Posted on 09/19/2019 5:40:53 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Authors of a controversial new book about Brett Kavanaugh said Democratic presidential candidates calling for his impeachment were engaged in a “rush to judgment” without having actually read their “nuanced” account of the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him.
“It’s dismaying to see the rush to judgment,” said Kate Kelly, a New York Times reporter and co-author
“We definitely have been grappling with it,” said co-author and fellow Times reporter Robin Pogrebin about the firestorm the initial accounts of their book triggered. “There was a sense going into this that nuance doesn’t make headlines, ... that people were going to pull stuff out. ... People saw what they wanted to see before learning any of the facts, or didn’t even make much of an effort to pay attention to the facts.”
At the same time, Kelly and Pogrebin acknowledged there were “errors in the process” of preparing an opinion article that resulted in Times editors removing “significant” information favorable to Kavanaugh’s defense from an early draft.
The article stated a “previously unreported” allegation that Kavanaugh, while a Yale freshman, was at a drunken dorm party where “friends pushed his penis” into the hand of a female student.
The allegation in the report triggered demands by Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg for Kavanaugh to be impeached.
But the Times article left out a key detail that is included in the book: the woman at the party in the new allegation never spoke to the authors and, according to several of her friends, didn’t recall the event ever happening.
“Obviously, it was an oversight,” said Kelly. “We corrected it as soon as we could, added the information in. There’s an editor’s note explaining that we regret this.There’s no attempt to conceal information from our readers.”
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Oh come on, they got exactly what they wanted, free publicity so they can sell their crap stain book
Chances of Kavanaugh being removed from office are exactly zero.
All over an allegation that has no substance. And even if he did expose himself, it hurt no one.
Sex is a private matter and its time to move on.
-PJ
After they acquitted Bill Clinton, Democrats can’t credibly invoke depraved private behavior as a standard to remove a public official.
They’re hoist on their own petard.
“nuanced” account = Fake News
Nuance is a nice weasel word for lies.
A friend of mine knows someone who has seen Kate Kelly in blackface on numerous occasions.
Why this obsession with what Kavanaugh allegedly did in college? No crime is even the issue here.
I don’t care even if it was true. And it was a long time ago.
Why? Because he is a conservative and must be destroyed for that.
Ever heard of the Progressive left?
-PJ
I scrolled through several comments and no one was justifying the authors or the Democrats.
i’ve lost count of the number of times in the last few weeks in which the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia has severely damaged their wholly-owned Democrat Party subsidiary by trying to “help” them with fake “news”, lies, and/or propaganda ...
it’s a truly remarkable phenomena and difficult to explain, actually ...
my current best explanation is that the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia lives in such a tiny, hermetically-sealed echo-chamber bubble, that they are incapable of foreseeing even the smallest possible ramifications of their hell-for-lather, get-trump-at-any-and-all-costs propaganda and lies ...
Yeah, right ...
Leaving our pertinent details to craft a lie is a nuance?
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