September 20, 2019
The Great Oversight in the NY Times Kavanaugh Smear
By Jack Cashill
New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly have had a deservedly rough week. The summary of their new book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, published in the Times last Saturday, has not been well received, even on the left.
The criticisms have focused on two major oversights in the Times' reporting on Judge Kavanaugh's freshman year at Yale. One, of course, is that the "victim" of his alleged penis-waving has no memory of it. The second is that the sole "witness" just happens to be a Democratic attorney who defended Bill Clinton during the period when Clinton was being rightly accused of exposing himself to women and worse.
What has gotten less attention is the book's great oversight, and that has to do with Christine Blasey Ford. In the Times article, the reporters note that "we found Dr. Ford's allegations credible during a 10-month investigation." The reporters have blamed their editors for the article's shortcomings. For the book, however, they have no one to blame but themselves.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/the_great_oversight_in_the_ny_times_kavanaugh_smear.html
