The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 112 - The Kavanaugh Hearing Was A Disgusting Circus. Now Let's Confirm Him.

00:00:00.000 Well, the hearing wrapped up earlier tonight, and I did watch the entire thing, and I feel

00:00:06.020 exhausted after watching it. I can only imagine how Brett Kavanaugh feels, considering he was

00:00:10.000 the one on the grill, as it were. Now, what I'll say is, and I'll echo what Brett Kavanaugh said

00:00:16.920 in his stirring and compelling and incredible opening speech, and also what some Republicans

00:00:24.380 said, and what Lindsey Graham said. And I feel like at the very beginning, I have to begin by

00:00:29.760 retracting every negative comment I've ever made about Lindsey Graham. And unfortunately,

00:00:36.440 it's quite a lot of retracting, because I've made a lot of negative comments about him.

00:00:40.140 But he lied. If you haven't watched that yet, go, and there are plenty of clips of it online. But he,

00:00:46.500 during Kavanaugh's hearing, we'll get to that in a minute, but he jumped in and launched into one of

00:00:55.500 the, maybe the greatest rant by a politician I've ever seen. But I want to echo what he said and

00:01:02.840 say that the whole thing was a sham and a circus and a charade, an utter disgrace. I think the entire

00:01:09.420 thing, this whole, the last two weeks culminating in this, in this hearing, I think it all adds up to

00:01:15.760 certainly the lowest point in modern American political history, maybe the lowest point in

00:01:21.780 American political history, period. It was just, it's the kind of thing where you watch it and you

00:01:31.720 say to yourself, well, there's really no healing this country, is there? If this is how far we've

00:01:40.180 fallen, and if you have one side of the political aisle that this is how evil they are, and they have

00:01:46.040 just so completely detached themselves from any semblance of morality, integrity, honesty, basic

00:01:53.520 human decency, and they will do literally anything, literally anything to destroy the people who come 1.00

00:02:00.180 against them. If that's where we are, then, and more than that, more concerning than that, if we have

00:02:05.580 half of the country about, who could watch something like that, you know, could sit down and watch all of

00:02:11.160 that, and see what's happened over the last two weeks, and see all of that, and say, yeah, this is

00:02:15.800 fair, this is right, this is how it should be. Those kinds of people, I just, what, they're living in a

00:02:23.180 different universe from me. And frankly, you know, watching the hearing, I, all I kept thinking to

00:02:30.620 myself is, now watching these Democrats and their, and their despicable, disgraceful performance, all I

00:02:35.380 could think is, I, I am ashamed to share a country with these people. I wish that I did not have to

00:02:42.200 share a country with them. And the really incredible thing is that, like I said, I watched all eight

00:02:52.840 hours of it. So this was eight hours about, I think, if I'm doing math right, but eight hours of a hearing, which

00:02:59.540 was ostensibly to investigate and talk about a sexual assault allegation. But the incredible thing

00:03:06.200 is that in eight hours, and all of the many questions that were asked, almost none of the

00:03:12.960 questions were actually about the sexual assault itself. Almost none of them. Christine Ford was up

00:03:20.540 there, and of course, the Democrats didn't ask her any questions. Just every time they had a chance,

00:03:24.560 they, they took the opportunity to commend her on her bravery, and then do a little campaign speech.

00:03:30.960 And the Republicans outsourced their questioning to a, to a, to a sex crimes prosecutor, who oddly

00:03:37.840 enough, showed little interest in talking about the alleged sex crime, and figuring out whether or not

00:03:44.060 it actually happened, which, or at least whether or not Brett Kavanaugh is the one who committed it,

00:03:48.880 which is why she was there. Instead, she spent a lot of time talking about, uh, Christine Ford's

00:03:53.860 travel arrangements, and just all kinds of questions about what, what she was doing in the last three

00:03:57.940 months, instead of get honed, homing in on what was going, what happened or didn't happen during the

00:04:05.700 time in question in 1982, or whenever that's, you know, event supposedly occurred. Now, um, so at the

00:04:15.300 beginning, this was, it was to start with, with, with Christine Ford, it was a disaster for the

00:04:20.040 Republicans. And their decision, their decision, not only to outsource it to this woman, who I'm

00:04:24.100 sure is very good at her job, but she just was not doing what she needed to do in this situation.

