Seems to me that most commercial airliners these days have “multiple exits”.

(Course, that could just be me….)

I’ve known one or two. Attaining a doctorate is a career killer in the military and naval career circles.

But I need to move on to more important issues. Are they making more of you at the factory? You are wonderful, I didn’t think anyone could get me to like ballet. I don’t comment as often as I lurk. I book mark a lot. I liked some opera. Cosi Fan Tutti. Then you introduced me to knife-throwing Georgian ballet and I’m thinking “Whoa! This is something I could get into.”

Also, the dancing is nice. The girls are kind of hot. But mostly the knife throwing.

The other day I couldn’t keep you out of my head. I was fighting a mouse infestation. And I was thinking it would be my lucky day if the damned mice would charge me up the stairs. Also, I was looking at my thirteen y.o. Gordon Setter and wondering if he was going to get off the couch and do something about the rodent in his food bowl.

He sleeps a lot now. I took care of it myself. Next dog:

https://www.dogbreedinfo.com/ratterrier.htm

But when Prosecutor Mitchell asked her about that, what she said was that it “was never clear to [her]” that that offer had been made, or just what was meant by it, whichever.

(My own memory of the exact wording is inexact, and at this late date I’m not interested enough to listen again. But in both cases, the overall point remains. Had she or had she not been told that the offer as stated had been made?)

(I take the statement that Sen. Grassley did in fact make the “anywhere you like” offer. Otherwise you have to believe that he himself lied about or at least misrepresented that claim during the hearings.)

Her lawyers are now saying this:

“At no time did members of Dr. Ford’s team advise Committee staff that she could not travel to Washington, D.C. because of her fear of flying.” – [as Manju quoted; emphasis added]

I can see some wiggle room here, but the implication is that they never used fear of flying as a reason to delay. I do recall that reason being cited, but come to think of it, that may have been the characterization of Republican Senators or someone other than Ford or her attorneys.
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Her lawyers are saying a lot of things, and no, we don’t appear to have their original communications with the committee AFAIK, just like we don’t have a lot of the evidence that Ford’s attorneys are with-holding from the committee.

Hello Manju – it would help the conversation if you would link the stories you quote.
I found these articles, which include the same excerpt you gave in your comment. The second link gives some more context for the widespread public belief that she was afraid of flying (never disputed by her attorneys at the time, unless you think they weren’t reading Politico, CNN, or ABC, and nobody told them the scuttlebutt), but the Daily Wire’s Ashe Schow ultimately concludes in your favor.
You’re welcome.

None of which invalidates Neo’s analysis.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/36813/christine-blasey-fords-attorneys-claim-senators-ashe-schow

“In a statement sent to senators, Ford’s attorneys Lisa Banks, Michael Bromwich, and Debra Katz presented explanations for what they called “numerous false claims” that have been repeated in recent weeks.
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Her attorneys also countered a claim that Ford wouldn’t fly out to testify because she had a fear of flying.

“At no time did members of Dr. Ford’s team advise Committee staff that she could not travel to Washington, D.C., because of her fear of flying,” they wrote. “Rather, staff was told that Dr. Ford could not travel on the schedule the Committee demanded because she was focused on taking measures to protect her family from threats, including death threats.”

Her attorneys added that she met with the FBI at that time to discuss the threats, and said she does, in fact, have a fear of flying that requires medication.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/36818/fords-attorneys-say-fear-flying-didnt-postpone-ashe-schow

“In their statement regarding “lies” being spread about Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, her attorneys said they never told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she could not travel to Washington, D.C. due to a fear of flying.
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On September 21, Politico published an article about Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) giving Ford and her attorneys more time to decide when, where, and how to testify for the committee. Buried in the article was the following:

“The GOP has been told that Ford does not want to fly from her California home to Washington, according to the Republican senator, which means she may need to drive across the country. Ford has reportedly told friends she is uncomfortable in confined spaces, indicating a physical difficulty in making the trip by plane.”

