Christine Blasey Ford accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her 36 or so years ago, but he story suffers from several huge problems: she has changed this story several times, all of the witnessed she named have said it never happened, and she can’t remember key details like when it happened, where it happened, or how she got there. The first two problems remained unresolved, but Connie Chung is trying to help with the bad memory thing. The veteran journalist has claimed that she too was sexually assaulted many years ago and also can’t remember many of the details. This is a really pathetic attempt by a liberal media figure to legitimize Ford’s completely fact-free accusation of sexual assault.
Connie Chung wrote a letter to Christine Blasey Ford and, like everyone does with their personal correspondence, she published it in The Washington Post. It would seem that Chung just suddenly remembered that her family doctor sexual assaulted her 50 years ago. As fate would have it, Chung also suffers from memory loss on certain details:
I, too, was sexually assaulted — not 36 years ago but about 50 years ago. I have kept my dirty little secret to myself. Silence for five decades. The molester was our trusted family doctor. What made this monster even more reprehensible was that he was the very doctor who delivered me on Aug. 20, 1946. I’m 72 now.
It was the 1960s. I was in college. The sexual revolution was in full swing. The exact date and year are fuzzy. But details of the event are vivid — forever seared in my memory.
Am I sure who did it? Oh yes, 100 percent.
What Chung is attempting to do is normalize leveling baseless allegations. See, it doesn’t matter that Ford can’t remember exactly when she says Kavanaugh attacked her because Chung also doesn’t remember when she was assaulted. This is as bullshit as it gets and it’s something Chung continued to fling.
Again, I cannot remember the exact date or even year.
Years later, I told my husband. When did I tell him? What year? What date? I don’t remember.
I wish I could forget this truthful event, but I cannot because it is the truth. I am writing to you because I know that exact dates, exact years are insignificant. We remember exactly what happened to us and who did it to us. We remember the truth forever.
Okay, we get it, specific details don’t matter when you’re accusing a man of sexual assault. Oh wait, that’s not true at all. Like I said, this is a really pathetic attempt to give Ford some much-needed credibility.
Unfortunately for Chung, her own story of sexual assault is as hard to believe as Ford’s. She doesn’t name her assaulter, other than he was the family doctor, and he conveniently died 30 years ago so he can’t even defend himself.
On top of that, Chung doesn’t actually describe a sexual assault. She went to the doctor to get an IUD and he gave her an gynecological exam, as one would expect in getting a birth control device those goes in the uterus. The doctor didn’t do anything but check out her hoo-ha. She said she had never had an exam like this and perhaps misinterpreted and exaggerated what happened.
I imagine that Chung sat around trying to think of something that happened to her that she could characterize as a sexual assault in such a way that no one would ever be able to dispute it. Kind of like Ford’s accusation against Kavanaugh. If you can’t remember most of the important details, it’s impossible to prove those details are false.
This Chung letter to Ford is actually the liberal media screaming, “F*ck the facts, we will do whatever we can to stop President Trump’s nominee from being confirmed to the Supreme Court!” If that means making up a sexual assault, so be it. If that means establishing that no evidence is required to destroy a man’s life with a bogus sexual assault accusation, even better.
