CNSNews.com reported on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination in the wake of accusations of sexual misconduct they way you’d expect: with lots of biased stenography and omission of inconvenient facts.
A Sept. 19 article repeated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s lament that the accusation was made public “right at the end” of the process — even though there’s no hard-and-fast rule regarding how long the process must take — and that “it’s pretty obvious this is all about delaying the process.” Jones didn’t mention that McConnell was all about delaying the process in 2016 when he stopped President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court from even reaching the hearing process. He even said that “One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, ‘Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.’ “
CNS managing editor Michael W. Chapman touted how Juanita Broaddrick tweeted that if the FBI investigates the allegations Christine Blasey Ford made against Kavanaugh, then it should “investigate my RAPE allegations against Bill Clinton, too.” Chapman the recounted the story of how Broaddrick “has long maintained that Bill Clinton, when he was the Arkansas Attorney General, raped her — a ‘forcible, brutal rape’ — in a hotel room in Little Rock, Ark., on April 25, 1978.”
But Chapman curiously forgot to report that not only did Broaddrick spend 20 years denying that any such “rape” occurred, she made a sworn affidavit to that effect to the Ken Starr independent counsel investigation of Clinton.
Chapman also wrote that “President Bill Clinton apparently has never denied Broaddrick’s rape allegation. His attorney, David Kendall, has denied it on Clinton’s behalf.” But if Clinton’s lawyer is denying it on his behalf, that means Clinton is denying it.
(Weirdly, this is the second time in recent years that someone at the Media Research Center, which runs CNS, has tried to argue that the statement from Clinton’s lawyer doesn’t count as an actual denial because it didn’t come from Clinton personally.)
A Sept. 19 article by Melanie Arter reported that “The brother of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, worked for a law firm that hired Fusion GPS, which produced the fake dossier on President Donald Trump.” But Arter somehow forgot to report that Ford’s brother left that law firm in 2004 — seven years before Fusion GPS was even founded and several more years before its involvement with the dossier (which, by the way, is not “fake”).
CNS is also dutifully highlighting all the various defenses of Kavanaugh — two women who dated Kavanaugh, 87 women who knew Kavanaugh — and offered copious stenography of conservatives sticking up for Kavanaugh. In addition, it’s highlighting any claim that casts doubt on the veracity of the accusers’ claims.
In addition to Jones’ retro attack on Anita Hill that we’ve already highlighted as part of the MRC’s continued obsessive loathing of the woman, CNS also reprinted Clarence Thomas infamous “high-tech lynching” speech in response to Hill’s allegations against him.
In other words, CNS’ editorial policy in a nutshell.