Brett Kavanaugh Fans Try to Attack His Accuser, Go After the Wrong Christine Ford
The perils of poorly sourced stories

Christine Ford, a woman from Judge Brett Kavanaugh's past, has made serious accusations of sexual assault against the Supreme Court nominee. Ford is a professor, so some of Kavanaugh's online defenders decided to dig up student reviews of her classes. They got a little confused, though, and they went after the wrong Christine Ford.
Several conservative personalities and websites, including Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, and The Drudge Report, eagerly shared negative reviews of one Christine A. Ford of California State University–Fullerton. ("I feel like she has something wrong with her," said one, "and I am surprised no one has caught this.") But the woman accusing Kavanaugh is Christine B. Ford of Palo Alto University. Different professor.
The mistaken identity was apparently first made in an anonymously authored article for GrabieNews, which several pundits then shared on (and subsequently deleted from) their social media accounts. The article has since been retracted with the following editor's note:
We apologize for the error, but we've since learned there are two Christine Fords working in clinical psychology in California and we wrote this report about the wrong Christine Ford. We regret not going to greater lengths to ensure this was indeed the same Christine Ford. Please do not share this article with anyone (and if you have, delete it/withdraw it); we are only leaving the page up so you can see this important update.
As we saw in the Great Imaginary Willie Nelson Boycott of 2018, unverified single-source reporting leads to misleading news narratives. This is especially true when the alleged news would produce a political "win" for the people sharing the story.
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"The perils of poorly sourced stories"
Hmmmmm
Thankfully only the right conspiracy theories are pushed by responsible people
Considering the accusation is obviously an 11th hour smear job, a more accurate title would be that democrats went after the wrong Brett Kavanaugh.
Yes indeed, the sudden, delayed surfacing of these tawdry accusations clearly demonstrates that they are really part of an effort to smear an honorable man, just as the use of inappropriately deadpan "parody" to accuse a distinguished academic department chairman of plagiarism demonstrates, beyond any reasonable doubt whatsoever, that the charges of plagiarism must themselves have been invented. See the documentation of America's leading criminal "satire" case at:
https://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpress.com/
So izzat kinda like a Hail Mary Magdalene pass?
Considering the accusation is obviously an 11th hour smear job, a more accurate title would be that democrats went after the wrong Brett Kavanaugh.
Still looking for the birth certificate in Kenya, rocks?
At least with the birth certificate there was evidence to disprove how stupid that conspiracy theory was. People are just accepting this conspiracy theory at face value, much like Russia fever dreams.
You conservatives are quite pathetic
How many American's, other than Obama, have a recycled Social Security number?
Ten to Twenty Million other illegal aliens...or so. Those politicians need those votes to validate their "legitimacy" to rule as it implies consent. (And I was taught that the Government was to be the servant of the people...Silly me...I believed that.)
So they keep you fighting one another, and divided, while they are united in removing the last vestiges of freedom that you have. Party names are just labels.
Zerohedge has crossed over the rubicon into the outright censorship of even swear words now, or, even the mere mention of the deity, God. Those words are now forbidden. It has been subverted into a copy of Yahoo Comments. There is no liberty in that.
We lose our freedom which each and every passing moment as we become increasingly subjugated to the State..Words are now being used in other industrialized nations to cage you.
When is enough, enough?
Ten to Twenty Million other illegal aliens...or so. Those politicians need those votes to validate their "legitimacy" to rule as it implies consent. (And I was taught that the Government was to be the servant of the people...Silly me...I believed that.)
So they keep you fighting one another, and divided, while they are united in removing the last vestiges of freedom that you have. Party names are just labels.
Zerohedge has crossed over the rubicon into the outright censorship of even swear words now, or, even the mere mention of the deity, God. Those words are now forbidden. It has been subverted into a copy of Yahoo Comments. There is no liberty in that.
We lose our freedom which each and every passing moment as we become increasingly subjugated to the State..Words are now being used in other industrialized nations to cage you.
When is enough, enough?
Ten to Twenty Million other illegal aliens...or so. Those politicians need those votes to validate their "legitimacy" to rule as it implies consent. (And I was taught that the Government was to be the servant of the people...Silly me...I believed that.)
So they keep you fighting one another, and divided, while they are united in removing the last vestiges of freedom that you have. Party names are just labels.
Zerohedge has crossed over the rubicon into the outright censorship of even swear words now, or, even the mere mention of the deity, God. Those words are now forbidden. It has been subverted into a copy of Yahoo Comments. There is no liberty in that.
We lose our freedom which each and every passing moment as we become increasingly subjugated to the State..Words are now being used in other industrialized nations to cage you.
When is enough, enough?
Ten to Twenty Million other illegal aliens...or so. Those politicians need those votes to validate their "legitimacy" to rule as it implies consent. (And I was taught that the Government was to be the servant of the people...Silly me...I believed that.)
So they keep you fighting one another, and divided, while they are united in removing the last vestiges of freedom that you have. Party names are just labels.
Zerohedge has crossed over the rubicon into the outright censorship of even swear words now, or, even the mere mention of the deity, God. Those words are now forbidden. It has been subverted into a copy of Yahoo Comments. There is no liberty in that.
We lose our freedom which each and every passing moment as we become increasingly subjugated to the State..Words are now being used in other industrialized nations to cage you.
When is enough, enough?
Ooops. How do you delete posts?
You cant. Its okay. Reason spends $.10 of every $1,000 on the website, so we are used to squirrels.
Are they serious allegations, though?
Twitter lynch mobs are the most incompetent lynch mobs ever in the history of the planet.
Poor Professor C.A Ford. And remember the Arkansas engineering prof who was one of the supremacists at Charlottesville, except for the problem that he was in NW Arkansas the entire weekend? No matter, he and his family still had to spend a couple of weeks living with friends for their safety.
You'd hope that at some point the politically zealous on Twitter would learn from their mistakes. "I tarred an innocent person, shame on me". Problem is, they're all fucking imbeciles who are incapable of anything other than venting their outrage.
They also rush to be the first to break news. This was a problem in newspaper days too, but newspapers only raced against other local newspapers, so it was hardly the same as hundreds of nuts racing to beat other tweets by a few seconds.
it is all fun and games until someone gets killed.
If Ford didn't intend to come out publicly, with her name attached to the accusation, why did she pay for a polygraph as early as she did?
Nah, keep angling for that Slate job, Reason writers.
You can't figure that one, Johnny?
You should have chosen to get an education.
I'm sure you'll provide an explanation to Longtorso any minute....
This is getting old....
For comparison, consider how Juanita Broaddrick knew the exact day, time, and place that she was violently raped by Bill Clinton. She told two friends the day it happened after they found her bruised and bloodied. That is what a "credible accusation" looks like.
Actually, she did not remember the exact date.
She told friends after the fact about what she claimed happened, but there was no evidence and no proof that Bill Clinton did what she claimed he did. She did not tell her husband at the time.
So all of this howling about "OMG DUE PROCESS" rings very hollow. You don't give a shit about due process, you just want to see the Left lose. You'll use the exact same low standard to believe what you want to believe about the villains of the Left, then conveniently trot out the OMG DUE PROCESS line when they use that same standard against your heroes of the Right. So spare us all your crocodile tears.
Pot meet kettle.
Seriously, chemjeff, you need to read about the multiple accusations against Clinton. There is no comparison between that and this accusation against Kavanaugh. For someone who accuses everyone who doesn't accept the status quo narrative on every topic as a Republican, you false comparison sounds more like Huff Po than anyone who is even vaguely familiar with Brodderick's story. I think it's accurate to label you a progressive
Christopher Hitchens even wrote about how consistent Broderrick's story was. You're just reciting progressive talking points now, which is really not that out of character for you.
Absolutely right. We're using YOUR tactics to jam it down YOUR throat. No mercy now, lefties. You get your payback for all the lies, and soon in probability, for the violence.
Enjoy being run out of restaraunts, Maxine. Love being shouted down, chuckie?
Its gonna be fun!
