Joe wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:39 pm
I discount unsupported assertions as a rule, regardless of bias, although in recognition of your "accomplishments," I apply extra skepticism.
Good, then we are in agreement in rejecting Dr. Blas' unsupported assertions?
Joe wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:39 pm
The link I provided establishes the concerns, your unsupported assertions notwithstanding. As for the lies in Kavanaugh's testimony, I provided ample evidence of that in a
previous response to you.
Interesting that you've forgotten that.
I hadn't forgotten - but, you think that is "ample evidence" of Kavanaugh "lying?" If you do, then you can't possibly credit anything Dr. Ford says worth a damn, because if you think anything you posted proves or even tends to show Kavanaugh lied, I think you need to reexamine it.
1. Ludington - you quoted him as saying the he witnessed Kavanaugh in a bar get in a dispute and rather than diffuse it, Kavanaugh escalated and threw a beer at him. Only, that's refuted by the police report, which says he was accused of throwing ice, but did not confirm that he had done so. Only, he never said that didn't happen. He did not lie about it.
2. The article that you linked to, crediting Seabass, was pathetic. The first lie they say he told was denying that he was at party like the one described by Ford. They say this is a lie because he had been to high school parties where people drank beer and got together at houses. Obviously, this is not a lie - Kavanaugh admitted to regularly drinking beer, to excess and attending parties. His denial was not to ever attending a get together. His denial was to attending the party Ford said he attended, or anything like it - he has to answer that way, because Ford's accusation is so ridiculously vague that he can't do anything but generally deny it - she doesn't say where it is, when it is, and she's not consistent with who was there or how many people were there. To say that's a lie is simply absurd.
The writer goes on to say that because Kavanaugh attended a July 1 party with OTHER PEOPLE and PJ and Mark Judge, that he must be lying when he says he didn't attend a party like the one alleged by Ford. This is stupid. That party was at night -- the party that Ford alleges was -- as the writer of the article describes - a "pre-party" at someone's house - during the day - and Ford herself says it was early in the day, because she was not at that time allowed to go out later at night - when she said Kavanaugh's parties generally occurred. So, the writer says basically - "Kavanaugh denied going to a party like the one described by Ford, but he did go to other parties, so he's a liar." You don't actually credit that as making sense, do you?
Then he says Kavanaugh lied when he said that Keyser said it didn't happen, because the writer says that Keyser said I don't remember any such party, and I never met Kavanaugh. So, her own statement shows that Kavanaugh is right - if Keyser "never met Kavanaugh" then she couldn't have been at this party Ford describes, because if she was, then she would have met kavanaugh - Ford herself says Kavanaugh and Judge were downstairs talking to the other party goers - PJ, Keyser and the host. So, logically, Keyser could not have been at the party if she never met Kavanaugh. They say that Keyser later said she "believes" Ford's allegations (I assume that means that she was attacked by Kavanaugh), but that doesn't have anything to do with attendance at the party, does it? She believes that Ford was attacked, but it logically was not at a party Keyser was in attendance at because if she was there she would have met Kavanaugh and she unequivocally said she did not.
The next specific lie that is referenced is supposedly Kavanaugh wanting to give the impression that he was not an excessive or rowdy drinker. That's not accurate. Kavanaugh said he wasn't "black out" drunk. He admitted very clearly that he drank a lot in high school, excessively. He simply did not lie about his drinking.
The article posted fails to identify a single false representation.
It's better - instead of just posting links to giant articles and saying here's the proof - if you think he lied, then link to the article but actually type a post about what you think an example or two of the best lies are. He lied when he said X, because [insert reason we know it's a lie]. That article you linked to was long, but did not identify a lie.
I mean - the article says that when he says he may have met Keyser in high school, he must be lying because he should have said, I know of her now, but I don't recall meeting her in high school. the article says he was trying to deceive us, because he said that he remmbers her, but doesn't know where he met her. The writer thinks he's being evasive and trying to avoid a connection with Ford. That's what the writer calls a "lie". According to this writer, Ford can forget almost everything pertinent to the event in question, but Kavanaugh has to remember where he met Leland Keyser, or he's lying.
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