Tuesday, October 2, 2018

It just keeps getting worse

And I think we could all have expected it to.

Here's an article by Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist trying to defend Kavanaugh and only making re-enforcing it:
The Times is calling around to classmates asking them about a letter Kavanaugh allegedly wrote to a classmate to organize a week at the beach during the 1980s, according to multiple sources. The letter notes the location on the Maryland shore where the classmates planned to stay, the estimated costs for each organizer, and items they should bring with them, such as “sheets, pillowcases, blankets, etc.”

The letter noted that a total of eight friends, including Kavanaugh, were “in charge” and that they would each get to have beds to sleep in at the designated rental property and a say in who else was invited. The tongue-in-cheek note, infused with inside jokes, said they should talk to neighbors of the property ahead of time and give them a heads up that a party would be hosted there and that alcohol and obnoxious students would be involved.

“P.S. It would probably be a good idea on Sat. the 18th to warn the neighbors that we’re loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us,” the letter said. The note also joked that “the danger of eviction is great and that would suck because of the money and because this week has big potential.”

The letter noted that each of the eight boys owed an additional $50 to secure the remainder of the costs of the rental property, which totaled $398. Kavanaugh openly discussed needing to maintain order to prevent the festivities from getting out of control.

“If half of Gonzaga/St. Johns starts coming,” he wrote, “we might have to give the boot or else we might get it ourselves.”

The letter also made note of their awkwardness with girls, whom the teenage boys very much hoped would join them at the party.

“I think we are unanimous that any girls we can beg to stay there are welcomed with open …” he wrote.

The letter addressed to Patrick “P.J.” Smyth was signed by Kavanaugh as “Bart,” which friends say was a nickname P.J. used with him.

“FFFFF, Bart,” the letter closed, using an inside reference to a speech tic of one of the boys’ friends.

  The Federalist
Oh, my. Definitely not. That totally cinches the FFFFF reference to the vulgar and demeaning meaning, and at the same time cinches the claim that Bart O'Kavanaugh in Mark Judge's tale was, as assumed, Brett Kavanaugh.

Is Mollie Hemingway really this naive?
The letter was apparently shared with Georgetown Prep alumni years later as an example of the camaraderie and shared hijinks of Kavanaugh and his classmates. One person told The Federalist that the letter was shared as an homage to Kavanaugh, who even then was seen as the most organized individual in a school full of them.

“Brett was very organized, the most organized of everybody. This was his attempt to get people informed about where we were staying,” said one classmate, who described the note as innocuous. He described his friend set as having a good reputation with women at neighboring schools, a view confirmed by many female contemporaries who have signed letters in praise of Kavanaugh.
Sixty-five, if I recall correctly, some of whom withdrew their names.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Page from an underground student newspaper written by Mark Judge and "two classmates".  Source: NYT



The look below refers to library card.  And I have no idea what that could mean.

Holton Arms is the school Christine Blasey attended.  Kavanaugh insinuated that he had only a passing knowledge of her because she went to a school they didn't associate with, and yet he was bosom buddy to Mark Judge.  They associated with it enough to have a remarkable disdain for it.  Which adds to the likelihood that these two cretins attacked Blasey.
When my friends and I spent time together at parties on weekends, it was usually the — with friends from nearby Catholic all-girls high schools, Stone Ridge, Holy Child, Visitation, Immaculata, Holy Cross. Dr. Ford did not attend one of those schools. She attended an independent private school named Holton-Arms and she was a year behind me.

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