In the days before the final Kavanaugh vote, many news outlets were doing their best to support the ridiculous allegations against the now-appointed SCOTUS associate justice, including NBC, and the New York Times. If you recall, NBC even pushed out a piece claiming Kavanaugh’s own friends texted about the accusations and alluded to the idea that they somehow framed him as a liar.
But now that the Judiciary Committee has released their report we find those texts did no such thing.
Phil Kerpen highlighted them in this brutal thread:
The texts between Kerry Berchem and Karen Yarasavage are in the new Judiciary Committee report.
They not only clearly refute NBC's bogus perjury hit on Kavanaugh, but they include some very interesting context from Berchem, a key supporting player in the Ramirez smear.
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 4, 2018
So when does Kavanaugh start suing these news outlets?
Seriously.
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Kerry Berchem, who gave press quotes supporting Deborah Ramirez's Kavanaugh smear, texted:
"There is zero reason for any of his friends to get dragged into what is clearly an ugly political remnant of Merrick garland and then Dj election." pic.twitter.com/pKyEPDZOQp
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 4, 2018
We always knew it was about Merrick Garland but still … seeing it in black and white? Wow.
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Karen Yarasavage says NYT reporter @rpogrebin tried to force feed her this false quote that would have supported the Ramirez smear: "she became a different person, a lot more liberal." pic.twitter.com/ce5B5bjGxj
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 4, 2018
New York Times tried to push a narrative? Get outta here.
Surely they wouldn’t do that.
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Pogrebin called without identifying herself as a NYT reporter when she tried to force feed the quote. pic.twitter.com/l0yHz4d6St
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 4, 2018
Gosh, that sounds pretty sneaky.
Bumping this thread. Note that NBC had these texts and didn't use them for anything except a plainly false perjury smear against Kavanaugh.
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 4, 2018
What he said.
Holy cow https://t.co/0iRgpriKW1
— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) November 4, 2018
Yup.
Remember when you vote on Tuesday.
pic.twitter.com/OKtK6wOM35— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 4, 2018
#VoteRed
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