I demand that Bill Clinton's nomination to the supreme court be withdrawn immediately.
Now do keith ellison.
His too.
And robert menendez.
None of them should currently be under consideration for the supreme court and should withdraw from any such nominations they have received immediately.
But they are qualified to occupy elected office? So about Roy Moore and your rending of garments...
Purge them. Surely wherever a Muslim can get elected is a safe seat for Democrats.
And since clinton was illegitimate, RBG needs to be removed from the court, right?
It's a free country. If people want to vote for a rapist, they can. They were allowed the choice with Roy Moore. He just lost. Now it's up to the Senate to see if they want to vote for one, that being the relevant voting body in this case.
Now stop apologizing for rapists as long as they're Republican and try harder at this conversation business.
You voted for Bill Clinton.
He is one of the worst presidents. Him and old Johnson got impeached.
Trump is going down as one of the best presidents.
I didn't vote for Bill Clinton. I was too young to vote for one thing, and at the time I was following the family tradition of being a Clinton-bashing Republican. You just can't get me on anything can you?
They got you on an admission of stupidity.
You were demanding Moore lose. You were accusing anyone who supported him of being an amoral sociopath. And when it comes to democrats who do it... crickets. What does it say about democrats who voted for clinton and menendez and ellison?
You worship rapists. You admitted you don't care about the truth or justice as long you you get your way. Quit being a fascist.
I'm quite clearly not defending these people, and you should really stop before you start crying.
With Trump as president our standards are obviously pretty low, but even he is term limited. I've already said that my main concern is defeating his supreme court nomination by any means available. You want to cry about tough politics too? Here, have a teddy bear.
Yeah, its easy for trump to be the best president in over 88 years.
Obama, Boosh, Clinton, Bush, Carter, Ford, Nixon, LBJ, JFK, Truman, FDR, Wilson were horrible.
All Trump has to do is roll back some government, nominate some good judges and justices, get a few tax breaks in, get lower trade restrictions....
Up from Barry, bubba.
a teenager maybe, I cant remember, possibly, copping a feel has been elevated to rape??
It will be Obama, not Clinton, on the Supreme Court in a few years.
So keep those racist emails in your saved folders, goobers -- passing them around among Republicans and bigots will be back in style before you know it.
"It will be Obama, not Clinton, on the Supreme Court in a few years."
Obama would be far, far better on the Supreme Court than either Clinton would ever have been. Bill's a perjurer who lost his Law License and Hillary is a virulent partisan. I wouldn't find a Justice Obama to be anymore objectionable than a Justice Reagan would have been.
Sure. We need more incompetent boobs on the Court.
I mean, why not put Obama on the Supreme Court? Kagan didn't know shit about being a judge and was confirmed, why would Obama be any different given that he also doesn't know shit about being a judge.
Tell me, why is the far left such as yourself so keen to put people on the bench who have literally never been a judge in their entire life? Is it their complete lack of a discernible record, or merely that you don't actually agree with the baseline job that is expected of the Supreme Court?
Important note to all: you don't even have to be a lawyer to be on the SCOTUS.
If you think Obama is going to take a job where he actually has to show up and work- for a salary that is a mere pittance of what he makes slurping off "one percenters"- you're probably dumb enough to be an Obama voter.
Once he has lifetime tenure, what makes you think he'd have to show up and work? If his nonfeasance becomes especially egregious, I suppose he risks impeachment, but if Samuel Chase kept his seat, it would take an awful lot for Obama to forfeit his.
Showing up for the term photo is more work than he is going to take on.
As a professional lazy fuck, the one area where I am truly jealous of Obama is just how little he has ever actually worked. The man is a fucking genius as a lazy fuck. No chance he screws that up now.
The only realistic place I see Obama 'working' in the future is somewhere in the vast unaccountable U.N. labyrinth, but as you say I suspect that if he can't be a figurehead that does nothing he's simply uninterested.
Keep talking, bigots. Some young people may not have heard you, and resolved not to vote for a Republican during their lifetimes, yet.
I appreciate your commentary. Reminds me of what Fox News commentators sound like, just on the other side of the stupid circle.
