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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Here's just one example for people who refuse to read. Kavanaugh claims he "never attended a gathering like the one Ford describes." The gathering Ford describes *perfectly matches* a gathering listed on the very calendar that *Kavanaugh himself provided* as exculpatory evidence.pic.twitter.com/WjzCeHIWHx
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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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You are treating all of this just like extreme fundamentalists treat scripture, which is a category mistake. It is like the Jehovah's Witness that want to argue there is an indefinite article instead of definite article in John 1. The judge's testimony is clear. I didn't do it.
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There's no "category mistake" when it comes to under-oath testimony, which is always very finely parsed because it can carry criminal penalties. Even if he really "didn't do it," telling lies in service of making that point is still disqualifying in its own right.
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By your reasoning Jesus lied to the Pharisees and Pilate and so deserved the cross and is disqualified from the office of Christ.
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