00:04:30.540 Um, but not only that, but the format that they set up, which was, uh, the prosecutor could develop

00:04:36.680 a line of questioning, and then that line of questioning would be punctuated every five minutes

00:04:40.860 by a campaign speech from a Democrat. It was just, uh, it was a total disaster.

00:04:44.840 Going through it one by one, let's talk about Ford, then we'll talk about Kavanaugh. Um,

00:04:50.160 now Ford, uh, she, she came across, uh, as competent and credible. Uh, her performance was

00:04:57.660 in parts stirring. Um, it was emotionally involving, right? And so if we're evaluating her testimony

00:05:06.520 rationally and objectively, now for evaluating her testimony emotionally, um, then you went away from

00:05:14.240 it thinking, well, Brett Kavanaugh is guilty as hell, uh, until he got up there and then he was

00:05:18.920 emotional too, but we'll get to that in a second. If you're evaluating it rationally and objectively,

00:05:24.200 however, her testimony was insufficient and the entire presentation from the Democrats was grossly

00:05:30.060 insufficient. Uh, now Democrats know that most Americans do not evaluate things rationally

00:05:36.180 objectively, but in fact, evaluate things emotionally, which is why after Christine Ford's

00:05:41.440 testimony, Democrats were feeling really good because they knew that didn't matter that there

00:05:45.120 were no facts, no evidence, nothing that didn't matter. They had emotion on their side. Well,

00:05:49.460 then Brett Kavanaugh went in there and he had some emotion of his own to show, but, um, through her

00:05:55.280 opening statement and her interactions with the Democrat senators, um, and a little bit with her

00:06:02.560 interactions with the, with the prosecutor that was hired by Republicans. Although, like I said,

00:06:06.300 she didn't really focus at all on the actual subject, but Christine Ford, she retold basically

00:06:12.260 the same story we already read in the Washington Post. Uh, little additional information was provided.

00:06:17.980 She says she remembers with 100% certainty that Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her. She also remembers

00:06:26.040 and was given the opportunity to repeat by Democrats. They went back to this line, you know,

00:06:30.040 several times they went back to it, but she, she said she remembers the laughter of Kavanaugh and Mark

00:06:35.380 Judge. Now there's a reason, by the way, she said she remembers the, the, Brett Kavanaugh, she remembers

00:06:40.860 the laughter. They were laughing while they were doing this. Uh, she also remembers the stairwell and

00:06:45.560 she says she remembers that the house was sparsely furnished. And those are really the only details that

00:06:49.800 she remembers. Democrats kept going back to the laughter. They wanted her to keep bringing that up

00:06:54.600 because that's just, it's an emotional appeal. Whether it's true or not, whether Brett Kavanaugh

00:06:58.580 was in there laughing or not, just the image of two guys laughing as a sexually assaulted girl,

00:07:04.540 it's a very disturbing image, whether or not it's a true image. Of course, Democrats don't care about

00:07:09.860 that whatsoever. It's just a disturbing image. And they want you to have that disturbing image in

00:07:13.340 your head. But, um, all of those details she remembers and she remembers all those details

00:07:19.300 apparently with, with absolute certainty, but the really important details she doesn't there.

00:07:28.400 After her testimony, a number of enormous questions still remained. Like number one,

00:07:32.920 when did this happen? Number two, uh, where did it happen? Number three, how did she get to the place

00:07:39.980 where it happened? Number four, how did she get home? Number five, who else was there? Now that the,

00:07:45.000 the, the last two questions are very important. And the question about, and I'm just,

00:07:49.740 and I was saying to my wife as we were watching this hearing and I was, I kept saying,

00:07:53.720 why the prosecutor, she needs to come back and focus on this for a minute. 1.00

00:08:01.360 The fourth question about how did she get home? It's a very important question. She said she didn't

00:08:08.380 have her driver's license at the time, or she was 15 years old, she says. Okay. Uh, and the driving age

00:08:13.740 was, was 16 and she's sure that she didn't have a driver's license. All right. Well, according to her,

00:08:19.900 she rushed out of the house after she had just been assaulted by two boys. Um, she lived some miles

00:08:30.340 from the country club where this happened. And according to a map that was presented by the

00:08:34.880 prosecutor, I'm blanking on her name or I would use her name. Um, Mitchell, I think according to a map

00:08:41.980 presented by Mitchell, she was probably about six to eight miles or so from the, uh, from the country

00:08:46.640 club. So that means that somebody drove her home. Okay. So just think about this for a second.

