Sam Lowry said:
During the Kavanaugh hearings it was reported that Ford's friend Leland Keyser basically believed her allegations even though she couldn't corroborate them. Now it turns out even that wasn't true. Plus Keyser was threatened for not backing the narrative. Ford has zero credibility at this point.
This is why I don't engage with you most of the time: you present part of the truth in a way that makes it appear to be all of the truth.
Here's an article from the Washington Post that explains what really happened: Keyser originally believed Blasey Ford's allegations, telling investigators DURING the Kavanaugh hearing that she didn't remember the party in question, but that she believed Blasey Ford's allegations thought her attorney:
Excerpt:
Keyser's attorney told investigators during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings that she couldn't recall the night in question, while adding that she believed Ford.Later, in interviews with the New York Times reporters, she revealed that she no longer believes those allegations.
So when you say "it turns out even that wasn't true," you're wrong. But you get the same kind of validation from the ninnies on this site that you got back when you announced that you had seen the truth and decided to vote for Trump.
People change their minds (as you apparently did about Trump). Keyser did, for whatever reason. But there was no false reporting, and to use this to imply that the news media has engaged in a campaign of disinformation intended to discredit Brett Kavanaugh--the right-wing news narrative from the start--is wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/17/key-witness-brett-kavanaugh-saga-comes-down-his-side/Here's an excerpt:
Some of Keyser's new quotes were first spotlighted in recent days by the Federalist, and the general thrust of Keyser's skepticism was reported in
a July book by the same author, Mollie Hemingway, and Carrie Severino. The reporting in their book relied upon anonymous sources. But with the release of the book Tuesday, we have a fuller picture of what Keyser said in her first extensive public interview since Kavanaugh's confirmation.
Keyser described having many more reservations than she initially let on. She said she tried to assemble the details as described by Ford, but she called her attorney and told him, "You know what, I don't feel good about something." Ford said in her testimony that she left after the alleged assault but wasn't sure how she got home, other than that she didn't drive home. Ford also said there were at least four boys at the party three that she was able to name along with Keyser, but that there could have been more."It would be impossible for me to be the only girl at a get-together with three guys, have her leave and then not figure out how she's going to get home," Keyser said.
"I've been thinking about who I was at 16 rather than who Chrissy was at 16," Keyser said, saying that although she has dealt with addiction as an adult, she wasn't a heavy drinker then. She added, "That's when I changed."
Ford, in her Senate testimony, said Keyser "was downstairs during the event and I did not share it with her." She also said then of Keyser's lack of corroboration, "I don't expect that Leland would remember this evening."
Keyser said she doesn't remember many small gatherings like the one Ford described, nor does she remember hanging out much with Georgetown Prep students, which Kavanaugh was. She maintains that she didn't even know who Kavanaugh was back then, after reviewing pictures and maps.
"Those facts together I don't recollect, and it just doesn't make any sense," Keyser said. Keyser also said she spoke with many people who "wanted me to remember something different" suggesting that there was pressure on her to toe the line and that she told the FBI about that. Some of Keyser's more interesting comments, though, are about Ford and Kavanaugh as people.
Of her friend, she alludes to some kind of "trauma" Ford may have experienced, even as the details of this particular allegation don't add up to her.
"I think something happened, but I don't know what," Keyser said. "And I haven't been close enough to her over the years to know that something went down. I haven't seen her in a long, long time. I do think that something happened to her, and that maybe she is a victim of some sort of trauma."