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How Did Christine Ford Not Remember Her “Lifelong Friend” In Her Letter?
HotAir ^ | September 23, 2018 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 09/23/2018 2:00:24 PM PDT by Trump20162020

When Ed introduced the lastest player in the Christine Blasey Ford saga last night, it seemed like bad news for Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s detractors. The identity of the fourth person at the alleged party where Ford claims to have been assaulted turned out to be Leland Ingham Keyser, who describes herself as a “lifelong friend” of Ford’s. Unfortunately for Ford’s story, Keyser released a statement saying that she’s never met Kavanaugh and, like everyone else listed as party attendees, has no recollection of any such party.

There’s one element to this latest revelation which should be setting off some alarm bells. Ford has maintained from the beginning that there were four other people at the party that night. As Ed Morrissey correctly notes, we now have the full list. They include Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge (the sort-of accomplice), Patrick “PJ” Smyth and now Leland Ingham Keyser. But let’s recall how this whole affair began.

As revealed by both the Washington Post and the New York Times, Ford originally sent a letter to her Representative, Anna Eshoo. With the congresswoman’s help, the information was sent to one of her senators, Dianne Feinstein. After it was obvious her identity was going to go public, Ford additionally contacted the Washington Post on September 16th. In all of these documents and conversations, one thing was consistent. She claimed that in addition to Kavanaugh and Judge, there were two other boys at the party.

This “fact” was central to the development of the record of events. You’ll also recall that the letter from her therapist mistakenly claimed (according to the therapist) that they had incorrectly recorded Ford recounting being attacked by four boys. Ford herself accounted for that discrepancy by saying that four boys were at the party, but only two of them had followed her upstairs and assaulted her while the other two boys remained downstairs, unaware of what was taking place.

With more than thirty-five years having gone by, one might understandably forgive Ms. Ford if she couldn’t remember the identities of the other boys downstairs, particularly if they hadn’t kept in touch over the decades. Heck, I probably couldn’t name more than one out of five members of my high school senior class if you showed me their graduation pictures today. But Keyser doesn’t fall into that category. She was supposedly not only at the party, but stayed in touch, remaining friends with Ford for all of these years.

So how would Ford write a letter stating there were four boys at the party when one of the alleged partygoers was not only female but someone she’s known all her life?

Up until now, I’ve avoided any direct accusation of mendacity on the part of Christine Blasey Ford, though the incredibly convenient timing of the release of this information made it tempting. Of those people who have spoken to her, all describe her as being credible, professional and an upright citizen. I’ve pondered how her story could be squared with the blunt denials of Kavanaugh and Mike Judge, along with the lack of any memory of such an event by the other supposed attendees. Given all the time that’s passed, I wondered if perhaps Ford had actually been to such a party and suffered an assault, but it was with someone else and her mind was just filling in a blank with Kavanaugh’s name. Such things can certainly happen as we get older and our memories become less reliable. (Trust me on that one.)

But now? The idea that one of the “other two boys” turned out to be not only a woman, but someone Ford has known all her life is a bit much to swallow. This story is starting to stink on ice.


TOPICS: Politics
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To: silverleaf

You beat me to it. I posted that exact theory on another thread earlier today. LOL.


21 posted on 09/23/2018 2:17:13 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will)
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To: silverleaf

Washington post said four boys after they knew Leland was one of the people Ford said was there.

Leland might have been contacting by WaPo early on. Remember, they had the story and refused to run it early on.


22 posted on 09/23/2018 2:17:45 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Trump20162020

...it’s called selective memory.
Since they took over the #metoo
movement they forget that 52 of the
initial 55 creeps were liberals and
Demonrats...


23 posted on 09/23/2018 2:18:53 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Trump20162020
Here's a simple explanation for this confusion.

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. When all the named people say they weren't there, all are claiming that it wasn't their house.

So whose house was it?

-PJ

24 posted on 09/23/2018 2:20:57 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: Trump20162020

How many times do I have to tell you ? Those girls fromHolton Arms were not welcome at the Catholic school parties and now you know why.


25 posted on 09/23/2018 2:21:33 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Alberta's Child; silverleaf

It sounds like a good theory to me. Leland sounds like a boy’s name.


26 posted on 09/23/2018 2:23:16 PM PDT by RedMominBlueState
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To: silverleaf

Bingo! And we have a winner!


27 posted on 09/23/2018 2:23:58 PM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: Trump20162020
This is a case of "lucid dreaming." She has assembled various bits and pieces of her own life experiences (without Kavanaugh) with other scenarios she has read about and perhaps things that happened to her friends. It has now become lifelike and very real to her, indistinguishable from real events that she experienced.

See "Total Recall," "Inception," and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."

In short, she is one disturbed woman.

28 posted on 09/23/2018 2:29:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Alberta's Child

Isnt it odd how little details can crack an entire story?
Like a tiny rock shatters a windshield


29 posted on 09/23/2018 2:31:31 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Falling apart? Hardly. Today, their storyline is that the lack of evidence is solid evidence it really happened. We are in War Is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength territory now.


30 posted on 09/23/2018 2:32:03 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Trump20162020

That’s just how she rolls, man. Dates, times, locations, names and faces? It’s all a crapshoot with her type. And those blurry 65 lovers by the time she was in college, they didn’t mean anything. A few sessions of therapy and...oops!


31 posted on 09/23/2018 2:33:09 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: unixfox

Leland was a pro lady golfer - PGA

Remember that Attorney Joe DiGenova hinted that there were stories about Christine among PGA sources


32 posted on 09/23/2018 2:34:41 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: TigerClaws
Why wouldn’t she call the friend and get her story straight before sending the letter?

Good question.

Taking that a step further, why didn't she call her old friend to at least confirm the friend remembered the 36 year old incident before writing the letter to avoid looking like a political vindictive fool?

33 posted on 09/23/2018 2:35:50 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: TigerClaws

Just read that response. Yep.


34 posted on 09/23/2018 2:38:25 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Trump20162020
Hey everyone, call your Senators and Reps. The SofL has run on a civil suit. A criminal action against a Juvenile still has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Ford is done for if the Pubs will play hard ball.

If Flake flakes he will be done for also for a future run.

35 posted on 09/23/2018 2:39:10 PM PDT by amihow
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To: Trump20162020
This story is starting to stink on ice.

Starting? Anybody with half a nose noticed the putridity immediately.

36 posted on 09/23/2018 2:39:19 PM PDT by KevinB (If I'm ever arrested, I'm switching parties.)
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To: silverleaf

That’s an interesting idea. It may well be correct.


37 posted on 09/23/2018 2:39:51 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: TigerClaws

“Why wouldn’t she call the friend and get her story straight before sending the letter?”

My question, which I have not seen asked, is say this accounts for all the folks at the party, whose bloody house were they at? One would assume one of the partyers lived there and that it wasn’t a random home they came across.

If it was a party with 50 kids, I can see not knowing who was throwing the party maybe, but 4-5 kids, someone had to set things up.


38 posted on 09/23/2018 2:47:33 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: silverleaf

“Because it wasnt her that wrote the letter or did the contacting
It was someone who thought “Leyland” was a boy.”

Bingo!


39 posted on 09/23/2018 2:52:27 PM PDT by semaj (U\)
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To: TigerClaws

I was thinking about this last night, and her friend would’ve remembered if Ford suddenly disappeared during a party. She definitely would’ve called Ford the next day to find out why she had left the party.


40 posted on 09/23/2018 2:52:59 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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