00:08:53.100 You've got a 15 year old girl. Now this is, let's just go with Christine Ford's version of events here

00:08:58.020 for a minute. You've got a 15 year old girl, uh, who was just assaulted at a party. She says she 0.94

00:09:04.940 thought she was going to die. Uh, she thought they were going to rape her. She was traumatized. 0.99

00:09:10.880 She runs out of the house fearing for her life. We imagine she's probably crying now.

00:09:21.540 She leaves. So she, she, she, she, she exits the door. And then apparently that's when her memory

00:09:28.760 cuts off right there. She remembers all of that vividly. Soon as she exits the door, no memory has

00:09:35.280 no memory, but there's this whole other part where somebody she would have had to somehow call

00:09:44.480 somebody or maybe she had to prearrange for someone to meet her. I don't know, but somehow

00:09:49.220 she communicated with somebody right after this happened and she got in their car moments after

00:09:55.180 just being sexually assaulted moments after fearing that she was about to be killed by two boys who 0.73

00:10:01.340 were trying to rape her as a 15 year old girl. She gets into the car and she drives home. This 0.97

00:10:07.960 person, whoever that person is, is an extremely crucial witness because they can testify to her

00:10:14.780 demeanor, her mental state. I mean, what was she like when you picked her up? Because if she was

00:10:21.240 perfectly normal and bubbly and happy and everything was fine, then it's just impossible to believe that

00:10:25.920 she was just moments ago sexually assaulted and she thought almost killed. But if she was crying

00:10:31.220 if she was disturbed, if she was, you know, something was seriously wrong, well, that's very compelling

00:10:35.760 evidence. Yet she can't tell us who picked her up. She can't give us that name. So as Democrats were

00:10:43.200 pushing Brett Kavanaugh when he was up there and they were pushing, you know, they wanted to know about

00:10:47.260 this Mark Judge character and why isn't he testifying? Nobody ever pressed Christine forward, who picked

00:10:53.700 you up moments after you were supposedly sexually assaulted? Who was it? And can we speak to them?

00:11:01.220 That question incredibly was never asked. The point was not visited at all.

00:11:10.680 And it's to me, look, I'm sorry. I just,

00:11:14.060 I don't believe that Christine Ford doesn't remember driving home from a sexual assault. I just don't

00:11:25.040 believe it. I, I, I, plenty of people have said that sexual assault, when that happens,

00:11:30.880 your memory can be spotty. So I'll defer to the people that have gone through that. They say

00:11:34.060 your memory can be spotty. Fine. But, but you're telling me that there's just a total cutoff right

00:11:38.860 there. You remember everything vividly, the stairwell, the furnishing, the laughter, the

00:11:43.100 bathroom. You remember the layout of the house. You remember all of that. You remember rushing out of

00:11:46.800 the house. Then you get out inside the house. You have no recollection whatsoever of what happened as

00:11:52.040 soon as you were outside the door. I just don't believe that. I feel like she's omitting

00:11:56.860 something for some reason. And we should know what that reason is and what's being omitted.

00:12:02.540 And the prosecutor should have asked her, she should have said, miss, miss, uh, Mrs. Ford,

00:12:07.680 what's your, so you, you ran out of the house. You don't remember what happened next. What is your

00:12:12.160 next memory? What's the next thing you remember right after that? Do you remember something from

00:12:19.620 that night? Do you remember something from a week later? I mean, what? The question was never asked.

00:12:24.900 It was an important question. The other question that we still don't have an answer to, it's very

00:12:31.240 important, is, um, is, uh, what about all the other people at the party? Um, because we know that

00:12:37.040 the witnesses that she named have denied it, have refuted her allegations, have said that they have

00:12:42.740 no memory of it, or in fact, that the party never occurred. So we need to know about that, but we also

00:12:48.380 need to know, and again, this was not focused on or homed in on, uh, the prosecutor Mitchell alluded

00:12:58.000 to it, but you're at a party, you say it's a small, quiet gathering. And in fact, judge and Kavanaugh,

00:13:08.300 according to you, are the only ones there that are completely plastered, right? Um, just a few people.

00:13:15.340 Well, then you would say that you were sexually assaulted in a room upstairs.

00:13:20.140 What were the other people doing during this time? Did they not hear the racket? Did they not

00:13:24.880 wonder where these three people went? Your, your friends that were there, did they wonder why you

00:13:29.480 disappeared into a bedroom with two drunk boys? They didn't ask you about it in school the next day.

00:13:33.900 They didn't ask you about it when you came downstairs. They said, so three people disappear

00:13:38.280 into a bedroom at this, at this quiet gathering. The two boys emerge, the girl runs out of the house.

00:13:46.280 Nobody ever asks her about it ever and says, what happened to you? Again, it's an unanswered question.

00:13:54.360 Um, so the effect was, you know, three hours of testimony from, uh, from Christine Ford and we got

00:14:00.980 no closer to the truth. Now Kavanaugh on an emotional level, Kavanaugh behaved exactly as an

00:14:08.380 innocent man would and should behave after being dragged through the mud and slandered by political

00:14:12.480 con artists. I was very worried after watching the Fox interview, I was critical of him. And I said

00:14:17.300 that, uh, you know, his performance just didn't cut it there. He was way too reserved. He was,

00:14:21.660 he was holding himself back way too much. He was not acting like a person should act if they're

00:14:26.520 innocent and have been accused of this and are being, their families are being victimized by a

00:14:32.380 coordinated smear campaign and their whole lives and their families, everything's ruined.

00:14:36.640 He wasn't acting like, like that in the Fox interview. Well, at the, at the hearing, he acted

00:14:41.740 like that. He came out swinging. He was angry, defiant, indignant. He was on the offensive. He wasn't

00:14:47.560 suffering the Democrat fools. He didn't sit back politely while they continued with their character 0.99

00:14:52.040 assassination. He didn't do that. And it was great. It was exactly what it needed to be.

00:14:58.080 And I thought, look, emotionally, you see Christine Ford and you're just evaluating emotionally

00:15:02.740 without any biases. And you see that you're okay. Well, you sympathize with her. Well, then you see,

00:15:08.440 you see Ford or you see Kavanaugh. How can you not sympathize with him?

00:15:13.580 The man was emotional, angry. He got choked up at various different points, talking about his daughter

00:15:17.880 and how this has affected her, talking about his parents, talking about how his life has been affected.

00:15:21.460 Um, it just was, it came across extremely authentic and sincere, which was the most important thing.

00:15:30.580 And in my view, you know, even better than, um, than Kavanaugh's opening statement, which was gripping.

00:15:37.620 Um, but I really liked the contentious and almost flippant way that he handled the, uh, embarrassing

00:15:46.420 lines of questions from Democrats because that's exactly how an innocent man would act and should

00:15:53.400 act when a, when a, when vulgar yearbook scribblings and inside jokes from his teenage years are being

00:15:59.260 used to paint them as a serial gang rapist. I mean, the Democrats were up there asking about,

00:16:04.340 uh, you know, fart jokes that he made in high school and, and going back a time and time again,

00:16:09.300 asking, uh, Judge Kavanaugh, did you drink beer? Yes, I did. Well, yes, but did you drink beer?

00:16:16.200 Yes, I did. Well, but you drank beer. Yes. I mean, you were consuming beer in high school.

