CBS News' fact check of Sen. Lindsey Graham's statement about ACB's 2017 confirmation is 'blatant partisan hackery'

The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett began today, and Sen. Lindsey Graham reminded the committee that the judge has already been through the vetting process with a bipartisan outcome.

CBS News seemed to think they were getting the best of Graham with this tweet:

Lindsey Graham says Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017 "with a bipartisan vote."

Only three Democrats voted to confirm her https://t.co/uScvfX9o80 pic.twitter.com/yQcBfYb7Me

— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 12, 2020

They could have just said Graham correctly stated that vote was bipartisan, but it wasn’t going to happen:

This is just blatant partisan hackery https://t.co/h6k0gy7VHC

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) October 12, 2020

@CBSNews was clearly at least trying to insinuate that Graham was wrong, but he wasn’t:

This is what "bipartisan" means …. https://t.co/lOyCK7UpON

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 12, 2020

The mainstream media is so so Left they can't even admit when Rs say the truth. https://t.co/yNLgFnvg86

— Cal? (@AnonymousStaffr) October 12, 2020

The MSM fact checkers will often twist themselves into pretzels rather than admit a Republican said something factual.

Does someone want to tell @CBSNews what the definition of "bipartisan" means? https://t.co/zvJ5VRrtyy

— MediaResearchCenter (@theMRC) October 12, 2020

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Yes @CBSNews, that's what "bipartisan" means. https://t.co/TH6RMvjE2j

— John Cooper (@thejcoop) October 12, 2020

So then the vote was, in fact, bipartisan? This is comedy at this point. https://t.co/3t65RU7N2L

— Jenna Noel (@JennaJ) October 12, 2020

Also known as a bipartisan vote https://t.co/eOht5ZbJje

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 12, 2020

That's what bipartisan means.

This tweet reads like some partisan hack wrote it, not a "news" organization. https://t.co/EmKjhl142B

— Abigail Marone ?? (@abigailmarone) October 12, 2020

So Fact Check….True? https://t.co/ZMQ2pYIzSI

— BMichaelDunn (@VolbeckWasRight) October 12, 2020

It’s definitely not the own that whoever wrote CBS News’ tweet thought it was.

did the @DNCWarRoom take over CBS twitter account? https://t.co/1PNBNLQeYv

— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) October 12, 2020

Frankly it wouldn’t surprise us.