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		By: Baklava		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/10/02/and-why-should-anyone-on-earth-care/#comment-2406839</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Live Press conference from White House. Should see fireworks.
https://youtu.be/mPvsP3iC8zg

Ouch. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is going scorched earth on Democrat Senators.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Live Press conference from White House. Should see fireworks.<br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/mPvsP3iC8zg" rel="nofollow ugc">https://youtu.be/mPvsP3iC8zg</a></p>
<p>Ouch. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is going scorched earth on Democrat Senators.</p>
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		By: Baklava		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/10/02/and-why-should-anyone-on-earth-care/#comment-2406831</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Baklava]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[KellyAnne Conway swats away the press

https://twitter.com/svkenney/status/1047509606619078656

Disgraceful letter signed by US Senate Democrats. 

https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1047525671784910849

Absolutely disgraceful lumping in Swetnick with Dr. Ford and and Ramirez together. THEY DON&#039;T LISTEN ! !!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>KellyAnne Conway swats away the press</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/svkenney/status/1047509606619078656" rel="nofollow ugc">https://twitter.com/svkenney/status/1047509606619078656</a></p>
<p>Disgraceful letter signed by US Senate Democrats. </p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1047525671784910849" rel="nofollow ugc">https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1047525671784910849</a></p>
<p>Absolutely disgraceful lumping in Swetnick with Dr. Ford and and Ramirez together. THEY DON&#8217;T LISTEN ! !!</p>
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		By: Baklava		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/10/02/and-why-should-anyone-on-earth-care/#comment-2406830</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OMG. Look at this mob around Senator Susan Collins this morning. 

https://twitter.com/SamanthaJoRoth/status/1047522388718641152]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OMG. Look at this mob around Senator Susan Collins this morning. </p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/SamanthaJoRoth/status/1047522388718641152" rel="nofollow ugc">https://twitter.com/SamanthaJoRoth/status/1047522388718641152</a></p>
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		By: Richard Saunders		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 08:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I find this whole discussion about high school keg parties and sex to be so alien it&#039;s as though people are speaking Martian.

I graduated high school in 1964, long before the sexual revolution, feminism, or the takeover of academia by the Left.

Did we fantasize about having sex?  Yes.  Did we ever get any?  Nobody I knew.  A guy who got to &quot;second base&quot; was considered a hero.  My father was a beer distributor.  If he had ever sold kegs to underage boys, the Liquor Control Board would have been all over him and taken his license in a flash.

As far as sexual assault or date rape is concerned, if you so much as got &quot;fresh&quot; with a girl, she would definitely tell her father, or worse, her big brother, if she had one.  Shortly thereafter, you would be confronted by her father, or her big brother and a couple of his friends.  Depending on the degree of freshness, and the temperament of the father or big brother, you would receive a threat, a gut-punch, or a serious beat-down.  Nobody ever had to be told twice.

Was there sex in high school?  Surely there was, because, in my 1200-student high school,  every couple of years, one or two girls would get pregnant and drop out of school.  The boy&#039;s father would take him by the ear, the girl&#039;s father would take her by the ear, drag them to the parish church, where they would be married on the spot.  The boy had to drop out of high school, and if he could only get a job as gas pump jockey or construction laborer, well, that was just too damn bad.  Shoulda thought of that!

(I&#039;m sure there was more sex than that, but I certainly didn&#039;t know about it.)

Those were the bourgeois values of the &#039;50s and early &#039;60s that all the lefties deride.  They sure don&#039;t look so bad now, do they?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find this whole discussion about high school keg parties and sex to be so alien it&#8217;s as though people are speaking Martian.</p>
<p>I graduated high school in 1964, long before the sexual revolution, feminism, or the takeover of academia by the Left.</p>
<p>Did we fantasize about having sex?  Yes.  Did we ever get any?  Nobody I knew.  A guy who got to &#8220;second base&#8221; was considered a hero.  My father was a beer distributor.  If he had ever sold kegs to underage boys, the Liquor Control Board would have been all over him and taken his license in a flash.</p>
<p>As far as sexual assault or date rape is concerned, if you so much as got &#8220;fresh&#8221; with a girl, she would definitely tell her father, or worse, her big brother, if she had one.  Shortly thereafter, you would be confronted by her father, or her big brother and a couple of his friends.  Depending on the degree of freshness, and the temperament of the father or big brother, you would receive a threat, a gut-punch, or a serious beat-down.  Nobody ever had to be told twice.</p>
<p>Was there sex in high school?  Surely there was, because, in my 1200-student high school,  every couple of years, one or two girls would get pregnant and drop out of school.  The boy&#8217;s father would take him by the ear, the girl&#8217;s father would take her by the ear, drag them to the parish church, where they would be married on the spot.  The boy had to drop out of high school, and if he could only get a job as gas pump jockey or construction laborer, well, that was just too damn bad.  Shoulda thought of that!</p>
<p>(I&#8217;m sure there was more sex than that, but I certainly didn&#8217;t know about it.)</p>
<p>Those were the bourgeois values of the &#8217;50s and early &#8217;60s that all the lefties deride.  They sure don&#8217;t look so bad now, do they?</p>
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		By: AesopFan		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 06:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Compare and contrast.

