The Matt Walsh Show - September 28, 2018


Ep. 113 - Democrats Criticize Kavanaugh For Being Angry？ That's Insane


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Lindsey Graham's monologue during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing was one of the most honest and raw moments of anger I ve ever seen from a politician. It was cathartic, and I hope other Republicans take something away from it.

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00:00:00.760 You know, Lindsey Graham during his beautiful, beautiful monologue rant yesterday during the hearing, and it really was a thing of beauty.
00:00:09.440 I probably watched it two or three more times last night. I watched the clip of it.
00:00:13.400 And, you know, I said yesterday that it was it's it's the greatest rant I've ever heard from a politician ever in my life.
00:00:20.280 And that's not even close to an exaggeration. I think by far it is.
00:00:23.420 And I still and I still believe that the thing that made it so great, it wasn't just cathartic to listen to, although it was that.
00:00:33.960 But it was also important. OK, not not just important because of the effect it has in this particular situation, but important because I think hopefully it showed something to other Republicans, which is.
00:00:49.340 You got to just be sick of this stuff. You've got to just be sick of this stuff from the left and from Democrats and get angry.
00:00:59.380 And when I say get angry, I don't mean, you know, there's there's the theatrical rehearsed kind of Republican anger that you see during campaigns and everything.
00:01:09.060 Not talking about that. I'm talking about raw and real where you're not worried about trying to remain friends with these people.
00:01:17.860 And you're not worried about how it's going to be awkward at the cocktail party when you see them later.
00:01:21.500 But but but really angry and honest.
00:01:27.320 One of the few times I've seen that from a Republican and it was a great moment and it was an important moment.
00:01:32.740 I think that I hope that others other Republicans take note of it.
00:01:35.340 But he he he said something.
00:01:38.880 He said to the Democrats, he said, I, I would never do this to one of your nominees.
00:01:44.880 And he pointed out that he even voted for for Obama's nominees, which he shouldn't have done because their judicial philosophies are disastrous.
00:01:53.820 But either way, the point is, he said, I would never do this to one of your nominees.
00:01:57.880 I would never tear them, ruin them like this, like you're doing.
00:02:01.020 And you know something? That's true.
00:02:02.740 That actually is true.
00:02:03.900 And I look, I've I've I criticize Republicans all the time.
00:02:09.160 I've criticized Republicans more often than I've criticized Democrats because they're the ones who are supposed to allegedly represent me in my interests.
00:02:17.160 So their failures and betrayals and everything are more important to me.
00:02:22.920 And and and so that's why I've criticized them so often.
00:02:28.260 But so I'm going to be I'm not I'm the last one to say that, oh, Republicans are all perfect and and all that stuff, because that's not true.
00:02:35.720 But it is true that Republicans just they're not going to sink that low like Democrats will.
00:02:42.960 Well, think about this. Republicans didn't want Merrick Garland confirmed.
00:02:47.420 Right. And and Democrats still complaining about that. 1.00
00:02:50.160 How look what you did to our nominee.
00:02:52.700 Well, what did they do? They just didn't vote on him.
00:02:54.600 That's all. They didn't want to confirmed.
00:02:56.300 So they didn't vote on him. That's it.
00:02:58.400 And Merrick Garland is. Yeah, he didn't get to be on the Supreme Court.
00:03:01.000 Fine. But he can go and live his life and do whatever he wants to do.
00:03:04.340 I assume he's still a judge somewhere and he can do whatever he wants.
00:03:06.920 In fact, in the end, he probably he benefited to some degree by it because his name got out there and he's a sympathetic figure, at least on the left now.
00:03:15.860 And Republicans don't hate him. Nobody hates him.
00:03:17.980 He's fine. Everything worked out fine for him.
00:03:21.800 So that's all they didn't vote for him.
00:03:24.720 Democrats, though, didn't want Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.
00:03:27.300 So they accused him of being a serial gang rapist and they tried to ruin and destroy his entire life.
00:03:31.780 They ripped him apart limb from limb because they didn't want it.
00:03:37.660 Republicans, Republicans could have tried to do that to Merrick Garland.
00:03:43.180 Considering they controlled the Senate, they controlled the timing of everything.
