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Ed Whalen:I Made An Appalling And Inexcusable Mistake Last Night
Twitter ^ | September 21, 2018 | Ed Whelan

Posted on 09/21/2018 6:01:37 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: Old Teufel Hunden
".... all because someone said it might be you that raped a woman 36 years ago with no evidence?..."

Whoa there.

There's been no allegation or charge of "rape' in this incident.

This story has morphed from one of teenage antics at a drunken party to one where Kavanaugh raped this woman. Nor did this other kid "outed" in this story.

The Left may think it appropriate to leap to that extreme conclusion. But FReepers shouldn't be perpetuating any such notion.

From what I can read, this Ford woman's story is so thin, that it is barely credible. And may not be credible enough to believe.

41 posted on 09/21/2018 6:26:51 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: aumrl

Yes, she is claiming attempted rape. I get it, but what I’m saying is that Whalen did the same thing she’s doing. Accusing someone based on no facts, just his conjecture. Can you imagine what this guys thinking? He’s most likely as innocent as Kavanaugh and now Whalen is out there besmirching his reputation. That’s not cool....


42 posted on 09/21/2018 6:30:06 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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Not buying his was an unplanned error.

A Hatch aid pointed to this twitter feed before the drop.

They’ve gotten Ford to say it wasn’t the other guy publicly. Boxed in her public statement.

There was some 4D chess play here.

Perhaps the men she’s mentioned as witnesses were at this house when this guy “hooked up” with her and he’s willing to testify it was consensual.

Something else is going on. Ed is too bright to stumble and it was coordinated before posted.


43 posted on 09/21/2018 6:30:20 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Big jump there. Nobody is saying rape here .


44 posted on 09/21/2018 6:30:38 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: HotHunt

I agree no rape, jeeze people have got to chill!!!! Slip of the tongue (or keyboard in this case). My whole point is that Whalen was not right to do this. He’s doing the same thing that she’s doing, besmirching someone’s reputation based on conjecture and no facts.


45 posted on 09/21/2018 6:32:12 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Michael.SF.

Nailed it?
He responded to Ford’s weak and uncorroborated allegation by offering up another innocent guy.


46 posted on 09/21/2018 6:32:43 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: bk1000
He established reasonable doubt.

He gave Ford an easy out. Instead of being forced to admit that she's a liar and made the hole thing up, she can now say she was simply mistaken.

This Whalen guy is a f***ing idiot. I hope Garrett sues his ass.

Either help or STFU.

47 posted on 09/21/2018 6:33:12 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: C19fan

Either Ed is insanely stupid to not think through what would happen once he tweeted his theory, or this is part of a master plan that is right on schedule. I’m afraid it is the former.


48 posted on 09/21/2018 6:33:22 AM PDT by GLDNGUN
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To: sitetest

How did we leap from 2 teenagers rolling around on a bed with their clothes on to a felony attempted rape charge? Has the world gone mad? This is absurd!


49 posted on 09/21/2018 6:34:09 AM PDT by luv2ski
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To: SJSAMPLE

Thank you! Someone is finally getting the point I was making. If this guy gets death threats now (likely) it will be all because of Whalen. I don’t think he gets secret service protection....


50 posted on 09/21/2018 6:34:54 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: cuban leaf
Crap, the guy on the left looks almost exactly like me in my yearbook picture. I’m not kidding

Where were you, Mr. Cuban Leaf, on the night of, um, I mean the night of, wait, I mean the night of the Summer of 1981, no wait, I mean the night of the Summers of 1981-1984?

51 posted on 09/21/2018 6:36:41 AM PDT by KevinB (ue)
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To: HotHunt

But interesting comments on the retraction/apology about how we shouldn’t ruin innocent people’s lives with false accusations.

Do they see the irony and ignore it or are they really blind to the irony?


52 posted on 09/21/2018 6:36:55 AM PDT by BeckyRoss
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To: luv2ski

The stupidity level has already exceeded that which would be necessary from which to derive such an outcome.


53 posted on 09/21/2018 6:36:56 AM PDT by sitetest (No longer mostly dead.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

“...VERY SURPRISED that someone who clerked for Scalia woukd make a mistake like this...”

Probably because it was a calculated “mistake”. My take all along before anything came out was that Blowsey was a skank and loved the attention from the boys in the D.C. area’s elite all boys’ schools.

She set the scene because she had been there and done that: however she made up the fact that it was Kavanaugh out of thin air. That was my theory before anything even came out and the Whelan post furthers this scenario.

Any cross examination would blow holes in her narrative.


54 posted on 09/21/2018 6:37:35 AM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: Az Joe

This woman’s lying there’s no doppel ganger why even try to investigate and explain away this nonsense


55 posted on 09/21/2018 6:40:04 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Her story keeps changing for the worse,as the Feminists get more desperate. Where are all the proud slutwalkers now?


56 posted on 09/21/2018 6:40:21 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Stop repeating that liberal crap. She was NOT raped, she was groped by a teenage boy. You add to the disgusting liberal slime by repeating an allegation that was not made.

This is FreeRepublic, if you are going to post here you are expected to have at least two functioning brain cells


57 posted on 09/21/2018 6:42:20 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: cuban leaf

Even now as adults, they look amazingly similar.


58 posted on 09/21/2018 6:42:56 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: SJSAMPLE
Innocent? not so sure about that.

I wonder why the guy has not yet come forward to denounce the claim?

59 posted on 09/21/2018 6:43:26 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: knowingly give someone aids: misdemeanor. Give them a straw, go to jail.)
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To: cuban leaf
It suggests that something like this really did happen and that she was sincere in 2012.

She did not mention this in 2012 until after Mitt Romney floated Kavanaugh's name on a short-list of possible Supreme Court nominations.

This has been all about stopping Kavanaugh, even back in 2012.

60 posted on 09/21/2018 6:44:44 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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