In January I published an article revealing that David Enrich expressed regrets to me about what he wrote about Brett Kavanaugh and me in 2018. Enrich [above], like the rest of the media tried to destroy me and Kavanaugh, who was a friend of mine in high school, in order to prevent Kavanaugh from becoming a [Supreme Court] justice. Enrich and the Times used everything, including our high school yearbook, to try and ruin us.
“I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my role in the Kavanaugh coverage,” Enrich wrote to me last December, “and I would be happy to talk to you about it at some point. For now, I will just say that I have learned some lessons and would probably do certain things differently next time.”
When I asked Enrich to elaborate on what he’d do differently, he said, “This is a subject for a longer conversation that I’m not going to have over the holidays. Sorry.”
My story did get coverage on Fox. And there was a strong reaction on social media. However, I’m hoping that’s only the first part. Enrich needs to come fully clean. He needs to name the names of the people who were involved in his abysmal coverage. Enrich has a new book coming out called Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful. It’s a defense of the media, which Enrich believes is under assault by Donald Trump.
The holidays are over. It’s time for that longer conversation Enrich promised me.
