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xDaunt
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Mitchell is treating this like a deposition. | ||
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ChristianS
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On September 27 2018 23:52 xDaunt wrote: I will say this. Regardless of whether Kavanaugh did anything, I do think that something bad did happen to Ford. She clearly has problems. Hey, thanks for this. Honestly you've said a lot recently that pissed me off for its lack of compassion, either for Ford or for assault and rape victims in general. Maybe I'm over interpreting, but this reads like a bit of empathy for Ford. | ||
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xDaunt
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On September 27 2018 23:56 ChristianS wrote: Hey, thanks for this. Honestly you've said a lot recently that pissed me off for its lack of compassion, either for Ford or for assault and rape victims in general. Maybe I'm over interpreting, but this reads like a bit of empathy for Ford. I just call it like I see it. | ||
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On September 28 2018 00:20 Plansix wrote: He can set the rules for the hearing, but he cannot remove the ability for senators to ask questions at a hearing they are part of. They have to give that up. No one can put a senator in the corner. I wasn't suggesting that he remove their ability to ask questions. But this 5 minutes for a republican and 5 minutes for a democrat is stupid. | ||
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GreenHorizons
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Plansix
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On September 28 2018 00:21 xDaunt wrote: I wasn't suggesting that he remove their ability to ask questions. But this 5 minutes for a republican and 5 minutes for a democrat is stupid. It is short, but I think 5 is standard for most hearings. 10 minutes across 21 senators is 3.5 hours, not counting cross talk. This would be a 2 day event if they did that. | ||
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GreenHorizons
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On September 28 2018 00:30 xDaunt wrote: I'm sure that the structure is driving Mitchell nuts. Examining a witness (especially cross examining a witness) is all about flow. There's no flow to what she's doing, which lessens the effectiveness of the examination. She's getting the inconsistencies on the record, but she's not really able to snowball them like she should. Won't matter, they're already being slammed together in a supercut that's going to run non-stop on Fox News just like there's one of her getting emotional getting put together for MSNBC and CNN will run half of each | ||
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On September 28 2018 00:32 GreenHorizons wrote: Won't matter, they're already being slammed together in a supercut that's going to run non-stop on Fox News just like there's one of her getting emotional getting put together for MSNBC and CNN will run half of each It matters because Ford is being given an opportunity to mentally recover after each set of questions. What typically happens in this situation is that the examination wears the witness down and the answers become progressively worse. | ||
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GreenHorizons
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On September 28 2018 00:34 xDaunt wrote: It matters because Ford is being given an opportunity to mentally recover after each set of questions. What typically happens in this situation is that the examination wears the witness down and the answers become progressively worse. Well answering "worse" is something someone does who is trying to break a witness/suspect, not someone seeking the truth. In a courtroom that type of morality works, but that brings it's own negative political optics. Unless they think the person is lying, otherwise her intention is to get the truth, not to make Ford rhetorically screw up her story absent from the facts. So getting her to say "I don't think it was Brett" might be great if winning is all that matters but if the truth is that she 100% believes it was him and accidentally puts those words in that order as a result of clever questioning/being worn down imo that's despicable to attempt to use to discredit her. | ||
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