I add one quote from the Times, which as usual only tales part of the story, while trying to appear even-handed, but including a few good words for Judge Kavanaugh.

It was stupid of Mark Judge to use Kavanaugh&#039;s actual nickname in his memoir, but that was clear from the way Judge K. answered the questions about it last week (I wish Mark&#039;s parents had had a different surname!)

http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/02/new-york-times-preparing-hit-piece-on-brett-kavanaugh-for-party-planning/#.W7PRF3UmeR8.twitter

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/brett-kavanaugh-georgetown-prep.html

&quot;Judge Kavanaugh — a standout student, captain of the basketball team and a master of the quip, according to one teacher — was especially close to Mr. Judge, a fixture of the school’s party scene. Dr. Blasey said that Mr. Judge was in the room and jumped onto the bed during the alleged 1982 assault.

Mr. Judge was widely perceived as a goofball with a big mouth.&quot;

Not a word that Mark Judge totally denied the allegation, thus leaving Ford&#039;s words unquestioned.
Typical.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Compare and contrast.</p>
<p>I add one quote from the Times, which as usual only tales part of the story, while trying to appear even-handed, but including a few good words for Judge Kavanaugh.</p>
<p>It was stupid of Mark Judge to use Kavanaugh&#8217;s actual nickname in his memoir, but that was clear from the way Judge K. answered the questions about it last week (I wish Mark&#8217;s parents had had a different surname!)</p>
<p><a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/02/new-york-times-preparing-hit-piece-on-brett-kavanaugh-for-party-planning/#.W7PRF3UmeR8.twitter" rel="nofollow ugc">http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/02/new-york-times-preparing-hit-piece-on-brett-kavanaugh-for-party-planning/#.W7PRF3UmeR8.twitter</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/brett-kavanaugh-georgetown-prep.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/brett-kavanaugh-georgetown-prep.html</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Judge Kavanaugh — a standout student, captain of the basketball team and a master of the quip, according to one teacher — was especially close to Mr. Judge, a fixture of the school’s party scene. Dr. Blasey said that Mr. Judge was in the room and jumped onto the bed during the alleged 1982 assault.</p>
<p>Mr. Judge was widely perceived as a goofball with a big mouth.&#8221;</p>
<p>Not a word that Mark Judge totally denied the allegation, thus leaving Ford&#8217;s words unquestioned.<br />
Typical.</p>
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		By: AesopFan		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/10/02/and-why-should-anyone-on-earth-care/#comment-2406793</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 06:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Baklava on October 3, 2018 at 12:28 am at 12:28 am said:
Neo, I’m going to invite you to look at this Tweet by Senator Orin Hatch to an MSNBC producer. ... It isn’t just one tweet, there are several more in the thread.
* * *
Loved it - it&#039;s moving down the line though so here&#039;s a copy.
He is channeling Neo ;)
* * *
More Senator Hatch Office Retweeted Kyle Griffin
&lt;b&gt;And?&lt;/b&gt;Senator Hatch Office added,
Kyle Griffin
Verified account
 
@kylegriffin1
One night during his senior year, according to classmates who witnessed it, Kavanaugh &quot;triumphantly hoisted an empty beer keg above his head,&quot; in recognition that he and his friends were on their way to reaching their goal of 100 kegs during the academic year, NYT reports. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1047256166550712321 …
6:55 PM - 2 Oct 2018

* * *
More funnies, like these?

