Ep. 112 - The Kavanaugh Hearing Was A Disgusting Circus. Now Let's Confirm Him.
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Christine Ford's testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was an absolute disaster for the Republicans, and a complete disgrace for the Democrats who put her on the stand. I'm here to talk about it, and why it was a complete disaster.
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Well, the hearing wrapped up earlier tonight, and I did watch the entire thing, and I feel
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exhausted after watching it. I can only imagine how Brett Kavanaugh feels, considering he was
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the one on the grill, as it were. Now, what I'll say is, and I'll echo what Brett Kavanaugh said
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in his stirring and compelling and incredible opening speech, and also what some Republicans
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said, and what Lindsey Graham said. And I feel like at the very beginning, I have to begin by
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retracting every negative comment I've ever made about Lindsey Graham. And unfortunately,
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it's quite a lot of retracting, because I've made a lot of negative comments about him.
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But he lied. If you haven't watched that yet, go, and there are plenty of clips of it online. But he,
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during Kavanaugh's hearing, we'll get to that in a minute, but he jumped in and launched into one of
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the, maybe the greatest rant by a politician I've ever seen. But I want to echo what he said and
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say that the whole thing was a sham and a circus and a charade, an utter disgrace. I think the entire
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thing, this whole, the last two weeks culminating in this, in this hearing, I think it all adds up to
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certainly the lowest point in modern American political history, maybe the lowest point in
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American political history, period. It was just, it's the kind of thing where you watch it and you
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say to yourself, well, there's really no healing this country, is there? If this is how far we've
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fallen, and if you have one side of the political aisle that this is how evil they are, and they have
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just so completely detached themselves from any semblance of morality, integrity, honesty, basic
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human decency, and they will do literally anything, literally anything to destroy the people who come
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against them. If that's where we are, then, and more than that, more concerning than that, if we have
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half of the country about, who could watch something like that, you know, could sit down and watch all of
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that, and see what's happened over the last two weeks, and see all of that, and say, yeah, this is
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fair, this is right, this is how it should be. Those kinds of people, I just, what, they're living in a
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different universe from me. And frankly, you know, watching the hearing, I, all I kept thinking to
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myself is, now watching these Democrats and their, and their despicable, disgraceful performance, all I
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could think is, I, I am ashamed to share a country with these people. I wish that I did not have to
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share a country with them. And the really incredible thing is that, like I said, I watched all eight
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hours of it. So this was eight hours about, I think, if I'm doing math right, but eight hours of a hearing, which
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was ostensibly to investigate and talk about a sexual assault allegation. But the incredible thing
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is that in eight hours, and all of the many questions that were asked, almost none of the
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questions were actually about the sexual assault itself. Almost none of them. Christine Ford was up
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there, and of course, the Democrats didn't ask her any questions. Just every time they had a chance,
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they, they took the opportunity to commend her on her bravery, and then do a little campaign speech.
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And the Republicans outsourced their questioning to a, to a, to a sex crimes prosecutor, who oddly
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enough, showed little interest in talking about the alleged sex crime, and figuring out whether or not
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it actually happened, which, or at least whether or not Brett Kavanaugh is the one who committed it,
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which is why she was there. Instead, she spent a lot of time talking about, uh, Christine Ford's
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travel arrangements, and just all kinds of questions about what, what she was doing in the last three
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months, instead of get honed, homing in on what was going, what happened or didn't happen during the
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time in question in 1982, or whenever that's, you know, event supposedly occurred. Now, um, so at the
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beginning, this was, it was to start with, with, with Christine Ford, it was a disaster for the
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Republicans. And their decision, their decision, not only to outsource it to this woman, who I'm
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sure is very good at her job, but she just was not doing what she needed to do in this situation.
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Um, but not only that, but the format that they set up, which was, uh, the prosecutor could develop
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a line of questioning, and then that line of questioning would be punctuated every five minutes
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by a campaign speech from a Democrat. It was just, uh, it was a total disaster.
