Kavanaugh's 'Choir Boy' Image on Fox News Rankles Former Yale Classmates [View all]

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Source: Washington Post

By Aaron Davis, Emma Brown, Joe Heim, 57 mins ago.

On Monday night, Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh said in a nationally televised interview that in his younger years, he was focused on sports, academics and "service projects." But it was his comments about drinking that rankled some Yale University classmates, prompting them to speak out for the first time.

Liz Swisher, who described herself as a friend of Kavanaugh in college, said she was shocked that -- in an interview focused largely on his high school years and allegations of sexual misconduct -- he strongly denied drinking to the point of blacking out.

"Brett was a sloppy drunk, and I know because I drank with him. I watched him drink more than a lot of people. He'd end up slurring his words, stumbling," said Swisher, a Democrat and chief of the gynecologic oncology division at the University of Washington School of Medicine. "There's no medical way I can say that he was blacked out. . . . But it's not credible for him to say that he has had no memory lapses in the nights that he drank to excess."

Lynne Brookes, who like Swisher was a college roommate of one of the two women now accusing Kavanaugh of misconduct, said the nominee's comments on Fox did not match the classmate she remembered. "He's trying to paint himself as some kind of choir boy," said Brookes, a Republican and former pharmaceutical executive who recalled an encounter with a drunken Kavanaugh at a fraternity event. "You can't lie your way onto the Supreme Court, and with that statement out, he's gone too far. It's about the integrity of that institution."...More...


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Kavanaugh reiterated his unequivocal denials that he sexually assaulted Ford and that he exposed himself to Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez, as she contended in a story published Sunday in the New Yorker.

"I've always treated women with dignity and respect," he told Fox.

Kavanaugh described his younger self as a churchgoer who indulged in some beer-drinking -- but never to the point of blacking out.

At one point, after he acknowledged that "people" do things in high school that later cause them to "regret or cringe," Fox host Martha MacCallum asked: "Were there times when perhaps you drank so much -- was there ever a time that you drank so much that you couldn't remember what happened the night before?" "No, that never happened," Kavanaugh said.

MacCallum asked again: "You never said to anyone, 'I don't remember anything about last night.' " "No, that did not happen," Kavanaugh said.
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"Kavanaugh's Choir Boy Defense Raises Questions About His Credibility, Democrats Say. The Supreme Court nominee's high school yearbook is a "minefield," said one Democratic senator," Huff Post, Sept. 25, 2018.https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-credibility-senate-hearing_us_5baaaddae4b0f143d10e43dd