It will be Obama, not Clinton, on the Supreme Court in a few years.
Not once I reveal that he touched me on the butt once in the distant past, at an event I can't clearly remember, where people may or may not have been around.
Reason is now taking marching orders from the left wing fringe. You keep carrying that water....
Reason have been shitting on Libertarianism for some time.
"Brett Kavanaugh Fans"
The moment I saw this in the headline I though "Fuck you Reason". If this had been any Democrat appointee they would have called them "Concerned But Mistaken Citizens".
I agree, it is kind of sad when questionable accusations just start flying around. It's amazing how people get hurt.
But it is what it is, fuck due process... due process is for those old pre-twitter oldsters.
Why do you suppose that it's always sexual charges? I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that it's a special category of crime that doesn't necessarily require evidence.
You know, once again, witness testimony is evidence, even if it comes from the pretty little heads of the women folk.
You know, once again, two witnesses saying she's lying is more evidence, even if it comes from running dog kulak white men.
So since you've failed to trick me into hypocrisy so far, you're going to start defending the honor of Clinton, Ellison, etc., now?
No trickery involved. Virtually every post is hypocritical. But it's not about defending their honor since yoi have no concept of honor. It is all about power for you.
Tony is one hypocritical comment away from being an honorary Reason staff writer.
In which Tony argues for crimes of hearsay. Nevermind that Tony fucks sheep, and has thus far been unable to prove that he does not fuck sheep therefore a sheep fucker he is.
Witness testimony is one of the most unreliable pieces of evidence there is, full stop. Fortunately for our legal system, no one gives a shit.
He-said-she-said is not witness testimony. A witness is a third party.
"He-said-she-said is not witness testimony."
Does this apply to all crimes? She said he stole her purse and ran off with it. He says he didn't. No crime here, I guess...
Pollack, I cannot belive you admitted to fucking sheep.
Someone saw you do it.
If you have something stolen you can usually point to evidence you once had it. Like a photo of you and the purse. Or maybe multiple friends and colleagues stating you had that purse. And the cash in the purse, an bank statement showing the withdrawal and friend saying it was a gift for b-day or whatever.
You can also say where you were and what time it happened and through investigating those facts can be falsified, especially with GPS on all phones these days.
In fact, some crazy people admit to murders they didn't commit. We, usually, no longer take their word for it but require other proof such as knowing things that only the killer would know, but weren't publicly released etails.OR having the murder weapon.
IE - complaints need corroboration to be investigated as charges, or rather they did in the past.
As innocent until proven guilty means if all you have if the accusers story without any other prrof, the defendant must go free.
We're told the wrong Christine Ford was accused of making baseless accusations. How do we KNOW THIS Christine Ford HASN'T made any baseless accusations. These are serious charges and should be answered.
We should investigate and stop all Federal appointments until the investigation is complete!
I would stand by a total government shutdown until every accusation is addressed. Every. One.
If they can make a mistake then maybe the real Christine B Ford is mistaken about Kavanough.
I can see it now Opps my bad wrong Kavenough of coures teh left would say it doesn't matter because of .......
Whether or C. A. Ford had anything to do with Kavanaugh, she's a psycho-bitch professor whose students hate and fear her, and frankly I'm glad those issues have been publicized.
Who knew trench warfare could be so inexact.
To be fair, the FemNazis want No Man's Land too.
How about "The perils of poorly sourced accusations"
Democrats did not fight for Garland because Hillary was a sure thing and they'd get someone better. You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
But now those same feckless people are engaged in eleventy-dimensional chess to defeat Kavanaugh.
Actually, no. It's not even at the Rock Paper Scissors level of sophistication.
'Oops, we nuked the filibuster so what else can we do to throw monkey wrenches? We're very sure this won't come back to haunt us any time soon...'
- Democrats
And of course Tony cheered it on, even while we warned of this exact scenario. Now, of course, Democrats want to cry about the extremely unfair rules that they were literally in charge of creating.
And thus, people like Tony reveal themselves.
