Especially when there’s so much sewage it’s trying to hold back.
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May it was complict with the school teacher or maybe not, BUT THE PURPOSE OF the thread was the ‘little bit nutty, little bit slutty defense’. Kathleen Parker and RossDoThat are also complict.
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Have you got another video of trying to get the shit back in the horse? Even more apt.
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I don’t know any of these people but even if you didn’t mind the accusation being out there for yourself, you might be highly disturbed about its impact on your wife and, especially, your children. People will take bullets or lie for those they love, like their parents or children, but they are much less likely to allow themselves to be used like this to help an old buddy. Tell a white lie to the guy’s wife, maybe, but allow a lie of this magnitude to be told about themselves to the whole world? Doubtful.
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If so, that’s a traceable transaction - if any legal authority had any direction to investigate anything related to Kavanaugh. OTOH, no middle school teacher would ever agree to being accused of the sexual assault of a 15 yr old unless he was planning to take all his worldly goods and his reputation to go live on the other side of the planet for the rest of his life. All those years ago Roy Moore may have survived this stink, but not today and not a middle school teacher.
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Trump’s restraint on Blasey Ford has come to an end. He’s starting to attack her on Twitter. There goes the rest of the GOP’s strategy here.
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To create maximum publicity for the idea that somebody attacked her, but it wasn’t Kavanaugh.
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I also doubt that Whelan contacted the poor middle school teacher in advance. It’s like who cares about accusing a nobody middle school teacher of rape when a Supreme Court seat is at risk?
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Look, if I say a thing’s possible, that’s all I’m saying. The allegation was instantly laughed to scorn the moment it was made. Ford immediately said she knew them both and couldn’t possibly have been mistaken. The guy’s job was never in any jeopardy.
Ford has exposed herself and her family to death threats and all the rest to keep this guy off the Supreme Court. Might not someone else endure a near-momentary and absurd accusation, knowing they’re helping get a friend and fellow rabid conservative on the court? Just because you can think of one argument against it doesn’t mean there aren’t potentially countervailing arguments for. Everything in life is a mix like that. Also see above. I’m not saying it happened. But Whelan clerked for a SC justice himself. Blundering into a huge defamation suit isn’t the sort of thing he’d just do by accident and say oopsie. That’s what’s not plausible. So I’m looking to explain it.
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As hateful as these Republican dirty tricksters are, they used to be more cautious and calculating when they did this kind of stuff. I think that Trump’s brazen lying has given them a false sense of confidence in the ability to sell a lie, which may have backfired here. I say “may have” because even if this is repeatedly debunked, true fanatic loyal Republicans like Susan Collins can claim she had reasonable doubt. While reasonable doubt is not the standard I would use for a Supreme Court appointment, I’m sure it will be enough for most Republicans.
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I think it’s more likely that these DC big shots have no respect for and little concern about a Georgetown Prep guy who goes on to become a middle school teacher.
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In case anyone has not read it, Josh stayed up late and covered a lot of these bases in the Editor’s Blog (Kavanaugh #5), which unfortunately is behind the Prime firewall. A few more details and Whelan associations, along with the assumption that Kavanaugh most have known about this ridiculous theory, as Whelan (friend and part of the Kavanaugh nomination team) was shopping the story around and dropping news blast hints days prior.
A must read.
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But if Whelan had his way, the middle school teacher’s job would have been in serious jeopardy.
Not that Whelan cares very much about middle school teachers, or women.
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So far this is my favorite snark tweet on the topic. https://mobile.twitter.com/blacksab67/status/1042929973344923648
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Yeah, but it was weird. When she countered, the plan went totally poof.
I have to admit, it is early, I need coffee, I really need coffee today and things are hard to think through.
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I’m a wordsmith, not a lawyer, but I once ran across a legal term – misprision – that may apply here.
Basically, misprision means somebody is in on the scam, but acts innocent to lend it credibility. If Garrett was asked if he’d mind being tagged as a suspect, to take one for the pro-life team in order to get Kavanaugh through, that’s downright weird.
Still, it literally begs the question – if he does not file a lawsuit for big money against not only Whelan, but the well-funded Ethics and Public Policy Center: why the fuck not?
They’re gonna teach this one in law school – it is the epitome of a libel case: Whelan wrote it, after promoting this play for a week through Kavanaugh’s supporters, including Senate staff. It was widely distributed, and remains archived on the Internet. It recklessly accused a named person of a crime, with photographs, something like evidence and diagrams of the house he lived in.
Garrett also has a lot at risk – Whelan accused a middle school teacher of attempting to rape a 15 year old: QED.
Misprision opens up the possibility that, if Garrett does not sue for damages under libel law, he was in on the scam.
At least, if words mean anything in the law (a dubious proposition). Lawyers?
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I sure hope this is topic #1 for Dems when Kav appears Monday!
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This is the $1,000,000.00 question now isn’t it? Patsy or stooge? Either outcome is tres risky, and to be frank, quite a reckless gambit coming from lawyers who should know better. This reeks of desperation and was as thought out as a writing room spitballing session in the Scooby Doo wing of the Hannah Barbera compound. After they introduced Scrappy and stopped giving a shit.
If Garrett is a patsy, were they banking on him just sitting down and taking it, allowing his reputation and position in the community, not to mention as a husband and father, to be nuked, with a 1/2 life stench of epic proportions just for some Brah that he chummed around with in high school? Seriously?
If, otoh, he’s a stooge, did they really believe this roll out was credible? What’s the quo in this scenario? What’s in it for Garrett, and how did they think they could deliver without anyone figuring it out?
I’ll say one thing, the GOP is going to Cecil B Demille-like efforts in their latest production of “Lysistrata American Style”, Coming Soon to a voting booth near you this November.
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I don’t know Matt. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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These white privileged Neanderthals, who have had everything go their way their entire precious lives, cannot accept the fact that they might lose something. Desperation from these guys smells particularly bad–like a combination of expensive aftershave lotion, urine, and scotch.
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