No conservative defense of him that I’ve seen acknowledges these amply demonstrated lies. Rather than address it, the pivot is always made to media/left-wing unfairness. Fine: let’s stipulate that media/left is unfair. How does that justify blatant lying?https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1046372256245587968 …
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Whatever you want to call this move: a lie, a misdirection, a misrepresentation, a mischaracterization -- it's clearly in the realm of provable deceit, and if anyone should be held to the highest possible standards for committing deceit, it's aspiring Supreme Court justices.
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If you don't care about this deceit, don't think it's disqualifying, or don't think it ever should have come up in the first place: OK, make that argument. But refusing to acknowledge that his plainly-spoken words here even *constitute* deceit is coming across as sheer denialism.
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As someone who meticulously documented Hillary Clinton's carefully-phrased deceptions and lies, and was told it didn't matter because of some convoluted lawyerly parsing, to be denounced by conservatives for applying the exact same rigor to Kavanaugh is amusing.
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That depends on how you interpret his statement. I interpreted it as a literal reference to Ford, not a categorical rejection of ever drinking with friends in small groups, which he admits elsewhere.
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Sorry, but this example is laughable. If this is the best they got on him, he's in.
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"perfectly matches"? Was Leland there? Was Ford there? Did he get drunk and paw her? Maybe THAT'S what he means when he said he "never attended a gathering like the one Ford describes". Are you really incapable of seeing that possibility?
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Understand the sentiment, but a gathering of four guys is different than a mixed-gender gathering. I would have answered that particular question the same. Of course, that doesn't mean that Kavanaugh didn't lie elsewhere. There are probably better examples.
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Soooo “spur of the moment” gatherings and “calendared gatherings” are the same to you, eh? Seems odd.
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He'd say that's not what he meant. He never attended a gathering at which he assaulted someone.
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Maybe he means a gathering like one where he sexually assaulted someone? He’s never been to a party like that? The party on 7/1 appears to have been a 7-guy sausage fest, in any case, and also not a pool party.
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But Michael, I never wrote on my calendar that I was going to rape someone. So obviously I didn't attend the rape event. It's not on there. I am curious, has anyone corroborated his account that his dad kept detailed calendars? Was that bullshit to cover his lie?
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That is one part that i tend to find believable.. Why? Because my Mom does the same thing with calendars. In her attic is a box of calendars that she wrote notes on every day of the year. Did I go to my 10th grade homecoming dance? Check Moms calendar!
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That's a bogus argument. It doesn't prove that the gatherings in the calender are *exactly* the same as what Ford described. There could easily be important differences.
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Wow a lot of assumptions here! The calendar never said anything about girls being at this gathering. Rather it relates to guys getting together....big difference.
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An after work-out gathering is not the same as the party she describes. Funny, if these "parties" took place with some regularity, you'd think one could name where one of them took place.
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Nice try but the house was not near the country club. Women were not in group.
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Nope. no girls at the events K notes. Come on Michael you are better than this. Don’t ascribe lies to things that simply have alternate explanations.
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Dude you didn’t do research on this whatsoever.
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