'REPULSIVE'! TIME sickens with 'possibly the worst thing written about' Brett Kavanaugh

Throughout the confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh, the media have resorted to some pretty desperate and disgusting attempts to paint the SCOTUS nominee as a depraved sexual predator.

But this may be the most desperate and disgusting yet:

This makes me want to vomit: "Ford’s charge shattered Kavanaugh’s carefully crafted tableau… The row of young girls, legs bare in their private-school skirts, looked different now."@TIME and @mollyesque should be ashamed and this story retracted.https://t.co/xv7wMJPRVI pic.twitter.com/Vi9dzJWO8u

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

Is this actually in an article? I refuse to believe it.

— Asturian (@Wave1972) September 20, 2018

cover. story.

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

Un. Real.

Not to be overly dramatic, but I am literally shaking right now as I type. How could @TIME or any publication think that this kind of innuendo is justified, or be considered "reporting" by any stretch? https://t.co/aQBtnBpu0v

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

"Ford’s charge shattered Kavanaugh’s carefully crafted tableau… The row of young girls, legs bare in their private-school skirts, looked different now."@TIME and @mollyesque, with possibly the most revolting innuendo yet in the Kavanaugh story, and that's a high bar. pic.twitter.com/SBNOkTudjQ

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

I am still shaking I am so angry about this. I can't even imagine how he and his family would feel reading this.

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh is an attempted rapist because other people like him have committed rape is not a reasonable argument. No one should argue like this about any group of people. We judge individual accusation on individual merits, because that's what decent societies do.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) September 20, 2018

Absolutely right. Please inform @TIME:https://t.co/aQBtnBpu0v

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

Here it is. This is what @TIME and @mollyesque think "looked different" after Ford's accusation against Kavanaugh, this "row of young girls, legs bare in their private-school skirts":https://t.co/vhgvzU1auX pic.twitter.com/YjJ05Hw7KU

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

Hi – all it says is that the accusation complicates his aggressively pro-woman presentation. Nothing else was intended.

— Molly Ball (@mollyesque) September 20, 2018

Wait: "legs bare in their private-school skirts" was meant to convey that the accusation "complicates his aggressively pro-woman presentation"?

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

Yes.

— Molly Ball (@mollyesque) September 20, 2018

It probably will not surprise you that I vehemently disagree and still believe either the article should be retracted or the line at least struck from the story. I appreciate that you responded in any case.

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

This exchange is, I believe, evidence of the endemic bias of much of the media. That no one at @TIME who helped edit this piece thought, "You know, that might not come across to well" speaks volumes. https://t.co/4NylcZFMRA pic.twitter.com/RKF2lypbgf

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

I believe @mollyesque is being sincere in her response. But there is apparently not enough diversity of thought/ideology/mindset at @TIME to catch something like this which hit me like a ton of bricks.

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

Time Magazine's New Cover Shows The Ghost of Clarence Thomas Haunting Brett Kavanaugh https://t.co/zr5Fz5jqgS

— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) September 20, 2018

It's gratifying that my tweet is outperforming the Time cover tweet, but that line still makes me sick.https://t.co/aQBtnBpu0v

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

I have girls in that school and agree with you that was a sicko thing to write.

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) September 20, 2018

I don't get how Ms. Ball cannot see that. Seems like quite a blind spot.

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

Time magazine: Kavanaugh accusation adds context to his experience with 'young girls' in 'private-school skirts' https://t.co/fMBWxoSbF0

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

I just can't imagine how combining:
a new accusation of attempted rape,
"young girls",
"legs bare",
"private-school skirts",
"looked different",
can be considered innocuous.

How does this now "look different"? pic.twitter.com/Zf9FRueWfQ

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

I'd have been fine with "the accusation complicates his aggressively pro-woman presentation"; I'd have disagreed with it, but it'd have been fine.https://t.co/szAzwmOCvP

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

But instead of the clear "the accusation complicates his aggressively pro-woman presentation," we substitute "The row of young girls, legs bare in their private-school skirts, looked different now"? Inexcusable.

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

This is most evenhanded version of the case for believing Kavanaugh:https://t.co/f0uAFjTNyl

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) September 20, 2018

And, in contrast, here's possibly the worst thing written about Kavanaugh and the allegations:https://t.co/QkigCF3QcC

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) September 20, 2018

Shame on TIME for letting that see the light of day.

If I were a mother to one of these girls, I would be livid.

— Anna ? (@_eisenzopf) September 20, 2018

This is repulsive and honestly, if im one of those girls parents id let them know what i think of her implication

— nunya (@lazyone2222) September 20, 2018