00:16:20.280 Were you not consuming beer? Yes, I did. Well, but let's stop for a minute. What about beer? Did

00:16:25.980 you consume that? And just over and over and over again, they spent three hours asking about beer

00:16:29.940 jokes that he made. Listen, if you can be penalized legally for inside jokes that you have with your

00:16:36.740 friends as a 17 year old boy, well then I'm going to be on death row. Okay. If, if, if the, the content

00:16:43.020 of your inside jokes and of your, you know, general demeanor as a 17 year old boy can be held against

00:16:51.660 you, then, uh, then I'm in a lot of trouble. I think, I think a lot of, I think a lot of guys are

00:16:55.920 in trouble because teenage boys can tend to be vulgar. Yes. Sometimes they can drink beer and they

00:17:02.720 can, you know, that's just how they are. Um, but the really important thing, um, is the evidence,

00:17:16.660 you know, Ford had no material evidence, no witnesses. Uh, she could provide very few details

00:17:24.780 Kavanaugh on the other hand had material evidence in the form of his 1982 calendars.

00:17:30.620 He had witnesses to refute the allegations against him. He could provide many details.

00:17:36.740 There's a stark contrast between Christine Ford who couldn't say it didn't know it. I mean,

00:17:40.640 she couldn't even recount information and details from conversations she had in the last three months.

00:17:45.220 Meanwhile, Brett Kavanaugh was like, okay, well, this is where I was. I can tell you where I was on

00:17:49.780 like July 2nd, 1982 and he had his calendar and he could do it. I mean, he was, he was very organized

00:17:55.820 in that way. Um, you know, they say that you can't prove a negative. You can't, a man cannot prove 0.99

00:18:02.580 that he didn't do something, especially you can't prove that he didn't do something 35 years ago.

00:18:07.180 Well, Brett Kavanaugh came about as close to clearing that hurdle as any person possibly ever could.

00:18:13.580 Okay. So we're left with two options. Okay. Either one of these people, Kavanaugh or Ford are sociopathic

00:18:26.320 liars who can cry on command and summon very convincing, but fake emotions on live television. 0.98

00:18:33.900 So they're sociopathic liars and they're great, great actors. Both of those things. That's one 1.00

00:18:39.420 option. One of the, you know, one option is that one of the two of them is that, or they're both

00:18:46.340 telling basically the truth as they see it. Okay. Now, if that's, if, if the second option is, is,

00:18:54.240 is correct, that means that Christine Ford is mistaken. It means that, um, or it could mean that

00:19:00.340 she's embellishing slightly. I mean, there could be, there could be some slight embellishments and so

00:19:08.100 forth on both ends. So Christine Ford can be embellishing, uh, maybe Brett Kavanaugh could be, 1.00

00:19:15.180 you know, I mean, he kept being, he was cross-examined about how much beer he drank. He

00:19:18.400 was obviously trying to downplay that, but really who cares how much beer he drank anyway. Um,

00:19:24.300 so, but that's, that's basically the option that you have. Either one of them is totally lying

00:19:28.480 or they're both basically recounting things as they remember it. And Christine Ford just remembers

00:19:36.560 it incorrectly or has, um, has these years later, uh, after having some kind of experience with

00:19:44.800 somebody, she's now kind of put Brett Kavanaugh's face on the situation, which is a possibility.

00:19:50.440 But if we're going to go with the option that one of these people is a liar, 0.92

00:19:59.180 which I'm not saying that I go with that option, but if you do, I don't see how you can hang the liar

00:20:05.540 label on the guy that has all of the evidence and all of the witnesses to back them up.

00:20:11.820 So that's it. Judge Kavanaugh has been run through the gauntlet. He's been subjected to

00:20:20.200 the worst smear campaign in American political history. Uh, the Democrat party is, as I've been

00:20:25.320 saying now, truly, truly, deeply evil with no regard for truth or human decency whatsoever.

00:20:35.620 And Brett Kavanaugh has withstood that. He's still standing. And if anybody has ever earned a job

00:20:42.140 ever, I think he has earned this job on the Supreme court and he needs to be confirmed.

00:20:49.180 That's my, that's my rapid reaction. Take, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 27, 2018

Ep. 112 - The Kavanaugh Hearing Was A Disgusting Circus. Now Let's Confirm Him.

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