I had the exact same thought when the Rosenstein hit was published. The times was willing to act as the assasin for the person who wanted Rosenstein gone. My guess is that rudi guilliani, same person behind the constant ny fbi leaks about hillary’s ‘Crimes’” the nyt carried water on, is behind the Rosenstein hit.
The nyt has completely lost it journalistic integrity to try to look balanced and relevant.
Good paper otherwise, but is playing games with its political journalism which undercut our democracy.
I wonder if Mayer is aware that her interview constitutes an elaborate, detailed admission that the latest smear of Judge Kavanaugh was manufactured out of whole cloth?
So a bunch of aging Yalies recalled a vague rumor from 35 years ago that might be used to discredit Kavanaugh. They went in search of someone, anyone who could substantiate the rumor. Nobody could. They and Democrat operatives, however, managed to convince Deborah Ramirez to share some fragmentary booze soaked memories, in which she herself has no confidence, that tend to implicate Kavanaugh in wrongdoing. A couple of hack journalists package this into a story that simply repeats the original rumor without any competent evidence that it is grounded in fact. Nobody, including the complaining witness, claims to have seen Kavanaugh engage in the alleged conduct.
I wouldn’t have thought it possible, but this smear is even more insubstantial than Dr. Ford’s unverified and unverifiable story. Democrats seem intent on finding a moral and intellectual level even lower than that occupied by Donald Trump.
In addition to assault allegations, there are reports about a Yale law professor who served as something of a conduit for law clerks to Kavanaugh giving advice to law students that Kavanaugh prefers attractive women for his prestigious, career advancing clerkships. That would be gender discrimination. Pernicious discrimination against men who might want those positions, and are prevented because Kavanaugh prefers attractive women! How terrible for those poor men kept out of those clerkships. I think one of the students reporting this might be male, in fact.
Ok, men’s rights advocates, this is your chance! A golden opportunity. Show is you really mean it and step up now! Time to take a stand for men’s rights and stop Kavanaugh! We can’t have that kind of systematic oppression of the rights of poor downtrodden men on the Supreme Court - this is your moment! Seize it! I expect to see the marches and placards any minute now. I keep looking out my window to see, I’m sure they’re coming soon.
I also subscribe to the NYT and WaPo. The Times has their problems (including that Tiger Woods fixation), but I would never cancel a newspaper subscription in the current political atmosphere. Anyone who is a TPM Prime member has enough sophistication and resources to make their own decisions on such stories.
hmmm, if this was common, I would think that there were more women then just one from college.
I also read that he kept a calendar from 1982? Who keeps old calendars?