Politico reporter Burgess Everett tweeted the following when promoting the article:
“Dr. Ford has indicated to Republicans she doesn’t want to fly, in part revealing why she doesn’t want the hearing to be on Monday

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/21/trump-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-charges-834664 …

12:24 PM – Sep 21, 2018″

On September 23, CNN interviewed friends of Ford who claimed she had a fear of enclosed spaces that didn’t have multiple exits, such as a plane. These friends were allowed to claim, without evidence, that this was due to Ford’s alleged encounter with Kavanaugh 36 years earlier.

Kate DeVarney, one of Kavanaugh’s friends, told the outlet that Ford “really has a hard time being in a place where there’s no escape route.” She added that Ford did not like to fly because an airplane was “the ultimate closed space where you cannot get away.”
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In their statement regarding this issue, Ford’s attorneys wrote:

“At no time did members of Dr. Ford’s team advise Committee staff that she could not travel to Washington, D.C., because of her fear of flying. Rather, staff was told that Dr. Ford could not travel on the schedule the Committee demanded because she was focused on taking measures to protect her family from threats, including death threats.”

Her attorneys said she was meeting with the FBI regarding those threats, and said she takes medication for her fear of flying.

We may not have seen all the correspondence between Ford’s attorneys and Grassley, but from what we have seen, there is no direct message from her attorneys saying she couldn’t appear to testify earlier because of a fear of flying.”

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So, who told the GOP and the reporters all of this about her having a fear of flying that would require a delay in the hearing? Note that the Politico article citing Senator Grassley as a source is non-specific about what he actually told them he was told, other than “she didn’t want to fly” — the “which means” clause could be their reporter’s own conclusion.

They had some kind of “leak” from “sources close to the situation” or some other nom-de-rumor since apparently there were never any documents cited by anyone.

I’m willing to believe the news-hounds all jumped to the conclusion that fear of flying was her principle reason for wanting to delay the hearing (because her friends said she had a fear of flying), but although Burgess tweeted “Dr. Ford has indicated to Republicans she doesn’t want to fly, in part revealing why she doesn’t want the hearing to be on Monday” the Politico article he is hyping never adds the lawyers’ newly-revealed caveat “Rather, staff was told that Dr. Ford could not travel on the schedule the Committee demanded because she was focused on taking measures to protect her family from threats, including death threats.”

Now why would 3 major MSM outlets hostile to Kavanaugh imply “fear of flying” was her main problem, if Ford’s lawyers didn’t want it suggested as a reason, as the other concerns they cited later (but which were not publicized) were perfectly adequate to satisfy the walk-on-eggshells policy of the Committee leaders?

Because, IMO, the other concerns didn’t implicate Judge Justice Kavanaugh directly, as the “friends” explanations did.

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Since it is so fashionable to call out dog-whistles,
you all probably know what “Fear of Flying” means in the Feminist jargon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_Flying_(novel)

Can I have the last three weeks of my life, which you wasted, back?

America gave all the individual power to the Deep State. Thus it doesn’t matter what the citizens say because the citizens and their elected officials don’t even run the country. They can talk all they want about punishing injustice, but Hillary Clinton is still free as a bird.

Talk, talk, just to appease the masses with some circus and games. That is all this hearing is, an entertainment Red vs Blue distraction to keep the peons distracted and kept down.

I often wonder whether you have a reading comprehension problem or just pretend to.

I understand that the talking point you have been breathlessly propagating, that Ford is “a blatant, brazen liar”, rests on the notion that “Ford’s lawyers were not citing her fear of flying to discuss her mental state in the abstract, they were citing it to justify a delay in the hearing because she could not fly as a result of that fear of flying.”

I also understand that you have not been able to provide a single quote from them where they cite fear of flying as a reason to delay the hearing.

I saw a Texas trial lawyer “forget” to call an expert witness Doctor. He apologized. The witness said, “you’ve always been a perfect gentleman.”

He then dropped the hammer. Witness destroyed. $300m jury verdict. Beautiful.