00:03:46.080 And so they they could have dug into his past, tried to dig up skeletons.
00:03:51.900 I have no idea if he has skeletons in his closet or not, but they could have made up skeletons if they wanted to.
00:03:56.860 I mean, they could have found someone somewhere to make some kind of accusation and and and then destroyed his life that way.
00:04:05.080 But no, instead, they just said, we're not going to vote on him.
00:04:08.580 That's all.
00:04:10.720 And that's the difference.
00:04:12.080 In fact, let's look at recent history.
00:04:14.860 Conservatives are very willing to criticize, not just Republicans, but I'm talking about conservatives now.
00:04:20.280 They are very willing to criticize their own in the face of sexual assault allegations.
00:04:28.240 So the liberals that are that are that are saying, well, the only reason why all the conservatives are circling the wagon around Kavanaugh is because they want him on the Supreme Court.
00:04:38.360 No, that's actually not the reason.
00:04:39.660 The reason why conservatives are are now they do want him on the Supreme Court and there is quite a lot at stake here.
00:04:47.640 The lives of children are literally at stake here.
00:04:50.800 But so we do want him on the Supreme Court.
00:04:52.800 But the reason why we're circling the wagons around him is because we think these charges are bogus and trumped up.
00:04:57.940 And we think this whole thing is a coordinated smear campaign because it is.
00:05:00.960 That's the reason we're circling the wagons.
00:05:02.160 But many conservatives came out against Roy Moore.
00:05:07.760 No matter how you felt about that, the fact is many conservatives came out against him, even though that was a very important race for conservatives.
00:05:14.720 Many conservatives came out against their own presidential nominee a month before the election after the Access Hollywood tape surfaced.
00:05:23.920 Now, there are also conservatives who will circle the wagons no matter what.
00:05:27.360 But the point is that there does exist a very sizable chunk of conservatives who have a certain standard that they do apply relatively evenly and fairly to everyone.
00:05:36.980 That just does not exist on the left at all.
00:05:42.220 There might be a few, a random few, diamonds in the rough who have some kind of something approaching a consistent standard.
00:05:54.320 Maybe, but there is not at all any kind of sizable preponderance of leftists who are willing to apply the standard that they set on, that are willing to take the standard that they apply to conservatives and apply it to their own.
00:06:11.580 There are almost none who are willing to do that.
00:06:15.920 What they're doing to Brett Kavanaugh, they're doing only because they hate him for his ideology, no other reason.
00:06:24.180 And because they hate his ideology, they will stop at nothing and absolutely nothing.
00:06:30.200 Think about this.
00:06:32.880 There have been almost no Democrats or liberals.
00:06:37.780 I want to say no, because I haven't seen any, but maybe there are one or two.
00:06:41.180 I don't know.
00:06:41.580 So there have been almost no Democrats or liberals who have even taken the position that, look, the Ford allegations seem serious.
00:06:50.240 Let's look into those.
00:06:51.740 OK, but.
00:06:54.120 These others, and I don't think that those allegations are are serious or credible, but this is I'm trying to describe what might be a somewhat.
00:07:04.060 But. Here's here's a position that the Democrats or leftists could take, that is that at least pretends to almost sort of be consistent or semi fair, kind of right.
00:07:18.300 And that position would be the Ford allegations.
00:07:21.420 Yeah, those are serious.
00:07:22.660 The stuff about gang rape and all that kind of stuff.
00:07:26.020 That's absurd.
00:07:28.200 No, they're not.
00:07:29.220 They won't even take that position.
00:07:30.980 OK, they won't even do that.
00:07:34.060 They believe all of it.
00:07:36.820 All of it.
00:07:37.700 They'll take all of it.
00:07:40.140 So they're not going to.
00:07:42.140 There's no discernment at all.
00:07:44.840 They say, yeah, the Ford allegations are serious.
00:07:47.420 Oh, this person's accusing.
00:07:49.820 This person over here is accusing him of being a serial gang rapist who was part of a rape cartel, a rape mafia with his other friends.
00:07:58.600 And they would literally wait in lines outside of doors to rape unconscious women. 0.91
00:08:03.880 And they did this on an almost weekly basis for years at a time.
00:08:07.600 And nobody ever called the police or anything like that.
