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Eric Boehlert Profile picture
@EricBoehlert
Sep 7, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
btw, Republicans in Congress are rarely treated like this by press—open assumption that they’re really only acting on behalf of presidential political ambitions
it’s also an attempt by NYT to #BothSides the hearings; to suggest GOP and Dems are just using this week for politics
i see that this press narrative is *everywhere* this morning: Booker and Harris are showboats.

folks, this is NOT how press treats white GOP men in the senate
if roles were reversed and white GOP men did what Harris and Booker did during confirmation hearing, the press would be fawning over their super savvy performances.

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Eric Boehlert Profile picture
Oct 8, 2018
i'm not sure America is ready for the next four weeks.
Trump knows what a Democratic House will mean for him.

he's like cornered animal. there's nothing he won't do between now and Nov.
and he's got an entire right-wing media industry that will support every hateful, dangerous move he makes
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Oct 6, 2018
Just 31% want Kavanaugh confirmed, but America is “deeply divided.” I guess if they repeat it enough times folks will believe it?
newsrooms seem weirdly desperate to pretend half of America supports Kavanaugh—it’s not even close
I noted for weeks how Kavanaugh’s historic, unprecedented awful polling numbers were mostly being flushed down the memory hole—it interfered w/ media’s preferred “deeply divided” storyline
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Oct 4, 2018
Susan Collins is facing an extraordinary legacy: voting for a chronic liar and accused sexual assaulter nominated to SCOTUS by president whole lost the popular vote, all in order to take way legal choice for women.
btw, she thinks the FBI sham investigation was "thorough." so.....
"very thorough"!!
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Oct 4, 2018
here’s what’s blindingly obvious—if Kavanaugh was interviewed by FBI and told the truth, he wouldn’t become Supreme Court Justice. if he lied, he’d open himself up to legal jeopardy. so WH made sure FBI didn’t interview Kavanaugh
it’s astonishing, but GOP is trying to confirm to Supreme Court somebody **they don’t trust to talk to FBI**
pretty ironic: guy who when he worked for Ken Starr demanded Bill Clinton answer questions abt sex under oath today is too chicken to answer Q’s from FBI agents
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Oct 4, 2018
WH couldn't risk Kavanaugh lying to FBI agents, so seems pretty clear the strategy was he could not be questioned. ever. under any circumstances; washingtonpost.com/world/national…
so instead, FBI cooperated with a charade.

great job Christopher Wray!
think about: a Supreme Court nominee could not be trusted to tell the truth to the FBI.
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Oct 1, 2018
in a weird way, this is the part of the Kavanaugh testimony i keep thinking abt.

Sen. Whitehouse asked abt "FFFF" on his calander. Kavanaugh described how is pal stuttered when he said the f-word; how it was inside joke.

watch as he imitates his friend.
to me it was the rare window into 1980's Kavanugh, the way he raised his fist and wound up the f-word like his friend did--reenacting how he and his buddies talked and socialized back in HS
to me, there was something instantly recognizable about it. as someone who grew up in white suburbia jock culture in the 1980s, i knew a ton of guys like Kavanaugh.

that's how they talked and bullied and treated all of life like everything was a varsity game
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