The controversy over Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation is now such a joke that even Ronan Farrow’s story on Deborah Ramirez, who claims Kavanaugh exposed himself to her in front of a room full of people at a college party decades ago, has been laughed out of the news cycle.
But that doesn’t mean Democrats and the news media are done. Now Kavanaugh gets to deny new claims by a woman brought forth by Michael Avenatti, the weird lawyer and permanent fixture on Chris Cuomo’s CNN show, and also address the press’ new fixation on whether Kavanaugh ever got drunk immediately after going through puberty.
Avenatti, famous for representing Stormy Daniels, the proud porn actress who recently described President Trump’s penis, posted Wednesday on Twitter what he said was a signed declaration by Julie Swetnick.
Swetnick claims not that she was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh, but that she witnessed him years ago get drunk and that she believes he was present, in some unspecified capacity, for gang rapes orchestrated by people he knew.
“I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room,” Swetnick said. “These boys included [Kavanaugh’s friend] Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh.”
She adds that she herself was a victim of a rape “where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present.”
Notably absent is any direct claim that Kavanaugh participated in any “rape” or that he was even aware that such things were happening at whatever party he supposedly attended.
Just a few hours before Avenatti’s announcement, the Washington Post tried its best in getting to the bottom of the real questions swirling around Kavanaugh, like if in his life he was ever spotted having a good time.
Because Kavanaugh is on record admitting to having on occasion drank “too many” beers in high school, half of the media’s attention now is on whether he got wasted more than three decades ago and if so, how many times.
“Brett was a sloppy drunk, and I know because I drank with him,” read a quote in the Washington Post from Liz Swisher, who said she was a friend of Kavanaugh’s.
And the consequence of that “sloppy” drinking? Swisher said she “watched him drink more than a lot of people” and that he’d “end up slurring his words, stumbling.”
Okay, that’s any normal weekend out on U Street – but what about the groping and molesting?
No, Swisher isn’t quoted saying anything like that.
Neither is Lynne Brookes, another woman interviewed for the piece, though she says she once witnessed him one night get “ridiculously drunk” and do “ridiculous things.”
Wow, Lynne, give us the deets! How ridiculous?!
Brookes says Kavanaugh’s fraternity dared him to approach her in public while wearing a cape and leather helmet, grab his crotch and recite a poem about being a “geek” and a “power tool.”
This is what it means now for the media to vet a Supreme Court nominee.
If you’re up for confirmation, you first have to answer for not only whether you were present for a gang rape but also whether you’ve ever been turnt.
Included among the questions the New York Times editorial board said that Kavanaugh “needs to answer” in his hearing Thursday read, in earnest, as follows: “Your high-school yearbook page includes the phrase ‘100 Kegs or Bust.’ Your friend Mr. Judge has described that as a pledge to drink 100 kegs of beer before graduation. Was that your understanding? If not, what did you mean by it?”
And, sir, if you did drink 100 beer kegs before graduation, are you still drunk from them to this day?!
Another of the New York Times’ insightful questions: “[A]t Yale, you belonged to an all-male secret society called Truth and Courage, which was known by the nickname ‘Tit and Clit.’ Were you aware of this nickname? If so, do you believe it treats women with dignity and respect?”
And where is the disrespect to “women” in a nickname that uses slang terms for genitals?
Free idea: Let’s impeach every sitting justice who has ever used the slang “balls.”
This has become one of the media’s favorite tricks: Put “respect” and “women” in the same sentence and dare anyone to call it out as B.S.
Well, it’s B.S. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s initial accuser, has been treated with respect to a fault and accommodated in every reasonable way possible. Kavanaugh’s confirmation was delayed by more than a week and she was offered time to testify in any setting, public or private, she chose.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell not too long ago remarked that former President Bill Clinton was “still dicking bimbos at home” and yet the New York Times gave him space to publish an op-ed just last year on the importance of “American leadership.”
All of this serves nothing more than the purpose of making Kavanaugh look stupid on television. Getting stupidly drunk in college isn’t a crime, but who wants to talk about it on the Senate floor before they’re confirmed to the Supreme Court?
Rather than weighing whether there is any merit to the accusations against Kavanaugh, the media simply repeat them and push everyone to take it seriously (other than Ronan Farrow’s report which even journalists can’t bring themselves to repeat with a straight face).
It’s not serious. It’s a joke.