00:08:09.840 And there's no evidence of it.
00:08:10.760 It never turned up an FBI investigation.
00:08:12.660 Yeah, sure.
00:08:13.420 That's true.
00:08:14.180 They'll take that, too.
00:08:15.100 They'll take anything, anything at all.
00:08:17.380 If somebody came forward and said that Brett Kavanaugh is a serial killer and has murdered 50 prostitutes, they'd take that also.
00:08:28.460 They'd say, yeah, let's have an FBI investigation into that.
00:08:31.180 It's not an exaggeration.
00:08:32.440 And they'll take anything.
00:08:37.720 The Democrats on the committee yesterday, before Kavanaugh had even testified, in fact, before the hearing itself, but even at the hearing, at the hearing, before his testimony, they said, and there were at least three, at least three of them said this.
00:08:55.400 Maybe they all did, some version of it.
00:08:56.680 They said to Christine Ford, I believe you, which means, consider what that means.
00:09:06.500 You're at this hearing.
00:09:08.440 You've got the accuser up there giving her a version, which, again, as we've gone over, no evidence, no witnesses, not only no witnesses, but in fact, there are witnesses that refute what she's saying.
00:09:21.360 It doesn't remember when, where, how she got there.
00:09:23.980 She remembers almost nothing, except for Brett Kavanaugh somehow.
00:09:28.300 She remembers that 100%, and she remembers the laughter, and she remembers a stairwell, okay?
00:09:32.900 It's all she remembers.
00:09:33.740 And she remembers, conveniently, that she only had one beer.
00:09:37.140 She remembers that absolutely, nothing else, okay.
00:09:40.880 She's given her version.
00:09:43.360 The accused hasn't even said a word yet at the hearing.
00:09:46.940 And they have already said, we believe you, to Ford, which means, yes, Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist.
00:09:57.800 They said that, they declared that without hearing the other side, just based on the accusation.
00:10:02.760 And then Kavanaugh came out, and they demanded an investigation.
00:10:08.320 That was the great thing, you know?
00:10:10.080 Rather than ask the questions themselves, they demanded that Kavanaugh ask for the FBI to ask the questions that they could have just asked if they weren't too busy asking him to ask the FBI to ask him.
00:10:21.420 And by the way, you're hearing from Democrats and liberals that the confirmation, this is what you're hearing.
00:10:27.720 You're hearing that the confirmation would only be delayed by a week.
00:10:33.160 They're saying, look, just delay it by a week.
00:10:35.520 That's all.
00:10:36.180 Just delay it by a week and have the FBI investigate.
00:10:39.060 That's all we're asking for.
00:10:40.440 It's no big deal.
00:10:41.200 Just a week.
00:10:42.440 That's reasonable.
00:10:44.140 And if you don't know any better, if you're obtuse, you hear that and you say, well, yeah, okay, that's reasonable.
00:10:49.080 Only a week.
00:10:49.760 I mean, what's it?
00:10:50.220 A week is fine, right?
00:10:51.420 What's a week?
00:10:52.540 What's a week after all this?
00:10:54.840 It's a lie.
00:10:56.640 They're liars.
00:11:00.360 It will take a lot longer than a week for the FBI to conduct an investigation.
00:11:06.820 A lot longer.
00:11:07.840 We're talking at least a couple of months, easily eight or nine months.
00:11:14.480 And they know that.
00:11:15.900 And that's the only reason, the only reason they want an FBI investigation.
00:11:22.540 Because here's the other thing they know.
00:11:24.940 They know that the FBI investigation will amount to nothing.
00:11:29.700 It will do nothing.
00:11:30.960 Because there's nothing to investigate.
00:11:34.000 The accuser has told us everything she remembers.
00:11:37.340 She remembers almost nothing.
00:11:39.460 They don't even have a location or a year for when this happened.
00:11:43.300 There's nothing for them to investigate.
00:11:45.760 Let's leave aside the fact that they don't investigate these kinds of things because it's not a federal crime.
00:11:49.780 A groping allegation against a 17-year-old 35 years ago is not a federal crime.
00:11:55.020 It's not within the purview of the FBI.
00:11:56.800 But even if it were, there's nothing to investigate.
