How About Just ‘Listen to Women’?
Earlier this week, Tucker Carlson did the thing Tucker Carlson is consummately good at doing: He got angry on national television. The Fox News host’s performance, this time around, concerned the allegations of sexual assault Christine Blasey Ford has made against the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh; Carlson, echoing an idea that has become a common one in the heated national debate that has resulted from the claims, was working to cast doubt on Blasey Ford’s overall credibility by casting doubt on a specific element of her story: the timing by which she finally made her private memories public. “It’s pretty straightforward,” Carlson said, flush with easy indignation. “If you believe a crime has been committed against you, you report it… . It’s your obligation as a citizen.”
Why didn’t she say anything sooner? It’s a talking point that has been a talking point Blasey Ford came forward—or, more precisely, since even before she was outed against her will—as the author of
