At 2:51 PM, September 20, 2018, Ed Whelan, a distinguished columnist and lawyer, posted an amazing set of Tweets regarding false memories of Christine Ford in regards to her accusations against Brett Kavanaugh.
I compiled the synopsis in my post Kavanaugh: Overwhelming Evidence of Mistaken Identity.
Scorecard
- Wall Street Journal: No Comment
- Washington Post: No Comment
- New York Times: No Comment
- Financial Times: No Comment
- CNN: No Comment
- Reuters: No Comment
- BBC: No Comment
- LA Times: No Comment
Many of the above outlets are willing to post the latest garbage rumors on anything.
Here, with amazing evidence and home interior images, no one is willing to touch the story.
This shows blatant, anti-Trump, Anti-Kavanaugh bias and/or fear of the /#MeToo Movement.
The above organizations do not have to agree with the story, but to deny it by ignoring it is nonsense.
In the sake of fairness, they owe it to Kavanaugh to present Whalen’s case.
They are either biased liars or cowards to fail to report this story especially when they produce so much totally unverified garbage about Russia and other topics.
Unlike BS Russia rumors, Whalen provides stunning evidence as opposed to conjuncture.
What we see smacks totally of purposeful media bias against Trump and Kavanaugh, possibly coupled with a /#MeToo backlash.
Update – Media Bias NBC
Update – Media Bias MSNBC
Mainstream media is willing to replicate proven lies, but not even comment on a masterful piece of investigative reporting.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Mish, looks like rare case of media not spreading vicious speculation from a devout biased conservative who did not witness the sexual assault. Dude finds a photo with similar look and accuses that guy of a crime. Kind of out there, and he himself has apologized.
You have gone from not favoring Kav due to “misinterpreting” his stance on Roe Wade and sensitivities over that with your wife (my recollection of your article here) to now rapid fire knee jerk support of whatever is necessary to install Kav in SC ASAP. What drives your bizarre turnaround?
What is the hurry with you and Repubs? Mitch McConnel said 9 months was not enough time to review Merrick. Kavanaugh was nominated just 2 1/2 months ago. Why the double standard?
” PR firm helped Whelan stoke half-baked Kavanaugh alibi
CRC Public Relations, a powerhouse conservative firm, guided Ed Whelan on a bad Twitter adventure.”
And rubes like Mish swallowed the bait hook, line, and sinker. Sad.
Yes, but I find it interesting the the identified party has not refuted the theory.
Garrett might be considered a public figure if he injects himself into this any more than he already is by being friends with Kavanaugh. That could jeopardize the massive lawsuit he is preparing against Whelan.
It seems like the Politico piece is typical blame the messenger and not the message.
Signal to Noise. It is said that during World War II, even the Germans listened to the BBC because it had such a strong reputation for accurate reporting, even when things were going badly for the Brits. And the Brits took advantage of this hard-won reputation for BBC accuracy by very occasionally inserting a piece of disinformation into their otherwise-accurate reporting. High Signal to Noise.
That was then. Today, no thinking person has much trust in reporting by the BBC or the NYT or any of the other “mainstream” outlets — the Signal to Noise (or rather, to politically correct lecturing) ratio is too low. It is fascinating in airports to see so few people in that captive audience paying any attention to the omni-present 24/7 CNN broadcasts.
Strange that in a world where communication has never been easier, information is getting harder to find. I think Mish does a good job of flagging things that are worth knowing about. It makes it well worth coming to Mish’s blog — even though I disagree with Mish’s assessment of certain issues.
Pravda on the Potomoc, Izvestia on the Hudson. Now the Communists are actually fascist billionaires and their buddies. (Hmmm – analogous?) Maybe this time there is something going on behind the scenes that is so dangerous (nooses) to their “deep” state merger that they need to do ANYTHING to stop any Supreme’s appointment.
I’m actually surprised the evil Dems aren’t proffering pics of Kavanaugh porking Pepe in Kekistan. Perhaps the Dem circle jerk audience are so geriatric they wouldn’t get it?
All they have to do is stop the nomination, and their Pop-up-Bimbo can go home with a few hundred g’s after her 15 minutes and be forgotten. And the Continuing Circus restarts after the sElection, when the Dems and their Full Spectrum Dominance Election Fraud and apathetic Fredocons will have saved the day. Or not.
This case is in stark contrast to the many people taken down by the “me too” movement who have long track records of abuse and misuse of authority.
Lost in all this media circus is the fact that Kavanaugh has built a long, respectable career as a decent, honest, and fair judge, and he has a long list of people willing to state that he has treated everyone with respect. It’s kind of scary to me to think that any person could have their reputation tarred if some person they barely knew 40 years ago makes totally unverified accusations against them. Maybe Ford is telling the truth, and maybe she is mistaken, I don’t know. What I do know is that it doesn’t matter if her accusations are the truth or not because the climate is so politicized and poisonous that truth is no longer relevant because the ends justify the means.
