The New York Times is digging as hard as they can to find anything they can use on Kavanaugh. It reminds me of the Sarah Palin days a decade ago when the media literally went dumpster diving after she was picked as VP candidate for McCain.
In any event, the Times got their hands on a Beach Week letter from back in 1983 and wrote a whole piece on it. In that piece, that has been described as a dud by John McCormack at the Weekly Standard, they confirm that Kavanaugh wasn’t lying about the yearbook entry “FFFF”:
Judge Kavanaugh — nicknamed “Bart” after a Georgetown Prep teacher garbled “Brett” — sometimes acted as a restraining influence. One night, a friend named Sean Feeley was out of control. Judge Kavanaugh pulled him aside and whispered three words: “Come on, Sean.” Mr. Feeley today credits Judge Kavanaugh with knowing how to calm classmates without them losing face.
Judge Kavanaugh and his friends had their own language and traditions. There was Mr. Garrett, nicknamed early on as “Squee” because of his resemblance to an upperclassman with a similar last name.
When he drank, Mr. Garrett would stutter words that began with the letter F. It became such a joke that many football teammates, including Judge Kavanaugh and Mr. Garrett himself, had “FFFFF” references in their personal yearbook pages. Mr. Garrett, now a middle-school teacher in Georgia, sometimes hosted gatherings, including one when the Washington Redskins won the 1983 Super Bowl. Classmates said some seniors were too hung over to attend school the next day.
Wow isn’t that something. FFFF wasn’t some sick acronym for gang rape for other despicable acts like that. Rather it was an innocent joke, just as he described it. Shocking!
I also included that first paragraph because it stands in contrast to what the Senate Democrats want you to believe about Kavanaugh. In fact the whole article doesn’t say anything bad about Kavanaugh, even at that age. I’d call it a hit piece but it doesn’t really hit anything.
You can read it here.