CNN Pushes False Kavanaugh Allegation for Hours After It Was Debunked

By streiff | 9:29 AM on September 27, 2018

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Last night I posted about the flurry of allegations that have been made against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh since the GOP decided to play nice and give Christine Ford the chance to perjure herself on national television for fun and profit.

One of the gems that came over the transom was this one received by Rhode Island Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse alleging that Kavanaugh had raped someone on a boat in August 1985:

https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1045091112287965185

The guy recanted Wednesday afternoon and personally tweeted his apologia at 7:51 p.m.

Do everyone who is going crazy about what I had said I have recanted because I have made a mistake and apologize for such mistake

— Jeffrey Catalan (@JeffreyCatala16) September 26, 2018

That, of course, didn’t stop CNN from pushing the story for over four hours after the recantation.

CNN is also saying 5 allegations with their chyron. No clever parenthesis again, that the RI boat accuser has fully recanted. pic.twitter.com/15znwXsvLJ

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 27, 2018

At 11:48 pm CNN finally updated story. Again, they published a full hour after the accuser from RI recanted. There should have never been a need for an update if they included in original story pic.twitter.com/q5xGQtcFS5

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 27, 2018

CNN is obviously pushing to kill Kavanaugh’s nomination and they aren’t at all shy about it. And they aren’t alone. The Hill ran the story hours after Catala’s verbal recantation and nearly a half-hour after his tweet. They took until 9:44 p.m. to update the story.

If you want to say the media hasn’t taken a side in this and they are simply making the occasional mistake, say it to someone who is a mental defective and will believe it.

NBC/MSNBC Analyst making light of serial gang rape accusations against judge who is a husband and a father of young girls. https://t.co/ZfXhQgXagw

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 27, 2018

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