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From: Incitatus9/18/2018 2:37:52 AM
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What Does Christine Ford Stand to Gain By Her Story?

Yesterday’s Washington Post article and statements by Ford’s mouthpiece go to length to point out the sacrifice she was making by coming forward and taking the inevitable slurs against her integrity by those rascally Republicans and how she is going through what all women who alleged sexual misconduct go through. (You might want to ask Matt Lauer, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and a few others about that before plowing on, no?)

When Anita Hill made her specious allegations against a Clarence Thomas, how was she hurt? She’s had been a low-level bureaucrat who had hitched her wagon to Clarence Thomas. Without her appearance before that hearing, she would have been destined to retire as a well-paid government functionary or a minor university professor. What is she now? A law professor at a much better school than the University of Oklahoma (sorry, but it had to be said). The recipient of a largish book advance. A paid speaker. She was the subject of not one but two hagiographic movies. On the whole, betraying the guy who had helped her career out immeasurably has worked out damned well for her.

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Ford is a partisan Democrat. She is a small-time Democrat donor. She participated in at least one anti-Trump protest and was quoted during it by the San Jose Mercury. In 2012, she expressed anxiety that Kavanaugh would be on the Supreme Court–this was about the time when she first recounted her horrific tale. She recently signed a petition protesting Trump administration immigration policy. Curiously, her social media accounts were scrubbed before her name became known. Strange behavior for someone who wanted to stay anonymous, but so is calling the Washington Post tip line.

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