The left is trying to make it harder to overturn Roe v. Wade that is why they are trying to smear Kavanaugh

Kyle Smith:

The New York Times on Saturday joined The New Yorker and many other media outlets in upending a dumpster full of garbage on its own reputation in an effort to smear Brett Kavanaugh. After more than a year of digging, the Democrats and their media allies still have no supported allegations of sexual misconduct by Brett Kavanaugh at any point in his entire life.

Why would the media do this? Call it the asterisk strategy. This is a coordinated, full-on effort to undermine the legitimacy of Brett Kavanaugh’s work on the Supreme Court. The reputations of news outlets are so many eggs that must be broken in pursuit of this omelet.

To review, the Times’ Saturday piece on Kavanaugh is unworthy of a great newspaper. It is unworthy of the Goonie Gulch Gazette. Deborah Ramirez, the star of the Times’ hit piece, told friends as recently as last year she wasn’t sure Kavanaugh exposed himself to her. She has admitted that she was drinking “heavily” on the night in question and has a foggy mind about the whole thing. She has found no witnesses to back up her allegation of a sexual act by Kavanaugh, which supposedly took place at a party in front of other people. Yet the Times, which rejected her story last fall, now plays it up.

Its Saturday-night story omits any reference to its own previous report that “Ms. Ramirez herself contacted former Yale classmates asking if they recalled the incident and told some of them that she could not be certain Mr. Kavanaugh was the one who exposed himself.”

Then, deep within the story, it uncorked its would-be scoop — an accusation against Kavanaugh that had not previously been made public, that one Max Stier, whom the Times paints as a nonpartisan, “saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student.” Bizarre. Friends, plural, “pushed his penis”? Stier has a partisan history — he worked on the Democrat side during the Lewinsky investigation, while Kavanaugh worked for Kenneth Starr’s office. Moreover, Stier’s wife’s nomination to the D.C. circuit court by President Obama was killed by Mitch McConnell. Stier’s story is strange, it was already considered by Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, no one corroborates it, and the person to whom it supposedly happened denies any memory of it. In other words, this is garbage. The Times sloppily claimed its reporters “corroborated his story.” Nonsense. It merely confirmed with two FBI officials that Stier had told the FBI this story. It managed only to corroborate the existence of the story. Only the following day did the Times nullify Stier’s charge about what Kavanaugh had supposedly done to a female student with what must be one of the most infamous editor’s notes in its history: “the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident.”
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I do not think this is going to work and it is already backfiring on the Times and others who have pushed the smears.  This looks like a desperate attempt to keep Roe in place.  It is also an act that should shame the media and those on the left who think this is a valid form of discourse.