After watching the emotional testimony of Christine Blasey-Ford last year, my conclusion was that Kavanaugh was probably guilty or semi-guilty of what he was accused, but it was too many years ago and he was too drunk to remember. I challenge any of you to remember all of your drunken antics at high school or college parties.

So my feeling was that Kavanaugh legit believed he didn't do it, and was angry about what he perceived to be a political smear campaign. And Blasey-Ford was a legit victim who was horrified to see the man who sexually assaulted her rise to such a prominent position, even if this man was just a teenage boy when this crime occurred.

Or at least that was how I perceived it at the time, despite a ton of right-wing pundits screaming conspiracy.

Now I'm not so sure, and in fact am starting to believe that Kavanaugh was innocent all along.

First, the NY Times came out with a horrible article labeled a "news analysis" piece, which claimed that a man remembered Kavanaugh having his penis "pushed into a woman's hands" at a party, when his friends jokingly shoved him from behind. This piece in the NY Times was by the authors of a new book about Kavanaugh.

At first, many prominent Democrats angrily tweeted that Kavanaugh needed to resign, claiming to be outraged that Kavanaugh is facing yet another accusation.



However, the Times looked REALLY bad when it came out that the alleged victim of this story did not remember it happening! Even worse, the authors of the piece knew that the supposed victim didn't remember it happening, but omitted this very important fact from the article! Instead, they published hearsay allegations from an uninvolved third party who claimed to have seen it.

Now it's even worse than that. The two authors appeared on MSNBC and stated that they actually wrote in the article that the alleged victim didn't remember it happening, but a Times editor removed it!

WHAT?!?!?!

So the Times intentionally removed the most important line of the story -- one which would have seriously cast doubt upon the accusations -- in order to create a new (and very unfair) slam on Kavanaugh. Wow.

But this is about a completely different accusation. What does this have to do with Christime Blasey-Ford?

Well, it just came out that Leland Keyser, a close friend of Blasey-Ford's at the time of the alleged incident, revealed that she was pressured into publicly backing Blasey-Ford's story.

In reality, she always felt the story "didn't add up" in several ways, especially Blasey-Ford's account about how she left the party. Keyser felt that, at age 16, there's no way she would have just let her friend run off without helping her figure out a way home, and that she would have had to have been the one driving her, which she didn't remember.

When Keyser raised this and other objections to the story to Blasey-Ford and her people, she claims that she was pressured to stop trying to poke holes in the story, and was told to get on board and corroborate it. Eventually Keyser weakly corroborated it, but now is retracting her corroboration, and in fact now says she doesn't believe any of it happened. She also claims that she was threatened that "things will come out" about her (presumably her later addiction troubles) if she didn't play ball and corroborate the story.

Blasey-Ford conceded last year that she didn't remember how she got to and from the party, but that it was likely that Keyser had driven her both ways. Keyser says she has no memory of the party in question, and no memory of driving Blasey-Ford home after a traumatic incident: https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...down-his-side/

Oh, and Keyser is a lifelong Democrat, who has no reason to protect Kavanaugh here.

It's really starting to look like this entire thing was fabricated, or that Blasey-Ford imagined the entire thing, and Democratic operatives jumped on it.

Fellow left-leaning mainstream news outlets have been strongly criticizing the NY Times over this mess, basically stating that they've become the fake news that Trump has accused them of being all along.