Republicans can thank the New York Times if Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed
by Philip Wegmann
| September 24, 2018 02:15 PM
Republicans should stop ragging on the New York Times for a bit. If Brett Kavanaugh gets confirmed to the Supreme Court, the GOP will owe it, in part, to that Grey Lady.
Hoping that good journalism will drive out bad, the right will rely on the New York Times reporting to dispute the New Yorker story about allegations that paint Kavanaugh as a sexual deviant. And it is a strong argument if anyone will pay attention to the reported facts.
Republicans were blindsided Sunday night when Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer published a story in the New Yorker alleging that a drunken Kavanaugh exposed himself to a similarly drunk co-ed named Deborah Ramirez during their freshman year at Yale. The story is horrific and the allegations serious. The evidence, however, is nonexistent.
The New Yorker couldn’t even confirm Kavanaugh was at the party where the alleged incident took place. But they did find six former students—two alleged male witnesses, the wife of a third, and three other undergraduates—who all deny that anything ever happened. Somehow, sans evidence, the New Yorker decided to run the Ramirez story anyway.
But the New York Times did not.
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