Is it time for me to sue the New York Times? Their columnist Charles Blow was on TV recently trying to pivot the new rape allegations against Graham Platner to Trump - and Brett Kavanaugh. Sure, the new rape allegations against Platner, a congressional candidate from Maine, are bad, but Trump is worse. Furthermore, “Christine Blasey Ford gave compelling testimony against Brett Kavanaugh. She said she was raped.”
Christine Blasey Ford never claimed she was raped. The victim of an assault, yes. But not raped.
So - here we go again - Charles Blow and the New York Times are lying. I think it’s time to consult a lawyer about suing. At the very least Blow needs to issue a correction. In the aftermath of my recent Chronicles piece about New York Times reporter David Enrich, who wrote to me saying he had regrets about his 2018 hit pieces on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, my suspicion is that my case is even stronger than I previously thought. Like Enrich, Blow needs to at least apologize.
I know some readers are tired of me writing about this. Yet the reason I do is, one, to expose the malefactors behind the Blasey Ford hit, and secondly, to prevent idiots like Charles Blow from continuing, year in and year out, to slander me and Brett Kavanaugh over and over again. If I don’t counter them, they will continue to tell lies. Because I remember things about the case that others have forgotten, I can call out the left when they try to alter the past - which is what Charles Blow is doing. Bringing legal action may finally shut him and the other hyenas in the media up. (If I win, I will put the loot into the Anti-Communist Film Festival.)
As readers know, Kavanaugh, a high school classmate of mine, was accused of sexual assault in 2018 when he was nominated to the Court. Unlike the Graham Platner case, there was no evidence - indeed, there was evidence of witness tampering and extortion from the other side. Kavanaugh’s accuser, a woman named Christine Blasey Ford, claimed the attack happened sometime in the ’80s and also claimed that I was in the room when it happened. The entire thing was a criminal scam—including the role of the partisan corporate media in covering it. Jodi Kantor, the famous #MeToo Times crusader who tried to destroy Kavanaugh, tried to downplay the Graham Platner accusations. As did Ryan Grim, the hack who broke the Blasey Ford story.
David Enrich knows this and at least has shown signs of having a conscience. “I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my role in the Kavanaugh coverage,” he told me, “and I would be happy to talk to you about it at some point. For now, I will just say that I have learned some lessons and would probably do certain things differently next time.” Then he added this: “I can’t imagine what it was like for you to go thru that.” Finally, Enrich texted me this: “The truth is that I have been grappling with this and talking with colleagues about it for years now.”
Sometimes grappling isn’t enough. Sometimes people have to be called out - and even sued.
I’ve often regretted that I did not sue the Washington Post. There are a lot of examples why I should have, but the worst is a piece that ran in the Post on Oct. 22, 2018. The headline: “A writer mined his ’80s adolescence in the D.C. suburbs. Then came the Kavanaugh hearings.” The article by Rebecca Nelson is a profile of Mike Sacks, a comedy writer who grew up in Maryland. Sacks had a lot of slanderous and libelous things to say about me, Brett Kavanaugh, and our friends, even though Sacks doesn’t know any of us. He’s never laid eyes on me, Brett, or anyone else we grew up with.
You read that right. For a story about me and Brett Kavanaugh, the Washington Post profiled a man who’s never even met us. As the Post reported, “when Kavanaugh’s high school friend (and a witness, Ford said, to the alleged assault) Mark Judge was found far from the hearing, in Bethany Beach, Del., with a car strewn with comic books and clothes, Sacks tweeted, ‘I wrote about Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge and their type in my new book. I didn’t. But I did. If that makes sense. Maryland!!!’” Rebecca Nelson then offers this astonishing admission: “For the record, Sacks didn’t go to Georgetown Prep in Bethesda, the school Kavanaugh and Judge attended. He went to public school. He didn’t belong to a country club, just the neighborhood pool. But growing up in Montgomery County, he says he spent time with ‘this entitled type,’ as he referred to Kavanaugh. ‘Things had a tendency to happen while you were around them,’ he says. ‘When they got drunk, all bets were off.’”
I should have sued, but frankly I was so traumatized at the time I was thinking of survival. I’m not a lawyer, but quoting a man who has never met us, suggesting we were drunks and that “things had a tendency to happen” when people were around us or that “all bets were off,” when we were drinking, is slander. I don’t care how deftly he tries to get away with his libel by writing that he “did but didn’t” write about Brett and me.
There’s also Marty Baron, the “legendary” editor who ran The Washington Post from 2012 to 2021. Baron writes about me in his 2023 memoir, Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post. I have been calling Baron out on social media and formally requesting that his former paper give me space to defend myself against what he wrote. Baron quotes a letter Christine Blasey Ford wrote, a letter which was false. Baron also praises Post reporter Emma Brown, who, as I have noted above, broke the Ford story, tried to fool me into talking to her, left out the testimony of exonerating witnesses in her story, and never explained why she did any of this. Baron carries this lie forward and is too much of a coward to face me about it.
Now here comes Charles Blow, flatly stating the lie that Christine Blasey Ford claimed she “was raped.” This is false, slanderous, defamatory, and even eight years later I am sick and tired of our American Stasi in the media getting away with it. They are all too cowardly to face me in person, so I have to keep defending myself in print. However, it might be time to consult a lawyer. Do I have a case?
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