00:11:58.500 So all they're going to do is just interview and get statements from everybody concerned, which has already happened.
00:12:09.560 But they know that.
00:12:11.960 They just want to delay it until after the midterms.
00:12:14.520 That's the only reason.
00:12:15.500 They are such liars.
00:12:17.800 Everything out of their mouths is an absolute lie.
00:12:22.620 And even if it did only take a week, which it wouldn't, but I'm just saying, even if it were only a week, or even if they found some other excuse to delay things for a week, the reason why they'd want that week is to dig up more allegations.
00:12:44.440 Well, the point is they already passed their verdict.
00:12:46.720 Okay?
00:12:47.280 They already passed their verdict.
00:12:49.120 They passed their verdict before they heard from the accused.
00:12:53.460 It's like a jury hearing the prosecutor's case and then reaching its verdict, saying, okay, he's guilty.
00:13:04.960 So then what's the point of an investigation?
00:13:07.780 There's nothing, nothing that will ever make them change their mind.
00:13:13.820 And that's the one thing Brett Kavanaugh did a great job.
00:13:15.680 The one thing I wish he had said, which I'm not going to criticize him for not thinking to say this, but given the circumstances, I wouldn't have done half as well as he did.
00:13:28.920 But still, the one thing I wish he had said to these Democrat senators who were asking for an investigation, I wish he had said to them, you snakes.
00:13:38.480 You already said, you already said before I got up here that you believe her.
00:13:43.820 So what do you want an investigation for?
00:13:45.980 You've already condemned me.
00:13:47.940 What are you even asking me questions for?
00:13:50.460 Why should I even answer your questions?
00:13:53.580 You're not trying to get to the truth.
00:13:55.520 You've already made up your mind.
00:13:57.580 There's nothing I could...
00:13:59.040 You know what he should have said?
00:13:59.920 He should have said, Senator, is there anything I could say or present to you?
00:14:05.840 That would make you believe me instead of Dr. Ford?
00:14:09.260 Is there anything?
00:14:14.180 No, there's nothing.
00:14:16.360 They kept bringing up Mark Judge.
00:14:18.620 They want to hear from Mark Judge.
00:14:21.200 Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh's friend from high school.
00:14:25.880 Subpoena Mark Judge.
00:14:26.940 Well, Mark Judge already denied the allegations under penalty of felony.
00:14:33.120 He's already given a statement.
00:14:34.240 So he said, no, it didn't happen.
00:14:37.300 There's nothing...
00:14:37.780 There's not...
00:14:38.460 Here's the thing.
00:14:40.860 If you're saying that a certain event never occurred,
00:14:44.940 well, then there's nothing else to be said about it.
00:14:47.640 You're saying it didn't happen.
00:14:48.560 So that's all.
00:14:49.240 I can't answer more questions about a thing that I'm telling you didn't happen.
00:14:54.140 That's all I can keep saying is no.
00:14:58.300 But, but, and they already got their no.
00:15:01.260 Now, if Mark Judge had said, yeah, this, it happened, the party was there,
00:15:07.360 there was some kind of interaction between, between us and Dr. Ford,
00:15:13.360 but it wasn't quite like that, right?
00:15:15.860 If he had said something like that, well, then, okay, yeah,
00:15:18.420 then you have a, then you have a very real reason for wanting him there
00:15:21.700 in front of you so that he could explain, okay, so it did happen.
00:15:25.500 You're saying it wasn't quite like that.
00:15:26.340 Well, then what happened?
00:15:29.100 But there's no reason to have him there and ask him what happened
00:15:31.540 because he already told you it didn't happen.
00:15:33.580 You can't say anything else about a thing that didn't happen,
00:15:37.340 except all you can keep saying is didn't happen, didn't happen,
00:15:39.800 didn't happen, didn't happen, didn't happen.
00:15:42.320 But they want him there anyway.
00:15:43.520 So why do they want him there?
00:15:44.560 Let's think about that.
00:15:45.240 Why, why do the Democrats want Mark Judge, who has already denied it,
00:15:49.720 why do they want him there?
00:15:50.620 Well, um, they want him because he's just a regular guy.
00:15:56.700 He's a, he's a, he's a regular guy and he apparently has a substance abuse problem,
00:16:01.820 which is what we learned at the, uh, at the hearing yesterday.
