BRETT KAVANAUGH. AGAIN

Would you believe that now, a year after the christine blasey ford debacle (“Brett Kavanaugh assaulted me.  I don’t know when it happened, where it happened, how I got there, how I got home and all three people I named as witnesses say they don’t know what I’m talking about, but I say it happened anyway and since I’m a woman you have to believe me”), the new york times has dredged up another one?

According to Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly’s article, they have conducted a months’ long investigation of Kavanaugh,  and found a woman who – 36 years after the fact and well over a year after the hearings when she could have come forward – says that Kavanaugh exposed himself at a dorm party and brushed his penis against her.

Want to see the, er, highlights, of what the times must think is a blockbuster story?  Here you go:

Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983. But she wasn’t prepared for what she’d find there.

During the winter of her freshman year, a drunken dormitory party unsettled her deeply. She and some classmates had been drinking heavily when, she says, a freshman named Brett Kavanaugh pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her, prompting her to swat it away and inadvertently touch it. Some of the onlookers, who had been passing around a fake penis earlier in the evening, laughed.

To Ms. Ramirez it wasn’t funny at all. It was the nadir of her first year, when she often felt insufficiently rich, experienced or savvy to mingle with her more privileged classmates.

“I had gone through high school, I’m the good girl, and now, in one evening, it was all ripped away,” she said in an interview earlier this year at her Boulder, Colo., home. By preying upon her in this way, she added, Mr. Kavanaugh and his friends “make it clear I’m not smart.”

Translation:  Deborah Ramirez, an innocent virgin (the article makes this clear), somehow wound up at “a drunken dormitory party”, drinking heavily (which, we all know, is a great way for a woman to protect her virginity) and remembers Brett Kavanaugh exposing himself in a way that caused her to inadvertently swat his penis – which stole her innocence, made her feel as though Kavanaugh and his friends thought she was inferior….etc.

And the reason she didn’t mention this until 36 years later, and over a year after, if true, it would have meant something to whether Kavanaugh was appointed to the Supreme Court?  Your guess is as good as mine.

In this connection, I should point out that Pogrebin and Kelly, the writers of this ridiculous, unsubstantiated hit piece, inform us that:

…while we found Dr. Ford’s allegations credible during a 10-month investigation, Ms. Ramirez’s story could be more fully corroborated. During his Senate testimony, Mr. Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms. Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been “the talk of campus.” Our reporting suggests that it was.

So blasey ford’s allegations – with no specifics and every supposed witness denying knowledge of them – were credible?  Brilliant.

And all those people who were talking about the Ramirez incident on campus?  Why do you suppose none of them came forward during the Kavanaugh hearings?  Why do you suppose none of them called a newspaper or a TV or radio station or went online to say “Hey I was there and this is what he did”.

But wait.  There’s more:

Mr. Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings were wrenching, as he strained to defend his character after Dr. Ford’s searing testimony. 

Uh, Robin?  Kate?  Let me remind you about the “searing” quality of christine blasey ford’s testimony by repeating the summary of her testimony I posted earlier in this blog:  “Brett Kavanaugh assaulted me.  I don’t know when it happened, where it happened, how I got there, how I got home and all three people I named as witnesses say they don’t know what I’m talking about, but I say it happened anyway and since I’m a woman you have to believe me”.

That’s not searing testimony.  That is an evidenceless accusation which, if it were leveled against a leftward justice appointment instead of a somewhat conservative one, would have been laughed off the pages of the paper you write for.

And it is a damn good reason why Deborah Ramirez’s then-35 year old memory of a few seconds at a drunken dorm party – which, like the blasey ford accusation cannot be proven and Brett Kavanaugh has no way to defend himself against – is nothing more than a useless smear.

This, readers, is what passes for hard-hitting investigative reporting over at the times these days.

In the immortal words of Charlie Brown, “Good grief”.