NBC reporter Kate Snow has a brand new website. On it she welcomes visitors:
Hi I’m Kate Snow!
Thanks for finding this page and glad you’re here.
You might know me as an anchor at NBC News Daily & a correspondent for NBC News (see my work on Today, Nightly News, Dateline). I love telling stories about the human condition and you can see some of them under the Reporting tab.
I love to hike, run, camp, ski and play tennis. But my biggest release is singing. Check out the My Music tab for all that! I also host a video and podcast show called The Drink where I talk with someone at the top of the field about how they got there… over a drink of their choice. For more about me and my life… check out the About section.
Kate Snow should not have a new website. She should also not have a job. Kate Snow is the woman who in 2018 interviewed Julie Swetnick the woman who accused then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of being at high school parties where women were drugged and gang raped. Snow then buried exonerating evidence about Kavanaugh.
Hot Air readers know that I was part of that circus. Swetnick also said that I was at those parties with Kavanaugh, and that I was in the room when he allegedly sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford.
I understand that it is years later and that I have written on this subject a lot, but it’s important for conservatives, and frankly all Americans, to remember what people like Kate Snow did. The left still yells about McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, slavery and even Iran-Contra. We need to make sure Kate Snow ever forgets the lies she spread. NBC knew there were serious problems with the Swetnick story. They then found an alleged witness who said that Swetnick’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti — who would go to prison for extortion — was lying. Kate Snow and NBC then sat on that information for weeks.
Here Megan McArdle in the Washington Post on October 31, 2018:
But during her NBC interview [with Kate Snow], Swetnick backtracked from her allegations. Now it emerges that NBC News was aware that there might be other serious problems with her story — but waited until Thursday last week to inform the public. In late September, NBC had contacted a woman whose anonymous sworn statement corroborating Swetnick’s story had been supplied to the Judiciary Committee by Avenatti. Yet in a series of communications between Sept. 30 and Oct. 5 — the eve of the Kavanaugh vote — NBC discovered that the woman essentially failed to corroborate anything. And she repudiated Avenatti: “I do not like that he twisted my words.” Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, the Judiciary Committee chairman, had already referred Swetnick and Avenatti on Thursday to the Justice Department for criminal investigation for providing false statements, obstructing congressional investigation and conspiracy. After the NBC report aired, Grassley made a second referral regarding Avenatti and the veracity of the supposedly corroborating witness’ sworn statement.
Again, what was NBC thinking by sitting on this story? A network spokesman declined to comment on NBC’s editorial process. But on Saturday, Kate Snow, who did the Oct. 1 interview with Swetnick, tweeted an explanation for the delay: “By the time we were able to find the woman independently from Mr. Avenatti, who declined to give us her full legal name and phone number, and fully report and vet her story, the Kavanaugh confirmation process was over and the news value was limited.”
Frankly, the explanation doesn’t make sense. One reason the Kavanaugh nomination exploded in partisan rancor was that his opponents, seeing what seemed like three solid sexual assault allegations, thought so much smoke suggested a pretty big fire. For many of those critics, the fact that Kavanaugh was confirmed anyway calls the Supreme Court’s legitimacy into question. Others take it as a license to pack the court next time Democrats are in power, or perhaps try to impeach him. The fact that one of those three accusations turned out to be less than credible would have been huge news at any point in the past month. And it will remain essential to any account of the Kavanaugh confirmation for years to come.
So once more: What was NBC thinking? The conservative theory is that the network, by withholding important information, was trying to help Democrats derail Kavanaugh’s nomination.
You don't say. On September 24, 2018, I got a phone message from a sinister voice. “You like f***ing with people?” it hissed. “I like to f*** with people too. Give me a call. We can work out a deal.” Then, on September 26, my lawyer asked me to come into her office. I sat down, and she asked a question: “Who did you lose your virginity to?” Apparently, there was someone claiming that “in the context of a conversation about losing virginity” I’d talked about how I had lost mine. I’d lost mine, the claim was, in a group sex situation that may or may not have been rape. Among others, Jane Mayer, the New Yorker reporter who fell for the Russia collusion hoax, went on MSNBC to claim that as kids “while at Georgetown Prep” some friends and I had group sex with an older woman. Extortion, witness tampering, threats. This is what Kate Snow was defending.
Jackie Calmes, a journalist at The Los Angeles Times and the author of the book Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court, at least tried to chase down a police report that Julie Swetnick said was filed. As I noted previously, Dissent is full of errors. (Calmes uses as a source a man named Mike Sacks, who has never met me, Kavanaugh, or any of our friends.)
Towards the end of Dissent, Calmes reveals that she tried to find the Swetnick police report: “County officials never did search for any police filing. The 1982 records had not been digitized, and the county records custodian told me in September 2019 that no one, including [her lawyer Michael] Avenatti, would pay the $1,260 charge for looking through three thousand boxes of hundreds of microfiche files for the year. I paid the county to do so, but rescinded the work order when [the accuser], in a brief interview before the search began, retracted her claim that she was assaulted in 1982. She’d specified that year in both her sworn statement and her NBC appearance, but a year later told me it could have been 1980 or 1981.” So I was pushing drugs and having group sex when I was fifteen and a freshman at Georgetown Prep. Kate Snow put this on the air.
Kate Snow aided and abetted evil and then tried to cover her tracks. I talked about it in an interview for Washingtonian magazine, which decided to spike the profile when they didn’t like what I revealed. Yes, it’s been a few years. And yes, for me this is personal. Kate Snow should never live down what she did in 2018, flashy new website or not.
On her website, Snow celebrates her love of singing. I have a 1980s classic she can cover.
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