Conservatives pounce! Journo predicts GOP will use NYT quote on Deborah Ramirez as a 'talking point'

Greg P. | 9:17 AM on September 24, 2018

As we told you earlier, the New York Times busted on that New Yorker hit piece on Kavanaugh, stating the paper “could find no one with firsthand knowledge” of the incident and correctly noting that “Ms. Ramirez herself contacted former Yale classmates asking if they recalled the incident and told some them that she could not be certain Mr. Kavanaugh was the one who exposed himself”:

Read this paragraph from the New York Times, then re-read it. https://t.co/6Qt4UnW4F2 pic.twitter.com/ngigW5au5u

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) September 24, 2018

But in today’s world, this reporting on Ramirez that should told her friends that she herself was not certain if it was Kavanaugh or not, is just a “GOP Hill talking point”:

This will be the GOP Hill talking point used to defend moving forward: “The Times had interviewed several dozen people over the past week in an attempt to corroborate her story, and could find no one with firsthand knowledge. …

— Anna Palmer (@apalmerdc) September 24, 2018

Ms. Ramirez herself contacted former Yale classmates asking if they recalled the incident and told some of them that she could not be certain Mr. Kavanaugh was the one who exposed himself.”

— Anna Palmer (@apalmerdc) September 24, 2018

“Talking point” is the new “conservatives pounce”?

Journalists announcing what is a “talking point” is the new “conservatives pounce” for the horrible week we are heading into. https://t.co/wQ8gtJH4dH

— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) September 24, 2018

And why wouldn’t we “talking point” the hell out of it? The New Yorker story should never have been written if Ramirez can’t even be certain that it was Kavanaugh who exposed himself to her at the party: