If the last thing he leaves us with is the visual of a smug little prick lying his ass off, I don’t think going last is as much of an advantage as he thinks.
It’s law enforcement purposes make it more likely to be useful in this instance.
This hearing is a job interview. Anything that is useful in a criminal proceeding will have that purpose here.
You are confusing yourself on whether kavanaugh and Ford are entitled to “criminal proceeding” rights and privileges and responsibilities. This doesn’t preclude the value of tools used to determine the truth.
He didn’t come off particularly well in his Fox interview - very much like an automaton making rote denials. Hopefully Ford’s obvious humanity can make it through to the end.
One published a photo of Ford and other girls at a Halloween party alongside a caption boasting of “pass[ing] out” after playing “Quarters” and other binge-drinking games.
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“The tenth grade taught us how to party,” the girls bragged in another section. And, “Loss of consciousness is often an integral part of the party scene.”
Good grief. Why don’t you advocate for someone to use dowsing rods or crystals…they are similarly valuable ‘tools used to determine the truth’ as a lie detector. It’s hard to believe on a site that is supposedly about fighting ignorance that folks are talking about lie detectors as if they work (let alone using the fact that Kavanaugh THINKS they work as an argument for that)…and no one is pointing at the big elephant in the room. Which are mainly BS. From here (http://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph.aspx):
If it’s a job interview then Kavanaugh can truthfully say that he has no previous convictions or criminal charges pending. :dubious:
It’s a public trial and anyone who thinks it’s not is fooling themselves.
The point of this is the delicious irony that Kavanaugh himself wrote that the Gov’t satisfactorily explained that polygraphs serve law enforcement in testing the credibility of witnesses.
… and, speaking of staying classy, Lindsey Graham’s latest comment: “… Let me tell my Democratic friends, if this is the new norm, you better watch out for your nominees.”
Democrats are now on notice, because apparently as long as Republicans run things, no Democratic-leaning rapists will be confirmed for the Supreme Court. No failed attempted rapists, either.
About 30 minutes after Ford’s lawyers explained that they were the ones who paid for Ford’s polygraph, Lindsey Graham just said “I don’t know who paid for her polygraph, but somebody paid for it”.
Senator, maybe you’d like to check the tape of the hearing you just spent the last several hours attending?
By what mechanism would a polygraph would be useful for “law enforcement” purposes (which should have a high bar for evidence to meet) but not useful in an appointment hearing? Either the tests are reliable or not.
Anyone sympathetic to Kavanaugh who thinks polygraphs are unreliable garbage needs to pay attention to his position on this.
Ford is in a photo that references passing out, but without context there’s no indication that Ford passed out. A photo you haven’t seen and excerpts from a caption you haven’t read are evidence, but extremely weak evidence. But I’ll give you partial credit for this. This might indicate that Ford was a binge drinker and it has been esatblished in this thread, with cites, that frequent heavy binge drinkers black out often.
This isn’t a quote of Ford and I don’t think Ford is even on this page. This isn’t evidence of anything concerning Ford.
Riddle me this… Based on the evidence you’ve seen so far, who do you think more likely had alcohol induced black outs, Ford or Kavanaugh?
