http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/05/mansour-manufacturing-a-smear-how-the-democrat-media-complex-turned-brett-kavanaugh-into-a-rapist/

The day he was sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh made history as the first justice to hire an all-female staff of law clerks. This was in keeping with his record of hiring more women than men and of sending more women to clerk on the Supreme Court than any other judge in the country during his 12-year tenure on the federal bench.

The women who clerked for him - including those who identify as liberals - describe him as "a lifelong mentor who feels an enduring responsibility for each of his clerks," "an extraordinarily thoughtful man, who goes out of his way to be kind" and whose "hiring and support of women alone has helped to really diversify the range of Supreme Court clerks."

So how did a man who is a proven ally of women, who is universally praised by female colleagues and has never had any complaints lodged against him over his decades-long career, come to be labeled a "rapist" and those who voted to confirm him to the Supreme Court as "rape enablers"?

It took a mix of political activism, uncorroborated allegations, and left-wing hysteria - all woven seamlessly into a media narrative blasted 24/7 to drown out the truth and transform a good man into a monster.

"The left does not win its battles in debate. It doesn't have to. In the twenty-first century, media is everything. The left wins because it controls the narrative. The narrative is controlled by the media. The left is the media. Narrative is everything," Andrew Breitbart wrote in his memoir, Righteous Indignation.

He called this the Democrat-Media Complex. It's what turned Brett Kavanaugh into a "rapist."

But don't take my word for it. Let's review the evidence.

On Saturday, the Senate Judiciary Committee released a 414-page report of its investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations lodged against Kavanaugh during his confirmation process. The report explained - in painstaking detail - that neither the committee's investigation nor the FBI's background investigation could find "any evidence to substantiate or corroborate any of the allegations."

From the moment President Trump named Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, the left rallied to oppose him at all costs. It wasn't personal. It was about abortion. They opposed him - just as they oppose every Republican judicial nominee - because they feared he might someday vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. ...

Of course, the left would have opposed anyone Trump nominated regardless of his or her actual record. As if to prove this point, the Women's March organizers released a statement condemning "Donald Trump's nomination of XX to the Supreme Court." They forgot to include Kavanaugh's name in their ready-made denunciation of him. ...

But in the weeks and months that followed, Kavanaugh's genial temperament and even-handed judicial record defied the left's attempts to "Bork" him. But that didn't stop them from trying. ...

Rhetoric aside, the Democrats and their media allies lacked a scandal to shape their anti-Kavanaugh narrative. Their early efforts were rather pathetic. ...

Senators were given a record-breaking 900,000 pages of documents on Kavanaugh. (For the sake of comparison, for the two most recent justices, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch, senators received 172,000 and 184,000 pages of documents respectively.) Kavanaugh also completed the most comprehensive questionnaire in the history of the Senate Judiciary Committee, totaling 110 pages and accompanied by 17,000 pages of supporting documentation.

The Democrats next play was to claim: We don't have enough time to read all of this! When that didn't work to delay the confirmation hearings, they tried: But this can't be all of it!

The Judiciary Committee held hearings from September 4-7, 2018. Aside from shrieking left-wing protesters being dragged out and Sen. "Spartacus" Booker's botched attempt to break Senate rules, the hearings went as expected. Kavanaugh was articulate, polite, knowledgeable, and likeable.

In fact, the hearings were so anti-climactic that left-wing Slate ran an article titled "The Grotesque Decency of Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Hearings." ...

On September 13, the Intercept reported that "Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have privately requested to view a Brett Kavanaugh-related document in possession of the panel's top Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, but the senior California senator has so far refused, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation."

Later that day, Feinstein finally issued a statement confirming the existence of the letter but declining to offer any details out of respect for the letter writer's request for confidentiality. However, Feinstein's motives soon came into question. Rather than submit the letter to the Senate Judiciary chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), so that its allegations could be investigated confidentially, Feinstein sat on the letter. She never mentioned the allegations during her closed-door meeting with Kavanaugh or during his 32 hours of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee spanning three days.

The contents of the letter leaked to the media the day after Feinstein informed her Democrat colleagues about it. No Republican was aware of the letter. Therefore, it goes without saying that a Democrat senator or their staffer leaked the letter to the press.

A media firestorm followed, until finally the letter's author, a psychology professor from Palo Alto, CA, named Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, went on the record with the Washington Post to describe the alleged incident in her own words. She claimed that Brett Kavanaugh attempted to sexually assault her at a party 35 years ago when they were both teenagers and he was "stumbling drunk" at the time.

Ford's account to the Post also made clear that she was uncertain about key details, such as the exact date of the event, the location, and how she got to the party and home from it. ...

In late July, on the advice of Senator Feinstein's staff, Ford had secured the legal representation of Debra Katz, a lawyer with a long history in Democratic politics who specializes in sexual harassment cases and had publicly defended Bill Clinton and Al Franken from accusations of sexual misconduct. ...

Despite the media's insistence that Ford was a "credible" witness, her testimony had major holes and contradictions, which were carefully exposed during a series of questions from veteran prosecutor Rachel Mitchell. As Mitchell's report to the Committee made clear, Ford's allegations would not hold up in a court of law. ...

