I'm going to say something in defense of Michael Avenatti.
A lot of people, left and right, blame him for undermining the attacks on now Justice Kavanaugh. This is completely in error.
Let us stipulate that the porn lawyer is a clown of the first order. Let us further stipulate that the attack he brought to bear is facially nuts.
The Democrats grabbed ahold of the allegation of a fifteen-year-old leading a gang rape party ring and treated it as if it was worthy of more than page 10 of the National Enquirer.
Of her own volition, Dianne Feinstein read the allegation verbatim into the Senate record.
Of their own volition, even after the crazy woman's interview broke down on MSNBC, Senate Democrats called on Kavanaugh to withdraw based on the insane allegation.
Blaming the porn lawyer for what the Democrats did with his garbage is like blaming the caterer who left out the stack of cream pies The Three Stooges used to start a food fight.
I readily concede that analogy is crass and unbecoming, because the Three Stooges were never as despicable as Senate Democrats.
What's remarkable to me is the extent to which the media wing of the Democratic Party has nevertheless decided that the Stooges were blameless, and that damned caterer must pay.
I say this not because I expect moral probity from a group that could not be trusted to accurately fact check a Republican statement that the sky is blue, but because even for failed underwater basket weaving majors, that's really dumb.
