00:00:00.000So Kavanaugh did Brett Kavanaugh did an interview on Fox News last night. And look, obviously, as you know, by now, I think that he's innocent. I think he's being smeared by a bunch of disgraceful opportunists in the Democrat Party.
00:00:15.660OK, that said, he didn't come across well in his interview, in my opinion. It was not it was not a great performance. And I really hope that he changes his approach for Thursday. OK, it's very important.
00:00:32.240So and I know I was talking about this on Facebook last night and most people were saying, oh, I thought he did really well. He's a wonderful. He did a wonderful job. And maybe some of them really do think he did a wonderful job.
00:00:43.580But I think a lot of those people, a lot of the conservatives are saying, oh, it's a great interview. I think a lot of them are they're just saying that because they support Kavanaugh and they feel bad for him for good reason.
00:00:52.700You know, but so for that reason, they don't want to be critical. But we do need to be critical here because it's really important that he changes his approach for the hearing on Thursday.
00:01:01.080Now, I understand. Look, to be to be on live TV is disorienting, especially if you're not used to it.
00:01:07.360To be on live TV under these circumstances is I can't even imagine how overwhelming that is.
00:01:12.800So you're going to be nervous. And and I also know that, of course, he's got PR people around him.
00:01:19.020He's got his team around him and they're they're coaching him. They're they're helping him.
00:01:23.920They're you know, they're they're giving him advice. Doesn't mean that he's guilty.
00:01:26.960The fact that you've got people helping you, that just means that you're in a very high pressure,
00:01:30.460high stakes situation and you're not used to being in this kind of situation.
00:01:34.640You're not used to being on TV. You're not used to this kind of scrutiny.
00:01:37.760And so you got people advising you, you know, like anybody would.
00:01:41.660But I think the advice that he's getting is just is just it's not good advice.
00:01:46.160It's in my opinion. You know, for one thing, he sounded very scripted and he was repeating the same lines over and over and over again.
00:01:54.840And I was watching with my wife and we were both just cringing like by the fifth time that he repeated himself,
00:02:01.020the exact same line verbatim like he was literally like there was a teleprompter.
00:02:10.220I think the worst thing now is to sound scripted. That's the worst thing.
00:02:16.040It is it is much. I mean, if you're worried about, well, if you don't you know, if you don't stick to a script,
00:02:19.920then you might go you might get angry and go off the rails a little bit and get away and run, you know, run away with your words.
00:02:25.920Well, I think it's much better to err on that side of the spectrum than on the side of the spectrum of sounding of sounding scripted.
00:02:34.220For another thing, you know, he tried I think he tried to run too far in the other direction by saying that because he was trying to combat the image of this image that's being painted of him
00:02:48.640as being this kind of high school and college frat bro kind of guy who's going around getting drunk all the time and just being a jerk and obnoxious.
00:02:57.480So he's trying to come. He's trying to dispel that notion.
00:03:01.360And so he said in the interview that, well, the main thing he was worried about in high school was doing his service projects.
00:03:06.520He said that multiple times about his service projects and going to church and getting good grades.
00:03:12.040That was the only thing he was worried about. And maybe that's true.
00:03:15.320I mean, it's possible that he really was that straight laced in high school, but the vast majority of high school kids aren't like that.
00:03:23.780The vast majority of high school kids, even if they do service projects, that's not their main concern in life is, oh, I just want to do my service projects.
00:03:31.180OK, I certainly wasn't like that in high school. I wasn't anything. I wasn't even close to that.
00:03:36.600And you don't need you don't need to be that way. And he doesn't need to portray himself that way.
00:03:42.260I think it's OK to be a little bit more real and say, you know, look, I was I was a kid.
00:03:49.420But making that admission that, yeah, look, I was a kid. I mean, I did dumb things to make that admission.
00:03:54.920That's not the same thing as admitting that, oh, I I tried to commit sexual assault. Right.
00:03:59.020And then the last thing is Kavanaugh. And this this was the main thing to me. Kavanaugh.
00:04:05.980He was he was trying to be very restrained. Like I said, that was obviously the advice that he'd been given.
00:04:11.300And so he was trying to hold back his anger. He refused to criticize Democrats.
00:04:16.860He refused to criticize the media. He was given multiple opportunities.
00:04:19.740He was asked. He was asked, where do you think this is coming from?
00:04:24.320Why do you think they're coming after you? Do you think it's politically motivated?
00:04:28.200And he was asked, you know, the New Yorker ran this this article about you.
00:04:32.800There are no witnesses. There is no corroboration.
00:04:36.100Do you think it was the right decision for them to run the article?
00:04:38.860And in both cases, he went back to the script and said, I'm not going to comment.
00:04:42.240I'm not going to comment on motives. And I know that that's look,
00:04:45.640I know that in D.C., for whatever reason, the PR people, that's how they advise.
00:04:50.680That's how they advise politicians to behave. That's that's the response.
00:04:54.000Oh, I'm not going to comment on that. I just think it's bad advice.
00:04:57.660I think you need to be a human being and react like any other human being would.
00:05:47.220I really hope that Judge Kavanaugh, before the hearing on Thursday, he should go.
