Election Year Encore: Christine Blasey Ford’s Resurgence

Just in time for the presidential election year, Christine Blasey Ford is back. The woman who the Democrats put on national television in 2018 to accuse SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in the early 1980s without any evidence, is promoting her new book. About what exactly? Oh yes, detailing what life was like before, during, and after, her testimony. Of course.

During those confirmation hearings’ six years, the media held Ford up as a martyr and hero, standing up for victims everywhere. We were told to “believe all women,” and that then-Judge Kavanaugh was not worthy of due process and would have to prove his innocence. The entire charade was a vomitous assault on what is supposed to be a fair, contemplative, and constitutional process. Instead, the senate Democrats deciding shouting “Witch!” at Kavanaugh was the better idea.

Now, Ford is sailing through book “interviews” which amount to nothing more than a big hug with the most supportive friends in the world. The New York Times has “reviewed” the book. Words like “lucid,” “important,” and “prosaic” set their tone. After all, what else are they going to do, be skeptical? And we know that’s not allowed.

The media continues to use the “believe all women” nonsense by default for women they like, with no real curiosity or any hint of skepticism. This despite the astonishing problem with an attitude presuming a man, not charged with or convicted of any crime, is guilty of the horrible crime his accuser alleges. Kavanaugh, as we know, powerfully condemned the accusation, asserted his innocence, and denies her allegation ever happened.

All of this is part of a machine, using Ford once again to re-smear Justice Kavanaugh, and like Anita Hill, she appears to being well rewarded for that “sacrifice.” Besides a book deal, the Times review did share a bit about how Ford is treated by the leftist establishment: “There are some perks from being in the public eye. Blasey Ford is served bisque by Laurene Powell Jobs, sleeps over at Oprah Winfrey’s house, goes backstage at a Metallica concert. Her sons get the actual shirt off Steph Curry’s back at a Golden State Warriors game.” That’s’ pretty heady stuff, which certainly impressed the Times reviewer. But it’s not because she’s in the public eye, it’s because she did deliver a political hit for the leftist establishment. For a woman whose supporters often said that she had “nothing to gain” with her testimony, it seems that wasn’t entirely accurate.

Keep in mind, she continues to tell a story that her own “witness,” a girlfriend who was also at the small party, disputes. In their book about the attack on Kavanaugh, Carrie Severino and Mollie Hemingway wrote:

“Her four named witnesses to the event all denied knowledge of it, some vociferously so. Even her lifelong friend Leland Keyser, who worked very hard to come up with anything, came to doubt her friend’s story entirely. And when she refused to say otherwise, mutual acquaintances tried to get her to change her story. Some U.S. senators thought the witness tampering so egregious that it should be prosecuted.”

After saying while she didn’t have any recollection of a party or of that happening to Ford, she said she still believed Ford’s account. A year later, in 2019, that changed, In an interview with two New York Times reporters for their book about Kavanaugh, The Washington Examiner reported:

“’In fact, she [Keyser] challenged Ford’s accuracy.’ […] ‘Those facts together I don’t recollect, and it just didn’t make any sense,’ Keyser told the authors… ‘It would be impossible for me to be the only girl at a get-together with three guys, have her leave, and then not figure out how she’s getting home,’ Keyser told Pogrebin and Kelly [the authors]. ‘I just really didn’t have confidence in the story.’”

Those same reporters then try to explain away Keyser’s opinion of Ford’s story by smearing her with a cheap shot: “Keyser’s memory might be affected by her struggles with alcohol and other substances.” Lovely.

So, let me see if I understand this now: we’re believing all women, except the women who contradict the preferred narrative. Got it.

And then there are the women of the “The View.” Yes, Ford was met with the standard slobbery and incurious lovefest as she joined the show to talk about the book, but Joy Behar revealed an important element of the left’s woke demands—she chastised some men in the audience for not applauding Ford. In today’s woke environment, we are all very familiar with the tactic of bullying and shaming those who do not conform or at least pretend they agree with the leftist narrative. This is how totalitarianism works, and I’m thrilled those who did not appreciate the circus refused to applaud. I certainly would not have done so.

 Throughout this charade, the seriousness of the issues itself is damaged. The weaponizing of the issue for a political scalp was obscene and unconscionable. The generational effort to help victims of sexual violence have access to justice was shockingly damaged by the slow-motion train wreck the world witnessed during the Kavanaugh hearings. As an advocate for women during most of my adult life, I can tell you ours was not a demand to destroy due process for the accused, or an insistence that accusers be automatically believed simply because they were women. Quite the opposite, in fact. If you need to ask people to ignore the principles of real justice, then you are telling people the accuser can’t be trusted. Ours was advocacy asking society and the justice system to simply take women seriously and treat them fairly when they came forward with an accusation.

The Democrats’ position condemning due process, saying the accused must prove his innocence, and the accuser’s veracity was not to be questioned, are exactly the positions you take when you know your allegation is false and can’t survive scrutiny. It reinforced the scurrilous belief that women used victimhood as a weapon against men. It had taken generations of advocacy to persuade Americans about the truth—that domestic violence, sexual violence, and sexual harassment were serious issues, and that women did not use these experiences as a pretext for attention, personal benefit, or their own malign intentions.

This appalling game did monumental damage to efforts to curtail the serious problem of sexual misconduct and was an insult to women who have genuinely suffered from such abuse. It also damaged those decades of work convincing people of the truth that women wanted only justice, not contrived revenge.

Tammy Bruce, an Independent Conservative, has traversed a unique political journey that reflects her commitment to principles rather than party affiliations. She joined Fox News in 2005 as a Political Contributor, hosting her show “Get Tammy Bruce” on Fox Nation and providing insightful commentary on various issues for the Association for Mature Americans (AMAC).

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