Posted on 05/01/2020 5:56:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
The media and Democrats were enraged when Brett Kavanaugh warned that their unethical behavior against him might have consequences. They should have listened.
Brett Kavanaugh was a very difficult Supreme Court nominee for liberals to oppose. He had a stellar reputation, an impeccable record, and a genial disposition. While members of the Resistance held a protest on the steps of the Supreme Court minutes after President Trump announced him as the pick to replace retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, their early efforts to keep him off the bench showed little promise.
All that changed in mid-September 2018, when the Washington Post carefully packaged and presented Christine Blasey Fords claim that Kavanaugh had tried to rape her when she was in high school. The media and Democrats immediately latched onto the accusation in a desperate attempt to keep Kavanaugh from being confirmed.
It wasnt the quality of the allegation that led to this reaction. Blasey Ford had no evidence she had ever met Kavanaugh, much less that he had tried to rape her. She wasnt sure about any detail related to the event other than that she had precisely one beer and that Kavanaugh had tried to rape her.
She didnt know how she got to the alleged event, where it was, how she got home, or whose house it was. None of the four witnesses she identified to reporters as having been at the event in question supported her claim. That included her close friend Leland Keyser, who was pressured by mutual acquaintances to change her testimony that she had no recollection of the event in question. Kavanaugh had an army of close friends and supporters who testified to his character throughout his adolescence and adulthood.
Nevertheless, over the next ten days, thousands of articles were published in newspapers and online while broadcast and cable news outlets devoted their entire schedule to covering the accusation. All hands were on deck to legitimize the allegation, paint the accuser in the most sympathetic light possible, downplay the many problems with her story, and ignore exonerating information. Anybody who supported Kavanaugh, from high school friends to sitting U.S. senators, was subjected to hostile media treatment and accusations of being a rape apologist.
The nation watched in horror as the federal judge, a happily married father of two young girls, was repeatedly called a rapist. MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson called Kavanaugh the fifth guy in the gang rape. That was after Michael Avenattis client Julie Swetnick claimed, absurdly, that Kavanaugh was the secret leader of a serial gang rape cartel that roamed the streets of suburban Maryland. One reporter admitted that she was trying to spin another murky claim from a Kavanaugh classmate at Yale specifically to show a pattern of misconduct.
It was a terrifying mob, the worst kind of feeding frenzy many Americans had ever witnessed. Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee accepted each claim, no matter how outlandish. After Swetnicks obviously ridiculous claim, all committee Democrats called for the immediate withdrawal of Kavanaughs nomination.
It all culminated with reopened hearings in which Blasey Ford publicly accused Kavanaugh, still with no evidence, and Kavanaugh fought to defend himself. In a lengthy opening statement, he reminded the gathered how they had publicly opposed him from the moment of his nomination, with Schumer saying publicly he would oppose Kavanaugh with everything hes got. Another senator called Kavanaugh evil and said those who supported him were complicit in evil.
I understand the passions of the moment, but I would say to those senators, your words have meaning. Millions of Americans listen carefully to you. Given comments like those, is it any surprise that people have been willing to do anything to make any physical threat against my family, to send any violent e-mail to my wife, to make any kind of allegation against me and against my friends. To blow me up and take me down.You sowed the wind. For decades to come, I fear that the whole country will reap the whirlwind.
The media and other partisans were enraged by Kavanaughs remarks. Brett Kavanaugh just got remarkably angry and political, opined the Washington Posts Aaron Blake. The New Yorkers Benjamin Wallace-Wells editorialized that Kavanaugh had given an Angry, Partisan, Trump-Like Opening Statement. His successful renunciation of the charges was evidenced by his opponents coalescing around a new talking point that he was too upset at the false accusation he was a serial gang rapist.
The events of the last weeks have proven Kavanaugh right. While even two years ago the media and Democrats may have gotten away with burying the sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden, its not working now. They have no one to blame but themselves.
It may have seemed necessary to play around with false accusations of serial gang rape to stop a nominee from securing a place on the Supreme Court or to make sure the justice would always have an asterisk next to his name on any abortion decision, as Blasey Fords attorney admitted was her clients goal. But the move has unbelievably serious consequences.
Remember that Biden himself joined the pile-on against Kavanaugh. As Marc Thiessen reminds readers:
Who was cheering them on the whole time? Joe Biden. The former vice president insisted that Ford should be given the benefit of the doubt and declared that for a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, youve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what shes talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts. He called, through a spokesperson, for thorough and nonpartisan effort to get to the truth, wherever it leads. He hailed her testimony as courageous, credible and powerful. He even explained away her lack of corroborating witnesses, declaring if, God forbid, you walked out and somebody patted you in the rear end, your boss, or said something to you, how many of you would go report it?
If the media and Democrats thought that they could get away with their despicable behavior with Kavanaugh and then turn around and attempt to bury a sexual assault allegation against Biden, they were sorely mistaken.
