When the New York Times published its recent story about past sexual exploits of Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats once again rushed to judgment. Kavanaugh’s main accuser Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford insisted Kavanaugh tried to rape her at a party in a private home back in high school. Blasey-Ford testified Sept. 27, 2018 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, recounting events that she could neither recall accurately nor corroborate. Her best friend, Leland Keyser, whom Blasey-Ford placed as an eyewitness to the alleged attack could not recall the incident. While all Democrats on the Judiciary Committee said they believed Blasey-Ford, it became clear the hearing was a partisan attempt to deny Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. When you consider all Democrats believed Blasey-Ford, yet not one Republican, it exposed Washington’s extreme partisanship.
New York Times recent report of a Yale classmate of Brett Kavanaugh named Max Steir, currently CEO of a Clinton-linked nonprofit, said in a recent book by Robin Pogebin and Kate Kelly that he “saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of female student.” When the New York Times published its story Sept. 13, it prompted renewed outrage, with many Democrats, like in the Blasey-Ford testimony, calling for Kavanugh’s impeachment or disqualification. Times’ story did not mention that that Pogebin and Kelly’s book said the female victim could not recall the incident. Nor did the Times story report that Stier worked as Clinton defense attorney. Stier insists he notified the FBI before the Blasey-Ford testimony but they did not follow up on the unverified story from Brett’s college days.
What’s significant about the New York Times correction is that contains exculpatory facts were omitted in the story, creating the worst impression for Kavanaugh. Because of Washington’s toxic partisanship, the same Democrats that believe Blasey-Ford once again called for Kavanaugh’s disqualification. When Trump calls the New York Times “fake news,” this is precisely the reason, where unverified statements with unnamed sources spread the kind of partisan innuendo and pernicious gossip designed only for character assassination. For the over two years of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, the Times published numerous stories with again unverified and unnamed sources making outrageous statements about Trump’s ties to the Kremlin. When Mueller came out with his final report March 23, it refuted scores of Times’ stories proving Trump’s Russian collusion.
When it comes to biased partisan reporting, the Times takes the cake, perhaps more egregious than the Washington Post and HuffPost Internet paper. Partisan readers don’t care about the factual basis to the Times’ reporting, only whether it does damage to Trump or any of his associates. Kavanugh’s case was egregious partisanship because the entire Senate Judiciary Committee voted on partisan lines, not where the facts took them. Dredging up Kavanaugh’s alleged past misconduct, the Times hoped to damage Trump’s credibility heading into the 2020 Election Year. “It’s more clear than ever that Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath. He should be impeached. And Congress should review the failure of the Department of Justice to properly investigate the matter,” said Democrat presidential candidate former HUD Secretary Julian Castro. Castro used the Times story for partisan purposes.
Duping most Democrat hopefuls, the New York Times should be called out for its substandard reporting, well below any conventional journalistic standards. Publishing corrections or retractions isn’t enough when the damage has already been done. “Kavanaugh should resign and if he does not, the House should impeach him,” said Democrat candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Sen. Elizabeth Warrant (D-Mass.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, all Democrat presidential candidates, said the same thing. Not one of them admit they were duped by the New York Times, trying to save face now that the facts came out. Even House Judiciary Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he’s open to taking a second look at the Kavanaugh affair but admitted he’s focused on impeaching the president not reopening the Kavanaugh case.
Exposing the extreme partisan reporting of the New York Times, the recent story about Kavanaugh speaks volumes about the fake news media, willing to violate any journalistic principle to advance the Democrat political agenda. Watching Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former VP Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) fall into the same trap shows how little integrity exists in politics. When a respected new organization allows politics to infect its reporting, it no longer remains faithful to the First Amendment. Free Speech does not give an accredited new organization a license to lie to the American public or omit certain key facts which would influence the public’s thinking. Democrat presidential candidates know the facts, especially the corrections, yet still blow smoke to advance the Democrats agenda heading into 2020. No news organization can exist to push partisan politics.
