The wild and reckless reporting has been extraordinary, even by the media’s increasingly low standards.
NBC published a social media post by one of Ford’’s classmates, Christina King Miranda, saying: “This incident did happen. Many of us heard a buzz about it indirectly.... but very quickly, the classmate deleted her post and admitted to not knowing what took place. NBC later had to revise the story.
The New York Times made its own mess. The Times reported that Mark Judge, the second man named in Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh, had confirmed to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he did recall the episode. Never happened and NYT recanted the story.
Three different outlets framed a joke that Kavanaugh made three years ago as being a subtle admittance to Ford’s allegations.
Speaking to a public forum at Columbus Law School, he said, “what happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep.” When watched in its entirety, it is abundantly clear that Kavanagh is completely joking. It was the dean of the school that reminded him of the phrase.
But that didn’t matter. MSNBC, CNN, and Politico presented the clip as somehow evidence that Kavanaugh is guilty or hiding something egregious.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, then referenced the clip in a tweet . “I can’t imagine any parent...… [The Daily Signal- Jarrett Stepman]
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