{"id":16746,"date":"2018-09-29T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16746"},"modified":"2018-09-29T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:23:55","slug":"world-media-rips-kavanaugh-hearing-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16746","title":{"rendered":"World media rips Kavanaugh hearing &#8216;spectacle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>It was a day in which Brett Kavanaugh did himself few favors. After the US Supreme Court nominee&#8217;s hearing on Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/27\/media\/christine-blasey-ford-fox-news\/index.html\">even commentators on Fox News<\/a> portrayed him as an aggressor with, as one said, &#8220;guns blazing&#8221; &#8212; the very opposite characterization the judge had hoped to achieve.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">That was not only their assessment as they watched as Kavanaugh&#8217;s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, detail her allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh in their high school days.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Media around the world has also zoomed in on Kavanaugh&#8217;s performance, with British news organizations in particular ridiculing Kavanaugh for his repeated denials of having high school drinking habits, and for unconvincingly painting a picture of his past as a conscientious student too consumed with sports to have time for women.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)It was a day in which Brett Kavanaugh did himself few favors. After the US Supreme Court nominee&#8217;s hearing on Thursday, even commentators on Fox News portrayed him as an aggressor with, as one said, &#8220;guns blazing&#8221; &#8212; the very opposite characterization the judge had hoped to achieve.That was not only their assessment as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}