{"id":11443,"date":"2018-10-08T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2018-10-08T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T18:46:37","slug":"one-ford-narrative-too-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/one-ford-narrative-too-many\/","title":{"rendered":"One Ford Narrative Too Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">I<\/span>n the end, the Christine Blasey Ford accusations collapsed. With them went the last effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination to the United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>After thousands of hours of internal Senate and FBI investigations of Kavanaugh, as well as public discussions, open questioning, and media sensationalism, Ford remained unable to identify a\u00a0<i>single\u00a0<\/i>witness who might substantiate any of her narratives of an alleged sexual assault of nearly four decades past.<\/p>\n<p>To substantiate her claim, the country was asked to jettison the idea of innocent until proven guilty, the need for corroborating testimony, witnesses, and physical evidence, the inadmissibility of hearsay, the need for reasonable statutes of limitations, considerations of motive, and the right of the accused to conduct vigorous cross-examination. That leap proved too much, especially when located in a larger progressive landscape of street theater antics, including Senate disruptions, walkouts, and sandbagging senators in hallways and elevators.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of all things, Ford remained scarcely knowledgeable about the location and time of the assault than she was months earlier in her original anonymous complaint. Nor could she yet describe how she arrived at or left the party that may or may not have taken place in 1982. That Ford retained a crystal-clear account of having consumed just one beer and that Kavanaugh played the Hollywood role of a cruel, smirking, drunken, and privileged preppy groper were sensational accusations but not supportable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/10\/07\/one-ford-narrative-too-many\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In the end, the Christine Blasey Ford accusations collapsed. With them went the last effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination to the United States Supreme Court. After thousands of hours of internal Senate and FBI investigations of Kavanaugh, as well as public discussions, open questioning, and media sensationalism, Ford [&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":[1199,1151,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Yz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11427,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/kavanaughs-testimony-was-his-joseph-n-welch-moment\/","url_meta":{"origin":11443,"position":0},"title":"Kavanaugh\u2019s Testimony Was His Joseph N. 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