{"id":11427,"date":"2018-09-29T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T19:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11427"},"modified":"2018-09-29T12:19:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T19:19:54","slug":"kavanaughs-testimony-was-his-joseph-n-welch-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/kavanaughs-testimony-was-his-joseph-n-welch-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh\u2019s Testimony Was His Joseph N. Welch Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p>Christina Ford\u2019s testimony did not alter, positively or negatively, the facts of her allegations. She still cannot adduce where or when the alleged assault of 36 years prior occurred, or how she arrived at, or departed from, the alleged, but unnamed, location of the assault, or how many people and of which gender were present at the alleged assault. Nor did she name a single witness that could corroborate her narrative. Nor could she refute any of the named witnesses who contradicted her accounts.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--square ad-unit--inline ad-unit--inline--fulfilled ad-unit--ad-slot-rendered\" data-ad-unit=\"6423\/nr.desktop\/inline_1\/blog\/corner\/article\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__inner\">\n<div data-react-component=\"AdUnit\" data-unit=\"inline_1\" data-hide-subscribers=\"true\" data-lazy-load=\"\">\n<p>The entire purpose of today\u2019s hearing was for the Democrats to call for a lengthy \u201cFBI investigation,\u201d and thereby delay the hearings until after the midterms, excusing Trump-state senators up for reelection from having to vote No on Kavanaugh, while giving time for a likely fifth, sixth, and seventh psychodramatic accuser to step forward, whose lurid falsified allegations take days to refute, but insidiously bleed Kavanaugh by a thousand lies.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that Ford was an empathetic witness in recounting\u00a0<em>what she seems to believe happened.<\/em>And the argument of her supporters is that, because she sincerely believes that she was assaulted and that on some occasions 30 or more years after the alleged incident mentioned it to others, therefore her allegations are proven \u2014 when in fact raising the allegations 30 years and more later confirms only that she believes her own allegations,\u00a0<em>not that her allegations as they concerned Judge Kavanaugh are valid.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/kavanaughs-testimony-was-his-joseph-n-welch-moment\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Christina Ford\u2019s testimony did not alter, positively or negatively, the facts of her allegations. She still cannot adduce where or when the alleged assault of 36 years prior occurred, or how she arrived at, or departed from, the alleged, but unnamed, location of the assault, or how many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1151,1099,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Yj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11443,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/one-ford-narrative-too-many\/","url_meta":{"origin":11427,"position":0},"title":"One Ford Narrative Too Many","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In the end, the Christine Blasey Ford accusations collapsed. 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