Conservative activist Ed Whelan apologized on Friday after posting a lengthy Twitter thread Thursday night with unfounded speculation that Christine Blasey Ford had misidentified Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh for another similar-looking high school classmate in her account of what she has called an attempted sexual assault.

“I made an appalling and inexcusable mistake of judgment in posting the tweet thread in a way that identified Kavanaugh’s Georgetown Prep classmate,” said Whelan, a former clerk of Antonin Scalia and president of the think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Whelan named the individual and posted his photo suggesting without any evidence that the classmate, and not Kavanaugh, might have committed the attempted assault that Ford described from a high school party in suburban Washington, D.C.

In her own statement after Whelan posted his elaborate theory, Ford dismissed the possibility of mistaken identity. “I knew them both,” she told the Washington Post. “There is zero chance that I would confuse them.”

http://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kavanaugh-backer-ed-whelan-apologizes-150534581.html


He only owes the person he accused an apology. I wonder if that person accepts his apology. We are a litigious country. That is probably why more people dont apologize for the stupid stuff they say in media about others .. scared to accept responsibility which could make them susceptible to a lawsuit. I have to say that I have a certain respect when I see people take that all too rare gamble of a public apology though.


we will see what comes of it. I really hope the guy does accept the apology, but understand if he doesnt.