When the media (and incidentally, every Democrat) point out that Brett Kavanaugh is not being tried in a court of law, but merely interviewing for a job, it’s purely an effort to lower the standard of proof on the outlandish claims of sexual assault and heavy drinking that date back more than 30 years.
No one should fall for it.
Democrats and the media have simultaneously applied two separate standards by suggesting Kavanaugh may have committed a crime, which would entitle him to due process, but insisting that he’s not on trial, which is intended to deny him any presumed innocence.
Because the sexual assault allegations come with weak testimony and no corroboration, the accusations alone are supposed to be enough to disqualify Kavanaugh.
Liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote Friday, “This is not a criminal trial but a job interview. People often are not hired for jobs because of unproven concerns about their background. Sometimes this is unfair.”
His colleague Roger Cohen at the Times likewise said, “This was a job interview, not a criminal trial” and that, even though the accusations “would not currently stand up in a court of law,” Kavanaugh “failed the job interview.”
“Yesterday’s hearing was an interview for a job, and Judge Kavanaugh failed the test,” said Forbes columnist Steve Denning last week, after Kavanaugh and his primary accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, testified on the allegations.
On NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” Seth Meyers joked about other claims that Kavanaugh was a heavy drinker in college (because that’s how far we’ve come). “A college classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has said that he often saw Kavanaugh, quote, ‘staggering from alcohol consumption,’” said Meyers. “That’s nothing — I saw him screaming and crying at a job interview while totally sober.”
It’s the same line Democrats have been saying since last week.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said at the start of last week’s hearings that “this is not a trial of Dr. Ford, it is a job interview for Judge Kavanaugh.”
After the hearings concluded, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., went on CNN to say she was “really stunned by how [Kavanaugh] acted at this hearing” because “this is basically a job interview for the highest court of the land.”
As in other job interviews, you should always be prepared to prove you didn’t attempt to rape someone nearly four decades ago. Oh, and be sure to explain any drinking you might have done your freshman year of college!
If Kavanaugh were simply up for a job interview, he wouldn’t be dragged in front of millions of people on cable news and in the national papers, forced to defend himself from accusations that come with no evidence or are countered by dozens of people who have known him most of his life.
Since the initial delay of Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote more than two weeks ago, Ronan Farrow found a woman (again with no corroborating witnesses) to say that Kavanaugh flashed his penis at her during a freshman year party at Yale; Michael Avenatti found a woman to imply that Kavanaugh was in a rape gang (a story that has since completely fallen apart); the New York Times parsed the sophomoric language in one of Kavanaugh’s high school yearbooks; the Washington Post investigated whether Kavanaugh as a teenager ever got blackout drunk; and the Times found out that when he was in college, Kavanaugh was once questioned by authorities about throwing ice at someone in a bar.
What? Haven’t you ever been through a job interview before?
This all started with Kavanaugh being accused of a serious crime, and Democrats, with the media’s support, removed any requirement of proof by saying, “Hey, it’s just a job interview.”
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., literally said this on Tuesday, remarking that, “Ultimately, [it’s] not whether he’s innocent or guilty — this is not a trial.”
True, Kavanaugh isn’t on trial. If he were, he’d be on the Supreme Court already.
