Libel, libel again.
The New York Times on Sunday was forced to walk back a new sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, updating a bombshell article to clarify that the alleged victim has no memory of the incident.
The opinion essay by Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and details their upcoming book “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation” and describes several sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, including a previously unreported claim that the FBI did not investigate during the judge’s contentious confirmation process.
The Times reporters detailed a previously unreported alleged incident similar to the Ramirez one. Another Yale classmate, Max Stier, who now heads a Washington nonprofit, told Congress and the FBI that he had witnessed Kavanaugh “with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student.” The FBI did not investigate that allegation.
However, the paper updated the story later to say that the book “did not include one element of the book’s account” of the new incident.
“The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident,” the Times’ correction reads.
The New York Times Opinion Twitter account also deleted and apologized for an “offensive” tweet on the Kavanaugh opinion essay.
One wonders why the Times so enthusiastically crapped all over what little is left of its journalistic reputation. Perhaps they heard back-channel that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not much longer for this world and they seriously believe that they can convince Trump to nominate Merrick Garland.
Or maybe they're sending Amy Coney Barrett an indirect warning. You saw what we did to this guy, just think what we'll do to you. Accept Trump's nomination and your life will be a living hell.
Your guess is as good as mine.
The New York Times on Sunday was forced to walk back a new sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, updating a bombshell article to clarify that the alleged victim has no memory of the incident.
The opinion essay by Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and details their upcoming book “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation” and describes several sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, including a previously unreported claim that the FBI did not investigate during the judge’s contentious confirmation process.
The Times reporters detailed a previously unreported alleged incident similar to the Ramirez one. Another Yale classmate, Max Stier, who now heads a Washington nonprofit, told Congress and the FBI that he had witnessed Kavanaugh “with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student.” The FBI did not investigate that allegation.
However, the paper updated the story later to say that the book “did not include one element of the book’s account” of the new incident.
“The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident,” the Times’ correction reads.
The New York Times Opinion Twitter account also deleted and apologized for an “offensive” tweet on the Kavanaugh opinion essay.
One wonders why the Times so enthusiastically crapped all over what little is left of its journalistic reputation. Perhaps they heard back-channel that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not much longer for this world and they seriously believe that they can convince Trump to nominate Merrick Garland.
Or maybe they're sending Amy Coney Barrett an indirect warning. You saw what we did to this guy, just think what we'll do to you. Accept Trump's nomination and your life will be a living hell.
Your guess is as good as mine.
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