00:16:06.140 And so what they want to do is they want to parade him in front of TV cameras
00:16:11.120 and rip him apart. 0.79
00:16:13.220 They want to take this guy in his fifties,
00:16:16.520 been struggling with substance abuse his whole life, apparently.
00:16:19.320 Um, and we could only, I know nothing about his life whatsoever,
00:16:24.820 but someone who was, who has had those problems for their whole lives,
00:16:28.280 you know, you can only imagine that there are many other problems compounding
00:16:31.760 on top of that.
00:16:32.780 Probably most of the time, you know, problems with your family, with work.
00:16:36.300 Um, somebody who has a substance, who's, who's been struggling with substance abuse
00:16:39.480 their whole life from the age, you know, from teenager to now in their fifties,
00:16:44.120 most likely that it has not been a very happy life, but just put it that way.
00:16:49.540 Um, so they want to take this guy, um, and they want to parade him in front of TV cameras
00:16:57.720 and they want to rip him apart and dissect his whole life, every detail in front of a national audience.
00:17:10.620 They want to utterly ruin and eviscerate this poor guy and then condemn Kavanaugh by association.
00:17:20.960 Because again, there's nothing to ask him about the event because he's saying the event didn't happen.
00:17:30.200 So they're not going to, they wouldn't ask him about that at all.
00:17:32.180 I guarantee you if they had, if they had, if they had judge in front of them,
00:17:34.380 they would ask him almost nothing.
00:17:36.380 They probably wouldn't ask him a single question about whether or not this thing even happened.
00:17:40.800 They'd want to know all the nitty gritty details of his own personal drug use or alcohol use.
00:17:49.720 And they'd want to know all of that.
00:17:52.820 They'd want to know even years where even later years where he and Kavanaugh hardly saw each other.
00:18:00.360 And then they don't even need to connect him to Kavanaugh directly.
00:18:04.200 They, all they want to do is say, look at this pitiful alcoholic guy that Kavanaugh was hanging around with.
00:18:12.620 You see, they don't need to connect the dots.
00:18:14.560 All they need to do is guilt by association.
00:18:19.100 And so Republicans, of course, aren't going to let them do that.
00:18:24.400 You think they'd have any mercy on Mark Judge?
00:18:28.340 No, they don't care.
00:18:29.320 I mean, they, they, they would rip him to pieces and leave him there.
00:18:36.260 Just a clump of, of, of matter sitting in front of them.
00:18:40.040 And they don't care if he went home and killed himself because of what they did.
00:18:42.820 They, they couldn't care.
00:18:44.140 They couldn't possibly care less.
00:18:46.300 Not at all.
00:18:50.080 Someone asked me yesterday, they asked me, uh, how do we come back from this?
00:18:53.760 You know, it seems like we've crossed some kind of threshold here.
00:18:56.940 How do we come back from it?
00:18:57.860 Well, I do think in one sense, we crossed a line, a threshold.
00:19:03.280 We entered a place where it really is now just total war.
00:19:07.680 One side observes absolutely no rules of morality or etiquette or anything.
00:19:14.660 I mean, they're even saying now, if they get into power, that they want to impeach Kavanaugh,
00:19:18.280 if he's confirmed.
00:19:19.220 So that means Democrats, if they get into power, they want to impeach a sitting Supreme Court
00:19:23.980 justice and the president.
00:19:27.440 So it's total war for them.
00:19:29.740 Yeah.
00:19:30.100 We should also keep in mind that we really, we, we crossed this threat threshold long ago
00:19:33.660 and now it's just out in the open, unmistakable.
00:19:36.180 But as I've said many times, we long ago entered a place where there is no common ground between
00:19:41.240 people, no chance of unity.
00:19:46.100 People are just living in different universes.
00:19:48.180 I don't understand how anyone could have watched the hearing yesterday and come away feeling like,
00:19:57.560 yeah, that was fair on Brett Kavanaugh.
00:19:59.800 That was a fair process for him.
00:20:01.740 I don't see how any human with a soul could think that.
00:20:06.000 But there are quite a lot of humans who do in America.
00:20:10.300 And so they, they're in a different universe.
