CBS Scoffs at the Notion These Claims Are Smears Against Kavanaugh

Nicholas Fondacaro | September 24, 2018
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Despite the fact that the latest sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was so full of holes it looked like Swiss cheese, CBS Evening News actually scoffed at the notion that the accusations against him were part of a smear campaign during their Monday broadcast.

The scoff was intoned as CBS Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes was leading into her critical report. “In fact, they strongly reiterated their support for Kavanaugh today and suggested that these women might somehow be working together to smear the nominee,” she declared acting as though the Democrats weren’t the ones to dig up the newest accusation as has been reported.

After briefly noting that Judge Kavanaugh was fighting back in an exclusive interview with Fox News, Cordes dove into the latest dubious accusations. “Kavanaugh gave the rare interview after 53-year-old Deborah Ramirez of Colorado told The New Yorker that as a student at Yale University, ‘Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away,’” she reported.

Cordes brushed over how “[c]lassmates who were at the party told The New Yorker they don't recall Kavanaugh doing that” but used a broad generalization of Kavanaugh from a former roommate to suggest they accusations were true.

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