For all of CNN’s incessant insinuation that President Trump was “divorced from reality,” they sure have a really hard time with staying grounded. During Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360, the liberal panel just couldn’t believe that the Democrats were doing everything in their power to drag Judge Brett Kavanaugh through the mud. They even asserted that there were no problems with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony.

After assailing the Supreme Court nominee for his testimony that was “very bombastic, kind of over the top, angry, raising his voice, interrupting people, really acting like Donald Trump, frankly,” pompous USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers lashed out at him for having “such animus towards Democrats and the left.”

The thick-headed columnist claimed she couldn’t understand how Kavanaugh could think there was a conspiracy against him. “And then you add in all the things he was saying about liberals, and sort of this conspiracy against him, and what goes around comes around,” she spat with a disdainful tone. “These just aren’t kinds of the things that you want to a justice to be saying; somebody who you want to think is at least trying to be impartial.”

Hmm, maybe he knew the radical Democrats were out to destroy him because nearly all of them announced they were opposing his nomination before ever meeting with them. Some, in fact, were opposing anyone President Trump nominated. That’s not to mention that there were New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono who declared him guilty days before the hearing.

Or perhaps it was New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, who called Kavanaugh and his supporters evil. It could even have been the Democrats who pontificated that he was going to put the lives of millions at risk. Kavanaugh actually addressed this in his opening remarks, so for Powers to claim ignorance was just slimy.

“It doesn't make any sense if you really think about it logically. What does that mean then? I don’t understand,” Powers asserted. “The conspiracy is that she made this up and then somehow connected with the Democrats. Or is it that she's confused and then connected with the Democrats? Because she believes that it's him!”

Adding onto Powers’ ridiculousness, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin (who was on a role with his own head-shaking behavior) whined about how Senate Republicans and Kavanaugh didn’t address the charges against the nominee. “That his statement was really almost not about the actual allegation. It was about the conspiracy of the left wing,” he said. What hearing was he watching? Toobin was peddling a bold-faced lie. Most of Kavanaugh's opening statement was him dismantling the charges against him.

“[W]hen you listen to her testimony, as we all did, and no one really challenged it. No one really made a strong argument that she's lying. They just don't care and want Brett Kavanaugh confirmed,” he proclaimed.

But that’s not true at all (which is another problem for CNN). Through Ford’s testimony, we learned that she lied about being kept from going to D.C. last week because of a fear of flying. We also learned that she retained one of her lawyers on the advice of Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) and that she didn’t know before the hearing who was paying for their services (her counsel claims it’s pro bono), or who paid for the polygraph test she took.

Now, what was that about the panel not understanding how the Democrats were out to get Kavanaugh? This is CNN.

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