Alan Dershowitz doesn’t think anyone should go easy on Julie Swetnick if it turns out she lied and knew she was lying: DERSHOWITZ: If you have information suggesting it’s false, and any reasonable lawyer hearing her on television says you … Continue reading →
I’m not going to write much about Ford’s ex-boyfriend’s letter—the one that indicates she’s been telling many lies during her testimony—for the simple reasons that (a) others have done so quite thoroughly, and (b) I’m not sure that he’s telling … Continue reading →
The pattern is clear. Georgetown University refuses to sanction Professor Christine Fair for one of the most egregiously vile and violent comments I’ve ever seen on Twitter, whereas Catholic University comes down hard on Dean Rainford for merely stating a … Continue reading →
Rachel Mitchell has issued a report that criticizes Ford’s testimony, but what does Mitchell know? She’s only an expert. And she deals with facts and logic, and we don’t want no steeenking facts here. Here’s the complete report and a … Continue reading →
And I might add: why is she still allowed on Twitter? Those questions are rhetorical—I know the answer, which is that her vicious hatred is directed towards the correct people. Look at thus chorus of entitled white men justifying a … Continue reading →
I keep reading that Christine Blasey Ford was highly sympathetic on Thursday and that her emotionally intense rendition of her story made her testimony especially “credible.” But long before Kavanaugh was even nominated, I had already written about the relative … Continue reading →
[UPDATES below] NOON: So far I have not been able to bring myself to watch, although I probably will watch some of it later. That may surprise you, but it’s for several reasons. The first is that I always am … Continue reading →
Perhaps the Ford forces thought it would never come to this. Because they couldn’t possibly have thought that anyone would accept these results as evidence of anything except their own conniving and misleading duplicity: Ah, that's why they didn't want … Continue reading →
It’s no accident that the Furies were women: According to Hesiod’s Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea, the Erinyes [Furies] (along with the Giants and the Meliae) emerged from the … Continue reading →
Now we have the promised gang-rape allegations from a woman who went to Avenatti (Stormy Daniels’ lawyer) with allegations that Kavanaugh and Mark Judge ran or were participants in a gang rape ring in high school. Drudge has the link; … Continue reading →
In one of yesterday’s posts I pointed out that Ronan Farrow has made the following statement about Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez: She came forward because Senate Democrats came looking for this claim. She did not flag this. This came to … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”] My my my: Check out what Ronan Farrow said on Good Morning America earlier today: STEPHANOPOULOS: Why did [Deborah Ramirez] come forward? FARROW: She came forward because Senate Democrats came looking for this claim. She did … Continue reading →