{"id":105376,"date":"2018-10-02T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T22:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=105376"},"modified":"2018-10-02T18:14:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T22:14:01","slug":"graham-says-nbc-complicit-in-character-assassination-of-kavanaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=105376","title":{"rendered":"Graham says NBC complicit in Character Assassination of Kavanaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>NBC &#8220;A Co-Conspirator In The Destruction Of Kavanaugh&#8221; According To Lindsey Graham<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Senator Lindsey Graham, who made headlines last week after excoriating Democrats over their &#8220;unethical sham&#8221; investigation of Brett Kavanaugh, now says that NBC is a &#8220;co-conspirator&#8221; in the &#8220;destruction&#8221; of the Supreme Court nominee.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<em>Fox News<\/em>\u00a0host Sean Hannity, Graham said: &#8220;NBC, they\u2019ve been a co-conspirator in the destruction of Kavanaugh from my point of view,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 do you think NBC would\u2019ve done that if this had been a Democratic male nominee? All I can say is that there the journalistic integrity has been destroyed over this case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lindsey Graham tells Sean Hannity NBC has been a &quot;co-conspirator&quot; in the &quot;destruction of Kavanaugh.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jH4fHSzt1g\">pic.twitter.com\/jH4fHSzt1g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPMLiveWire\/status\/1047110702824083457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Graham, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, lambasted his Democratic colleagues for sitting on allegations of sexual assault levied against Kavanaugh by Stanford researcher Christine Blasey Ford.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TPMLiveWire\/status\/1047110702824083457\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1047110702824083457\" data-twitter-event-id=\"3\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard\n           MediaCard--mediaForward\n\n           cards-multimedia\n           customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 56.2500%\">\n<div class=\"NaturalImage-ctaOverlay PlayButton PlayButton--centered\" data-scribe=\"element:play_button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;If you wanted an FBI investigation you could have come to us. What you want to do is destroy this guy\u2019s life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020. You\u2019ve said that, not me,&#8221;\u00a0Graham seethed across the room. &#8220;<strong>This is the most unethical sham since I\u2019ve been in politics and if you really wanted to know the truth, you certainly wouldn\u2019t have done what you did to this guy<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boy y\u2019all want power, God I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham, that you knew about it and you held it, you had no intention of protecting Dr. Ford, none!&#8221;\u00a0he added. &#8220;I hate to say it because these have been my friends, but if you were looking for a fair process, you came to the wrong town at the wrong time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;This is not a job interview, this is hell&quot; &#8211; Senator Lindsey Graham offers strong support to US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aWkMrEnAg6\">https:\/\/t.co\/aWkMrEnAg6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bd5dplVjkp\">pic.twitter.com\/bd5dplVjkp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1045418400753897472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m really upset that they knew about this in August and never told anybody,&#8221;\u00a0Graham continued outside the hearing room following Ford\u2019s Thursday testimony. &#8220;I\u2019m really upset that [Feinstein] believed this was a credible allegation, [and] that you wouldn\u2019t do Mr. Judge Kavanaugh the service of saying, \u2018I\u2019ve got this, what\u2019s your side of the story.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-02\/nbc-co-conspirator-destruction-kavanaugh-according-lindsey-graham\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-02\/nbc-co-conspirator-destruction-kavanaugh-according-lindsey-graham<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1045418400753897472\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-ancestor EmbeddedTweet-ancestor--repliesRefresh\" data-scribe=\"section:conversation\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC &#8220;A Co-Conspirator In The Destruction Of Kavanaugh&#8221; According To Lindsey Graham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}