This is in regard to the SJC hearings underway, among other things. From ‘The Atlantic’: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/kavanaugh-fox-news-pushback/571201/
What was aggressive was Kavanaugh’s presence on Fox News in the heat of a nomination battle.
The most aggressive language he used was when he called one allegation against him “totally false and outrageous.” (He fully denied all accusations of sexual misconduct.) The most notable moments came when Kavanaugh acknowledged attending raucous parties as a teenager and said that he was a virgin for “many years after” the attempted sexual assault alleged by Christine Blasey Ford, who knew Kavanaugh in high school.
“Yes, there were parties. The drinking age was 18. Yes, the seniors were legal and had beer there. Yes, people might have had too many beers on occasion,” Kavanaugh said. “In high school, I think all of us have done things we look back on in high school and cringe a bit. That’s not what we are talking about. We are talking about an allegation of sexual assault.”
None of what Kavanaugh was saying was surprising per se. It was the fact that the nominee himself was saying it that was unusual. For a prospective justice to appear on cable news in such an interview is highly unusual—perhaps unheard of.
On Sunday, Kavanaugh took matters into his own hands with a strongly worded letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, insisting he would not allow what he called a “coordinated effort to destroy my good name” to force him to withdraw his nomination. (READ the letter, all of it.) – Atlantic article.
Fabricated evidence is bad enough. Snapping a bra strap or someone’s undies is vulgar and just plain bad manners in any setting, and apologies are due. They are not sexual assault. In the work place, they qualify as harassment. In high school, they are the acts of inebriated adolescents at parties.
If I’m expected to believe that someone who has changed her story since 2012 from four to “other” and can’t remember anyone except Kavanaugh and later on after the other man’s name came up, him, too, I’ve got news for you: I can write fiction that is more believable than that. At worst, it would be considered sexual harassment on the job if it had happened at work.
If you’re drinking at a party, why didn’t you report it to someone in authority? This reported act of assault does not include any indication of how much alcohol Ford had consumed. This alone casts doubt on her story.
No, I do not believe that Kavanaugh did any of the things he’s accused of doing. If this was so important, why was it not reported to the school administrator in the 1980s? Well, it was a party school and as the salvaged yearbooks have shown, the girls were the aggressors, not the guys. Teenagers do a lot of stupid stuff. I did and so did my brother. It is part of growing up. Disregarding whatever happened, the time limit has long since passed for Blazey-Ford to have reported it, and yet, there is another reported “incident” looming from someone else. It is bull shit. I want to see physical proof, not stories.
Being on the sidelines in all of this, without a TV available to watch this asinine circus under the direction of that ragged, dried-up harridan Feinstein, I’ve seen nothing come of this other than a desperate effort at character assassination. I realize that, in the course of all these hearings, the entire goal by both sides of the political fence is to smear the poor soul unfortunate enough to be today’s target.
That a decent human being should be smeared and publicly caned for an alleged teen-years incident is more than just character assassination. Not once has that heinous vulgarian Feinstein given a single thought to the consequences down the road.
Since the 1970s, when reports of rape and attempted rape finally were taken seriously, and women in the work force were encouraged to report unwanted physical contact with a supervisor or a co-worker to Personnel, there have been enough visually recorded incidents of women being physically attacked by strangers and co-workers to generate verification that it is not women bringing these attacks on themselves. The worst case ever was a drunken off-duty Chicago cop who beat up a female bartender one-fourth his size because she refused to serve him any more alcohol. The video plainly showed him not just hitting her, but knocking her down and stomping and kicking her. He is no longer a cop. She sued the City of Chicago and the CPD for what happened, not to get money but to put a stop to it. Sometimes, you do have to make the buggers pay.
Hollywood has a long, long history of misbehavior toward women who were stupid enough to put up with it in order to be stars, although I have my doubts that either Bette Davis or Joan Crawford or Lana Turner put up with it. It is a cesspit environment, but as plenty of actresses have said, you don’t meet a director or producer alone in a hotel room.
The mid-terms are coming up. Feinstein is determined to wield her club over these proceedings, with the idiotic sympathy train flowing along behind Blazey-Ford. Is Feinstein aware that she no longer has her party’s endorsement in LaLaLand? I’ve seen people on power trips. We all have. Destroying someone of good character and decency seems to be the only thing Feinstein is interested in, which can be a fatal mistake.
Unfortunately, the side effect of this, which may become long term, makes it entirely plausible that women whose claims of real sexual assault are valid will not be heard, not taken seriously, and shitcanned for complaining about some guy who is making a nuisance of himself at work. And for that matter, since women generally don’t like each other, there’s the lesbian angle on that, too. Everything now is taken out of context. Normal human behavior is being turned into something barbaric, as if a pat on the back for a job well done is an attempt to cop a feel.
Frankly, I am so fed up with this obsession about sex and everything related to it that I’d like to dump a bucket full of used EPT sticks on the heads of some of these idiots. This aggressive hateful attitude toward men will have real consequences in the future.
The underlying problem is not sex or anything related to it. It is that good manners and common decency, a sense of what is proper and what is not, have been thrown out the window and run over by the warthogs who are running things now.
