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Typical of the sleazy journalist wannabes on the far right:
The Real Purveyors of Fake News: Gateway Pundit and Other Right Wing Propagandists Smear Wrong Person to Defend Brett Kavanaugh - Little Green Footballs
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/right-wing-media-massively-fails-attempt-smear-kavanaugh-accuser-targets-wrong-christine-ford/
The Real Purveyors of Fake News: Gateway Pundit and Other Right Wing Propagandists Smear Wrong Person to Defend Brett Kavanaugh - Little Green Footballs
Garbage blog Gateway Pundit currently has six posts smearing and attacking the woman who’s accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape, including this one — citing student reviews of the wrong person: Kavanaugh Accuser Is Unhinged Liberal Professor who Former Students Describe as Dark, Mad, Scary and Troubled.
As Matt Gertz points out, the right wing idiots circulating this smear — and Gateway Pundit dirtbag Jim Hoft was joined by Mark Levin and Laura Ingraham because they attack in packs — are using reviews for a different Christine Ford.
Christine Blasey Ford is a research psychologist who teaches clinical psychology at Palo Alto University and in a consortium with Stanford University, according to The Washington Post. Kavanaugh’s defenders are citing student reviews for Christine A. Ford, who taught in the social work department at California State University-Fullerton. The Grabienews story has since been retracted.
As I write this, Hoft has not retracted or corrected this false story. “Fake news,” if you will.
This is no mistake; these despicable people do this every single time when they need to attack one of their perceived enemies. This is pure, deliberate malice. They know that even if they’re forced to correct a false story, the right wing base has already taken it and run with it.
Jim Hoft is already facing two lawsuits for exactly this kind of defamation, but that clearly isn’t stopping him.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/right-wing-media-massively-fails-attempt-smear-kavanaugh-accuser-targets-wrong-christine-ford/
Right-wing media personality Matt Drudge on Monday completely crashed and burned in his latest attempt to smear Christine Blasey Ford, who has gone on the record to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of trying to rape her when they were both teenagers,
Specifically, Drudge promoted an article at Grabien News claiming to show that Ford got poor ratings from her students, some of whom purportedly described her as having a “dark personality” on the Rate My Professors website.
However, doing the slightest bit of detective work reveals that the article is targeting the wrong person.
In fact, the RateMyProfessors page refers to a Christine A. Ford, who taught at the social work department at California State University Fullerton, and who actually received only five reviews — two of which rated her as “awesome,” two of which rated her as “average,” and only one of which rated her as “awful.”
Christine Blasey Ford, meanwhile, is a professor of clinical psychology at Palo Alto University who has never worked at Fullerton.
In addition to Drudge, Trump-loving conservative pundits Mark Levin and Kurt Schlichter also shared the false claim that Ford’s students gave her extremely negative ratings on RateMyProfessors.