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The Main Event – September 21, 2018

September 21, 2018

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Kavanaugh Allegation Continues

Senate Republicans continue to support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the fight against one woman’s suspiciously timed accusations of sexual assault from 35 years ago.

Here’s a recap of this week’s events:

On Monday, Christine Blasey Ford was reported to be the anonymous accuser from last week (when Dianne Feinstein sent a letter to the FBI the very day there was a confirmation vote scheduled – a letter she has had since July). Ford is now a clinical psychology professor at Palo Alto University.
Brett Kavanaugh’s statement: “This is a completely false allegation. I have never done anything like what the accuser describes—to her or to anyone. Because this never happened, I had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself yesterday. I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity.”
In an interview with the Washington Post, Ford says that at a house party when she was 15 (no recollection of what month it was or even whose house it was at), Brett Kavanaugh and a friend pushed her into a bedroom, pinned her down and sexually assaulted her after turning up the music so her protests couldn’t be heard.
She identified the friend as Mark Judge, who is now a journalist and filmmaker. Judge’s statement to The Weekly Standard: “It’s just absolutely nuts. I never saw Brett act that way.” CNN and other mainstream media outlets are attacking Judge’s character by pointing out that he wrote a book about partying in high school called “Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk” (so of course, he must be guilty of assault).
Another classmate Ford identifies as being at this mysterious party, Patrick J. Smyth, sent this letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee: “I understand that I have been identified by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as the person she remembers as ‘PJ’ who supposedly was present at the party she described in her statements to the Washington Post. I am issuing this statement today to make it clear to all involved that I have no knowledge of the party in question; nor do I have any knowledge of the allegations of improper conduct she has leveled against Brett Kavanaugh. Personally speaking, I have known Brett Kavanaugh since high school and I know him to be a person of great integrity, a great friend, and I have never witnessed any improper conduct by Brett Kavanaugh towards women.”

And now, Ed Whelan – a former law clerk for Justice Scalia who now runs the conservative think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center – has uncovered evidence that the house where the party most likely took place was hosted by a kid who looked exactly like Brett Kavanaugh. Chris Garrett, a Georgetown prep classmate and football teammate of Kavanaugh’s, could have easily been mistaken for his classmate Brett.

After Diane Feinstein made the allegations against Kavanaugh public (despite Ford’s supposed wishes that they remain private), the Republicans on the Committee released a letter signed by 65 women who said they knew Kavanaugh in high school and could vouch for his decency. Ed alert: I have a hard time coming up with 65 women I went to high school with.” Scott agrees, saying there would likely be multiple accusers if Kavanaugh had done this.

Democrat Hypocrisy on Assault

As it turns out, plenty of Democrats have their own similar stories from high school and one of them is Cory “Spartacus” Booker. From the Washington Post on Friday:

When he was in high school, Cory Booker, the New Jersey Democrat and possible White House contender, groped his classmate as they kissed. He reached for her breast, and when she swatted his hand away, he made another attempt…

…But the skeleton in Booker’s closet seized on by outlets such as Fox News and the Daily Caller wasn’t really in his closet. The senator himself chose years ago to air the issue, marking a notable contrast with instances in which accusations of impropriety burst forth as a result of media investigation or opposition research. (Really? A “noble contrast”?)

In 1992, Booker, then a student at Stanford University, wrote a column for his college newspaper in which he recounted the groping and used his own behavior to underscore, in starkly personal terms, how his views had shifted on gender and sexual respect. He credited his work as a peer counselor with the transformation.

“After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my ‘mark,’” he wrote. “Our groping ended soon and while no ‘relationship’ ensued, a friendship did. You see, the next week in school she told me that she was drunk that night and didn’t really know what she was doing.”
Booker’s words speak for themselves.

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The Main Event – January 19, 2017

January 19, 2018

This Week in DACA

Last week, the President held meetings with key Democrats to arrive at a deal on preserving DACA (which is what Democrats say they want) while achieving his own immigration and border enforcement agenda. But this week, Democrats gave no indication they would reach a deal with the President by Friday, and we heard all week that the government might shut down because of it (as of Friday morning, it actually might).

On Friday morning, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney reminded us that the previous administration was “quite cruel” about its own government shutdown threats from 2008 to 2016, and no one batted an eye at them. Ed alert: “Obama gave 10 trillion dollars away. You want to be popular? Give 10 trillion dollars away.” On Monday, the President said that if a deal on DACA dies, it’s the Democrats’ fault because they don’t actually want to negotiate. “They don’t want security at the border, they don’t want to stop drugs,” Trump said.

“S-Hole Gate” Continues

What do they want? They want to keep the “s-hole gate” scandal alive, despite people who were in the closed-door meeting come forward to say they never heard the President say that word. Remember, it was Democrat Senator Dick Durbin who came out of the meeting claiming he heard Trump say it and then the media piled on – and Republicans like Senator Tom Cotton say Durbin is lying. But don’t tell that to Senator Cory Booker, who was clearly auditioning for a 2020 presidential run when he made a grandstanding demonstration of outrage about the whole thing this week at DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s expense. Ed alert: “Simmer down, Cory Booker. We know you’re auditioning to be the next Barack Obama, but maybe you should actually go to Haiti and let us know what you would call it.”

Also this week, the Emergency Management department in Hawaii accidentally pushed the nuclear missile warning button, leaving Hawaiians to believe they were going to die for 38 minutes. There’s news footage of people crying in the street, trying to put their children in storm drains for protection, and calling family members to say goodbye – and the media stopped reporting about it 24 hours later. They reported on “s-hole gate” for a full six days.

The President’s Physical: This Week’s Media Obsession

Last week, the media was obsessed with President Trump’s mental fitness; this week, they’re concerned with his physical fitness despite the White House doctor saying he’s in excellent health. White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson performed Trump’s first presidential exam on January 12 and announced the results on Tuesday during the daily press briefing: He weighs 239 pounds, he doesn’t exercise much but he’s in excellent health. Case closed, right? Wrong. Reporters

When the doctor was finished, the reporters in the press room inundated him with questions like this:

“Did you address drug addiction?”
“Will he be sedated for his next colonoscopy?”
“Did you test him for Hep C?”
“Does he wear dentures?”
“Are you concerned about his use of Twitter?”
“Is he limited to one scoop of ice cream now?”

Meanwhile, CNN’s Sanjay Gupta wants to diagnose the President (whom he has never examined) with heart disease.

Ed alert: “Little people, little brains.”

Vegas News (That isn’t Fake)

This week, newly unsealed search warrants reveal how involved Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend may have been in the Las Vegas massacre on October 1^st. According to the documents, Marilou Danley told investigators they would likely find her fingerprints on some of Paddock’s bullets because she “sometimes helped him load his magazines.”

The New York Times reported that in the days after the massacre, the FBI examined her email and social media accounts. She has not been charged with a crime and denies knowing about Paddock’s plan, but investigators discovered that Danley deleted her Facebook account just hours after the attack. Just a little more than two hours after the attack, Danley made her Facebook account private. Two hours later, she permanently deleted her account. Paddock’s identity as the shooter wasn’t revealed until many, many hours later.

Ed alert: “Every time I talk about this, someone calls me saying ‘leave the conspiracy theories to Alex Jones.’ But I say something is wrong here. Something doesn’t add up.”

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