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Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It

Posted on | September 25, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

How many times have I repeated that sentence in the past three years? And how many times has this simple statement been dismissed as a joke? Well, I guess you’re not laughing now, as the Kavanaugh confirmation process has been degraded into a circus by . . . what? Feminism.

Many people have become alarmed at the accusation-equals-guilt ethos adopted by Democrats and their media allies in the 12 days since Dianne Feinstein went public with Professor Christine Braley Ford’s accusation. Although the partisan political motive was obvious, and despite the fact that Professor Ford’s accusation was denied by all four of the people she named as attending the 1982 house party in suburban Maryland where she claimed she was assaulted, the media insisted this was a “credible” accusation, and Democrats declared it was sufficient to bring the confirmation process to a halt. The normal standards of justice were reversed, the presumption of innocence discarded, and the burden of proof shifted from the accuser to the accused. Practitioners of journalism degraded their craft, publishing unsubstantiated accusations which they themselves admitted lacked any corroboration, justifying their shoddy work with the suggestion that, because Senate Democrats were interested in this baseless claim, it was therefore newsworthy.

Rod Dreher recoils from the horror of it all:

The left will stop at nothing to destroy this man. Three years ago, a friend who defected in the 1960s from Hungary told me that he and his wife, also a defector, are observing that our public culture reminds them more and more of Hungary at the advent of communism. I asked him to explain what he meant. He told me that the ideologically-driven eagerness to destroy people that the Left identifies as its enemies is the essence of it. He said that they will say anything they need to say, even if it’s untrue, to professionally and personally destroy people.
I wondered in 2015, when he told me that, if he was exaggerating. I don’t doubt it at all now. Not after this.
Tonight I had a business call with someone who lives in one of the bluest parts of America. She mentioned that this Kavanaugh business terrifies her for her sons. The idea that a man could be destroyed because of these accusations infuriates her and makes her afraid. I think that many on the Left are not thinking about the fact that women have daughters, yes, but they also have sons, brothers, and husbands.

Indeed, there is a whiff of Stalin-era “show trials” about this, with the media publishing propaganda to demonize the targets of the purge. The New York Times has decided that jocular entries in the Georgetown Prep 1984 school yearbook are “evidence” of . . . wrongthink?

 

Do you see how Judge Kavanaugh’s accusers are playing the part of Pavlik Morozov in this Soviet-style liquidation of the kulaks? And what is the ideological justification behind it all? Feminism.

We are nearing a destination toward which our culture has been traveling for more than 50 years, when women aligned with the 1960s New Left (many of them so-called “Red Diaper” babies, children of Communist Party members) became dissatisfied with their treatment by the male leaders of the radical anti-Vietnam War movement. Feminism was (and still is) directly influenced by Marxism, and the movement’s totalitarian tendencies were evident from the first formation of feminist “collectives” in the late 1960s. These groups were unstable and short-lived, as the obsession with equality within the collectives produced a hostility toward anyone identified as a leader. It was not until the feminist movement burrowed into academia, via the creation of university Women’s Studies programs, that it developed any real institutional authority. After two decades of building a campus-based movement, feminism burst forth into national headlines with the 1991 “high-tech lynching” of Clarence Thomas. When the next election brought the Clintons to Washington, it also brought about an institutionalization of feminism within the federal government. The Justice Department was led by Janet Reno and the Department of Health and Human Services was led by Donna Shalala. For eight years, these and other Clinton appointees worked to embed feminist ideology into federal policy. During the feminist movement’s “long march through the institutions,” conservatives developed the habit of treating feminism as a joke. Ridicule is a potent weapon in cultural warfare, but even as conservatives made derisive wisecracks about “feminazis,” this ideology was tightening its grip on politics, academia, entertainment and journalism. A pivotal moment came in 2005, when Harvard University President Larry Summers, a former Clinton administration official, made the mistake of suggesting that “innate differences” between men and women might explain the relative shortage of females in the top ranks of scientific researchers. Within a year, Summers had been driven from office and a woman became president of Harvard. That, my friends, is what ideological hegemony looks like.

We can look back over the past dozen years and see how feminist ideology has, with astonishing rapidity, emerged as the most powerful force in American culture, and this power is purely destructive. Feminism never creates anything, but rather its “success” involves destroying individual men, and depriving men generally of social, economic and political influence in a sort of zero-sum-game formula. Consider, for example, how the Democrats delivered their party’s nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016, rigging the process in her favor, and insisted that anyone who opposed her was guilty of misogyny. When she was rejected by voters in states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, which hadn’t been won by Republican in a presidential election in more than 25 years, suddenly a radical “resistance” movement flared up, and the 63 million Americans who had voted for Donald Trump were branded “fascists.” Major social media companies, intimidated by (or sympathetic to) this “resistance,” rushed to silence or suppress the voices of those identified as enemies of “social justice.” Google fired James Damore for daring to dissent from the official corporate ideology of “diversity.”

Now here we are, in late September 2018, and the character assassination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh demonstrates what should have been apparent all along: No man is safe from the destructive force of feminism.