00:20:13.380 I cannot, they're, they are living in a version of reality.
00:20:19.600 I just can't relate to them.
00:20:23.360 It'd be like trying to hang out with someone who like just did heroin or something.
00:20:27.880 And you're sober.
00:20:29.060 You can't, it's their, their mind is somewhere way over there.
00:20:33.340 And what, there's no, it's like you're trying to sit down and have a conversation
00:20:36.340 with someone like that.
00:20:38.220 You can't do it.
00:20:39.260 It's like trying to sit down and have a conversation with someone who's, uh, who's, uh, you know,
00:20:43.200 on LSD or something.
00:20:44.940 You can't, there's no way for you to do that because they're up in the twilight zone.
00:20:49.080 Right.
00:20:50.560 And that's, that's how it is with the left.
00:20:52.340 They're just, they're permanently on LSD.
00:20:54.520 They're permanently in the twilight zone.
00:21:00.400 I said yesterday, I know it was, it was a very strong,
00:21:03.340 a thing to say, but I said yesterday that as I was watching the hearing, all I could
00:21:07.600 think about the Democrats, as I was watching their performance, all I could think is I'm
00:21:11.180 ashamed to share a country with them.
00:21:16.080 And I, I meant it and I still mean it.
00:21:20.540 One other thing I want to say here, there, there's a talking point, a really frustrating
00:21:24.160 yet predictable talking point from liberals in the media and on social media, from Democrat
00:21:28.420 politicians and everybody else.
00:21:30.060 And they're saying, what they're saying is that Kavanaugh was too angry yesterday.
00:21:35.000 Um, he was too angry.
00:21:38.360 Some of them said that, uh, some of them said that this means he doesn't have the temperament
00:21:41.400 to be a Supreme court justice.
00:21:43.780 Others said that this anger really lets you see how he might rape somebody.
00:21:48.220 I read someone on Twitter yesterday, and this was retweeted and liked thousands of times,
00:21:52.800 but they said that watching the hearing, you could really picture Kavanaugh putting his
00:21:57.320 hand over someone's mouth and raping them because he was so angry.
00:22:01.880 Now we, we know obviously that if he wasn't angry, they would have said the opposite.
00:22:07.640 They would have said, well, an innocent man would be angry in this situation.
00:22:10.680 He wasn't angry.
00:22:11.540 Where was his anger?
00:22:13.340 Dr.
00:22:13.800 Ford had emotion.
00:22:14.640 He had no emotion.
00:22:15.360 So if he had no emotions, they would, they would have said he's an emotionless sociopathic
00:22:19.220 robot and they could totally see how he might rape somebody.
00:22:21.740 And if he shows emotion, they're going to say, oh, he's an angry hothead.
00:22:24.620 I could totally see how he raped somebody.
00:22:26.480 So no matter what he does, it does not matter.
00:22:29.260 He's damned either way.
00:22:30.420 That's the whole point here.
00:22:31.280 That's the whole, that, that's why this whole process is a sham is because the people 0.91
00:22:35.940 who are accused, who are accusing him and orchestrating all of this and who want him off of the
00:22:40.620 court, it does not matter what happens, what he does, what he says, what evidence
00:22:45.240 is presented, what witnesses come forward.
00:22:47.000 None of that matters.
00:22:47.960 None of it matters at all because he's already convicted in their eyes, period.
00:22:53.840 But I can't believe I even have to explain this, but let's, it's okay.
00:22:56.620 He was angry.
00:22:57.580 He was very angry.
00:22:58.400 And I was, I was glad to see that anger.
00:23:01.980 Not glad at the situation, obviously, but I was glad that he let that anger out.
00:23:06.740 And I can't believe that we even need to talk about this, but, but, but why was he angry?
00:23:13.300 For anyone who's good, if anyone who might've watched the hearings or is watching clips now
00:23:17.640 and thinking, oh my goodness, he's so angry.
00:23:19.380 I'm so it's, I, anyone who's, who feels scared or startled by his anger, why would he be angry?
00:23:26.440 I'm so confused.
00:23:28.480 That's so, it's so disturbing that this guy's so angry.
