BUSTED: Kavanaugh lied about 'busting tail' to get into Yale with 'no connections' -- he was a legacy

[DonViejo]

BUSTED: Brett Kavanaugh lied about ‘busting tail’ to get into Yale with ‘no connections’ — he was a legacy

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been busted in yet another lie to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

During his rage-filled testimony on Thursday, the prep school boy picked by President Donald Trump for a seat on the nation’s highest court claimed that he got into Yale through his own hard work.

“Senator, you were asking about college. I got into Yale Law School. That’s the number-one law school in the country. I had no connections there,” he said of the law school affiliated with the undergraduate school her attended. “I got there by busting my tail in college.” Kavanaugh also said that he got into Yale for his undergraduate education because he “busted my butt.”

“Senator, I was at the top of my class academically, busted my butt in school. Captain of the varsity basketball team. Got in Yale College. When I got into Yale College, got into Yale Law School. Worked my tail off,” Kavanaugh claimed.

However, this is not the case, reports The Intercept.

Kavanaugh was a legacy at Yale, where his grandfather Everett Edward Kavanaugh went. His father, Everett Edward Jr., was born in New Haven, home to his father’s alma mater, Yale. The younger Kavanaugh was again busted using a yearbook—?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90" target="_blank">this one from 1925.

Brett Kavanaugh’s grandfather, who died four years before his grandson’s alleged attempted rape, is even buried in New Haven.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/busted-brett-kavanaugh-lied-busting-tail-get-yale-no-connections-legacy/

[Hekate]

1. Was that his boast to Senator Hirono? He said that "number one law school" thing to her...

...and she said rather drily: "Well I'm going to have to be insulted then, because I graduated from Georgetown University." Exhibiting a little bit of law school rivalry there -- plus she REALLY had no family connections to help her get there.

[LAS14]

2. He should be disqualified on grounds of stupidity alone.

How could he think his myriad little lies wouldn't be uncovered?

[DonViejo]

3. Who nominated him to the Supreme Court? The Commander-of-Lies, over 5,000 of them...

in two years. This is one of the common threads running through the Trumpentines, they all freaking lie.

[Sunsky]

6. I agree

He's a sick man and a pathological liar like the man who nominated him.

[cstanleytech]

16. Not to mention he needs to be nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for his poor acting during

his testimony.

[Beartracks]

4. If Kavanaugh lies about small stuff like this, what WON'T he lie about?

America deserves better than a liar on the Supreme Court, and deserves better than a Justice with no credibility or personal integrity.

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[Duppers]

8. Lying, a parallel with TRump. nt

[NightWatcher]

5. Born on third, thinks he hit a triple.

[EarnestPutz]

7. I really miss Ann Richards. That was her line...

at the Democratic Convention describing George H.W. Bush.
"Poor George, he was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple."
Barbara Bush, who I don't miss at all, said it was the most vicious
political attack she had ever seen, the first salvo in the Lee Atwater
barrage of attack politics that year.

[NightWatcher]

15. Pearl Jam expanded on Richards' way of thinking and released Bushleaguer

It's a pretty good representation and is applicable on Kavanope as well, I think.

[George II]

21. Reminds me of a town in upstate NY where I lived for a short time. There was a bar named....

...."Third Base, last stop before home."

[NewJeffCT]

24. Perfect analogy

for Kavanaugh.

Trump was born on 3rd and thinks he hit a grand slam

[getagrip_already]

9. does yale have a legacy leg up policy?

I know a lot of schools do, but it's usually for parents. And then for parents that also donate.

Just curious. He is still a lying liar.

The school i went to doesn't have a legacy policy (tufts). Both my wife and I graduated from there, but my kids couldn't anywhere near the place. Hell, I couldn't get near the place these days. Of course, if I donated a building and a chair or two, I'm sure they would get invited to apply........

Not. Happening.

[KSNY]

10. Oh my! How surprising! ...just like W was a legacy

Time to do away with legacy admissions at the Ivies. (probably time to do away with dads giving big donations to get their spawn (Trumps Sr. and Jrs. and Kushner) into Ivies.

