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Tell about his personality, i get that. i dont get why you have an opinion writer contributing a news story. howie: the coauthor is a liberal op-ed writer for the paper. she is a lecturer at yale and makes no bones about it. she says hes a fifth vote for a hard-right turn on voting rights and so much that will harm the democratic process. she occasionally writes op-eds. in retrospect editors should have used a news room reporter for that assignment. sara: there is never answer incident where an ...

Assaulted. or if he thinks it was fun. but the president of the united states thinks its appropriate. >> you are attacking victims, you dont have any empathy. no, hes making a series of common sense conclusions about fords very shaky claims and differing accounts. howie: given thats sexual assault victims dont remember the details -- mollie: people kept saying he was taunting or mock or ridiculing christine ford. what he was doing was pointing out what anybody could see when they watched her tes...

Mollie: its an admission he had a side. but there is no question journalists are picking a side. howie: this was the first question he asked kellyanne conway. >> how concerned are you given the way this went down, that brett kavanaugh will be seen as a tainted justice by half the country? >> justice kavanaugh should not be seen as tainted. howie: kavanaugh won and we are hearing words like tainted. susan: thats a fair question. it was slanted against him in the media. and he does walk away fairl...

Turn public opinion against brett kavanaugh. >> not only is it healthy, but its critical. this remind me of the first wave of #metoo. it took so much strength for so many women to share. the prevalence of this problem is what was originally spotlighted by #metoo. the second point, i think every woman has a right to do what she wants to do with her own story. a lot of women who came forward probably dont support brett kavanaughs nomination. i dont care. thats perfectly fine. howie: karen, you mad...

Howie: why is there such a misrepresentation of a chunk of conservative opinion through the opinion media outlets. its not represented in much of the rest of the country its overwhelmingly represented here. hes a disruptive force not just for d.c., but for the conservative women as well. howie: thats it for this edition of "mediabuzz." check out-my podcast. mollie comes on one day a week. you can subscribe. lets continue the conversation on twitter @howardkurtz. i hope you will like my facebook ...

So the only source -- other source that ronan farrow had was saying he heard this from someone else. in a follow-up piece, they named the source, and that classmate said he had no memory of the incident. sara: it tells us there is credibility lacking with that original piece. if you are the new yorker, you want to make sure you are getting the story out. but if you are not telling it in full context, then the meaning is lost. its really causing credibility problems for the first story. the new y...

And as much *, and philippe reines, a former state department official. now that kavanaugh has been confirmed, the mainstream media seemed to be deflated. mollie: you saw a lot of people tweeting on social media. it showed up in how they framed their stories and presented the issues. i saw jim acosta tweet something like cant you all just win graciously? howie: cnn national correspondent saying cant you win graciously?

Philippe: people put an asterisk next to clarence thomas name. howie: when somebody has been legitimately confirmed by the senate. philippe: if you see a justice doing something. i agree with mollie. its okay to be furious and frustrated. what he did from there is not okay. to blame the clinton machine for his interactions with those senators. that was someone who in the course of trying to prove he could not have done this actually showed the exact person who could have done this. the media cri...

Clamor around it. howie: is some of that context lost when sound bites are played and she did change her story? sara: when it was first reported she said there were differences in her written statement and what she said in the interview. you take sound bites and play them on other shows, that that context is lost. howie: i think it media were played by michael avenatti. second accuser debra ramirez said brett kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a yale party.

But when she testified the president she drew a tougher view from one of her colleagues, mika brzezinski. >> tell us your story. who is your attacker. who broke the law. who hurt you. you were really uncomfortable. just say i am a victim of sexual assault. i say that as a victim of sexual assault myself. so i want to ask why cant you be the faceboo -- be the egg anl your story. howie: mika took a lot of heat from some pundits over her criticism. your take on the criticism?