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Going into Thursday’s show trial, the liberal media were hopeful that the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and the Democratic Senators would get the public against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. But Ford’s perplexing lapses in memory, dubious collusion with Democratic Senators, and Kavanaugh’s own impassioned defense had put their hopes in jeopardy. So much so, that NBC Nightly News closed out the program by lamenting that “tribal politics” would keep us from seeing the hearing in the same way.
Disguised as a segment about how the history books would remember the hearing, investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden opined about how “we're not strangers to rooms like this one where the unblinking eye of a television camera has allowed the people of this country to serve as the grandest of juries for over 60 years.” But it was really just a long setup for her point.
She gushed about how Senate committee rooms bore witness to historical hearings such as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hunt for communists and the Watergate scandal. “The nation moved forward having witnessed the same event making judgments about where the truth lay,” she said.
“Anita Hill told such a story 27 years ago, claiming Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him,” McFadden recalled. “He called it a high-tech lynching and was confirmed. She was subjected to the appalling behavior of some of the Judiciary Committee members.”
“Today's hearing was held in a room with 47 chairs in the gallery but an audience of millions who will decide for themselves who to believe,” McFadden said before playing up Ford’s testimony:
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