They nuked the filibuster in response to McConnell's unprecedented obstructionism. There is no chicken-egg problem, no turtles all the way down. Mitch is the bottom turtle.
And it's absolutely laughable to claim that Mitch wouldn't have nuked the filibuster on normal judge nominations the second it would have been necessary, just as he did for SCOTUS.
Even if you want to pretend that both sides are equally ruthless, most laughable of all is the idea that Republicans look to their Democratic colleagues as role models.
Mitch said blocking Garland was the most significant thing he's ever achieved. No precedent, Democratic or otherwise, caused that. It was pure, unadulterated power grabbing. Which of course I admire--I will fault Democrats for not wising up to Republican ruthlessness, but one can hardly fault them for simply not being as innately evil.
"They nuked the filibuster in response to McConnell's unprecedented obstructionism. "
So? There's generally a reason when people perform foolish actions. It doesn't excuse the foolishness.
"unadulterated power grabbing. Which of course I admire"
This is what you progressives don't understand: you get all hot and bothered for power grabbing.
But, you're not very good at it.
And the next thing you know, you've given a chain saw dildo to a chimpanzee, named him Trump, and bent over, right in front of him.
Sad.
So, I point it out and you double down on the very thing I was pointing out. Thanks for making my case for me, it's so much easier.
Unprecedented meaning a faster confirmation rate than bush? Reid stopped all confirmations in 08 dumbfuck.
It is so funny to see Lefties squirm and be able to do nothing about SCOTUS nominees after Reid nuked the 60 vote threshold in the Senate.
It's funny in a 'we're all very fucked' sort of way. Who would have thought that cutting the nuts off the minority would come back to haunt Democrats, after all? Oh, right, literally everyone here. That's who.
Well not literally. Tony, shrike, and Hihn probably all thought it was a swell idea. I probably missed a few others.
They did think it was a great idea, and continue to think that regardless of how hard it's fucking them at this very moment.
Funny in a nut punch way.
Any bets on what Lefties will move on to after Kavanaugh is confirmed?
1. Enlarging the Supreme Court.
2. Diminishing the influence of vestigial bigotry and profound conservative backwardness in America society.
3. Shaping and generating American progress for another half-century or more.
4. Mocking Trump's half-educated, intolerant, unskilled, can't-keep-up base.
Such compassionate people .
"Mocking Trump's half-educated, intolerant, unskilled, can't-keep-up base"
The gender studies majors switched sides? When did that happen?
1. Lefties wont be a majority in the House or Senate. How can they enlarge the SCOTUS?
2. Finally, you're going to get rid of Democrats?
3. Strategy is not working anymore.
4. Trump becomes more popular by the day.
He hit 36 percent approval the other day . . . or was it 38?
Just not enough half-educated, disaffected, racist, gay-bashing, misogynistic, xenophobic, superstitious, economically inadequate, stale-thinking, backwaters-inhabited goobers to save Trump's bacon.
Yeah 83% popularity! On his way to rocking a reelction bid in 2020.
Diminishing the influence of vestigial bigotry
It's called "Intersectionality" nowadays.
profound conservative backwardness in America society
They currently call themselves "progressives", and try to pretend their views on race, eugenics and economics policy aren't right out of 1939 Deutschland.
"Any bets on what Lefties will move on to after Kavanaugh is confirmed?"
governing?
Maga
It's not like they kicked down her door threw in flash bang grenades, shot her dog and kidnapped the wrong person!
'Cause then they'd get paid and be called heros.
Yes, it really is bad form when you use poorly sourced references
Rightwingers are such psychopathic cunts.
Aw, shit, Tony. Sometimes I think there's hope for you and then something like this Kavanaugh thing comes up and you demonstrate yourself to be just another political chucklehead.
Mind your language.
Okay cunt.
Says the guy who will do literally anything to get his way.
The only thing I want is for my cats to be out of my bedroom when it's time to sleep. Sometimes I win, sometimes they win.
Can't even outsmart a cat.
They only thing you want is what all fascists want: total control.
Fuck them in a different room then Tony.
Lefties are such psychopathic cunts.
