Here's my basic view. I think it's complicated, but that Republican elected officials and conservative thought-leaders care more about Kavanaugh than "the base" does and are doing a fair bit of rationalization right now. pic.twitter.com/yEvZDp6Aa3

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 26, 2018

You haven’t been paying attention. Your dad is the man who had unprotected sex with my “porn star” client when your brother was 4 mos. old and your step mom was at home. How many other “porn stars” has he slept with? You should leave this to the adults and go back to playing.

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 27, 2018

I've watched "Real Housewives" reunions with more civility.

 

Nevertheless, YOU GO, AVENATTI.

52 minutes ago, Khan said:

Holy Mother of God, this train is barreling down the mountain FAST.

 

"I've never participated in any sexual activity with more than one woman present and me."  

 

What the hell does THAT mean?  More than one WOMAN present?  So, what, there was more than one man present, then?  What in God's name are you talking about!?

 

WHY must you give answers that leave too much room for interpretation, Brett?  You were a lawyer, and no doubt you've retained one as well.  You should know better!!

 

 

 

He REALLY needs to stop talking.  Like, right now. 

Unbelievable.  That's usually how gang rape works dummy!  Of course, he thinks we are the dummies and aren't smart enough to parse his language.

 

He's supposedly one of the greatest legal minds out there and he doesn't know when to shut the @@@@ up? Please.

Yes, because lord know that if she'd been serving these preppy little bastards at the McD's drive thru, fewer people would believe her now. 

 

Edited September 27, 20187 yr by Juliajms

23 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

Unbelievable.  That's usually how gang rape works dummy!  Of course, he thinks we are the dummies and aren't smart enough to parse his language.

 

IKR?  He really thinks saying he was a virgin back then and that he was never involved in any sexual activity "with more than one woman present" clears him of any wrongdoing in our eyes.  Like, it doesn't even register in his allegedly brilliant legal mind that all he's doing is digging a deeper hole for himself.

 

I've said it before and I'm saying it now (and to hell with how it sounds): he was better off saying he was gay.

Edited September 27, 20187 yr by Khan

6 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

The ad for Anita Hill was done by black women but carry on CNN.

 

This is lazy and crass even by CNN standards. Not only erasing the black women who supported Anita Hill, but retroactively claiming all kinds of men supported her when even many allegedly "liberal" men in the Senate let her hang out to dry. 

Edited September 27, 20187 yr by DRW50

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

This is lazy and crass even by CNN standards. Not only erasing the black women who supported Anita Hill, but retroactively claiming all kinds of men supported her when even many allegedly "liberal" men in the Senate let her hang out to dry. 

Damn. It never occurred to me that they would do something like that on purpose until DD and you said it.  Not the first time I've had a blind spot though. What a terrible thing to do.

That's some strong, revisionist b.s.  About the only group I remember supporting Anita Hill WAS women, and WOC in particular.  For the most part, men were just cracking jokes about "Long Dong Silver" and pubic hairs on Cokes.

I just saw the post saying it was mentioned in the article, so maybe I'm wrong, but this feels like such a sly, CNN thing to do with that headline.

14 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I just saw the post saying it was mentioned in the article, so maybe I'm wrong, but this feels like such a sly, CNN thing to do with that headline.

It was mentioned in the article, but I still think DD was right when she said most people don't read beyond the headline and they know that.  They should have made it more clear if they wanted to do the right thing. Writing well is their job, so there is no good excuse.

It looks like the increasingly desperate GOP are trying to muddy the waters with claims about other men coming forward to say they attacked Ford.

 

I wonder if this was anything close to what they thought Whelan was going to do, and he just went off the rails. 

 

All of this is just repulsive and sick beyond belief. I can't believe this is where we are. And that this has become the new normal. It's just going to get worse and worse, more and more depraved and unclean. Pure sociopathic evil.

 

 

Maggie Haberman must be getting excited over the next big "let's bail out the GOP" story to run.

 

 

I don't believe what's going on here.  Now we've got men coming forward and saying they, and not Kavanaugh, attacked Ford all those years ago. 

 

Men actually copping to attempted rape to clear another man's name?  Am I [!@#$%^&*] dreaming?  Because, this [!@#$%^&*] can't be real!

 

It galls me, too, how many are letting it slide that Kavanaugh says he never became so intoxicated that he blacked out and couldn't remember what happened the next morning, yet questioning whether Ford, Swetnick and especially Ramirez are remembering correctly "because, after all, they had been drinking."  Does it occur to any of these people that maybe they, too, never got so drunk that they couldn't remember what happened later?  Like, am I supposed to believe that everyone involved is or was a blackout drunk EXCEPT Brett?  COME ON.

 

9 hours ago, Juliajms said:

It was mentioned in the article, but I still think DD was right when she said most people don't read beyond the headline and they know that.  They should have made it more clear if they wanted to do the right thing. Writing well is their job, so there is no good excuse.

 

Wordy McWord.

 

Today promises to be more nail-biting than any soap has been in quite the while.  "What will SHE say?  What will HE say?  What will the Committee say?  And, as always, what about Naomi?"

Edited September 27, 20187 yr by Khan

This is absolutely heart-rending to watch. It also could not be going worse for the GOP.

Grassley gets very angry at Democrats for unclear reasons before calling for a break pic.twitter.com/VhWrsRx9lS

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

Fox commentators are fuming on air over how the Senate GOP is handling the Kavanaugh format. All but saying Grassley is blowing it.

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) September 27, 2018

On Fox News, Bret Baier says hearing from Blasey Ford "is a totally different thing" than reading her allegations.

Chris Wallace: "This was extremely emotional, extremely raw, and extremely credible... This is a disaster for the Republicans." pic.twitter.com/aSbznSJdHC

— David Mack (@davidmackau) September 27, 2018

Almost every person close to Trump who had told me having a sex crimes prosecutor question Ford was good strategy is saying they think it was a mistake after the first portion of the hearing.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 27, 2018

Charlie Baker, a Republican who has the highest approval rating of any governor in the country and who almost never jumps into national politics, weighs in: https://t.co/vVp5YwhYOj

— Matt Viser (@mviser) September 27, 2018