"Kavanaugh" is trending on X right now. As I reported earlier, Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who testified at his confirmation hearing that Brett Kavanaugh had raped her, was a guest on "The View," where the hosts noted that even to this day, some people are skeptical of her story. I was wondering why she'd surfaced, and it looks like she's got a memoir to sell. The Atlantic has done a piece on it, saying that Ford was "piecing together fragments of a story, parts of which she had forgotten." Exactly; a story.
Christine Blasey Ford’s new memoir places her Senate testimony in the wider context of her life. And as her story goes on, it "comes to read as an indictment—not of one person, but of a form of politics that sees stories as weapons in an endless war,” @megangarber writes.… pic.twitter.com/KCTVTs7Jh0
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 19, 2024
She offered evidence? What evidence was that?
Though "she offered evidence" is getting attention (she did?), the thing that really sells the blurb is "she spoke science," whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. https://t.co/PIyZ3AviF7
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 19, 2024
In terms of evidence, the best that she offered was a few people who denied ever witnessing any such incident. Meanwhile, Kavanaugh, a dork, went so far as to provide meticulously annotated day planners from when he was in high school because, again, he's a gigantic dork.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 19, 2024
She offered neither evidence nor science, of course. But she did have a background as someone who studied how to re-create memories that sometimes could be "true" without being strictly factual. Literally.
— Quin Hillyer (@QuinHillyer) March 19, 2024
I kind of took the Kavanaugh hearings seriously because we share the same name, and I hate to see it dragged through the mud.
C’mon man. It’s indelible in the hippocampus.
— Vin Sidious (@VinSidious) March 19, 2024
Oh yes, there was the science.
I am embarrassed for whoever wrote this. I mean, wow. It’s so freaking dumb that the dumb eclipses the moral bankruptcy. https://t.co/EPDVOkqfth
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 19, 2024
Writing a puff piece about a memoir by a woman who can't remember anything. I'm sure it's fascinating reading.
She offered no evidence
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) March 19, 2024
Do I think Ford made up the whole story? Yes, I do. Abortion is a sacrament to the Left, and Kavanaugh posed a threat to Roe v. Wade. Someone had to step up and do something, so Ford accused him of rape.
The wider context is she never met Kavanaugh.
— JWF (@JammieWF) March 19, 2024
You don't have to embarrass yourself like this, but actually chose to.
Reminder that Ford provided no evidence, changed her story multiple times over the years on when it happened, how old she was, how many were at the party, how many assaulted her, if she could hear voices downstairs, and she had zero corroboration & her named witness doubts her.
— KSLawWolf (@KSLawWolf) March 19, 2024
The Kavanaugh hearings were an abomination, the absolute worst picture of what a senator would do to hold onto power.
Megan Garber writes that Ford's memoir "doubles as a modern-day horror story."
“I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified,” Christine Blasey Ford said in the fall of 2018, introducing herself to the Senate Judiciary Committee and a television audience of millions. Early in One Way Back, the memoir Ford has written about her testimony, its origin, and its aftermath, she repeats the line. She feels that terror again, she writes. She is afraid of having her words taken out of context, of being a public figure, of being misunderstood. “Stepping back into the spotlight comes with an infinite number of things to worry about,” Ford notes, before returning to the story at hand. The moment is brief, but remarkable all the same: Rare is the writer who will confess to fearing her own book.
No one asked for it, as far as I know. She could have skipped it and lived her privileged life. She sure didn't look like she was feeling that terror on "The View."
Kavanaugh was confirmed. Roe v. Wade was struck down. Ford has a book to sell. Sheldon Whitehouse is still looking through Kavanaugh's high school yearbook with a magnifying glass looking for proof he was a gang rapist.
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