Ronan Farrow on CNN now is laying it out.

[madaboutharry]

Deborah Ramirez's account corroborated by Yale classmates who heard about the incident immediately after it happened. Farrow and Mayer spoke with classmates who independently discussed the same fact pattern with Farrow given by Ms. Ramirez. There is an email chain of Yale alumni talking about the incident prior to Dr. Blasey Ford coming forward.

He said that the corroboration of Ms. Ramirez's allegation is a very high bar that is rarely meet.

He also said there are other things that they left out.

Farrow also says there was a "wide group" of people in Washington, both democratic and republican staffers, who knew of these allegations last week.

[PearliePoo2]

1. Damn! I am watching 'Morning Joe' so I missed him. I hope video comes soon.

The news is coming so fast and furious my head is spinning!

[empedocles]

3. Ronan, et al, will be everywhere today.

[JCMach1]

21. Morning Joe was stuck on the poor NYT version

Of the story...

[Jarqui]

2. '"wide group" ... who knew of these allegations last week'

which is why the GOP tried to rush Ford's testimony ...

They knew of the allegations and wanted Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court anyway.

[mercuryblues]

10. While the Dems spent

their time investigating these claims, before they were made public, the repukes were trying to ram kavanrape's nomination through. Coming up with ways to smear this victim and trying to silence Dr. Ford.

[Jarqui]

15. Yep and the GOP's poor conduct certainly doesn't surprise

[apkhgp]

57. GOP conduct does not surprise me

I would have to say that when you stoop to the level of putting a con artist and fraud into the most important office in our land then there is not much worse that you could do to surprise me.

[lagomorph777]

19. Further proof to the voters that the Greedy Old Perverts love their perverts.

[Jarqui]

22. Indeed. Just grab 'em by the pussy ...

[DemocracyMouse]

59. No, they don't care about women being abused, they need Kav to cover up Trump AND their own treason

Nothing else matters to these desperate men. Why the untainted GOP members aren't bailing on the traitors is beyond me — unless every last one of them took money from the Russian criminal cartel.

[Honeycombe8]

23. This pisses me off to no end....I'm hoppin' mad...so mad I can't see straight.

The idea that these elite white men all rallied 'round this molester, even though they KNEW about all this last week and kept it secret....I'm so mad....and at the same time saddened to know that things are this way. Just like it was 100 years ago.

[Iliyah]

4. GOPers are claiming that they were side whacked

with the latest allegations.

I'm pretty sure there is more information, but alas, GOPers won't release the other 1,000 pages of documents.

[lagomorph777]

20. Except that they knew well in advance.

Pigs.

[Merlot]

34. If they were "side whacked" by the alligations it proves they don't do homework

but my guess is they knew it all along, anotherr reason for the rush to confirm.

[Achilleaze]

5. So repubes have been lying and hiding their heinous shit. Again.

repubes piss all over the concepts of truth, integrity and honor.

[Donkees]

6. Visual:

[DemoTex]

8. From my perspective:

[forgotmylogin]

18. Way to plow through, McConnell

[jmbar2]

30. My first good laugh of the day

Thanks - I'm gonna need it. What forklift driver hasn't?

[forgotmylogin]

35. Oof, yeah, glad that driver appears to have escaped major injury.

I bet he doesn't work there anymore though!

Those looked like bags of cement or soil or fertilizer on the shelves.

[lunatica]

45. The boss will probably make him clean it all up by himself

and then fire him!

[durablend]

25. Is that the Women for Kavanaugh bus? hee hee

[Donkees]

26. It met a dump truck this morning ...

[watoos]

7. Yeah but what does Michael Schmidt have to say?

The NY Times gets to be the arbiter of the truth here. (sarcasm)

There needs to be a push for an FBI investigation, not investigations by news outlets.

[madaboutharry]

9. Just to be clear:

Ronan Farrow works for The New Yorker magazine not the New York Times. Farrow also just won a Pulitzer Prize and has a reputation as a meticulous journalist.

The FBI needs to investigate all of the allegations.