“Even a teetotaling Mormon” can spot the left’s desperate straw men on Judge Kavanaugh’s drinking habits 30 years ago.
More
If you thought they couldn&#039;t top the ice-throwing story.. think again.

This story appears to be about party planning, with teenage rebel Brett Kavanaugh suggesting that they warn their neighbors in advance about the possibility of loud noise.
* * *
Or maybe these, which are in a more serious vein:
 
@ryanjreilly
NEW: Attorneys for Dr. Ford, in letter to FBI Director Chris Wray:
&quot;It is inconceivable that the FBI could conduct a thorough investigation of Dr. Ford&#039;s allegations without interviewing her, Judge Kavanaugh, or the witnesses we have identified in our letters to you.”

More Senator Hatch Office Retweeted Ryan J. Reilly
Dr. Ford shared her story with the world in 3 hours of public testimony just last week.
Are her lawyers suggesting she has more to share? That would contradict her testimony that she had told the committee everything. 

Senator Hatch Office
?Verified account
 @senorrinhatch
 5h5 hours ago
More
NEW: Dr. Ford’s “Democratic activist” legal team may have violated the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct by not conveying Chairman Grassley’s repeated offers to interview her in California instead of in a public hearing in Washington.

 
@senorrinhatch
Follow Follow @senorrinhatch
More
Recent polls suggest that some find Judge Kavanaugh to not be trustworthy. If you take a look at the media coverage from *just one night* you might see part of the reason why. 

Hint: it has very little to do with Brett Kavanaugh’s trustworthiness.  
* * *
I hope the picture comes through on this one.
https://twitter.com/DDSpringer6/status/1047327145939226624]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Baklava on October 3, 2018 at 12:28 am at 12:28 am said:<br />
Neo, I’m going to invite you to look at this Tweet by Senator Orin Hatch to an MSNBC producer. &#8230; It isn’t just one tweet, there are several more in the thread.<br />
* * *<br />
Loved it &#8211; it&#8217;s moving down the line though so here&#8217;s a copy.<br />
He is channeling Neo 😉<br />
* * *<br />
More Senator Hatch Office Retweeted Kyle Griffin<br />
<b>And?</b>Senator Hatch Office added,<br />
Kyle Griffin<br />
Verified account</p>
<p>@kylegriffin1<br />
One night during his senior year, according to classmates who witnessed it, Kavanaugh &#8220;triumphantly hoisted an empty beer keg above his head,&#8221; in recognition that he and his friends were on their way to reaching their goal of 100 kegs during the academic year, NYT reports. <a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1047256166550712321" rel="nofollow ugc">https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1047256166550712321</a> …<br />
6:55 PM &#8211; 2 Oct 2018</p>
<p>* * *<br />
More funnies, like these?</p>
<p>“Even a teetotaling Mormon” can spot the left’s desperate straw men on Judge Kavanaugh’s drinking habits 30 years ago.<br />
More<br />
If you thought they couldn&#8217;t top the ice-throwing story.. think again.</p>
<p>This story appears to be about party planning, with teenage rebel Brett Kavanaugh suggesting that they warn their neighbors in advance about the possibility of loud noise.<br />
* * *<br />
Or maybe these, which are in a more serious vein:</p>
<p>@ryanjreilly<br />
NEW: Attorneys for Dr. Ford, in letter to FBI Director Chris Wray:<br />
&#8220;It is inconceivable that the FBI could conduct a thorough investigation of Dr. Ford&#8217;s allegations without interviewing her, Judge Kavanaugh, or the witnesses we have identified in our letters to you.”</p>
<p>More Senator Hatch Office Retweeted Ryan J. Reilly<br />
Dr. Ford shared her story with the world in 3 hours of public testimony just last week.<br />
Are her lawyers suggesting she has more to share? That would contradict her testimony that she had told the committee everything. </p>
<p>Senator Hatch Office<br />
?Verified account<br />
 @senorrinhatch<br />
 5h5 hours ago<br />
More<br />
NEW: Dr. Ford’s “Democratic activist” legal team may have violated the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct by not conveying Chairman Grassley’s repeated offers to interview her in California instead of in a public hearing in Washington.</p>
<p>@senorrinhatch<br />
Follow Follow @senorrinhatch<br />
More<br />
Recent polls suggest that some find Judge Kavanaugh to not be trustworthy. If you take a look at the media coverage from *just one night* you might see part of the reason why. </p>
<p>Hint: it has very little to do with Brett Kavanaugh’s trustworthiness.<br />
* * *<br />
I hope the picture comes through on this one.<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/DDSpringer6/status/1047327145939226624" rel="nofollow ugc">https://twitter.com/DDSpringer6/status/1047327145939226624</a></p>
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		By: Baklava		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/10/02/and-why-should-anyone-on-earth-care/#comment-2406778</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 04:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Neo, I&#039;m going to invite you to look at this Tweet by Senator Orin Hatch to an MSNBC producer. 