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Going through it one by one, let's talk about Ford, then we'll talk about Kavanaugh. Um,
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now Ford, uh, she, she came across, uh, as competent and credible. Uh, her performance was
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in parts stirring. Um, it was emotionally involving, right? And so if we're evaluating her testimony
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rationally and objectively, now for evaluating her testimony emotionally, um, then you went away from
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it thinking, well, Brett Kavanaugh is guilty as hell, uh, until he got up there and then he was
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emotional too, but we'll get to that in a second. If you're evaluating it rationally and objectively,
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however, her testimony was insufficient and the entire presentation from the Democrats was grossly
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insufficient. Uh, now Democrats know that most Americans do not evaluate things rationally
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objectively, but in fact, evaluate things emotionally, which is why after Christine Ford's
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testimony, Democrats were feeling really good because they knew that didn't matter that there
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were no facts, no evidence, nothing that didn't matter. They had emotion on their side. Well,
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then Brett Kavanaugh went in there and he had some emotion of his own to show, but, um, through her
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opening statement and her interactions with the Democrat senators, um, and a little bit with her
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interactions with the, with the prosecutor that was hired by Republicans. Although, like I said,
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she didn't really focus at all on the actual subject, but Christine Ford, she retold basically
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the same story we already read in the Washington Post. Uh, little additional information was provided.
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She says she remembers with 100% certainty that Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her. She also remembers
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and was given the opportunity to repeat by Democrats. They went back to this line, you know,
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several times they went back to it, but she, she said she remembers the laughter of Kavanaugh and Mark
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Judge. Now there's a reason, by the way, she said she remembers the, the, Brett Kavanaugh, she remembers
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the laughter. They were laughing while they were doing this. Uh, she also remembers the stairwell and
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she says she remembers that the house was sparsely furnished. And those are really the only details that
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she remembers. Democrats kept going back to the laughter. They wanted her to keep bringing that up
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because that's just, it's an emotional appeal. Whether it's true or not, whether Brett Kavanaugh
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was in there laughing or not, just the image of two guys laughing as a sexually assaulted girl,
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it's a very disturbing image, whether or not it's a true image. Of course, Democrats don't care about
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that whatsoever. It's just a disturbing image. And they want you to have that disturbing image in
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your head. But, um, all of those details she remembers and she remembers all those details
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apparently with, with absolute certainty, but the really important details she doesn't there.
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After her testimony, a number of enormous questions still remained. Like number one,
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when did this happen? Number two, uh, where did it happen? Number three, how did she get to the place
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where it happened? Number four, how did she get home? Number five, who else was there? Now that the,
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the, the last two questions are very important. And the question about, and I'm just,
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and I was saying to my wife as we were watching this hearing and I was, I kept saying,
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why the prosecutor, she needs to come back and focus on this for a minute.
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The fourth question about how did she get home? It's a very important question. She said she didn't
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have her driver's license at the time, or she was 15 years old, she says. Okay. Uh, and the driving age
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was, was 16 and she's sure that she didn't have a driver's license. All right. Well, according to her,
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she rushed out of the house after she had just been assaulted by two boys. Um, she lived some miles
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from the country club where this happened. And according to a map that was presented by the
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prosecutor, I'm blanking on her name or I would use her name. Um, Mitchell, I think according to a map
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presented by Mitchell, she was probably about six to eight miles or so from the, uh, from the country
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club. So that means that somebody drove her home. Okay. So just think about this for a second.
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You've got a 15 year old girl. Now this is, let's just go with Christine Ford's version of events here
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for a minute. You've got a 15 year old girl, uh, who was just assaulted at a party. She says she
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thought she was going to die. Uh, she thought they were going to rape her. She was traumatized.
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She runs out of the house fearing for her life. We imagine she's probably crying now.
