's Kasie Hunt asked "What's up with Justice Gorsuch?" adding "If all the other- including all the other conservative justices on the Supreme Court are willing to go along with this, why not him?"

It wasn't until later that Gorsuch and Sotomayor issued a joint statement declaring the report "false," which was followed by another statement from Roberts also debunking the story.

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