00:23:30.680 Well, if, if anyone is thinking that, let me, let me try to explain, um, imagine, imagine
00:23:42.540 that you have, uh, that you're on the cusp of a, say some kind of, let's even, in fact,
00:23:51.460 we'll even scale this down.
00:23:53.520 Okay.
00:23:54.260 We'll scale this down to make it much smaller than what it actually is for Brett Kavanaugh.
00:23:58.780 Okay.
00:23:58.960 Because for Brett Kavanaugh, this is playing out on the national stage, the international
00:24:02.320 stage, really.
00:24:03.560 Um, and he's being slandered by the national media and his whole life is being affected.
00:24:08.560 But let's scale it down to something that's more, maybe, you know, more, uh, accessible.
00:24:14.480 So imagine at work, you were, you're, you're up for some kind of promotion and, um, there are
00:24:23.120 people at work who don't want you to get that promotion because they want someone else to get
00:24:27.160 it.
00:24:28.780 And so they spread a rumor that you, uh, sexually harass, maybe they start with a rumor that
00:24:36.500 you are a sexual harasser. 0.95
00:24:38.340 And then as the, as the days go on, um, the rumors that they're spreading maliciously about
00:24:43.920 you get more and more serious.
00:24:46.280 And then they say that, Oh, you, uh, you know, you even have a groped a couple of women at 1.00
00:24:51.820 work.
00:24:52.220 And then, and then finally they come up with a story that you, uh, raped a coworker in
00:24:57.420 the bathroom at work.
00:24:59.040 Right.
00:25:00.280 And so they're not even, they're not just trying to prevent you from getting this promotion.
00:25:04.140 They're trying to get you fired from your job, get you put in jail.
00:25:08.280 It doesn't matter.
00:25:09.000 Um, you know, if you end up in jail and divorced, fine with them, they are trying to utterly ruin
00:25:18.600 you because you committed the sin of, um, performing really well at work and putting yourself up
00:25:26.340 for a promotion.
00:25:28.220 So imagine that.
00:25:29.160 And imagine that went on for two weeks.
00:25:30.580 Um, would that make you angry?
00:25:38.380 I mean, how would you feel after two weeks of that, after two weeks of these lies that
00:25:45.180 you've worked so hard your whole life, you've got to this point where you've earned a promotion.
00:25:50.920 And now not only is the promotion going to be taken from you, but everything in your life
00:25:55.740 is about to be taken from your job, your marriage, your reputation, everything.
00:26:01.060 Based on these lies, rumors, innuendos.
00:26:04.000 Would that make you angry?
00:26:05.500 How would you feel about that?
00:26:08.500 And if you got a chance to confront the people who have orchestrated this, how would you approach
00:26:14.760 it?
00:26:14.880 Would you say, well, gee, guys, I really don't appreciate this.
00:26:18.620 I really don't.
00:26:20.600 Gee, would you stop trying to destroy my life and my marriage and my family?
00:26:24.180 Would you please?
00:26:25.800 You know, I'd really appreciate it if you would stop.
00:26:28.800 Would you mind?
00:26:29.560 Oh, you wouldn't mind.
00:26:30.980 Okay, well, then continue.
00:26:32.420 Sorry.
00:26:32.880 I didn't mean to continue.
00:26:34.000 Yes, continue, continue destroying me.
00:26:38.280 Is that how you, is that what you would say?
00:26:39.760 Or would you do what Brett Kavanaugh did?
00:26:45.440 And would you be furious and angry and yelling?
00:26:51.260 Well, of course, no.
00:26:52.220 You would take the latter option because you're a human being responding as any human being
00:26:57.140 would.
00:26:59.200 So what?
00:26:59.780 Do you expect Brett Kavanaugh?
00:27:00.600 Is he not allowed to be a human being?
00:27:04.260 Is he not allowed to be indignant?
00:27:07.620 Is he not allowed to feel angry at what has happened not only to him, but his family?
00:27:11.200 Yeah, I think anger is totally appropriate here.
00:27:20.120 And anyone who would try to hold it against him that he's angry, well, anyone like that,
00:27:27.080 that's just disingenuous at best.
00:27:32.060 All right.
00:27:32.700 Been a long week, everybody.
00:27:33.740 Have a good weekend.
00:27:38.120 Talk to you next week.
00:27:39.000 Godspeed.