Scintillating comment tony. Absolutely illustrative of your lack of argument.
I assume you're still an undergrad or an unemployed lesbian English masters program kid? You certainly sound indoctrinated.
For poorly written completely unverifiable single source stories, see the letter.
It was a dark and stormy night, at a time I cannot remember, in a place I cannot remember, with either some people I don't know or maybe only one other but I definitely remember Brett Kavanaugh, I was attempted raped, either by turning up the music or covering my mouth to keep me from screaming, and decades later I might have told a shrink, but maybe not because I didn't actually name anyone, but it had to be Brett again, so I told some other people about this horrible thing that (maybe) happened, but did not tell police or reporters or anyone who matters until someone wrote a letter to the ever truthful Diane Feinstein who did not believe it enough to tell anyone either, and then when everything else failed decided to go public because otherwise Brett would get confirmed for the seventh time as a judge.
#nothernoway
+1
Look, all those other times Kavanaugh was investigated and confirmed this didn't come up because...uhh...reasons I guess?
See, it's not so bad to have a rapist in several other courts deciding things about people's lives and property but the Supreme Court is like supreme and stuff so that's when she had to speak up.
Note that she might even be telling the truth, but if she is one might think that sending a letter to a Democrat politician might not have been the proper avenue here unless the goal is book deal. Especially when they sat on it for months. Why is no one asking about the fact that Feinstein let things get so far before bringing this 'important information' to light?
Oh, right, it's because no one actually gives a shit about her as a victim that claims to actually care about those things. Blatant hypocrisy is now a virtue.
Perhaps she didn't know about his prior nominations? Most people don't really spend a lot of time trolling appellate court nominations.
Yeah, she just lost track of her rapist somewhere along the line and his massively successful judicial stint over the past 35 years.
If she was that uninterested then, why become interested now?
She of course won't say until the FBI has investigated, which is curious. That's definitely not a delay tactic on a nominee that was already said to be beyond the pale before anyone was nominated.
Regardless of the truth in terms of what happened, the timing on it's own isn't even suspicious. It's obviously a political play, and for some reason that's ok when it's Democrats.
Quit whining, you bigoted rube.
If anyone is qualified to recognize a bigot, it has to be you.
But oddly, even in this you're a massive failure.
If anyone is qualified to recognize a bigot, it has to be you.
But oddly, even in this you're a massive failure.
If anyone is qualified to recognize a bigot, it has to be you.
But oddly, even in this you're a massive failure.
*Precious Pup snicker*
Progs are hoping now that the newly energized conservatives will vote for the wrong party on election day.
Did they go after Christine Plymouth by mistake?
It's cool that GrabieNews has left the original article tile intact with the helpful [brackets] indicating that the story has been retracted. Everyone who gets their news on social media reads beyond the headline in order to check for editor's notes.
Back in the day, Brietbart did this sort of thing;
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/.....-breitbart
"unverified single-source reporting leads to misleading news narratives"
I know, right?
This just in: Christine Blasey Ford is a past financial contributor to Sen. Bernie Sanders. She has made other contributions as well, mostly small considering her probable pay as a university professor, but all of them to groups like ActBlue, which raises money for the Democrats.
She also has appeared at rallies supporting liberal "feminist" causes and protesting opposition to climate change as well as cutting of federal funding to science research.
Just like everyone else in the Bay Area?
Sorry, but the vast majority of people never give money to a politician or party. While numbers may be higher geogeaphically, where certain areaso have higher percentages of people giving, mostly everywhere no one ever gives.
The Global Warming Climate Change superstition definitely cost the Dems that election. They should be after their own pseudoscientists and soothsayers with torches and pitchforks.
We want a Lincoln, not a Ford!
Palo Alto University offers two undergraduate degree programs (Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Psychology and Social Action and B.S. in Business Psychology)
"Christine Ford, a woman from Judge Brett Kavanaugh's past"
Allegedly from his past
Oh well. Happens all the time to socialists.
Another smear job backfires! But what else can Republicans expect from their efforts to amend the Constitution to send goons with guns to pester women and endanger physicians? As ye sow...