Hey, guess what: the hearings are long over, the circus left town, and Brett Kavanaugh is a Supreme Court justice for life. Unfortunately, the story isn’t over, because Kavanaugh is about to get raked over the coals again in a new book by Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin, who offered up a sample in the New York Times — a taste the Times was happy to promote with tweet after tweet after tweet:

‘They invite you to the game, but they never show you the rules or where the equipment is.’ Our window into why Deborah Ramirez’s experience with Brett Kavanaugh was so formative ⁦@katekelly⁩ https://t.co/tKGI6Q5u86 — Robin Pogrebin (@rpogrebin) September 14, 2019

“Brett Kavanaugh fit in with the privileged kids. She did not.”

Deborah Ramirez was having a hard first year at Yale. Then came a drunken dorm party with another freshman named Brett Kavanaugh. From my new book w @rpogrebin https://t.co/LzFUJZkYTo — Kate Kelly (@katekelly) September 14, 2019

A drunken dorm party? What happened? Is this like when Christine Blasey Ford couldn’t find anyone to back up her testimony — because that was enraging from the perspective of due process.

"During his Senate testimony, Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been 'the talk of campus.' Our reporting suggests that it was." — Reporters @rpogrebin and @katekelly https://t.co/j0xga6CPDa — New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) September 14, 2019

What incident? It looks like the New York Times tweeted it, or at least Deborah Ramirez’ account of it, but then got cold feet and deleted it.

the countdown to deletion begins pic.twitter.com/2el9eiwUg8 — your pal andy (@andylevy) September 14, 2019

Um … what? “Having a penis thrust in your face at a drunken dorm party may seem like harmless fun?” That doesn’t sound like something a woke New York Times social media staffer would tweet, does it?

Let me stop you right there with that first sentence…. https://t.co/ZBxrGcJubO — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) September 14, 2019

If I had a penis thrust in my face, I would not consider it harmless fun. https://t.co/dlIfsorPRj — Landon Hall (@LandonHall) September 14, 2019

This headline was written by the lone person in the country that thinks having a penis thrust in your face at a party is harmless fun. pic.twitter.com/mujLmkBTHy — Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) September 15, 2019

Wow. I wonder how many bad ledes the NYT can write in a year. Is anyone counting?? https://t.co/Gij9JzhnJe — Diane Beasley (@dianebeasley) September 14, 2019

Who else thinks the person who wrote this tweet for NYT Opinions was a dude? I’ve had harmless fun. Getting an unsolicited penis thrust in my face is… not it. https://t.co/JQ6XfBRjt2 — A. H. Reaume (@a_h_reaume) September 14, 2019

What are they thinking at the New York Times? 1) It's a discredited allegation. 2) If it had happened, such things are 'harmless fun'? pic.twitter.com/zBUmj0Ghqq — Byron York (@ByronYork) September 15, 2019

Things that are never as much fun as they seem like they’re going to be:

– Vegas

– the Super Bowl

– having a penis thrust in your face

– wait, what?

– tweeting pic.twitter.com/MG54V5Aj2t — Sam Baker (@sam_baker) September 15, 2019

I see this was deleted pic.twitter.com/zfGX6B9Pu5 — Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) September 15, 2019

Libs Cons

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Dunking on this tweet https://t.co/YQhQBJIFKz — Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) September 14, 2019

The New York Times figured out pretty quickly it was a bad tweet.

It’s cute. There was a report that Christine Blasey-Ford’s father didn’t believe her story and suddenly the NYT brings up another bogus accusation. It even includes the word “corroboration” being used incorrectly again. — RBe (@RBPundit) September 15, 2019

The story hasn’t been corroborated. The only thing they confirmed was that someone made an unsubstantiated accusation. The story itself wasn’t corroborated. — RBe (@RBPundit) September 15, 2019

Flashback tweet:

Read this paragraph from the New York Times, then re-read it. https://t.co/6Qt4UnW4F2 pic.twitter.com/ngigW5au5u — Guy Benson (@guypbenson) September 24, 2018

These are the hack reporters that got a book out of their biased and often inaccurate Kavanaugh coverage. https://t.co/mJw0o1dUZB — (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) September 14, 2019

They knew they were about to get the pants sued off of them so it's been deleted. — Tonya still @watchingfoxes (@tonya_still) September 14, 2019

The tweet has left the building — Pretzel Logic (@XtraSeaSalt) September 14, 2019

Already deleted. My response to this (lie) false account is, "But you think it's okay for women to have a penis thrust into their face in a women's bathroom?" pic.twitter.com/o2eIb6ENSZ — ❌FrenchieLove ???️‍?⭐⭐⭐ (@QueenofClubsIII) September 14, 2019

Sounds like harmless fun!

We have deleted an earlier tweet to this article that was poorly phrased. https://t.co/wwEm8HHkwT pic.twitter.com/4PJNaWEpfP — New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) September 15, 2019

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.

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