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She leaves. So she, she, she, she, she exits the door. And then apparently that's when her memory
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cuts off right there. She remembers all of that vividly. Soon as she exits the door, no memory has
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no memory, but there's this whole other part where somebody she would have had to somehow call
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somebody or maybe she had to prearrange for someone to meet her. I don't know, but somehow
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she communicated with somebody right after this happened and she got in their car moments after
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just being sexually assaulted moments after fearing that she was about to be killed by two boys who
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were trying to rape her as a 15 year old girl. She gets into the car and she drives home. This
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person, whoever that person is, is an extremely crucial witness because they can testify to her
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demeanor, her mental state. I mean, what was she like when you picked her up? Because if she was
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perfectly normal and bubbly and happy and everything was fine, then it's just impossible to believe that
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she was just moments ago sexually assaulted and she thought almost killed. But if she was crying
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if she was disturbed, if she was, you know, something was seriously wrong, well, that's very compelling
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evidence. Yet she can't tell us who picked her up. She can't give us that name. So as Democrats were
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pushing Brett Kavanaugh when he was up there and they were pushing, you know, they wanted to know about
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this Mark Judge character and why isn't he testifying? Nobody ever pressed Christine forward, who picked
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you up moments after you were supposedly sexually assaulted? Who was it? And can we speak to them?
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That question incredibly was never asked. The point was not visited at all.
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I don't believe that Christine Ford doesn't remember driving home from a sexual assault. I just don't
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believe it. I, I, I, plenty of people have said that sexual assault, when that happens,
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your memory can be spotty. So I'll defer to the people that have gone through that. They say
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your memory can be spotty. Fine. But, but you're telling me that there's just a total cutoff right
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there. You remember everything vividly, the stairwell, the furnishing, the laughter, the
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bathroom. You remember the layout of the house. You remember all of that. You remember rushing out of
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the house. Then you get out inside the house. You have no recollection whatsoever of what happened as
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soon as you were outside the door. I just don't believe that. I feel like she's omitting
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something for some reason. And we should know what that reason is and what's being omitted.
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And the prosecutor should have asked her, she should have said, miss, miss, uh, Mrs. Ford,
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what's your, so you, you ran out of the house. You don't remember what happened next. What is your
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next memory? What's the next thing you remember right after that? Do you remember something from
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that night? Do you remember something from a week later? I mean, what? The question was never asked.
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It was an important question. The other question that we still don't have an answer to, it's very
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important, is, um, is, uh, what about all the other people at the party? Um, because we know that
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the witnesses that she named have denied it, have refuted her allegations, have said that they have
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no memory of it, or in fact, that the party never occurred. So we need to know about that, but we also
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need to know, and again, this was not focused on or homed in on, uh, the prosecutor Mitchell alluded
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to it, but you're at a party, you say it's a small, quiet gathering. And in fact, judge and Kavanaugh,
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according to you, are the only ones there that are completely plastered, right? Um, just a few people.
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Well, then you would say that you were sexually assaulted in a room upstairs.
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What were the other people doing during this time? Did they not hear the racket? Did they not
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wonder where these three people went? Your, your friends that were there, did they wonder why you
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disappeared into a bedroom with two drunk boys? They didn't ask you about it in school the next day.
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They didn't ask you about it when you came downstairs. They said, so three people disappear
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into a bedroom at this, at this quiet gathering. The two boys emerge, the girl runs out of the house.
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Nobody ever asks her about it ever and says, what happened to you? Again, it's an unanswered question.
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Um, so the effect was, you know, three hours of testimony from, uh, from Christine Ford and we got
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no closer to the truth. Now Kavanaugh on an emotional level, Kavanaugh behaved exactly as an
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innocent man would and should behave after being dragged through the mud and slandered by political
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con artists. I was very worried after watching the Fox interview, I was critical of him. And I said
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that, uh, you know, his performance just didn't cut it there. He was way too reserved. He was,
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he was holding himself back way too much. He was not acting like a person should act if they're
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innocent and have been accused of this and are being, their families are being victimized by a
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coordinated smear campaign and their whole lives and their families, everything's ruined.
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He wasn't acting like, like that in the Fox interview. Well, at the, at the hearing, he acted
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like that. He came out swinging. He was angry, defiant, indignant. He was on the offensive. He wasn't
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suffering the Democrat fools. He didn't sit back politely while they continued with their character
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assassination. He didn't do that. And it was great. It was exactly what it needed to be.
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And I thought, look, emotionally, you see Christine Ford and you're just evaluating emotionally
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without any biases. And you see that you're okay. Well, you sympathize with her. Well, then you see,
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you see Ford or you see Kavanaugh. How can you not sympathize with him?
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The man was emotional, angry. He got choked up at various different points, talking about his daughter
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and how this has affected her, talking about his parents, talking about how his life has been affected.
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Um, it just was, it came across extremely authentic and sincere, which was the most important thing.
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And in my view, you know, even better than, um, than Kavanaugh's opening statement, which was gripping.
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Um, but I really liked the contentious and almost flippant way that he handled the, uh, embarrassing
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lines of questions from Democrats because that's exactly how an innocent man would act and should
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act when a, when a, when vulgar yearbook scribblings and inside jokes from his teenage years are being
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used to paint them as a serial gang rapist. I mean, the Democrats were up there asking about,
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uh, you know, fart jokes that he made in high school and, and going back a time and time again,
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asking, uh, Judge Kavanaugh, did you drink beer? Yes, I did. Well, yes, but did you drink beer?
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Yes, I did. Well, but you drank beer. Yes. I mean, you were consuming beer in high school.
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Were you not consuming beer? Yes, I did. Well, but let's stop for a minute. What about beer? Did
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you consume that? And just over and over and over again, they spent three hours asking about beer
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jokes that he made. Listen, if you can be penalized legally for inside jokes that you have with your
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friends as a 17 year old boy, well then I'm going to be on death row. Okay. If, if, if the, the content
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of your inside jokes and of your, you know, general demeanor as a 17 year old boy can be held against
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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
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in trouble because teenage boys can tend to be vulgar. Yes. Sometimes they can drink beer and they
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can, you know, that's just how they are. Um, but the really important thing, um, is the evidence,
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you know, Ford had no material evidence, no witnesses. Uh, she could provide very few details
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Kavanaugh on the other hand had material evidence in the form of his 1982 calendars.
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He had witnesses to refute the allegations against him. He could provide many details.
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There's a stark contrast between Christine Ford who couldn't say it didn't know it. I mean,
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she couldn't even recount information and details from conversations she had in the last three months.
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Meanwhile, Brett Kavanaugh was like, okay, well, this is where I was. I can tell you where I was on
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like July 2nd, 1982 and he had his calendar and he could do it. I mean, he was, he was very organized
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in that way. Um, you know, they say that you can't prove a negative. You can't, a man cannot prove
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that he didn't do something, especially you can't prove that he didn't do something 35 years ago.
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Well, Brett Kavanaugh came about as close to clearing that hurdle as any person possibly ever could.
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Okay. So we're left with two options. Okay. Either one of these people, Kavanaugh or Ford are sociopathic
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liars who can cry on command and summon very convincing, but fake emotions on live television.
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So they're sociopathic liars and they're great, great actors. Both of those things. That's one
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option. One of the, you know, one option is that one of the two of them is that, or they're both
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telling basically the truth as they see it. Okay. Now, if that's, if, if the second option is, is,
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is correct, that means that Christine Ford is mistaken. It means that, um, or it could mean that
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she's embellishing slightly. I mean, there could be, there could be some slight embellishments and so
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forth on both ends. So Christine Ford can be embellishing, uh, maybe Brett Kavanaugh could be,
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you know, I mean, he kept being, he was cross-examined about how much beer he drank. He
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was obviously trying to downplay that, but really who cares how much beer he drank anyway. Um,
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so, but that's, that's basically the option that you have. Either one of them is totally lying
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or they're both basically recounting things as they remember it. And Christine Ford just remembers
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it incorrectly or has, um, has these years later, uh, after having some kind of experience with
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somebody, she's now kind of put Brett Kavanaugh's face on the situation, which is a possibility.
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But if we're going to go with the option that one of these people is a liar,
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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
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label on the guy that has all of the evidence and all of the witnesses to back them up.
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So that's it. Judge Kavanaugh has been run through the gauntlet. He's been subjected to
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the worst smear campaign in American political history. Uh, the Democrat party is, as I've been
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saying now, truly, truly, deeply evil with no regard for truth or human decency whatsoever.
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And Brett Kavanaugh has withstood that. He's still standing. And if anybody has ever earned a job
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ever, I think he has earned this job on the Supreme court and he needs to be confirmed.
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That's my, that's my rapid reaction. Take, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.