When CNN anchor Poppy Harlow on Monday promoted the cable news channel’s upcoming documentary, she described Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a “pop icon.”

The only problem is that few Americans have the foggiest idea who Ginsburg (pictured above) is — or any other Supreme Court justice for that matter.

It is a classic disconnect between what the elite liberal mainstream media inside the Beltway and New York City think is important and what the rest of the country values.

CNN will air its film about the life and times of Ginsburg on September 3.

“An 85-year-old Supreme Court justice has become, in many ways, a pop icon,” Harlow gushed.

CNN’s senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, concurred.

“It’s also a story of how America has changed, that when she started litigating cases, women could get fired when they got pregnant,” he said. “Married women couldn’t get credit cards without signatures from their husbands. It’s such a different world, and she was one of the key people in changing all those laws.”

For good or ill, Ginsburg’s impact on the law over 25 years on the high court and as a civil rights litigator before that, is not in doubt. But an icon?

A C-SPAN poll conducted last year just before the confirmation process for Justice Neil Gorsuch found that Ginsburg had the highest name recognition of any member of the high court. But, at 16 percent, it is at a level that would embarrass Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, or any other genuine pop icon.

That same poll, conducted by Penn Schoen Berland, found that fewer than half of likely voters — 43 percent — could name any justice on the Supreme Court.

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After Ginsburg, Chief Justice John Roberts had the highest name identification at 12 percent, followed by Justice Clarence Thomas, at 10 percent. No other justice managed even 3 percent.

Ginsburg has attracted a fair amount of attention in recent years, both because of her own penchant for controversial remarks off the bench — such as when she called President Donald Trump a “faker” during the 2016 presidential campaign — and accolades she has received in the mass media.

In addition to the CNN documentary, a biopic starring Felicity Jones, “On the Basis of Sex,” will be released this Christmas. There is also a book, “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

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All the hype appears to have helped boost Ginsburg in the public consciousness. Her 16 percent name recognition in the C-SPAN poll compares with 13 percent who could name her in a 2012 Findlaw.com survey.

She was tied at that time with Justice Sonia Sotomayor for third place, behind then-Justice Antonin Scalia and Thomas at 16 percent. Only 1 percent of respondents could name all nine justices.

A Findlaw poll in 2010 — just before the confirmation of Justice Elena Kagan — found that only 35 percent of Americans could name at least one justice. Thomas was first at that time, named by 19 percent of respondents. Ginsburg was fourth, at 13 percent.

Keep those numbers in mind the next time you see T-shirts with Ginsburg’s image and the cutesy “Notorious RBG” moniker mimicking a real pop icon, the late rap star The Notorious B.I.G., and someone promotes the justice as anything other than what she is — a largely anonymous, although powerful, judge with a lifetime appointment.

(photo credit, article image: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, CC BY-SA 2.0, by European University Institute)