时报专栏作者戴维·布鲁克斯(David Brooks)在《彻底的国耻》(A Complete National Disgrace)一文中写道，在一次民意调查中，99%的受访者称卡瓦诺的听证会是“国家的耻辱”，但令人震惊的是，只有31％的人不同意卡瓦诺的任命。布鲁克斯指出，听证会中有来自克莉丝汀·布莱西·福特(Christine Blasey Ford)和卡瓦诺的两条叙事，“但对叙事的反应几乎完全由党派关系决定。 ”(And yet reactions to the narratives have been determined almost entirely by partisan affiliation.）
另一篇时报观点文章《共和党政治的偏执风格》(The Paranoid Style in GOP Politics)将卡瓦诺称为一个“毫不掩饰的党派支持者”，在宣誓时明显就其个人往事的许多方面说谎。(He's a naked partisan who clearly lied under oath about many aspects of his personal history.)
“People trying to understand these changes and their implications found themselves confused by polarized politics and by a partisan press more focused on advancing its own interests than on informing the public.”
