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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRight Wing apologist Bari Weiss does not think Kavanaugh should be disqualified for rape:
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/09/18/ny-times-bari-weiss-other-instance-brett-kavanaugh-has-reputation-being-prince-man/221347"WEISS: What about the deeper, moral, cultural, like, the ethical question here? Let's say he did this exactly as she said. Should the fact that a 17 year old, presumably very drunk kid, did this, should this be disqualifying? That's the question at the end of the day, isn't it?
RUHLE: Wait, hold on. We're not talking about should he be disqualified to be a dog catcher. We're talking about to be a Supreme Court justice. "
The Times is disgusting. Where are the center left voices at the Wall Street Journal?
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)"But.....this does not disqualify him"
MattP
(3,304 posts)And he's had her on a few times as a cosigner
John Fante
(3,479 posts)It's bad enough to disbelieve a women who, by all accounts, is very credible.
It's another to believe her and say to hell with it, appoint Kavanaugh anyway.
Loathsome people, loathsome ideology.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)she can explain how she was misquoted or some shit.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)she will have to live with that her entire life. But, Brett Kavanaugh's attempted rape is something that is too long ago to matter?
torius
(1,652 posts)and then he would not be considered for any nonelective govt. job.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And bonus points, she's employed by the self-styled newspaper of record to give her added credibility.
Gee, why don't women come forward about these episodes? It's a mystery!
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Or is it true that most right wingers think rape is a virtue, provided the crime be committed by a powerful white male?
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)Who is she? I've seen her name dropped here or there but is she some new "intellectual" right-winger who's shown up on the scene recently?
Me.
(35,454 posts)who constantly spouts rw trash... bout time she's being called out