Tornado Alley (PROG)

[fuagf]

This Newspaper Ran a Wildly Offensive Cartoon of Kavanaugh's Accuser

"arizona1, the Virgin On The Ridiculous"

Readers were outraged by the 'Indy Star' image, which depicted Christine Blasey Ford making a series of ridiculous demands like "roses" and "green M&Ms."



screenshot via Twitter user @EliseShrock and the Indiana Star.

In the last week alone, there's been a seemingly endless amount of new developments in the saga of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. He's been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple .. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3833k/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-assault-allegation-against-brett-kavanaugh .. women .. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3kek75/another-kavanaugh-accuser-is-taking-to-maryland-authorities .. and offered up bizarre .. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/bjaj3q/brett-kavanaugh-calls-sexual-assault-allegations-a-coordinated-effort-says-he-wont-withdraw .. defenses .. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mbwbdy/brett-kavanaugh-defense-sexual-assault-virgin .. in response, all after the initial accuser .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.16854a952085 , Christine Blasey Ford, agreed to testify .. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kz5zyv/sex-abuse-attorneys-explain-what-christine-blasey-ford-will-face-on-thursday .. in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

But on the same day she and her lawyers came to an official agreement .. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-testify.html , the Indianapolis Star ran a cartoon attempting to poke fun at the requests they made regarding Thursday's hearing:

[...]

According to the Washington Post .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/09/24/newspaper-apologizes-cartoon-that-depicted-christine-blasey-ford-demanding-mms-roses/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0adf664b2684 , the same artist who drew the comic, Gary Varvel, also drew a cartoon back in 2014 that depicted what appears to be a family of immigrants climbing into a white family's home through a window on Thanksgiving. Backlash was so loud the Indy Star edited the cartoon before apologizing .. https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/11/22/jeff-taylor-gary-varvel-thanksgiving-cartoon-immigration-opinion/19408509/ .



Staci D Kramer
? @sdkstl

Replying to @sdkstl
The Case of the Mysterious Mustache: the original @indystar cartoon by @varvel & the edit
tweet

On Monday, the Indy Star had to apologize again in a statement .. https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2018/09/24/indystar-gary-varvel-christine-ford-cartoon-editor-response/1410020002/ , saying that the latest cartoon "did not meet our high standards," explaining that it was run next to another cartoon "that presented an opposing view."

"...the Indy Star also has a responsibility to promote a civil discourse and to present diverse viewpoints in a way that does not demean or appear to belittle anyone who says they are the victim of a sexual assault," executive editor Ronnie Ramos wrote. "Our—and Varvel’s—intent was not to attack Dr. Ford," he added.

Varvel also weighed in: "My cartoon was focused only on Ford's demands, not on whether she was telling the truth. This is a point I should have made clearer in my cartoon. As a husband and father of a daughter and granddaughters, I take sexual harassment very seriously."

Still, one could argue that painting Ford as irrational is just as bad as questioning whether or not she's "telling the truth." It's all part of the same narrative of discrediting a woman's authority and ability to tell the story of her own life and her assault—a particularly problematic thing to print in the same paper that was instrumental in covering the convicted serial child molester Larry Nassar .. http://interactives.indystar.com/news/standing/OutOfBalanceSeries/index2.html .

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyn5vy/indy-star-christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh-cartoon-vgtrn

So to

What Thursday's hearing with Kavanaugh and Ford will look like

By Phil Mattingly and Kate Sullivan, CNN

Updated 10:49 PM ET, Tue September 25, 2018

VIDEO - Lead Jessica Schneider Kavanaugh state of play live Jake Tapper
Kavanaugh/Ford hearing remains Thursday despite Dem calls for delay 04:24
Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault are set to testify about her allegation will see both witnesses face five minutes of questioning from each senator on the panel, or a lawyer if senators choose to yield their time.

The way the hearing will unfurl was revealed Tuesday after CNN obtained details of the format for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, in which both Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford will testify publicly. A source familiar with the matter provided the following details to CNN after notices were sent to Kavanaugh's and Ford's legal teams.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley will make an opening statement with no time limit, followed by an opening statement from the top Democrat on the committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who also will not have a time limit.

Ford, who alleges when she and Kavanaugh were in high school he pinned her down at a party and covered her mouth while trying to remove her clothing, will then be sworn in and give an opening statement. Kavanaugh has denied the allegation.

There will be one round of questions in which each senator will have five minutes each to ask Ford questions. Those five minutes can be yielded to counsel if a senator chooses.

Grassley confirmed Tuesday in a statement that he has hired Rachel Mitchell .. http://www.cnn.com/2018/09/25/politics/rachel-mitchell-ford-kavanaugh-hearing/index.html , a career prosecutor with decades of experience prosecuting sex crimes, to question the witnesses. Mitchell will ask the questions for the GOP senators, while Democrats will do their own questioning.

Ford will then leave the committee hearing room, and Kavanaugh will enter once Ford has departed. The Supreme Court nominee will be sworn in and will then give his opening statement.

In the same format as the questioning for Ford, there will be one round of questions in which senators have five minutes to either ask questions themselves or yield that time to outside counsel.

Grassley announced Tuesday that a committee vote on Kavanaugh's nomination is tentatively scheduled for Friday. The hearing will occur days after a second woman, Deborah Ramirez, told The New Yorker that when she and Kavanaugh were in college together, he exposed himself to her at a dormitory party. Kavanaugh has denied the allegation.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/25/politics/thursday-hearing-format-kavanaugh-ford/index.html

See also:

Are you saying that a virgin cannot commit sexual assault?
He may not have raped her but if what she is saying is true he did sexually assault her whether or not he was a virgin.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143771990

What?? That made no damned sense. None at all.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143769466


https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143627400[/img]


https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143619805


https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143644925