[watoos]

13. Sorry, I should have been clearer in my post.

I was complaining about Michael Schmidt using Republican talking points to defend Kavanaugh.

I was not bashing Farrow, I was bashing people who have a platform, like Schmidt, to bash the victim.

The FBI, not Ghouliani's people, need to investigate Kavanaugh and Judge, and that needs to be narrative we push for.

[madaboutharry]

16. Ok, I understand now what you meant.

[Eyeball_Kid]

33. Schmidt also pushed the lie that

Mueller or his team wrote the “44 questions” presumably to ask Trumpy if/when he gets interviewed. In truth, it was the White House lawyers who created the questions and led Schmidt to believe that it was Mueller’s team.

[brush]

43. He and Haberman appear to be trumpist moles at the NYT. Always out with trump-favoring stories.

This Rosenstein/25th Amendment story is out just in time to distract from the Kavanaugh debacle and at the same time give trump reason to fired Rosenstein and then Muellar.

[dem4decades]

44. Agreed.

[mcar]

11. K&R

[DownriverDem]

12. In Those times

folks were taking pills and drinking. kavanaugh and his buddies were giving women drugs (in their drinks?) and then setting them up for a male free for all. Clearly they never thought anyone would know about those days.

[watoos]

14. I grew up in the 60's

and I tried grain alcohol one time, one sip. I would never ever think about spiking anyone's drink with that stuff. Anyone who would do that was certainly up to no good.

[LisaM]

50. I tried grain alcohol at a party, too.

Hit me like a freight train, and I basically fell asleep, instantly, for the night. Guess what? My guy friend and his friends who were having the party didn't use it as an excuse to molest me. They attended to me, put me in a car with my ride, and I got home safely (and never touched grain alcohol again!) and woke up in my own apartment a few hours later.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

51. thanks for posting that

I was beginning to think my buddies and I were weirdos. Anybody, male or female, who over-indulged had to be taken care of, *not* assaulted.

There's a word for those who induce impaired judgment for the purpose of assault: predator.

[LisaM]

60. No, you weren't weirdos.

Just decent people. Can you imagine if every time a guy passed out at a party he woke up to find other people sexually assaulting him?

[druidity33]

55. I keep seeing this term "grain alcohol"...

and i of course think 'shine. No one should ever drink 'shine or "grain alcohol" straight... not many people would even be able to. It's meant to cut or mixed with something... and the percentage of alcohol to mixer can be critical/lethal. It can good in punch/juice/soda/whatever or more commonly for extracting vanilla/cacao/cardamom/spices. Check out the Swedish drink Glug (don't know how to trigger the umlaut) It's a preservative too. It kills all organisms it comes in contact with... if that's not a signal, not sure what is. Using 'shine on people unknowingly is basically like roofies before they became available to serial rapists and abusers. The shit will knock you on your ass. It can make you REALLY sick. Like poison you if you have too much. No one should EVER feed someone grain alcohol without telling them the risks.

[New Hampshire Man]

17. who knew of these allegations last week...

He'll be gone by lunchtime.

[spooky3]

24. The last pgh is important because McC and Grassley are

lying about this and trying to accuse Dems of not informing them.

[appalachiablue]

28. You know it. This, last night after all creation broke:

- The Hill, "Grassley: Dems 'withheld information' on new Kavanaugh allegation,"- Sept. 23, 18. A spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Sunday night said the panel will "attempt to evaluate" new allegations of sexual assault regarding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

>The spokesperson in a statement slammed Democrats for "withholding information" regarding the allegations.
>"Yet again, Senate Democrats actively withheld information from the rest of the Committee only to drop information at politically opportune moments," the statement said, doubling down on his remarks that Democrats withheld the first allegation against Kavanaugh from Christine Blasey Ford, who went public last week.

