There is no such thing as a centrist of course. A person claiming to be a centrist or a moderate is actually a liberal. There are only 2 sides.
Kavanaugh accuser goes public
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It appears to me that the only person who needs to be impeached is Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And I don't say this due to her cancer or other physical ailments, but rather that she is incompetent. I watch her speak and she can barely make out sentences and is generally incoherent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a rabid partisan liberal. She is also, very ill. You would think she would retire instead, of trying to save her seat? In any case, she is bound to lose it at some point. Then, President Donald Trump can appoint another conservative judge to the US Supreme Court. John Roberts has turned out to be a very liberal judge being the deciding vote for the retention of Obamacare among other rulings.
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EXCELLENT POSTING.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...es-reporters-lie-their-book-yeah-pretty-much/
Did Brett Kavanaugh ask New York Times reporters to lie in their book? Yeah, pretty much.
Yet things didn’t work out. “We were on our way to Washington to speak to him,” said Pogrebin. “We had finally kind of arranged for an interview. Ultimately we could not agree on terms that we felt comfortable with, and so we didn’t do it, regrettably. We didn’t feel like we could."
Asked to elaborate, Pogrebin did:
We have debated whether to talk about this. But it is what it is — which is, he wanted us to say we hadn’t spoken to him, and we even went to negotiate the phrasing of that, where we even were willing to say nothing, not to talk about who we spoke to, not to talk about our sources. But he wanted a line in there saying we did not, and we felt that to mislead our readers in a book about, that very much deals with issues of truth, would probably not be a good foot forward.
In a separate interview with Yahoo News, Kelly put the matter a bit more clinically: “The dispute was that he wanted us to say in the book that he had declined to be interviewed,” she said, also noting that the authors worked through intermediaries to suss out Kavanaugh’s interview preferences.
Did Brett Kavanaugh ask New York Times reporters to lie in their book? Yeah, pretty much.
Yet things didn’t work out. “We were on our way to Washington to speak to him,” said Pogrebin. “We had finally kind of arranged for an interview. Ultimately we could not agree on terms that we felt comfortable with, and so we didn’t do it, regrettably. We didn’t feel like we could."
Asked to elaborate, Pogrebin did:
We have debated whether to talk about this. But it is what it is — which is, he wanted us to say we hadn’t spoken to him, and we even went to negotiate the phrasing of that, where we even were willing to say nothing, not to talk about who we spoke to, not to talk about our sources. But he wanted a line in there saying we did not, and we felt that to mislead our readers in a book about, that very much deals with issues of truth, would probably not be a good foot forward.
In a separate interview with Yahoo News, Kelly put the matter a bit more clinically: “The dispute was that he wanted us to say in the book that he had declined to be interviewed,” she said, also noting that the authors worked through intermediaries to suss out Kavanaugh’s interview preferences.
I think this is called speaking "off the record".
More bravery than the entirety of congress put together:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...stine-blasey-ford-receives-aclu-courage-award
Christine Blasey Ford receives ACLU courage award
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California on Sunday presented Christine Blasey Ford with its courage award.
Ford, a professor and researcher at Stanford University, was thrust into the public spotlight when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year ahead of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, alleging that the then-Supreme Court nominee had attempted to rape her at a party when they were teenagers.
"When I came forward last September, I did not feel courageous. I was simply doing my duty as a citizen," Ford said at the organization’s annual Bill of Rights dinner as she accepted her award.
"I had a responsibility to my country, to my fellow citizens, to my students, to my children."
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...stine-blasey-ford-receives-aclu-courage-award
Christine Blasey Ford receives ACLU courage award
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California on Sunday presented Christine Blasey Ford with its courage award.
Ford, a professor and researcher at Stanford University, was thrust into the public spotlight when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year ahead of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, alleging that the then-Supreme Court nominee had attempted to rape her at a party when they were teenagers.
"When I came forward last September, I did not feel courageous. I was simply doing my duty as a citizen," Ford said at the organization’s annual Bill of Rights dinner as she accepted her award.
"I had a responsibility to my country, to my fellow citizens, to my students, to my children."
Bless her heart.
Brett Kavanaugh was a two-timing snitch .
Brett Kavanaugh was a secret source to Bob Woodward while working as a lawyer in Ken Starr’s 1999 investigation
New York Times reporter Ben Smith revealed a bombshell in a puff piece about the Washington Post on Sunday. While President Donald Trump has railed against anonymous sources, it appears his own Supreme Court judge used to be one.
According to the report, writers at the Post can look at upcoming stories by looking at the back end of their content management system. “And at the height of the furor over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 2018, some who did saw a shocking article awaiting publication,” wrote Smith.
“In the article, Bob Woodward, the Post legend who protected the identity of his Watergate source, Deep Throat, for 30 years, was going to unmask one of his own confidential sources. He was, in particular, going to disclose that Judge Kavanaugh had been an anonymous source in his 1999 book Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate,” said the report.
Woodward wanted to expose Kavanaugh because he had publicly claimed, “in a huffy letter in 1999 to The Post,” that he wasn’t a source for Woodward in 1999. According to the claim, Kavanaugh gave Woodward juicy details about Ken Starr’s investigation behind the scenes while serving as a lawyer on Starr’s team.
It was executive editor Martin Baron who stopped it, insisting that Woodward uphold his agreement.
“The article, described by two Post journalists who read it, would have been explosive, arriving as the nominee battled a decades-old sexual assault allegation and was fighting to prove his integrity,” reported Smith.
It’s safe to say that given Trump’s hatred for leakers if Woodward had outed Kavanaugh, the president may have questioned recommendations for the judge.
Brett Kavanaugh was a secret source to Bob Woodward while working as a lawyer in Ken Starr’s 1999 investigation
New York Times reporter Ben Smith revealed a bombshell in a puff piece about the Washington Post on Sunday. While President Donald Trump has railed against anonymous sources, it appears his own Supreme Court judge used to be one.
According to the report, writers at the Post can look at upcoming stories by looking at the back end of their content management system. “And at the height of the furor over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 2018, some who did saw a shocking article awaiting publication,” wrote Smith.
“In the article, Bob Woodward, the Post legend who protected the identity of his Watergate source, Deep Throat, for 30 years, was going to unmask one of his own confidential sources. He was, in particular, going to disclose that Judge Kavanaugh had been an anonymous source in his 1999 book Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate,” said the report.
Woodward wanted to expose Kavanaugh because he had publicly claimed, “in a huffy letter in 1999 to The Post,” that he wasn’t a source for Woodward in 1999. According to the claim, Kavanaugh gave Woodward juicy details about Ken Starr’s investigation behind the scenes while serving as a lawyer on Starr’s team.
It was executive editor Martin Baron who stopped it, insisting that Woodward uphold his agreement.
“The article, described by two Post journalists who read it, would have been explosive, arriving as the nominee battled a decades-old sexual assault allegation and was fighting to prove his integrity,” reported Smith.
It’s safe to say that given Trump’s hatred for leakers if Woodward had outed Kavanaugh, the president may have questioned recommendations for the judge.