Ford testified that the "primary impact [of the alleged assault when she was 15 years old] was in the initial four years after the event." She specifically claimed that she struggled academically in college, but didn't mention anything about her last two years in high school. A former college classmate of Ford's issued a statement to the Judiciary Committee attesting that Ford had a "very robust and active social life," which "contradicts Dr. Ford's narrative that she had a difficult time making friends due to the alleged sexual assault." This same classmate also contradicted Ford's claim that she had a phobia of small places. ...

Written testimony from one of Ford's former boyfriends of many years also debunked her alleged fear of flying. He noted that she often flew on planes - even a small propeller plane - and had no discernible fear of small spaces or of rooms with one door, as she claimed. In fact, the former boyfriend pointed out that Ford lived for a number of years in a tiny apartment with only one entrance.

His testimony also suggested that Ford may have perjured herself when she claimed that she had never "given tips or advice to somebody who was looking to take a polygraph test." He claimed that Ford coached her roommate, Monica McLean, on how to be less nervous in case she had to take a polygraph exam when she interviewed for jobs with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Mitchell's questioning also exposed the holes in Ford's story concerning basic facts about where the alleged incident occurred and how she got there and back home. Mitchell's report noted:

* "[Ford] told the Washington Post that the party took place ... more than 7 miles from her childhood home ... that it was a roughly 20-minute drive from her childhood home."

* "She also agreed for the first time in her testimony that she was driven somewhere that night, either to the party or from the party or both."

* "But she has no memory of who drove her or when. Nor has anyone come forward to identify him or herself as the driver."

* "Given that this all took place before cell phones, arranging a ride home would not have been easy."

* "Indeed, she stated that she ran out of the house after coming downstairs and did not state that she made a phone call from the house before she did, or ..."

* "... that she called anyone else thereafter."

* "Dr. Ford testified that her friend Leland, apparently the only other girl at the party, did not follow up with Dr. Ford after the party to ask why she had suddenly disappeared." ...

And finally there was the fact that none of the other witnesses named by Ford could corroborate her story: not Kavanaugh; not Mark Judge; not Patrick "PJ" Smyth; and not even Leland Keyser, Ford's lifelong friend who was the only other girl allegedly at the party. In two separate statements, Keyser's attorney stated on her behalf that she had never met Kavanaugh, did not know him, and "has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford." ...

Ford's allegation was not credible, but she was at least the most credible of the other ludicrous accusers who came forward after her to lodge allegations at Kavanaugh. Those allegations have been debunked so thoroughly that the Senate Judiciary Committee has referred four of these accusers to the Justice Department for potential criminal prosecution for issuing false testimony to Congress. This includes the debunked allegations submitted by Democrat lawyer Michael Avenatti on behalf of his client Julie Swetnick. This also includes the recanted allegations submitted by a Democrat activist from Kentucky who claimed that Kavanaugh raped her when she was in high school, despite the fact that she is decades older than Kavanaugh. And this also includes the recanted allegations of a Rhode Island man who claimed that Kavanaugh and Mark Judge raped a woman on a boat in 1985.

There was also the allegations made by Deborah Ramirez, a Democratic activist who was a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh's, who claimed that Kavanaugh "exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away."

Breitbart's John Nolte summarized the seven key details of Ramirez's allegation:

1. Just before she fingered Kavanaugh, Ramirez was telling classmates she could not be certain it was Kavanaugh.

2. Ramirez admits her drinking that night clouded her memory.

3. Only after six days of talking to her attorney, a Democrat politician, was Ramirez able to remember it was Kavanaugh.

4. Every single one of Ramirez's so-called witnesses sides with Kavanaugh.

5. The only so-called corroboration Ramirez had was a guy who heard about the incident from someone else.

6. That someone else says he has no memory of the incident.

7. Ramirez is a Democrat activist.

Interestingly, the Senate Judiciary Committee report includes a statement from a Yale classmate who graduated a year after Kavanaugh and Ramirez and testified that another of their classmates who also belonged to the same fraternity as Kavanaugh had "a reputation for exposing himself publicly." In fact, this witness even provided the Committee with a yearbook photo showing this individual exposing himself in it. The witness also stated that he "had personally witnessed" this person "expose himself at a party" and that this guy was "in the same residential college as Ramirez."

The media hyped the hell out of every allegation. They lionized the accusers. Left-wing outlets like the HuffPost even hyped nonsense stories about a law student who was told - by a female professor - to dress professionally when applying for a clerk position with then-Judge Kavanaugh. The way the HuffPost made it sound, Kavanaugh was demanding his female clerks look "a certain way." In fact, the story amounted to little more than a female professor helpfully informing a young law student that Kavanaugh likes his staff to dress professionally.

The media rang the bell, burying Kavanaugh's good name under a mountain of innuendo. Let's see if any of them even attempt to un-ring that bell now that these allegations have fallen apart. I'm not holding my breath. This is, after all, the same media that hid information that cleared Kavanaugh of one allegation and buried information that debunked their own story. ...

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence