Obfuscation: Hiding something by generating noise.
Does anyone remember the 60 Minutes debacle back in 2004, where Journalists had a “smoking gun” document that proved then President Bush, running for reelection “deserted” by not reporting for duty in air reserves. State side service in which got him out of serving in combat in Viet Nam.
This document was later proven a false one based on nit hard to check quickly: the font of the document post-dated 2004, This proved it was not contemporaneous with Bush’s accused AWOL, thus a fraudulent.
As a result, the Journalist(s) lost their jobs. (I’m writing this quick so these exact details/name may be wrong).
BUT the political result was any discussion of likelihood of Bush’s not fulfilling his military obligation, (of which there was circumstantial evidence, if not smoking gun evidence), became toxic in campaigns and to journalists. And this was important as the 2004 election that pitted Bush against decorated Viet Nam vet Senator John Kerry.
Now consider Kavanaugh Case: If just one of the now two new accusers of Kavanaugh is proven a liar, it can be used to will impugn the credibility of Ford and the other woman. This even though the truth of each accusation is independent, and even if just ONE of three cases of is true, this sort of behavior would be disqualifying for Kavanaugh.
Generating lies to hide a truth is a tactic called obfuscation.
Remember, confirmation bias is working against the journalist/lawyer anxious to break the big story/get the headline/defeat Kavanaugh. Professional Journalists are better as they hopefully are cynical, and New Yorker is known of its fact checking, but they are working on deadline...with confirmation bias.
(Worth Noting: the artificial deadline set by Senate Republicans again works in their favor vs finding the truth).
If you want to block Kavanaugh, today’s news seems almost too good to be true.
So is it?
This is why we need an FBI investigation.
And time.