I just joined Twitter on September 30th, with a nickname, fake birthday, and started following people like Dinesh DSouza, Larry Elders, etc.  There is soooo much information out. Links to Senate Judiciary reports, etc. 

Anyways - check this expert level troll Senator Orin Hatch out 
https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1047304205818630144

OMG, I have a newfound respect for our Senators looking at the debate out there. It isn&#039;t just one tweet, there are several more in the thread.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Neo, I&#8217;m going to invite you to look at this Tweet by Senator Orin Hatch to an MSNBC producer. </p>
<p>I just joined Twitter on September 30th, with a nickname, fake birthday, and started following people like Dinesh DSouza, Larry Elders, etc.  There is soooo much information out. Links to Senate Judiciary reports, etc. </p>
<p>Anyways &#8211; check this expert level troll Senator Orin Hatch out<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1047304205818630144" rel="nofollow ugc">https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1047304205818630144</a></p>
<p>OMG, I have a newfound respect for our Senators looking at the debate out there. It isn&#8217;t just one tweet, there are several more in the thread.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 04:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/10/ways-justice-kavanaugh-recuse/

&quot;The Supreme Court may have to consider questions about whether a sitting president can be indicted or subpoenaed, and what effect pardoning a federal offense would have on state charges for the same conduct — an issue bound up in Gamble v. United States, a double jeopardy case already on the court’s calendar. Many have argued that Judge Kavanaugh should not be confirmed unless he commits in advance to recusing himself from such cases. He has predictably refused to do so.

The accusations made by Christine Blasey Ford raise another order of concern. Some might argue that the unresolved cloud over his past would require a Justice Kavanaugh to recuse himself from any case involving sexual assault or harassment. That might well be, but I have in mind something more sweeping and fundamental.&quot;

LAURENCE TRIBE Posted at 4:20 pm on October 2, 2018

nytimes.com/2018/10/01/opinion/justice-kavanaugh-recuse-himself.html

* * *
Called it here.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2018/10/01/the-left-and-the-double-bind-setting-a-new-standard-for-chutzpah/#comment-2406606

AesopFan on October 1, 2018 at 10:21 pm at 10:21 pm said:
The next complaint of the Democrats will be that Kavanaugh should not be confirmed because he will have to recuse himself from any case involving a woman: even if he didn’t hate women before, he certainly does now.

I personally think Judge Kavanaugh is better than that, but sand-bagging is not something elite judges usually have much experience with.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/10/ways-justice-kavanaugh-recuse/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/10/ways-justice-kavanaugh-recuse/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;The Supreme Court may have to consider questions about whether a sitting president can be indicted or subpoenaed, and what effect pardoning a federal offense would have on state charges for the same conduct — an issue bound up in Gamble v. United States, a double jeopardy case already on the court’s calendar. Many have argued that Judge Kavanaugh should not be confirmed unless he commits in advance to recusing himself from such cases. He has predictably refused to do so.</p>
<p>The accusations made by Christine Blasey Ford raise another order of concern. Some might argue that the unresolved cloud over his past would require a Justice Kavanaugh to recuse himself from any case involving sexual assault or harassment. That might well be, but I have in mind something more sweeping and fundamental.&#8221;</p>
<p>LAURENCE TRIBE Posted at 4:20 pm on October 2, 2018</p>
<p>nytimes.com/2018/10/01/opinion/justice-kavanaugh-recuse-himself.html</p>
<p>* * *<br />
Called it here.<br />
<a href="https://www.thenewneo.com/2018/10/01/the-left-and-the-double-bind-setting-a-new-standard-for-chutzpah/#comment-2406606" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.thenewneo.com/2018/10/01/the-left-and-the-double-bind-setting-a-new-standard-for-chutzpah/#comment-2406606</a></p>
<p>AesopFan on October 1, 2018 at 10:21 pm at 10:21 pm said:<br />
The next complaint of the Democrats will be that Kavanaugh should not be confirmed because he will have to recuse himself from any case involving a woman: even if he didn’t hate women before, he certainly does now.</p>
<p>I personally think Judge Kavanaugh is better than that, but sand-bagging is not something elite judges usually have much experience with.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mike K on October 2, 2018 at 10:55 pm at 10:55 pm said:
...Kagan was in a lesbian relationship at Harvard yet was [not??] asked to recuse herself on gay marriage cases. I’m sure there are more.
* * *
I missed those speculations, so will &quot;do the research&quot; (i.e., pick up the first couple of hits on Google&#039;s front page). Clearly, since there are competing narratives, we need an FBI investigation!
I particularly like Politico&#039;s final graf.

