The Washington Post’s “conservative” columnist Jennifer Rubin has struck again, this time wrongly semaring Arizona prosecutor Rachel Miller who was just chosen to question Dr. Christine Blasey Ford at Thursday’s hearing as “someone from Sheriff Joe’s operation” and that “no self-respecting lawyer would take the job of giving cover to GOP cowards”:
Only this crowd of clueless old white guys wold pick someone from Sheriff Joe's operation. I was saying no self-respecting lawyer would take the job of giving cover to GOP cowards. I was right.
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 26, 2018
For starters, where her evidence of that “Sheriff Joe’s operation” line?
Honest questions, Jen: Do you have any evidence that she’s part of “Sheriff Joe’s operation”? What is that evidence? If it exists (which I doubt), did you know it before you tweeted this? Or is this just the most pathetic form of knee jerk guilt by association? https://t.co/JsUTw9wb5n
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) September 26, 2018
Hint: There isn’t any:
This is a smear based on false information, and should be retracted. https://t.co/XbAxfZ1RhS
— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) September 26, 2018
Rubin does know how this works, right? RIGHT?
ADAs don't work for Sheriffs. Career prosecutors should not be tagged with the policy positions of their elected superiors (DAs or County Attorneys.) You know this, right? But you just don't care? https://t.co/0GrCUAtMoD
— Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) September 26, 2018
Apparently not:
America’s dumbest pundit thinks elected prosecutors work for the police. https://t.co/3JlIxVRxjp
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 26, 2018
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Do people really know this little about the justice system? Prosecutors don't work for the sheriff's department. It would be a waaaaay more fun job if they did. https://t.co/5sdcLdDuz6
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) September 26, 2018
This smear looks to have been started by the HuffPost’s Matt Fuller in a now-deleted tweet:
Matt Fuller spread a false smear about the female prosecutor that was hired to ask questions at the hearing. Of course it automatically gets picked up by this crazy irresponsible person, also known as WaPo’s “conservative” columnist. https://t.co/5YDLf9Qvf0
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) September 26, 2018
She needs to correct this, too:
Even the Puffington Host corrected this error. https://t.co/be8WOzsYUf
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) September 26, 2018
“She doesn’t care” though:
She doesn’t care. https://t.co/FO8wpC7Pqa
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) September 26, 2018
And as for that “self-respecting lawyer” dig, Mitchell is well regarded:
BIO Rachel Mitchell is a career prosecutor in the Maricopa County attorney's office. Arizona State University law grad. Described as solid prosecutor. Put several predatory priests behind bars during PHX Diocese abuse scandals.
— BrahmResnik (@brahmresnik) September 26, 2018
And — surprise — she “was one of the prosecutors tasked with finding out why hundreds of sex crimes were unresolved or not adequately investigated by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office”:
Re questions about Rachel Mitchell's connection to Joe Arpaio's failure to investigate sex crimes, some insight from Cindi Nannetti, Mitchell's predecessor & a very well-regarded former prosecutor (via WaPo) pic.twitter.com/nELasNvYzh
— BrahmResnik (@brahmresnik) September 26, 2018
Always. Wrong.
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Related:
'Delete this'! Jennifer Rubin BUSTED for pushing BS about attorney brought in to question Kavanaugh's accuser https://t.co/8R6HVQDAEG
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 26, 2018