00:05:51.500I mean, I'm sure he's seen it before, but maybe go again and watch that clip of Clarence Thomas in his hearing when he was confronting the bogus allegations against himself.
00:06:00.840And he launched into this three-minute monologue, which was very aggressive.
00:06:06.620He went on the offensive. He was angry.
00:06:09.160He called these people out. He called it what it was.
00:06:11.740And I think Kavanaugh needs to have another moment like that, a raw, real, angry moment where he's just acting like any human being would in this situation, where you're being lied about, and your reputation is being destroyed, and your family is being attacked.
00:06:31.220All right. So here's the main thing I want to talk about.
00:06:40.620All of the—when you look at Washington, D.C., and you see all the incompetence and all the chaos, all of that is primarily fueled by two things, maliciousness and cowardice.
00:06:54.260And Democrats will generally contribute the maliciousness, the malice, and Republicans will contribute the cowardice.
00:07:01.000And you can really see how all this works when you look at the Kavanaugh situation. It's all been illustrated for us.
00:07:06.460Let's remember that this whole—and I don't think this can be emphasized enough—this whole Kavanaugh circus could have been avoided from the very beginning if not for GOP cowardice.
00:07:15.780GOP cowardice is what got this ball rolling, because President Trump was advised by, you know, by his people, by Republicans, to nominate Brett Kavanaugh rather than Amy Barrett.
00:07:28.560Amy Barrett, who is the extremely conservative woman, and he was advised, though, to go with Kavanaugh because Republicans were concerned that Barrett's social conservatism might upset the Democrats.
00:07:43.660But, of course, the Democrats have no power, so it doesn't matter if you upset them.
00:07:50.980Yet Republicans still decided to go with the more mild figure in hopes of avoiding any kind of nasty altercations with the powerless opposition party, which is the kinds of decisions that they're always making.
00:08:04.480Republicans are always doing—they're always doing kind of like what I do when I shop for wine.
00:08:09.440Okay, because I don't know a good wine from a bad wine, so I always just buy the second cheapest wine.
00:08:16.100Not the cheapest, because I figure the cheapest is probably bad, but not the most expensive, because I don't want to pay for that.
00:08:23.160That's always—that's just always what I do.
00:08:24.960And I actually do that when I'm shopping for most things, because I don't know—I don't know what any—you know, I just—I have no idea what I'm doing in life.
00:11:32.480But most likely with a woman, they would not have tried to conjure up sexual assault allegations.
00:11:39.300So they would have had to just freak out the whole time about, you know, it's going to be Handmaid's Tale and all that kind of stuff.
00:11:44.420But they did that anyway with Brett Kavanaugh.
00:11:48.340You see, so it didn't make a difference.
00:11:52.320Republican cowardice made all this possible, got the ball rolling.
00:11:56.720And Republican cowardice has kept it going, sustained it.
00:11:59.240Leftist liberals, Democrats are complaining that the GOP leadership has been bullying the Kavanaugh accusers, claiming that they've been bullying Christine Ford.
00:12:12.380But the truth, as usual, is the opposite of that.
00:12:16.800Republicans have spent the last week groveling at Ford's feet, making concession after concession, begging her to come to D.C.
00:12:27.740and tell her unsubstantiated, uncorroborated story on national television.
00:12:57.820It was obvious to anyone with two brain cells in their head.
00:13:00.600The past week, as Republicans have been negotiating, trying to get her to come and testify, it was clear to everyone that they were just stalling in order to give themselves more time to dig up more dirt.
00:13:15.240And for some unbelievable reason, the stupid Republicans let them do it and said, okay, fine, yes, we'll give you more time.
00:13:39.420There's nothing to be gained by waiting unless the continued character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh is something that they consider to be a gain, which it is a gain for Democrats.
00:13:48.840And it's a gain not only because it destroys this particular Supreme Court nominee, but also because it serves as a warning to any other potential conservative judges.
00:13:59.260What Democrats are doing is they're cutting off Kavanaugh's head.
00:14:03.280They're putting it on a on a on a on a spike.
00:14:05.520And they're kind of putting it on the on the edge of the town and saying, abandon all hope, you who enter here.
00:14:12.700This this is what happens if the Republicans nominate you.
00:14:16.340This is what we're going to do to you.
00:14:18.980And Republicans are allowing them to do this.
00:14:21.400I mean, I mean, Mitch McConnell gave a nice speech yesterday and and he was very aggressive and and he called all this what what it was, what it is.
00:14:34.840He said that this is a smear campaign and on and on and on.
00:14:40.160But if that's how you feel, why are you allowing it to?
00:14:57.120We all know what Democrats would do in this exact same situation.
00:15:00.820Do you know how they would respond if they controlled Congress and it was their Supreme Court nominee being slandered?
00:15:08.340They would flip a middle finger to the Republicans and to the conservative voters, and they would confirm their nominee without hesitation.
00:15:33.440And and Republicans would cry and they would stomp their feet and conservative talk show hosts would would would would would be sent into a into a rage about it.
00:15:40.780And and I would rant about it right now in my car screaming like a madman and and conservatives everywhere would complain about how unfair it all is.