Pelosi Explains How To Run a Successful Smear Campaign One Year Before Kavanaugh

Pelosi outlines  the  general strategy - “the wrap-up smear”—[used on  Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh ] one  year before it actually happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=-qWSfLHND6Q

 Pelosi  the “wrap-up smear”….  “It’s a tactic. And it’s self-evident…You demonize — we call it the ‘wrap-up smear’—

It’s a diversionary tactic,

It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy,

You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it.

And then you (reporters) write it, and then they’ll say ‘See? It’s reported in the press that this, this, this and this,’

 so they have that validation that the press reported the smear, and then it’s called the ‘wrap-up smear.’

 Now I’m going to merchandise the press’s report on the smear that we made.

Examples of previous use by Democrats

 Cillian Zeal’: “I’m neither claiming a) this was a conscious process from the beginning in the Kavanaugh case or b) that the original allegation or subsequent allegations was or were made with the intention of creating a “wrap-up smear.”

However, almost every detail of how this was handled politically by the Democrats certainly followed the playbook Pelosi accused the Republicans of following. After Dianne Feinstein held on to Christine Blasey Ford’s letter for months and refused to bring it up, it surfaced in the media after Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings were complete.

The Democrats were done talking qualifications at that point — that clearly hadn’t worked — so they glommed onto destroying Kavanaugh’s reputation and taking uncorroborated allegations as irrefutable evidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=-qWSfLHND6Q