7 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

May I ask who said that, so I can scorn them for all eternity?

 

It's inside Shyne Coldtrain Jr.'s tweet, which Vee posted upthread.  He quoted Jawny Mathis, who referred to the CNN pundit that said Ford was more credible than Hill, because she projected vulnerability where Hill projected strength and poise.

 

It's been my experience that the LAST thing a Black woman will ever do is appear vulnerable before white people.  Not when we are no longer chained and bound to the plantations, begging massa not to beat or rape us.  Huh-uh, not gonna do it.

These Holton Arms seniors have been rotating in and out of the hearing, sharing one ticket, “in support of our alumna” #BlaseyFord #kavanaugh pic.twitter.com/uFGDt6Yrjg

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) September 27, 2018

Booker is talking about heroic it is for Ford to have come forward.

Ford appears to be weeping again.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) September 27, 2018

"You are opening up to open-air hurt and pain that goes on across this country," Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) tells Christine Blasey Ford. "And for that, the word I would use is nothing short of heroic." https://t.co/j0e7TIiavz pic.twitter.com/dPm76LYT5w

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) September 27, 2018

15 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

I've known what CNN is all about for years now. 

 

That insinuation that somehow Prof. Hill is less worthy of empathy than Prof. Blasey Ford speaks to what we as black women have known all along.  According to some, we are more likely to be sexualized at earlier ages, more likely to be stereotyped as impervious to being hurt or feeling pain.

The KKK's entire ethos was to protect white women so they are seen as worthy of protection, while we black women are not.

Soledad O'Brien can speak to the lack of representation of blacks behind the camera at CNN and it shines through repeatedly.  I cannot emphasize enough how glad I am that I cut the cord about 8 years ago.  CNN does some effective reporting but their staff is severely limited.

 

Yes.

The irony of Rachel Mitchell questioning Blasey Ford about who paid for her polygraph and other legal fees when I don't remember anyone questioning Kavanaugh about his debts, specifically that $200,000 debt as well as who paid it.

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And her lawyers shut it down fast.

 

The GOP is so blinkered that they can't conceive of this as anything but a game, so they rely on conspiracy theory questioning to play to the base. But it is playing horribly on TV. This is a complete wreck for them.

3 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

The irony of Rachel Mitchell questioning Blasey Ford about who paid for her polygraph and other legal fees when I don't remember anyone questioning Kavanaugh about his debts, specifically that $200,000 debt as well as who paid it.

 

I always say, where's there smoke, there's fire; and there's a whole lotta smoke in that "baseball tickets debt."

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If literally, all you've got is Did George Soros, in fact, pay for your polygraph? you've got nothing. #KavanaughHearings

— Melissa Ryan (@MelissaRyan) September 27, 2018

No one dared to interrupt Senator Harris today.

What a heart-wrenching day. We've been watching here at work and one of the women had to get up and leave the room in the middle of Dr. Ford's opening statement.

 

It's also bringing back memories of watching Anita Hill live on TV and how gut wrenching that was. The optics are almost worse IMO here. The angles of Mitchell with the men all behind and around her is horrid. I find her interrogating Dr. Ford and her agreeing to do this incredibly offensive in particular when she claims to be such a champion for victims.  But what's really bad is how Grassley has cut off the prosecutor he brought in repeatedly.

 

 

1 minute ago, DramatistDreamer said:

No one dared to interrupt Senator Harris today.

 

Yes, Lawd!

watching these dudes preparing to blame the female prosecutor who they hired specifically for this is really something https://t.co/a0eNMvylU2

— ☕netw3rk (@netw3rk) September 27, 2018

By allowing this to continue with no FBI investig and with a Fox appearance Kavnaugh likely lost the SCt and will be hard pressed to keep his seat on DC Circuit. If he gets up later and lies he's ruined his own life. All by his lonesome.

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 27, 2018

The “prosecutor” just spent a ton of time trying to raise suspicions about how #ChristineBlaseyFord will pay for her polygraph and other expenses, only to be face-planted — and silenced — by the shocking revelation Ford is relying on GoFundMe sites.

— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) September 27, 2018

i cannot figure for the life of me why the prosecutor got hung up on who would pay for the polygraph only to have revealed that Americans of good will have been raising money for her. She MUST be throwing in the towel

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 27, 2018

"Throwing in the towel"?  Hell, she's throwing in an entire set of 'em!

“Why did the polygraph happen in a hotel room?”

“I had just left my grandmother’s funeral.”

Rachel Mitchell is doing a truly terrible job of obeying the number one lawyer rule: don’t ask a question if you don’t know the answer.

— Danielle Ingrid Anais Tcholakian (@danielleiat) September 27, 2018

honestly shocked that Mitchell didn’t ask Blasey Ford if she was sure her grandmother really died

— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) September 27, 2018

DR. FORD: I was sexually assaulted and I can speak specifically - with scientific precision - about how it has affected my life.

RACHEL MITCHELL: What’s this on your LinkedIn about Tahiti?

— Pat Cunnane (@PatCunnane) September 27, 2018

Every prominent Republican I've spoken to in the past two hours believes the decision to have Mitchell do the questioning is an unmitigated disaster.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 27, 2018

I confess. I figured Maj Republicans might have taken the break, said, wow that was terrible. Let's have Mitchell shift gears. But I give them credit. They're plowing full speed ahead with lighting themselves on fire.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 27, 2018

Rachel Mitchell, a career sex crime prosecutor, now saying the best way to interview victims of trauma is not "this setting, in five minute increments."

— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) September 27, 2018

If that had been Mama Khan, she would have whipped out the funeral programs.  Color AND black-and-white.

Jennifer Rubin knows exactly why they are obsessing over polygraphs. This is about clinging to any conspiracy they can to have a little cover for what they are going to make happen regardless of today's result.