[Duppers]

14. Exactly!

[JDC]

11. He really is delusional. He believes his own, pathetic lies.

[Duppers]

12. legacy admissions equals big donations

Schools sadly have to reply on this.

[flying_wahini]

13. I knew as soon as he said that he was a legacy student. I'll bet someone picked up

A phone and sent in a big fat check. Shouldn't be too hard to prove.

[argyl]

17. Well, at least he's telling the truth about his name.

[appalachiablue]

18. Sen. Hirano, ty, good for you & Go Hoyas. A brother went there.

[Samspadesnark]

19. Just as I suspected.

Would love to see him have to take a blood alcohol/drug test, the kind that monitors what has been in your body over the past 30 days. He behaves like a sociopath, as though he can say whatever he pleases and no one will ever be able to confront him on it. I would like to see more than one FBI agent question him at a time, with at least one of them being a female, as they slowly and steadily show him the stream of documents they have gathered – many originating from him. Can't imagine he would be able to control himself in such a situation.

He reminds me more of Trump with each day that passes. An elite and better-educated (and also inebriated) version of Trump, but Trump nevertheless. It's interesting to see both of them, who never have been called to account for anything, all their lives, finally having backed themselves into a corner where they can no longer control the scenario and from which they may not be able to escape.

[BigmanPigman]

20. He has been enabled in every way possible from the second he was conceived

and continues to be by the biggest liar and con artist ever, his hero...the fucking moron himself.

[NeverTrumpDemocrat]

22. It's rawstory. And they got it wrong AGAIN.

He was talking about getting into Yale LAW SCHOOL when he said he had no connections - check the transcript.

He lied about so much at that hearing! But he did not demonstrably lie here.

Yale College (for undergraduates) is not Yale Law School. He had connections to Yale College, but no direct ties to Yale Law School.

What you have to understand is that Yale is just one of 7 Ivy Leagues, and that even though it is often considered #2 or #3, even #1 (Harvard) is simply first among equals.

Yale Law School though has for ages had no competition as the #1 law school hands down. It's supposed to be relatively easy to get through once you get there but getting admitted is a different order of magnitude than being admitted to Harvard Law, Columbia Law, etc.

To get into Yale College was one thing. To get into Yale Law School, where he had no direct connections, was something else. He almost certainly DID have to "bust his butt" (as he put it) studying in Cross Campus Library every night to get into Yale Law.

[DonViejo]

23. RawStory? Perhaps you should re-read the article and see where the news aggregator got

it from.

[ryan_cats]

25. Just like G. W. Bush got in via his brilliant academics.

Just like G. W. Bush got in via his brilliant academics.

There is nothing wrong with using connections to get ahead. I would do it in a heartbeat. However, over 20 years later is he expecting us to believe his hard work got him in?

Kavanaugh does not at all act like an innocent man accused, more like a guilty man caught.

[Cicada]

28. George W got in when legacy was a much bigger boost

Yale used to grade zero to 100, not a b c etc. Back then Yale had a regression equation which predicted your first year gpa. I think the typical gpa for Yale students back then was in the low 80’s. If you were a legacy, or someone wanted for athletics, you were admitted if you were predicted for a 65 freshman average. George W had sat scores in bottom 10% of his classmates, his grades were down there too. But Yale tightened up over time. Now they reject 80% of legacies.
Compared to 90% rejection rate overall.

[Cicada]

26. Grandparent ups odds of admission 14%, parent 45%

I got those numbers for admissions from a study of 30 elite colleges which included Ivy League. I don’t know how much primary legacy (parent) helps compared to secondary legacy at Yale. I think Brett was valedictorian at Georgetown, a rigorous prep school. Yale gives a lot of weight on grades at high schools it knows are rigorous, a lot more weight than on test scores, they say.

[meow2u3]

27. Kavanaugh was busting tail, all right

Only not in the way he blatantly lied about.

His idea of busting tail is drugging vulnerable females and taking advantage of them, if not outright assaulting them.

[Mc Mike]

29. Sounds about right.

Just like Rump was a self made man in business.