They just can’t help themselves.
The New York Times is slandering me again. The paper that got mocked by Politico and other mainstream media for their appalling coverage of the Brett Kavanaugh circus in 2018, the same paper whose “investigative journalist” David Enrich apologized to me for his coverage, the paper whose book critic Alexandra Jacob longs for me but won’t review my book The Devil’s Triangle — they’re at it again. This time I’m talking to a lawyer.
There’s a new play being staged in New York. It’s called The Ford/Hill Project. Here’s Helen Shaw of the Times describing the show:
The director Lee Sunday Evans and the actor Elizabeth Marvel assembled its script from two Senate Judiciary Committee procedures: First, the hearings about Anita Hill’s 1991 testimony that the Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had serially sexually harassed her; and second, the 2018 confirmation proceedings for the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, in which Christine Blasey Ford swore, under oath, that a 17-year-old Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when she was 15.
Marvel, vibrating with tension, mainly plays Blasey Ford, and the excellent Gabby Beans mainly plays Hill. They sometimes shift personae and become lawyers or senators, questioning each other or the two prospective justices. At the Fisher space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the set is simply a semicircle of nine chairs. We know that Kavanaugh (Josh Hamilton) and Thomas (Teagle F. Bougere) will eventually take their seats among the nine, no matter what the women say.
She goes on:
We briefly hear the real C-SPAN recordings themselves. “Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter,” says Blasey Ford, talking about her ugliest and sharpest memory. For the most part, though, actors recite text from the hearings verbatim, their lines fed to them via earpieces. They don’t “play” their parts, exactly; rather, they channel them. It’s one of several ways the show indicates that it’s presenting evidence rather than dramatizing it.
Other things rhyme too. Both women speak deliberately and dispassionately; both men explode with anger and hurt. At least in the sections we hear, the women never allow their own voices to become harsh, accusatory, strident. No, no, they remain scrupulously polite.
Then the conclusion:
The effect on the listener is a kind of sick hollowness. I’m old enough to remember the late night jokes about the porn star Long Dong Silver — one of the weird, sordid details from the Hill hearings — and Blasey Ford is right, laughter does lodge in the mind. The show also, though, reminded me about who wasn’t heard at those hearings, voices missing from the record. For example, there’s Sukari Hardnett, another of Thomas’s assistants, who filed an affidavit supporting Hill but was never called to speak; or Mark Judge, whom Blasey Ford says was in the room during her assault, but was never subpoenaed.
I'm the Mark Judge Shaw mentions. I was never subpoenaed, but I did talk to the FBI for three hours. The FBI, in turn, discovered that the entire Ford hit was a sham, and that the Democrats were using extortion, witness tampering, and other criminal activity to bring us down. I also volunteered to talk to any senators at any time as long as it was private. They declined because they wanted a circus.
I have reached my limit with the New York Times and other Stasi media claiming that I never spoke to the proper authorities about this, and have been silent about it for years. “Missing from the record?” I’ve been writing about this, including a book, for eight years. Friends, colleagues, the fine folks at Hot Air are telling me enough, already. Missing? We’re making a movie about it.
Readers of Hot Air know my story, and I apologize to them for returning to this nightmare. Yet my knowledge of what actually happened compels me. Here we go again: In 2018, Christine Blasey Ford accused Brett Kavanaugh, a nominee for the Supreme Court and a high school friend of mine from Georgetown Prep, of sexual assault. Ford claimed I was in the room when it allegedly happened in 1982. This alleged incident opens the play. This is how the Washington Post described the rehearsal of “The Ford/Hill Project”: “Her voice sounded tight, anxious, tinged with pain. ‘I was, you know, underneath one of them while the two laughed,’ the actress Elizabeth Marvel recited. ‘Two friends having a really good time with one another.’”
According to reporter Peter Marks, the Washington Post asked for comment from the people being depicted in the play: “a representative for Hill declined to comment; representatives for Ford, Thomas and Kavanaugh [sic] did not respond to requests for comment as of publication time.”
The Post never contacted me. I went ahead and wrote about The Ford/Hill Project here. The Washington Post has never responded to any of my arguments. In 2022, my book about the ordeal, The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New America Stasi, was published. I was interviewed by Martha MacCallum on Fox News and am the main protagonist in the documentary, Judge and the Justice, on Fox Nation. Kathleen Parker, the Pulitzer Prize winner at the Washington Post, wrote a column defending me. I reviewed Blasey Ford’s own book. I have called out “legendary” Post editor Marty Baron, all of whom have written about me by name. I single-handedly killed a Hollywood movie.
They will not face me, and even spike stories that in any way tell my side or make me look human. Charles Blow of the Times goes on TV and makes claims that go far beyond what Blasey Ford herself said. That's actionable. Nothing ever happens to these cowards. Friends of mine see them on TV. They read about their plays.
And now Helen Shaw and the New York Times are at it again, implying that my voice has never been heard, that I am “missing from the record” - despite the FBI interview, despite The Devil’s Triangle, despite a forest of articles going back almost a decade. They ask me to do profiles, then spike them when they reveal the truth; they long for me but won’t review my book; they make plays involving me and claim my testimony has never been heard, and I have never brought facts to the table that are damning to Ford and the New York Times.
Enough. I may lose a lawsuit. I’ll probably never be able to prove actual malice, which is what the media’s coverage of me is and always has been. Yet almost a decade later, I can maybe, hopefully, shame one reporter in all of the media enough to actually report my story accurately. If such a reporter exists.
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