Christine Blasey Ford and her attorneys have handled the whole Kavanaugh nightmare so deftly that we cats hesitate to pile on with advice. But we've had a light-bulb moment over our furry heads, and we hope she doesn't mind if we share it.
First, let us say right off the bat: The terms that Charles Grassley and his all-male Republican colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee have proposed for Dr. Ford's testimony next week have been insulting in the extreme. Nevertheless, we hope she meets today's deadline and agrees to show up on Wednesday.
Then, when she does, she should do The Full Ginsburg. And then some.
Go on MSNBC, CNN, NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, The View (yesss!!), Christiane Amanpour's new show on PBS, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning — everything. And then next weekend do all the Sunday shows, Colbert, John Oliver, The Daily Show and Kimmel. Make it a double-triple-quadruple Ginsburg.
Kavanaugh won't be able to match that. No SCOTUS nominee does media tours, but this one, in particular, can't — because people a lot less friendly than Sean Hannity will ask him excruciating questions.
Is it fair that Dr. Ford should have to put herself through all this? Absolutely not. But we have confidence she could pull it off, and its impact would be immense. And it would make us cats PURR.
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