Ruth Marcus was one of the loudest critics when it came to Brett Kavanaugh, she even wrote a book about it. But apparently now that Joe Biden has been accused by Tara Reade of sexual assault, her tune has changed quite a bit. Not that she’s unique in this … look at Alyssa Milano who was very adamant that we should believe all women, without question.
Just not when they accuse a Democrat apparently.
Ruth’s op-ed basically undoes everything she wrote and said about Kavanaugh:
“Reflexive acceptance of any and all allegations of sexual misconduct against any man is not staunch feminism — it is dangerous credulity that risks doing terrible injustice to the accused. #BelieveAllWomen was a dumb hashtag and a dumber approach…” https://t.co/frODarea7t
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) April 16, 2020
From WaPo:
And yet. Reflexive acceptance of any and all allegations of sexual misconduct against any man is not staunch feminism — it is dangerous credulity that risks doing terrible injustice to the accused. #BelieveAllWomen was a dumb hashtag and a dumber approach to inevitably complex, fact-bound situations. I have always tried to argue in favor of fact-finding first, conviction later, whether in the court of public opinion, in the Senate confirmation process or elsewhere.
That was why I questioned “whether justice was done” in the case of former Minnesota Democratic senator Al Franken, whose precipitous resignation short-circuited a Senate Ethics Committee process that could have helped determine whether Franken’s behavior merited the equivalent of a political death sentence. That was why I argued during the Kavanaugh confirmation for a serious Senate and FBI investigation, not the limited sham that was designed less to unearth the truth than to secure the necessary 50 votes to get him confirmed.
What a bunch of bullsh*t. EL OH EL.
They believed all women until Biden, who has also been accused, became their guy.
And @RuthMarcus in one single Op Ed undermines almost everything she said about Brett Kavanaugh. https://t.co/csfEAel5zu
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) April 16, 2020
— Heather Champion (@winningatmylife) April 16, 2020
#BelieveAllWomen sure was a dumb hashtag. pic.twitter.com/xfdpWvExBf
— Denny Loggins (@DennyLoggins) April 16, 2020
"that risks doing terrible injustice to the accused. "
Yet that was the actual goal of the Democrats with Kavanaugh.
They knew it was a false allegation–and they didn't care.— mallen2010 (@mallen2010) April 16, 2020
*they did know and they didn’t care because orange man bad*
So @RuthMarcus feels differently about things now that it's a Democrat in the cross hairs? Amazing.
— Tom Parrelly (@Papa_P_54) April 16, 2020
— Tom Chamberlain (@ChamberlainDr) April 16, 2020
Rules for thee, but not for me…
— Matthew Latham ✝️??? (@Mlatham4Jesus) April 16, 2020
One of the many things that made me quit leaning left.
— Karen Rylander (@KarenRylander) April 16, 2020
Example 6,549 why people know the media is a joke.
— BoJameson (@MDbornandbred) April 16, 2020
#Truth.
