[See NewsBusters for more.] ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel had a hard time on Wednesday comprehending why Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Ted Cruz would quiz Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on what the definition of a woman is. Kimmel resorted to personal attacks to defend Jackson, but only ended up making himself the butt of the joke as he also couldn’t come up with a definition.
Kimmel began by lamenting “[Jackson] said the fact that she was even nominated shows how far we’ve come as a country, and so some of the Republican senators on the committee have been hard at work to show how far we haven’t.” Eventually, Kimmel would try to make it seem as if Blackburn was the one who was clues on what constitutes a woman, “The award for most original question of the week so far goes to Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, who is the only Republican woman on the Judiciary Committee. And yet is still trying to figure out what that word means.”