The media want Brett Kavanaugh to suffer long after his confirmation is over
by Eddie Scarry
| October 06, 2018 08:11 AM
The battle over Brett Kavanaugh is almost over. It looks like he gets his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, but oh, have the news media made him pay for it.
It was always a problem for Kavanaugh that he was the one chosen to fill the crucial swing seat on the court (even more of a problem that he was a white man), but now that Democrats and their media friends have run out of ways to delay his confirmation, the obituaries have been written.
The press, meanwhile, is turning Christine Blasey Ford into a hero for coming forward with her claim that couldn’t be corroborated, even by a good friend that Ford said was at the house where it happened.
Kavanaugh, on the other hand, is the untouchable. (And don’t forget that he’s a white man — ew!)
Thursday evening, when it was clear Kavanaugh was likely headed for confirmation, the liberal New York Times editorial board said everyone involved in the process, even Democrats, had “failed.â€
Everyone except Ford, who the Times said “presented the one image of dignity and calm in this howling maelstrom.â€
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