Washington Post “gender columnist” Monica Hesse made a splash on the front page of Friday’s Style section celebrating Christine Blasey Ford’s new memoir. She made a pile of unsubstantiated allegations of attempted teenage rape against Brett Kavanaugh when he was up for the Supreme Court in 2018. With time to reflect, Ford still doesn’t have any substance to her charges, like a time or a place for her alleged victimization:
Readers looking to “One Way Back” for a magic bullet to prove Kavanaugh’s guilt or innocence are out of luck. Ford doesn’t remember anything more than she’s already publicly recalled; there are no new witnesses or unearthed diary entries. What she gives instead is a thoughtful exploration of what it feels like to become a main character in a major American reckoning — a woman tossed out to sea and learning that the water is shark-infested, or at the very least blooming with red tide.
It's a "reckoning"? Kavanaugh said he never met Ford, and he never assaulted a woman. But Hesse began by insisting Ford had nothing to gain (other than being a leftist wanting to ruin a conservative man’s reputation and nomination, perhaps):
“Can you name all 59 women who came forward against Cosby?” a user named Feminist Next Door posted. “Cool so we agree that women don’t make rape accusations to become famous.”
Smearing Kavanaugh – again – by comparing him to an actual rapist is what a Democrat-rag newspaper does. Hesse uncorks an unintentionally laughable sentence about a woman seeking to destroy a man’s nomination without it being an actual legal proceeding, that would require real evidence:
“One Way Back” is a blisteringly personal memoir of a singular experience. But it was most piercing to me as a memoir of the past half-decade, when long-buried wounds were tried in the court of public opinion as much as in the court of law, and when sexual assault allegations were treated as though they were about scoring political points more than settling psychic trauma.
The Democrats were scoring political points by creating a story of psychic trauma that was never proven. The “long-buried wounds” are allegations. Hesse never mentions the other Kavanaugh accusers, and their wild and unproven tales. No, only one accuser is still a heroine. Hesse concluded:
If you believed Ford in 2018, “One Way Back” will give you a deeper appreciation for the woman behind the headlines. If you didn’t — well, I don’t know if the book will change your mind. But it might wiggle your mind a little bit. Because it’s impossible to picture why someone would lie to achieve the kind of fame that has been bestowed upon Ford. It’s hard enough to picture why someone would put themself through that nightmare to tell the truth.
Feminists just assume Ford is telling the truth -- because she's on the "Right Side of History." Accuse a Democrat of sexual assault? The liberal media paints you as a "Dogpatch Madonna" (Paula Jones).
Hesse highlights all the alleged death threats sent to Ford (and that would be wrong)...but does NOT ever mention the man who showed up in Kavanaugh's neighborhood in 2022 with a plan to murder him and his family. Instead, we get this:
From time to time, she writes, people still asked her whether she thought she ruined Kavanaugh’s life, and she reacted with incredulity: “Despite the fact that Brett ultimately got the job. Despite the fact that he sits on the Supreme Court while I still receive death threats.”
Hesse mentions that Ford was invited over to Oprah's house, and to the widow of Steve Jobs' widow, and to backstage at a Metallica concert. She balanced it out with the death-threats stuff.
PS: Here are the celebrity blurbs on her memoir:
“I was engrossed [at her testimony]….what I heard in Ford’s voice and choice of words was a commitment to tell the truth.” ―Anita Hill
"I applaud the courage of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford to come forward to share her story." ―Nancy Pelosi
"It was striking to see someone questioned before the Senate that actually answered questions."―Jimmy Kimmel
"[Ford's] amazing and a true patriot." ―America Ferrera
