Kavanaugh's 'Choir Boy' Image on Fox News Rankles Former Yale Classmates

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Source: Washington Post

By Aaron Davis, Emma Brown, Joe Heim, 57 mins ago.

On Monday night, Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh said in a nationally televised interview that in his younger years, he was focused on sports, academics and "service projects." But it was his comments about drinking that rankled some Yale University classmates, prompting them to speak out for the first time.

Liz Swisher, who described herself as a friend of Kavanaugh in college, said she was shocked that -- in an interview focused largely on his high school years and allegations of sexual misconduct -- he strongly denied drinking to the point of blacking out.

"Brett was a sloppy drunk, and I know because I drank with him. I watched him drink more than a lot of people. He'd end up slurring his words, stumbling," said Swisher, a Democrat and chief of the gynecologic oncology division at the University of Washington School of Medicine. "There's no medical way I can say that he was blacked out. . . . But it's not credible for him to say that he has had no memory lapses in the nights that he drank to excess."

Lynne Brookes, who like Swisher was a college roommate of one of the two women now accusing Kavanaugh of misconduct, said the nominee's comments on Fox did not match the classmate she remembered. "He's trying to paint himself as some kind of choir boy," said Brookes, a Republican and former pharmaceutical executive who recalled an encounter with a drunken Kavanaugh at a fraternity event. "You can't lie your way onto the Supreme Court, and with that statement out, he's gone too far. It's about the integrity of that institution."...More...


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Kavanaugh reiterated his unequivocal denials that he sexually assaulted Ford and that he exposed himself to Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez, as she contended in a story published Sunday in the New Yorker.

"I've always treated women with dignity and respect," he told Fox.

Kavanaugh described his younger self as a churchgoer who indulged in some beer-drinking -- but never to the point of blacking out.

At one point, after he acknowledged that "people" do things in high school that later cause them to "regret or cringe," Fox host Martha MacCallum asked: "Were there times when perhaps you drank so much -- was there ever a time that you drank so much that you couldn't remember what happened the night before?" "No, that never happened," Kavanaugh said.

MacCallum asked again: "You never said to anyone, 'I don't remember anything about last night.' " "No, that did not happen," Kavanaugh said.
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"Kavanaugh's Choir Boy Defense Raises Questions About His Credibility, Democrats Say. The Supreme Court nominee's high school yearbook is a "minefield," said one Democratic senator," Huff Post, Sept. 25, 2018.https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-credibility-senate-hearing_us_5baaaddae4b0f143d10e43dd

[Jim__]

1. Kavanaugh is a liar and that fact is out. That should be game over. - n/t

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2. End this travesty, please. The next in line candidate, a woman

is even more right wing than K. per some journalists; we'll find out soon.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. But he's a born again virgin

At least in the eyes of the GOP

[truthisfreedom]

6. Hahaha.

[elleng]

4. Sounds to me, more and more, that he's alcoholic.

Good thing is his friend Judge is 'recovering,' but Kav not so.

[Samspadesnark]

5. I think he looks blotto in this photo

The whites of his eyes look yellowish-brown, and he looks like he's struggling to keep his eyes open. His face in the Fox interview looked white, pasty, and puffed; his lips were very dry, drawn, and unusually white; and his eyes had a very dead stare. Not at all the physical appearance of a person who is focused on sports, academia, and a healthy lifestyle. I would also like to see documentary and third-party proof of his "service projects" to know whether they even existed and, if so, whether they were juvenile-probation related (knowing, of course, that if they were, the juvenile records themselves would be closed or erased – thus my need for outside proof). I would also like to know if there was any correlation between what may have triggered those 'service projects' and his calendar postings of being "grounded", "time with parents", and "dinner with dad".

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7. I wish they would pose the question differently regarding blackouts.

Some people can drink in excess, remember the night before and even drive (though that would be seriously dangerous).
I knew people like this and I drank a few times to that degree.
I didn't forget but I did throw up at times or had to go to bed. Sounds to me like he was a bad binge drinker.

My inhibitions were down but luckily I wasn't in any situation where I would get taken advantage of but with that said, I did not drive while in that state. I knew better.
I shouldn't have talked on the phone (drunk dialing) and I definitely know that I watched a movie or two where I had pretty much forgotten that I had seen it later on down the road.

In other words, he could be telling the truth to that particular question about drinking to the point of blacking out so someone should instead ask, did you ever drink to the point of becoming impaired like slurring your words, stumbling, vomiting or getting a hangover?
Did you drive under the influence? Did anyone ever have to tell you what you did the night before while you were drunk?

[YOHABLO]

8. He's the 'Trump card' folks pure and simple. Funny how we've not heard from the religious Right.

or gang raping okay with them as well.

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9. All is forgiven perhaps with that constituency. Incredible.