Since the media and Democrats dont have consistent standards for how they deal with accusations of sexual assault, they are facing consequences. Its an incredibly low bar, but there is no question that Tara Reades claim against Biden is significantly stronger than Blasey Fords claim against Kavanaugh.
For instance, Reade has evidence she met Biden. No one disputes she worked for him in 1993. Further, she has incredibly strong evidence that she told multiple people that Biden assaulted her at the time she claimed it happened. Her own mother called into CNNs Larry King show to discuss the matter in 1993! Blasey Fords story changed in the recent years she began telling it, but was not told for several decades and not before Kavanaugh had become a nationally known figure.
None of this is to say that Biden is guilty, but the media and Democrats sure as hell are. They were willing to destroy a mans life over far weaker claims, so they in no way can excuse ignoring Reades claim. Whether or not the media and Democrats want to acknowledge the growing anger over their despicable double standards, the anger is not going away.
They sowed the wind with their treatment of Kavanaugh. Now more than just Kavanaugh may fear that for the decades to come, the whole country will reap the whirlwind.
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If you are looking for compensatory justice, forget it. The effort to utterly destroy Kavanaugh had nothing to do with the veracity of the allegations. It was a concerted effort by the pro abortion/globalist/socialist Democrats and their minions in the media to politically and personally destroy a decent man they viewed as a threat to their agenda. There will be no such attack on their demented, creepy figurehead Biden. Reade will not even be interviewed on national television.
The Reade non-story after the Kavanaugh hysteria shows the overwhelming power of the media. If Trump didn’t constantly tweet, our side would never get any coverage at all.
I want to know more about the alleged congressional slush fund to buy off victims of sexual assault and harassment.
Pfffft, didn’t Biden tell Joe he didn’t do it?
That’s some deep digging, case closed.
I'm beginning to think ( in my old(er) age ), that something is happening to our culture between birth and sayyyy .... 45 or 50 ... that is MOST un-American.
I have been on the anti public school band wagon for over 40 years and now at 72, I listen to my peer group and compare/contrast it with younger patriots and I discern WE have carried a certain level of patriotism our entire lives but the younger folks (child - 40's or so) are either just learning it, or are unlearning things they were taught.
President Trump and Justice Kavenaugh share the same attribute .... they "got it" as infants or children.
In the recent past (back to 1990) ALL accusers have been Democrat women. But only the sexual harassment/assault accusations against REPUBLICANS have warranted much space in Big Media.
Being a Democrat means never having to say Im guilty.
The Democrats aren’t reaping anything. As always, the Democrats and their media enablers change tactics a hundred times a year. If its a conservative man, pull out “believe every woman.” If the Dem is an old man, then pull out nuts and sluts and the media shuts her out. I just shake my head when I see an article in conservative site talk about how now the Dems are going to pay for what they said previously. They won’t. They never do. We’re fooling ourselves if we think its going to change now.
Let's hope the angry get out and vote.
I think the point was, it’s a non story to the dems/msm, especially compared to Kavanaugh, not a non-story for real
We can now say...CHRISTINE FORD IS A LIAR...Dems have admitted women lie about rape and sex abuse....Even if they think Tara is credible ,either she lied or told the truth..If it was the truth,dems support sexual predator just as they did with Ted Kennedy....
Kavanaugh would take away the right to butcher humans...THEY HAD TO DESTROY HIM....
RATs have no standards. They have interests.
True in every way because the Leftists’ masks are off. Compare Kavanaugh to Biden. Compare COVID-19 totalitarianism (If we save just one life!) to Abortion. Compare Americans who want to get back to work to those who want to throw up roadblocks and shift goalposts.
Every day is a new education in the lows to which the Leftists will go. I will never be surprised by anything they do ever again. And yes, I know what that means and so does anyone else who’s paying attention.
Biden himself joined the pile-on against Kavanaugh. As Marc Thiessen reminds readers:
Who was cheering them on the whole time? Joe Biden. The former vice president insisted that Ford should be given the benefit of the doubt and declared that for a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, youve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what shes talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts. He called, through a spokesperson, for thorough and nonpartisan effort to get to the truth, wherever it leads. He hailed her testimony as courageous, credible and powerful. He even explained away her lack of corroborating witnesses, declaring if, God forbid, you walked out and somebody patted you in the rear end, your boss, or said something to you, how many of you would go report it?
Before Joe biden went on Morning Joe,Mika had to come up with all the stories,and women about Trump... She had to make sure EVERYONE knew Trump was a piece of crap...Commercial and later we will help Joe tell everyone Tara is a lying piece of .......Had to remind everyone how baddddd Trump is with women....
Dems better watch out...Someday that will be the new normal for talking about all dems....After all,Clinton,Ted Kennedy,Joe and that secret list....See how bad dems are..
I listened to the Larry King call, before it was removed. I did not hear the mother mention sexual assault. She mentioned very bad behavior by a powerful Senator toward her daughter, though.
It’s just an excuse to push Biden off the Democratic nomination.
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