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The Washington Post Sandbagged The Story That Might Have Cleared Brett Kavanaugh
RedState ^ | September 23, 2018 | Streiff

Posted on 09/23/2018 11:36:10 AM PDT by Trump20162020

Yesterday, there were two steps forward on the road to the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. The lawyers for Christine Ford, she’s the California woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of groping her at a party 37 years ago, and the Senate Judiciary Committee agreed that Ford would testify on Thursday. This represents a walkback for Chuck Grassley and makes one queasey at what else he may give away in order to propitiate the angry, hairy goddesses of #MeToo. The second item was that another person Ford had named as a witness, Leland Ingham Keyser, provided a statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee. She said that a) she didn’t know Brett Kavanaugh and b) she was never at a party like the one described by Ford. If you are keeping score, this makes four people–Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, Patrick Smyth, and Leland Keyser–who have denied this incident ever happened under penalty of perjury. The only person who has not made a statement under oath is…Christine Ford.

Now the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel reports that the Washington Post knew of Keyser, they knew of her denial, and they refused to report it.

There is exactly one reason why the Washington Post would not run this account, it was not damaging to Kavanaugh and it pointed to the rather obvious probability that Ford was a liar, a fabulist, or a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: brettkavanaugh; christineford; ford; kavanaugh; supremecourt; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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Think The Washington Post would have been so quiet had Keyser been corroborating Ford's tale?
1 posted on 09/23/2018 11:36:10 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Everyone in the Newsroom of the Washington Post are wearing Christine Blasey Ford T=shirts and have her ballons tied to their desks. Who would have guessed?


2 posted on 09/23/2018 11:41:48 AM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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To: centurion316

How awful this all is.


3 posted on 09/23/2018 11:47:24 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Deranged Q Fringe))
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To: Trump20162020

What, pray tell, are these people telling their sons regarding the fairness and justice afforded them if some resentful classmate from several decades ago, for whatever reason, decides to accuse them?


4 posted on 09/23/2018 11:49:01 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Trump20162020

It’s over for “Doctor” Christine Ballsy hyphen Fraud. She will be a pariah, as it should be. JUSTICE Kavanaugh will take his seat on the highest court in the land.

Kavanaugh is a far better man than I. I would sue this chick into a steaming pile of bankrupt goo for false light and disparagement. Kavanaugh will do no such thing, because he won’t kick a person when down. I will, and that’s why I’m not a judge.


5 posted on 09/23/2018 11:50:42 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: Trump20162020

New York Times v. Sullivan MUST be overturned.

That one case is a primary reason that media trash can get away with the propaganda that they have been spewing since the 1960s.


6 posted on 09/23/2018 11:52:47 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Trump20162020

Need any further proof the media is run by Commies and that this “Accusation” is nothing more than a smear campaign to bring down a good man because he is a Conservative and Commies are terrified their precious baby slaughtering industry will be destroyed


7 posted on 09/23/2018 11:53:02 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Trump20162020

WaPo is a willing accomplice in the Deep State Coup.


8 posted on 09/23/2018 12:02:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Trump20162020

I have a recurring thought since last year when all the #MeToo crap started, and we saw so much unbelievable, as well as very believable allegations. Some were obviously, or seemingly so in the “GOTCHA” category, but others were not.

#MeToo seems to me more like #GOTCHA!

The point being other than taking out Weinstein, was the following #MeToo circus like a lit up light bulb to use against their opposition? I think so. It would be very much the Left’s modus operandi.


9 posted on 09/23/2018 12:04:28 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: BenLurkin

That coup is already dead.


10 posted on 09/23/2018 12:04:35 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Trump20162020
So basically:
she said...
he said, he said, he said, she said...
11 posted on 09/23/2018 12:06:01 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Trump20162020

Doesn’t it seem odd there are zero current photos of her given the omnipotent presence of cameras around anyone newsworthy. Is she holed up somewhere and has never shown her face publicly since this started? Nice thing to do to her family (not to mention Kavanaugh’s) - for what?


12 posted on 09/23/2018 12:06:46 PM PDT by hankbrown
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To: Trump20162020

Gotta wonder if this is how the Salem Witch Trials got started and why they were burned at the stake.

Just sayin’...


13 posted on 09/23/2018 12:07:04 PM PDT by Boomer (#FightMeTooLiars)
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To: TexasGurl24
New York Times v. Sullivan MUST be overturned.
Absolutely.

14 posted on 09/23/2018 12:08:01 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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To: Trump20162020
Two posts of mine today regarding the Kimberly Strassel story:

Post 1:


There is still one glaring problem with this whole story.

From an embedded tweet within the article:

Carrie Severino
Final witness in alleged Ford/Kavanaugh incident weighs in for Kavanaugh. So every single one of Ford’s supposed witnesses — all of them, including her female friend/classmate — conclusively refute her account. It doesn’t add up.

If this is, in fact, the "final witness," then we still haven't found out whose house the party was at. How do high school teen-agers have a party at a house that none of them are related to?

There is still one more person out there who has not been named. That person must be the teen who lived at the house.


Post 2:


The WaPo had two motives to intentionally misreport the story, turning one boy into a girl.

1. The optics of four boys and one girl at a party is very bad for the girl, especially if she's going to make a claim of sexual assault. They needed to balance the attendance to three boys and two girls to make it "dates" and a friend.

2. The boy who was turned into a girl has to be the teen who lives at the house. He likely invited three friends over, and one of them brought a girl he just met. The girl that the WaPo placed at the party denies being at a party with Kavanaugh. She wasn't there because the WaPo replaced the boy resident with a girl who knew Ford.

It seems credible to me that the WaPo is covering up the one piece of information that would unravel this whole plot, namely the person who lived at the house. Naming that person puts a location to the event, which then opens up the rest to specific questions.

The WaPo turned the boy into a girl to protect the scheme against Kavanaugh from unraveling with the only investigable fact.


-PJ

15 posted on 09/23/2018 12:11:00 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Just who are the scum owners of the washington pest?


16 posted on 09/23/2018 12:12:38 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Trump20162020

They deliberately and intentionally suppressed facts.


17 posted on 09/23/2018 12:18:13 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: Trump20162020

All of the media involved in this matter MUST face consequence, punishment. That bunch are no different from Goebbels.


18 posted on 09/23/2018 12:19:47 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Hostage

An interesting anecdote from the Salem Witch trials of 1692:

After naming numerous individuals of being witches or wizards, the accusing girls were farmed out to nearby towns and villages where they named others.

The criteria for conviction was “Spectral Evidence”, i.e., visions the girls had of spirits, ghosts, spectral apparitions etc., that only THEY could see.

One individual who was accused, immediately filed suit in Civil Court for slander, to the tune of 30 pounds sterling - a substantial amount in those days.

After a quick discussion with the girl’s parents - who were the driving force behind the hysteria - the girls withdrew their accusation.

If Kavanagh goes down, he should take a lesson...


19 posted on 09/23/2018 12:20:39 PM PDT by Paisan
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To: Trump20162020

Has the Washington Post pulled out all stops trying to identify and locate the young girl Cory Booker admittedly groped. Can you imagine if Booker were a Republican? The media would leave no stone unturned trying to find the victim to see if there isn’t more to the story, e.g., a possible crime.


20 posted on 09/23/2018 12:20:55 PM PDT by Atticus
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