Kirsten Gillibrand defends takedown of Al Franken after New Yorker Mag Tries to Rehabilitate him
July 23, 2019
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New Yorker Magazine is nothing if not consistently inconsistent.
In the fall of 2018, writer Jane Mayer and co-writer Ronan Farrow wrote a hit piece for the magazine on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh that was disguised as investigative journalism. The article detailed an allegation of sexual misconduct made by Deborah Ramirez, who was a classmate of Kavanaugh's at Yale in the early 1980s.