If I were the guy who Federalist-hack, Harvard grad-whore Ed Whelan dragged in to serve as the proxy attempted rapist to get his buddy Brett Kavanaugh off the hook, I'd sue the asshole into the flames of hell. If you haven't read about that one yet, only one of the totally irresponsible, totally dishonest gambits and strategies to put Brett Kavanaugh's lying, perjuring, would-be alpha-boy-male ass on the Supreme Court bench, it could be considered the final piece of evidence proving the case of Republican-fascist depravity beyond any reasonable doubt.
Ed Whelan, a former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and the president of a think tank called the Ethics and Public Policy Center, took this theory to a new, wildly irresponsible place on Thursday night, actually identifying a classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Georgetown Prep, and suggesting that he might have attempted to rape Ford, not the future judge.
The tweet storm showed the results of Whelan’s internet sleuthing. The supposed evidence (which we are not embedding because there’s no reason to think the classmate was actually involved) includes:
• A Google map of where Ford, Kavanaugh, and other alleged witnesses lived when they were in high school.
• Real estate photos of the home where Whelan thinks the incident might have occurred, based on Ford saying the house was “not far from” the Columbia Country Club.
• A floor plan that shows that the upstairs bathroom is across from a bedroom in this house, just like Ford described.
• And finally, the big reveal: 35 years ago, this was the home of a Georgetown Prep student who looks kind of like Kavanaugh and was also friends with Mark Judge (who was allegedly present during the assault). Yearbook photos and a current photo of the classmate are provided for comparison to Kavanaugh.
As Twitter users discussed the irony of the head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center possibly being sued for defamation, Whelan added a disclaimer:
I won't give you his disclaimer you can go to the link to see it, not anymore than I'll participate in his libel by naming his victim. If the law would let this asshole, Whelan get away with libeling a totally innocent person to a national audience without getting sued into the flames of hell, the law is not only an ass, it's an even bigger asshole than Ed Whelan.
And, if that isn't bad enough, let me point out that Whelan's gambit only works if you also buy the frequent claim of rapists who are caught that their accuser is "confused" and doesn't know who attacked her. Something which might, possibly, be credible if the fact in this case isn't a fact CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD KNEW BOTH KAVANAUGH AND THE GUY WHELAN IS TRYING TO PIN HIS RAPE ATTEMPT ON.
Ford quickly issued a statement dismissing the theory. She said of Kavanaugh and the classmate, “I knew them both, and socialized with” them. She said she’d visited the other classmate in the hospital, so “There is zero chance that I would confuse them.”
The piece I took this version of the story from is entirely worth reading because Whelan's blatant lie is magnified by the fascist news and pseudo-news sites, it documents a small part of that magnification and amplification.
These are the people that Republicans want to put on the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh is one of their club as is Neil Gorsuch, another product of the Heritage-Federalist judge making machine.
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