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/8606913872.html

&quot;WASHINGTON, May 10 /Christian Newswire/ --  As far back as 2006 and 2007, four different Harvard Law Students confirmed that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was a Lesbian. Why is the Obama Administration now suddenly ashamed of Kagan&#039;s homosexual orientation?
 
CBS News first reported that President Obama&#039;s new Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan will be the &quot;first openly gay justice,&quot; pleasing much of Obama&#039;s liberal base. But after pressure from the White House they amended the report: &quot;I have to correct my text here to say that Kagan is apparently still closeted -- odd, because her female partner is rather well known in Harvard circles.&quot; CBS later pulled the report entirely, after The Washington Post criticized CBS policy, saying &quot;most major news organizations have policies against &#039;outing&#039; gays or reporting on the sex lives of public officials unless they are related to their public duties.&quot;
 
Why the sudden media blackout, even among conservative news organizations?
 
Kagan&#039;s private sex life already has, and will directly impact her public Supreme Court decisions, especially on &quot;Don&#039;t Ask, Don&#039;t Tell,&quot; and other issues.
 
In breaking news, Chaplain Klingenschmitt reveals that four different Harvard Law School students reported Kagan was Lesbian Homosexual as far back as 2006 and 2007.
 
The 4 Harvard law students&#039; quotes are now online at www.prayinjesusname.org/kagan.
 
Will any news reporter dare to track down and interview these four students?&quot;

https://www.politico.com/story/2010/05/kagans-friends-shes-not-gay-037114

&quot;Elena Kagan is not a lesbian, one of her best friends told POLITICO Tuesday night, responding to persistent rumors and innuendo about the Supreme Court nominee’s personal life.
...
Walzer, half amused and half appalled to be discussing her friend’s sexual orientation, agreed to be interviewed after Kagan’s supporters decided they should tactfully put an end to the rumor, which White House officials had already tried to squelch in background interviews with reporters. She said she decided to talk to POLITICO because the discussion of Kagan’s personal life has become a “distraction.”
...
Another friend, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, a member of Kagan’s social circle at Princeton University, wanted to make the same point as Walzer. “I did not go out with her, but other guys did,” he said in an email Tuesday night. “I don&#039;t think it is my place to say more.”

The rumor about Kagan has circulated for months on gay blogs and became a matter of controversy when it was cited as fact by a conservative blogger on the website of CBS News, drawing a sharp White House rebuttal. It has, since, been a source of particular fascination in some socially conservative circles and particularly among gay and lesbian political observers, some of whom objected volubly Tuesday to a Wall Street Journal cover image of Kagan playing softball, which they perceived as a jab at a stereotype of lesbians.The result has been an awkward dilemma for the traditional media, for whom reporting about homosexuality has always been considered to be off limits.
Reporters and bloggers have debated, publicly and privately, the propriety of asking whether Kagan is gay. But Walzer – who has spoken regularly to the press this week – said that in a series of interviews with reporters she had been asked only obliquely about the nominee’s “social life.”

