Maybe Ronan Farrow isn't that smart after all

Ronan Farrow's record is mixed. He stunk on MSNBC. Soon-Yi Previn was seventeen when he was born and was off to college by the time might have had any memory of her, but he accused her of lying when she talked about abuse she suffered as a child. Same goes with Moses Farrow who was at least ten when Ronan was born. Ronan has no reliable memory of anything that happened before Moses was 15, but he called Moses a liar for talking about how he was treated as a child.

Ronan did some nice reporting on the #MeToo thing, but that may have been a fluke.

In the case of Brett Kavanaugh, Farrow's reported on a new allegation, that the virgin Kavanaugh exposed himself at a frat party.

“She was at first hesitant to speak publicly, partly because her memories contained gaps because she had been drinking at the time of the alleged incident. In her initial conversations with The New Yorker, she was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty....

After six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney, Ramirez said that she felt confident enough of her recollections to say that she remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away. Ramirez is now calling for the F.B.I. to investigate Kavanaugh’s role in the incident. ‘I would think an F.B.I. investigation would be warranted,’ she said.”

Farrow reports that none of the frat-boys at the party has corroborated the story. But...

 “Another classmate, Richard Oh, an emergency-room doctor in California, recalled overhearing, soon after the party, a female student tearfully recounting to another student an incident at a party involving a gag with a fake penis, followed by a male student exposing himself. Oh is not certain of the identity of the female student. . . .” 

The New York Times had looked into the story but didn't report on it because of the lack of corroboration. Farrow was interviewed on MSNBC and even they were skeptical.

It's been noted that the article itself acknowledges the weaknesses in the story.

I'm afraid of sounding like a "concern troll", but I hope that less convincing accusations won't dilute the stronger ones. We could end up with Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.