As Twitchy reported, Sen. Dick Durbin was chewed up and spit out by Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch during his confirmation hearing Tuesday after his secret weapon — a letter written by a former student of Gorsuch — turned out to be a dud.
Former Law Student: Gorsuch Told Class Women 'Manipulate' Maternal Leave https://t.co/yThF77jq7Z
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) March 20, 2017
Sisk says last Spring Gorsuch told class employers should ask female applicants if they plan to have kids https://t.co/GTb81GSHxN
— Arnie Seipel, NPR (@NPRnie) March 20, 2017
Fmr law student: Neil Gorsuch told ethics class firms should ask female applicants if they plan to have children https://t.co/e3mZtg2HNm
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) March 20, 2017
NPR was on top of it, reporting on the student’s charge that Gorsuch had suggested to his students at the University of Colorado Law School that some women use maternity leave to game the system, so to speak. NPR’s (original) headline pretty much said it all:
Not only did Gorsuch deny suggesting any such thing; another student who attended the same class stepped forward in his defense, forcing NPR to add an editor’s note that read, in part: “Since this story was first published, we have added material from another former student and former law clerks of Gorsuch, as well as more information about Jennifer Sisk’s political affiliations.”
What’s this about Sisk’s political affiliations? It turns out that Gorsuch’s former student worked as a staffer for former Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado as well as the Interior Department during the Obama administration.
After an ex-student shared concerns with senators who are vetting Judge Gorsuch, ex-colleagues come to his defense https://t.co/0Ksf9P4H6c
— NPR (@NPR) March 20, 2017
Looks like it might be time for a headline change as well:
So, maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to run with one student’s (mis)interpretation of what happened in class last spring because she was offended?
I love NPR for amending this report to make it clear that this attack on Gorsuch is a pre-planned partisan hit https://t.co/tH8TPxElrX
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) March 21, 2017
A Dem staffer accuses Gorsuch of sexism b/c she claims she was confused by hypothetical questions in a law class
That's just embarrassing— PoliMath (@politicalmath) March 21, 2017
That poor woman
Now every time someone Googles her name, she'll be "that idiot who couldn't handle a hypothetical question in law school"— PoliMath (@politicalmath) March 21, 2017
@politicalmath Given it was a planned partisan attack, I'm pretty ok with that.
— Robert (@TheCheekyTaurus) March 21, 2017
You know someone talked her into it
Someone thought her reputation would be worth sacrificing for a 10 second nothing-burger story
ugh— PoliMath (@politicalmath) March 21, 2017
@politicalmath she'll be fine, with a lifetime sinecure at a trade union, Dem nonprofit, or other lefty thing.
— Michael Watson (@MichaelWatsonDC) March 21, 2017
Yeah, she should have known better
But she's also in her 20's, not old enough to realize how long it takes to get your name off Google— PoliMath (@politicalmath) March 21, 2017
@politicalmath No, she picked her team well before, this is her looking for her Sandra Fluke moment.
— Jimmy McSavage (@JimmyMcSavage) March 21, 2017
Looking for your own Sandra Fluke moment … on purpose? Sad!