The spokesperson said the Democrats appear to be "more interested in a political takedown" than "pursuing allegations through a bipartisan and professional" investigation. "Of course, we will attempt to evaluate these new claims,"..https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/grassley-dems-withheld-information-on-new-kavanaugh-allegation/ar-AAAyFBR

[Scurrilous]

27. K&R

[Nitram]

29. The GOP has been planning and preparing for this opportunity to seat a corrupt right wing hack

on the court. Kavanaugh earned his stripes during the investigation of Bill Clinton when he helped Ken Starr prepare his perjury trap by leaking information to Starr's committee. He gained more right wing credibility and dirty tricks experience during the Bush administration. He was groomed for this post, and the Rethugs want it so much they can taste it.

[jmbar2]

31. ...and he got some big money support to cover up his debts

I am puzzled why his finances haven't been examined yet. Something is very hinky there.

[Nitram]

32. Oh, there is a lot of money behind the vast right wing conspiracy. Billions. The Kochs are just the

tip of the iceberg. Corporate money is the biggest source.

[jmbar2]

38. That's very clear. I just hope that someone can uncover the source

...or at least make an issue of it in this nomination.

This guy is corrupt to the bone, but also a smart ideologue willing to carry water for the Kochs, the xtian dominionists, and the international mob. This needs to be the new litmus test - is the friggin nominee corrupt or not.

[WhiteTara]

41. This is the subject of my weekly column

I'll post after publication.

The "man" behind the Koch economic theory/practice is James Buchanan. He was very obscure but his methodoligies founded George Mason University and his economic theory is called "Virginia Economics" -- he started at Virginia university, but the Kochs bought him his own college.

Nancy MacLean has a book called Democracy in Chains that I just reserved at the library; it is devastating.

[FakeNoose]

46. Yes! I've just finished this book myself

I found it riveting and terrifying at the same time.

So far I've found no evidence that links Kavanaugh to the group at George Mason U. though. It seems that BK has always been a toady and political hack who would do whatever he was asked, including a lot of dirty tricks. But right-wing ideology (libertarian economics) doesn't seem to be his thing.

I could be wrong though. He's clearly not SCOTUS bench material.

[haele]

49. "Virginia Economics" - is that another word for Plantation Economics?

Plantation Economies are very fragile, and require callous indifference and brutality from the top to be able to squeeze out profits for more than a generation.
Yes, in a plantation economy, "the elite" controls extensive tracts of land and properties, but without an equitable division of labor and resources, the work force necessary to sustain those lands and properties leaves for better employers unless they're forced to stay.

As it is, Plantation economies are basically oligarchies - Mafia without the violence between the gangs to control territory. The civilians who live and work under the fist of the Mafia suffer with little to no recourse, while the bosses rake in all the money.

Haele

[PA Democrat]

52. appalchiablue posted a video of Nancy MacLean's appearance at Harvard Law School

to discuss his book. Link below:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017507897

[WhiteTara]

58. Thank you. I've started watching

and am bookmarking for finishing tomorrow. I ordered the book from the library.

[samplegirl]

36. Darn I missed it!

[Still In Wisconsin]

37. Rapey Brett may actually be going down

I hope he not only is never placed on SCOTUS, but additionally gets removed from the bench and is disbarred. I hope his life is destroyed. I hope he goes to prison, and if he doesn’t I want him to be harassed, hounded, and denied service wherever he goes. Fuck you Rapey Brett, sideways.

[proglib217]

40. Couldn't have said it better myself

[WhiteTara]

42. Yes, some pretty good rants appear here

and it helps me get this crap off my mind.
Welcome to DU

[dalton99a]

39. Kick

[Politicub]

47. Sleazy Kavanaugh is an exhibitionist

And an alleged perpetrator of sexual assault.

Predators like him do not act only once. There are usually a series of victims.

[concreteblue]

48. And the emails in question?

When do they get released?

[ecstatic]

53. WTF is going on at the NYT?

They decided to add their 2 cents into Michelle Ramirez's story, and once again, they're doing trump's bidding. Have Russians bought the majority stock or something?

[madaboutharry]

54. Deborah Ramirez is the woman's name.

[ailsagirl]

56. Ronan Farrow is very, very bright

I'm happy he's very much involved with what's going on!!

Mia must be so proud