How the ghost of Al Franken is haunting Brett Kavanaugh, conservative media, & #MeToo

The “conservative” media has rightfully wailed that the nature, timing, and handling of the Kavanaugh allegation smell of a political hit job (one that, thankfully, has yet to gravely threaten his nomination). However, their case would be a lot more trustworthy if they had not been so willing to abandon principle when it came to blindly cheerleading a similar — though more complex — take down of Franken, which ended up working because members of his own party decided it was in their personal self-interest to knife him in the back.

The worst part of this situation is that Kavanaugh’s reputation has now been forever tarnished and we are unlikely to even remotely properly adjudicate this matter enough to know what really happened. All of which make this a story perfect for 2018, the year when the truth lost its meaning.