Establishment Media Shy Away From Claims of Perjury by Kavanaugh

[BeckyDem]

September 11, 2018

Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh was subject to a wringer of testy Senate confirmation hearings last week. The current DC Circuit Court judge has come under fire from Democrats on the Judiciary Committee for his stances against the landmark pro-abortion decision Roe v. Wade, affirmative action and programs for Native Hawaiians, as well as his support for torture.

But some Democrats have also said that Kavanaugh lied under oath in both current and past hearings, and groups like Free Speech for People, Demand Justice, MoveOn and NARAL Pro-Choice America have all advocated perjury probes against him. However, these serious allegations of perjury have received sparse coverage from establishment media outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and NPR.

Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy noted that while Kavanaugh was working in the Bush administration as White House staff secretary in 2004, he received thousands of stolen documents that were circulated by Manuel Miranda, a GOP Senate staffer, which revealed Democratic opposition strategies and questions to be asked of Bush judicial nominees. Leahy offered examples of his own stolen emails as proof. In Judiciary committee hearings in 2004 and 2006, Kavanaugh denied under oath that he knew the documents were stolen, even though one of the email chains he was copied on was titled “spying.”

Excerpt: Many outlets, such as Slate (9/7/18), Vox (9/6/18, 9/7/18), Daily News (9/6/18), Politico (9/7/19), the Nation (9/10/18), Common Dreams (9/10/18), Newsweek (9/8/18), the Daily Beast (9/7/18), Mic (9/10/18), Media Matters (9/6/18), Rewire (9/10/18) and Salon (9/8/18)—mostly on the liberal or left end of the media spectrum—have addressed the recent perjury allegations against Kavanaugh in depth. By contrast, as of today, establishment outlets like the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post and NPR have been quite cagey about the issue.

https://fair.org/home/establishment-media-shy-away-from-claims-of-perjury-by-kavanaugh/

[deminks]

1. I have an uneducated theory

Lying Brett has been the source for many of these older news outlets on many stories in the past. Would be shameful if their guy in the Rethug WH was a lying partisan hack, n'est ce pas? They also knew he lied back in 2004 and 2006. They are complicit. They were complicit with dolt 43 and they are complicit now with dolt 45.

[BeckyDem]

2. Hard to know but I agree with the complicit factor. Corporate motives have many tentacles.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. KavaNO

Ask 'em why they're being complicit in the sham.