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Who would have expected the harshest media rebuke of the New York Times
to come from the CBS Evening News? It starts off like a rehash of the
NYT’s hit job on Brett Kavanaugh, but as correspondent Jan Crawford
noted on Twitter, it takes a sharply critical turn at the end. Not only
does Crawford note that every one of Christine Blasey Ford’s cited
witnesses say the alleged high-school party with Kavanaugh never
happened, Crawford uses the cutting-room floor clippings from the NYT’s
story to focus on Leland Keyser’s claim of witness tampering.

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Ouch. Very much ouch:

Jan Crawford
We report tonight the real bombshell: Christine Ford’s
close HS friend (who Ford says was at the party when
Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her) said Ford’s story
is not believable and told the FBI Ford’s allies pressured
her, threatened her with a smear campaign to say otherwise
https://twitter.com/cbseveningnews/status/1173729651199549446 …

The details of Keyser’s experience with those who pressured her to
change her story started coming out last October, but only now — buried
at the back of the new book from two NYT reporters — do we have an
outright dismissal of Blasey Ford’s claims from Keyser. Somehow the
NYT’s editors thought rehashing old and utterly uncorroborated campus
gossip from the Golden Girls era was bigger news than witness tampering
by Blasey Ford’s allies. If you missed yesterday’s adventures in the
collapse of credibility at the New York Times regarding Keyser, catch
up here.

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/09/16/blasey-ford- witness-dont-confidence-story/

Crawford, one of CBS News’ more independent voices, sums up the
situation well at the end of this report:

Now, all four people that Ford identified as being at that
high school party in the summer of 1982 have all said that
no such party occurred. And today, both the Republican chair
of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Democratic chair
of the House Judiciary Committee said they would not support
impeaching Kavanaugh.

Case closed, right? Actually, maybe. Politico reported last night that
senior Democrats have heard enough about Kavanaugh and want to end talk
of impeachment, although they’re not exactly being gracious about it:

Senior Democrats are moving quickly to snuff out calls to
impeach Brett Kavanaugh, arguing those tactics are unrealistic
and politically harmful. …

“Get real,” as Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) put
it Monday afternoon.

“We’ve got to get beyond this ‘impeachment is the answer to
every problem.’ It’s not realistic,” Durbin said. “If that’s
how we are identified in Congress, as the impeachment Congress,
we run the risk that people will feel we’re ignoring the
issues that mean a lot to them as families.”

Politico also reports that other Democrats are “livid” that the FBI
didn’t check out the claim from a third party that Kavanaugh had
exposed himself at a different party. Er, what exactly were they
supposed to investigate? The informant wasn’t at the party, and _the
supposed victim_ doesn’t recall such an incident happening. The FBI has
better things to do than to chase down 35-year-old campus rumors about
rowdy parties with no complaining witnesses. Talk about _not
realistic_.

No one expects the Democrats to admit that they participated in a witch
hunt and character assassination, although such an admission would
certainly be nice. But maybe, just maybe, they can shut the hell up
about it and let us _pretend_ they have some remorse over the Kavanaugh episode. Especially now that CBS’ Jan Crawford has boiled it down to
its essence.

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