She could have just said she wasn't ready to testify but that would have made her look bad so instead she made up a bald faced lie that she knew would be exposed with just a little investigation given that she's flown to the East Coast to take her polygraph test.
This tells us that she's willing to lie to us and to Congress if it furthers her objectives. Given that we know she strongly opposes Kavanaugh for political reasons it is in her interest to keep him off the Supreme Court. Hence we have every reason to believe that she'd be willing to lie about her allegations even though she knew that the people she cited as "witnesses" all deny her claims; including a good friend of hers.
But she passed a polygraph test her supporters will say.
The poly test she took was worse than useless. Aside from the fact that the reason that courts reject polygraph results is because they're unreliable she wasn't really questioned about her account.
Even worse the person who administered the polygraph said that he assumed from the start she was telling the truth. That's a very important admission because polygraphs don't have a light that turns red when someone is lying. Rather the examiner has to compare a person's physiological responses to baseline results to decide if the person is under stress. Note that people can be under stress even when they're not lying and some people can not be under stress when they are lying--that's why polygraphs aren't lie detectors. Given that the assessment of whether or not a person is being truthful is highly subjective--another reason that the test is unreliable-- the fact that the person making those assessments had already decided that she wasn't lying renders any results from that test meaningless.
So no the friendly polygraph test paid for by some unknown entity, which is probably a highly biased Democrat, doesn't prove that Ford isn't lying. But her admission that she did lie to us and Congress about her reason for not testifying expeditiously proves that she's a liar.
Another problem with her lying is that it takes advantage of and demeans people with a real psychological problem. Can you imagine if she'd said she couldn't testify because she had cancer or MS? Pretending to have a serious health problem that you don't have is pretty much universally considered a sign of bad character. She could have told the truth, that she just wanted to drag the process out, but given that she chose to lie she could have said she had a cold. Instead she lied about having a condition that afflicts many Americans and which significantly impacts their lives.
While people are saying that her testimony sounded credible the reality is that she admitted to being a cool calm collected liar under oath. If she could convincingly tell the world she was afraid of flying she obviously has what it takes to convincingly tell the world that her story was true.
Keep in mind that if she backs off from her claims now she'd be shredded by the left but if she sticks with her claims lucrative book deals and university positions will be hers. Hence even if she's lying it will work out much better for her if she keeps lying than if she admits to lying.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment