{"id":39280,"date":"2018-09-27T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T17:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39280"},"modified":"2018-09-27T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T17:45:59","slug":"the-grossness-of-lindsey-grahams-defense-of-judge-kavanaugh-and-attack-on-his-accusers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39280","title":{"rendered":"The Grossness of Lindsey Graham’s Defense of Judge Kavanaugh and Attack on His Accusers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from both Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford today in an attempt to resolve the controversy over whether Kavanaugh had engaged in sexual assault. Unfortunately, this Senate process is woefully insufficient to actually resolve such a question, but it’s the only thing the Republicans will allow.<\/p>\n

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Prior to the hearing, Fox News was setting it up in a manner that blatantly advantaged Kavanaugh. In a segment on Fox and Friends with Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Senator is heard laughing during a discussion of parties where women were allegedly drugged and raped. That’s an unambiguously inappropriate response under the circumstances. But he doesn’t behave any better as the interview proceeds, as observed in this exchange about the declaration provided by another accuser, Julie Swetnick (video below):<\/p>\n

Anna Kooiman:<\/strong> Here’s the problem Senator. We’re not saying that nothing happened to her. It’s serious allegations. Something might have happened to her. We are all just questioning why she didn’t go to police. She says that she was raped at one of these parties. Not by Kavanaugh. Someone else. So people are wondering why didn’t she go to police when that happened. Or why isn’t she going to police now? [She’s asking for an FBI investigation]<\/em>
\nGraham:<\/strong> Well here’s what I would say. Y’all are very nice people. I don’t buy this. I don’t believe that any reasonable person would go to a party where people are being drugged and raped and not tell anybody about it, but keep going for ten times over a two year period. Brett Kavanaugh’s life – there’s no indication that that’s the kind of person he is. This lady, Brett Kavanaugh says ‘I never met her’. Avenatti is her attorney. If you can’t figure this out, then there’s something wrong with you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Graham went on to repeat his surprise that Ms. Swetnick continued going to parties while in college. And he summed up by stating flatly that “Brett Kavanaugh is not a serial rapist,”<\/em> revealing that his mind was already made up before anyone has testified.<\/p>\n

However, Graham’s characterization of Swetnick’s declaration is patently false and even absurd. He’s implying that she willfully attended regularly scheduled rape parties. But she never said anything of the sort. Her testimony is that she attended ten parties, in two years, where she observed this repulsive behavior. Graham is asserting by assumption that those were the only parties she attended. It’s more likely that she attended many more.<\/p>\n

If we estimate that she attended one party a week during these two years of college (a conservative estimate), that’s 104 parties total. She wasn’t deliberating attending parties where such activity was advertised and tolerated. So at ten of these parties – out of more than a hundred – she happened to encounter some disgusting individuals like, allegedly, Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n

Graham’s attempt to portray Swetnick as someone who regularly and deliberately attends rape parties is just plain nauseating. And it’s proof of his intent to malign her character. Furthermore, his snide reference to to her attorney, Michael Avenatti, was also meant to disparage her and dismiss her testimony. Never mind that Avenatti has provided remarkably precise and accurate commentaries on everything from Kavanaugh to Michael Cohen, and of course, Stormy Daniels. Graham, on the other hand, has proven to be a sleaze ball who sucks up to Donald Trump and abandons every speck of integrity or dignity he might have ever had. Just sayin’.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.@LindseyGrahamSC<\/a>, through chuckles, says he "doesn't buy" Swetnick's misconduct allegation against Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n

"I don't believe any reasonable person would go to a party where people are drugged and raped and not tell anybody about it… Brett Kavanaugh is not a serial rapist." pic.twitter.com\/NI1tfcinFE<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n