The intense scrutiny that comes with a Supreme Court nomination leaves ample space for curiosity – particularly intense in the gay community— on a question that even leading Republican Senators have dismissed as irrelevant to the job. But Kagan’s friends’ desire to “out” her as straight has been complicated by their hope to avoid offending gay friends by implying that there would be any problem if she were a lesbian.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mike K on October 2, 2018 at 10:55 pm at 10:55 pm said:<br />
&#8230;Kagan was in a lesbian relationship at Harvard yet was [not??] asked to recuse herself on gay marriage cases. I’m sure there are more.<br />
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I missed those speculations, so will &#8220;do the research&#8221; (i.e., pick up the first couple of hits on Google&#8217;s front page). Clearly, since there are competing narratives, we need an FBI investigation!<br />
I particularly like Politico&#8217;s final graf.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/8606913872.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/8606913872.html</a></p>
<p>&#8220;WASHINGTON, May 10 /Christian Newswire/ &#8212;  As far back as 2006 and 2007, four different Harvard Law Students confirmed that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was a Lesbian. Why is the Obama Administration now suddenly ashamed of Kagan&#8217;s homosexual orientation?</p>
<p>CBS News first reported that President Obama&#8217;s new Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan will be the &#8220;first openly gay justice,&#8221; pleasing much of Obama&#8217;s liberal base. But after pressure from the White House they amended the report: &#8220;I have to correct my text here to say that Kagan is apparently still closeted &#8212; odd, because her female partner is rather well known in Harvard circles.&#8221; CBS later pulled the report entirely, after The Washington Post criticized CBS policy, saying &#8220;most major news organizations have policies against &#8216;outing&#8217; gays or reporting on the sex lives of public officials unless they are related to their public duties.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why the sudden media blackout, even among conservative news organizations?</p>
<p>Kagan&#8217;s private sex life already has, and will directly impact her public Supreme Court decisions, especially on &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell,&#8221; and other issues.</p>
<p>In breaking news, Chaplain Klingenschmitt reveals that four different Harvard Law School students reported Kagan was Lesbian Homosexual as far back as 2006 and 2007.</p>
<p>The 4 Harvard law students&#8217; quotes are now online at <a href="http://www.prayinjesusname.org/kagan" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.prayinjesusname.org/kagan</a>.</p>
<p>Will any news reporter dare to track down and interview these four students?&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2010/05/kagans-friends-shes-not-gay-037114" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.politico.com/story/2010/05/kagans-friends-shes-not-gay-037114</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Elena Kagan is not a lesbian, one of her best friends told POLITICO Tuesday night, responding to persistent rumors and innuendo about the Supreme Court nominee’s personal life.<br />
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Walzer, half amused and half appalled to be discussing her friend’s sexual orientation, agreed to be interviewed after Kagan’s supporters decided they should tactfully put an end to the rumor, which White House officials had already tried to squelch in background interviews with reporters. She said she decided to talk to POLITICO because the discussion of Kagan’s personal life has become a “distraction.”<br />
&#8230;<br />
Another friend, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, a member of Kagan’s social circle at Princeton University, wanted to make the same point as Walzer. “I did not go out with her, but other guys did,” he said in an email Tuesday night. “I don&#8217;t think it is my place to say more.”</p>
<p>The rumor about Kagan has circulated for months on gay blogs and became a matter of controversy when it was cited as fact by a conservative blogger on the website of CBS News, drawing a sharp White House rebuttal. It has, since, been a source of particular fascination in some socially conservative circles and particularly among gay and lesbian political observers, some of whom objected volubly Tuesday to a Wall Street Journal cover image of Kagan playing softball, which they perceived as a jab at a stereotype of lesbians.The result has been an awkward dilemma for the traditional media, for whom reporting about homosexuality has always been considered to be off limits.<br />
Reporters and bloggers have debated, publicly and privately, the propriety of asking whether Kagan is gay. But Walzer – who has spoken regularly to the press this week – said that in a series of interviews with reporters she had been asked only obliquely about the nominee’s “social life.”</p>
<p>The intense scrutiny that comes with a Supreme Court nomination leaves ample space for curiosity – particularly intense in the gay community— on a question that even leading Republican Senators have dismissed as irrelevant to the job. But Kagan’s friends’ desire to “out” her as straight has been complicated by their hope to avoid offending gay friends by implying that there would be any problem if she were a lesbian.&#8221;</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are several issues that female Justices were never asked about RBG had a long history with abortion politics but was not asked, that I recall, if she could rule fairly.  Kagan was in a lesbian relationship at Harvard yet was asked to recuse herself on gay marriage cases. I&#039;m sure there are more.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are several issues that female Justices were never asked about RBG had a long history with abortion politics but was not asked, that I recall, if she could rule fairly.  Kagan was in a lesbian relationship at Harvard yet was asked to recuse herself on gay marriage cases. I&#8217;m sure there are more.</p>
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