Freedom of speech allows anyone to accuse anyone of anything.
As well as allowing any media outlet, to print exactly that which they believe will prime their readers to buy the most from their advertisers.
It also puts the onus on people to only believe that which can be proven. And simply ignore that which can’t.
After all, absent rock solid, incontrovertible evidence that she was raped by Kavanaugh (Nowadays DNA, back then medical evidence of intercourse; at both times evidence of struggle, vitnesses hearing screams……); all this is, is just some over the hill, irrelevant and utterly forgettable hag, clamoring for her 5 minutes of unearned fame by insinuating she was once attractive enough to be desired by a famous guy.
And a bunch of ad salesmen attempting to make a few bucks, while simultaneously boosting and confirming their standing amongst those they consider “their” crowd, by printing smut unworthy of Larry Flynt about someone outside of that crowd.
What is important is that anyone should be able to say and print anything about anyone, anytime. For any purpose. Whether what’s being said is truth, lies or whatnot. While some will lie, and some may even take it upon themselves to be hurt by that; the alternative of a bunch of apparatchiks, privileged judges and ambulance chasers censoring people, is a whole lot worse.
But what’s also important, is that anything not proven in the most solid and incontrovertible way, is simply dismissed as random noise emanating from a hole in someone’s head, by any official process.
Stuki — even the delightful Chrissie has NEVER alleged that she was raped. She has alleged that she was groped — by a minor who was under the influence of alcohol, at a time when she too was apparently under the influence of alcohol (although both of them were breaking the law by under-age drinking).
By Chrissie’s own statement — there were no physical injuries, no torn clothes, no vaginal or anal penetration. It was not a rape — not even a sexual assault.
IOW, it’s about as relevant as whether or not she had milk for breakfast some random day in 1954.
I agree largely with your post. People certainly have the right to make whatever accusations they choose, and the press has the the right to publicize those. What is remarkable is what a politicized circus it has become. People condemn people of the opposite party for one thing, and look the other way if it is someone in their own party. It’s as if “right” and “wrong” have been replaced by “right” and “left”.
I hope you are right, that in the end sanity prevails, and facts matter, and anything that can not be proven is dismissed as noise.
This is not about Kavanaugh or Crissy. This Alinskyite contempt for rules and process will only end when lizards like Feinstein are expelled from the Senate, and The ComPost gets it’s corporate charter pulled for the Pop-up-Bimbo AL election meddling.
But the “… onus on people …” is only realistic after the end of Forced Public Schooling, which may arrive with the Great Reset.
Mish is the kind of guy, when the whole world says something, decides it must not be true because the whole world is saying it. Once in a while it makes him look like the only smart guy on earth. But the rest of the time it makes him look crazy. It’s crazy to think this girl can’t tell her high school classmates apart. Who here would have had trouble telling their high school friends apart, seriously?
Ron — With respect, you are assuming facts not in evidence. The boys were not her classmates — did not even attend the same school. (Chrissie went to an all-girls school). Chrissie has never said anything that shows how well she knew the boys — or even if she had ever seen them before.
Whelan’s postulated explanation of mistaken identity would make most sense if this was the first time that Chrissie had met them. (Especially since she may have been drunk at the time, as a consequence of her decision to engage in illegal under-age drinking). If Chrissie wanted to give her tale credibility, she should have addressed the issue of prior & subsequent contacts with those present at the alleged incident.
Ford actually did talk about how well she knew them. It’s in the Washington Post, which has covered this story, in direct contradiction to Mish’s crazy conspiracy theory posts.
Sometimes Mish comes off as kind of autistic, where he doesn’t understand human behavior. No way this college professor would upend her life to score some kind of political points. It’s incredible that she had the courage to come forward at all. It’s just ugly to try to paint her as confused or something.
Debauchery in the Imperial City? Corruption starts young there:
The MSM is propaganda, not news.
The lies have already succeeded. According to latest WSJ poll, “Nomination Faces Growing Opposition.” I am sure it will have an impact on midterms. MSM is complicit in the slander.
Yes, and the lies keep piling on. Quite frankly I am tired of this damn story, but my sense of justice will not let it go. More tomorrow
I had two people tell me they unbookmarked me on Twitter because of my “Trump bias”.
Because of my Trade posts, I have a couple people here accusing me of being “Anti-Trump”
I do not give a damn about political parties. I am position-based.
You’re sounding dangerously ‘reality based’ at the moment. Reality is the new undiscovered country.
War imminent in Syria/Iran – MSM response: “0”. The above is just a distraction. Unconfirmed news: Russia declares Syria as a no fly zone. MSM response: Another big fat “0”.
Sounds reasonable. Democrats want to delay, delay hoping to win the senate and not confirming a judge till after 2020.
I’m not surprised at all. Saddened, but not surprised.