Certainly, no Republican man is safe in the #MeToo age. Megan McArdle observes that Judge Kavanaugh is being treated as a symbol, “a stand-in for every privileged white man who ever got away with something he shouldn’t have . . . the distilled essence of the patriarchy,” a target in “the ritual scapegoating of members of a despised class.” He is like the Duke lacrosse team, who were smeared in one of those “ritual scapegoating” exercises that feminists routinely organize. The choice of targets for these rituals is often rather random, where the demonized symbols of “privilege” just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Consider, for example, the fate of Jack Montague at Yale University. He was the popular star of the basketball team, but it was 2016 and the feminist fever that accompanied Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was nearing its boiling point. Yale had previously been accused of being too lenient on males accused of sexual misconduct, so when one of Montague’s ex-girlfriends decided she was a victim, Yale brought the hammer down on him. Montague is one of more than 100 male college students who have sued their schools, claiming they were falsely accused of sexual assault, then denied due process by administrators in the campus kangaroo courts where such claims are adjudicated.

Now we are seeing that the anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology, which has wrecked the lives of so many college boys, is not limited to university campuses and, indeed, feminism recognizes no limits at all to its destructive power. A highly esteemed federal judge finds his reputation smeared because of uncorroborated claims dating back more than three decades, as Democrats and their media allies seek to deprive him of every protection of due process. What can be done?

The one thing we know about totalitarians is that it is folly to attempt to appease them, yet there is never any shortage of fools who have neglected to learn the lesson of Munich. David Solway has written an insightful examination of “feminism’s male enablers,” that Brotherhood of White Knights, the soi-disant “male feminists.” The three men Solway cites — Michael Kimmel, Steven Galloway and Jian Ghomeshi — were ultimately hoisted by their own petards, their careers blighted by accusations of sexual misconduct. Because feminist “success” is measured by how many men it destroys, there is no safety in being a “male ally” of the movement. On the contrary, such “allies” place themselves in peril by their proximity to feminists. A man is actually safer by declaring himself an enemy of feminists (and keeping his distance from them) than by attempting to befriend them. And it cannot be doubted that this is the lesson many men will learn from witnessing the attack on Brett Kavanaugh.

If nothing else, this confirmation fight has caused Republican leaders to discover their long-lost testicles. Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley sent Dianne Feinstein a blistering letter denouncing her smear tactics against Judge Kavanaugh, and Mitch McConnell told reporters today: “We’re going to be moving forward. I’m confident we’re going to win, confident that he’ll be confirmed in the very near future.”

The refusal of the GOP to retreat before this feminist onslaught may prove to be a turning point in the battle to save the American republic. Does that sound like hyperbole? Yes, I’m sure it does, in the same way it sounded crazy when I repeatedly said Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It.

Who’s crazy now, huh?



 

Category: Senate, Sex Trouble, Supreme Court

FMJRA 2.0: More Than A Feeling

Posted on | September 25, 2018 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: More Than A Feeling

— compiled by Wombat-socho

If you have to be blogging on the road because your home internet is dead, there are worse places than the 21-hour buffet at Palace Station.

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy Birthday, Fan Bingbing, Wherever You Are
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Democrats Pull the Sleaziest Smear in Their Long History of Sleazy Smears
EBL

Amazon’s Digital ‘Fahrenheit 451’
EBL

Memories Light the Corners of My Mind
EBL

Trauma Queen: What Do We Know About Christine Blasey Ford?
Animal Magnetism
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: A Day Late & A Dollar Short
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Judge Kavanaugh Doubles Down: ‘This Is a Completely False Allegation’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.17.18
Proof Positive

Late Night With In The Mailbox, 09.18.18
Proof Positive

Fake Hate, Fake Victim
EBL

Riot Police Summoned as Campus Rape ‘Crisis’ Hysteria Reaches Australia
The Political Hat
EBL

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 09.19.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Can the GOP Win the Kavanaugh Fight?
EBL

Good-Bye, ‘Blue Wave’? Clintonista May Lose Key House Race in Florida
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.20.18
Proof Positive

Analysis: True
EBL

What Does ‘Credible’ Mean in 2018?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.21.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending September 21:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 09.24.18

Posted on | September 25, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

FMJRA will follow this post in an hour or two.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Kavanaugh, You Magnificent Bastard!
Twitchy: Unhinged Lefty Protesters Harass Sen. Cruz & Wife Into Leaving DC Restaurant
Louder With Crowder: Cocaine Mitch Just Went Postal On Anti-Kavanaugh Democrats

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – On Hiatus
American Power: Believe Him, also, Cal State Long Beach Retires “Prospector Pete”
American Thinker: The Burning Of Brett Kavanaugh
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Twitter Suspends Actor James Woods
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, The Niger Delta Pirates Strike Again
Da Tech Guy: Apartment Living & People, also, Report From Louisiana – What Fiscal Cliff? There Was A Fiscal Cliff?
Don Surber: Grassley & Trump Smoke Out The Democrats
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, The Yungar Hitler
First Street Journal: When The Washington Post Doesn’t Have Facts, It Resorts To Innuendo
Fred On Everything: Darwin’s Vigilantes, Reichard Sternberg, & Conventional Pseudoscience
The Geller Report: California Muslim Found With Two IEDs In Car, also, 34 Senate Democrats Urge Trump To Restore Terrorist Aid
Hogewash: It Ain’t A Case Of He Said/She Said Any More, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: False Memories
Legal Insurrection: Kavanaugh – “I Will Not Be Intimidated Into Withdrawing”, also, New Kavanaugh Accuser “Reluctant To Characterize Kavanaugh’s Alleged Role In Yale Incident With Certainty”
The PanAm Post: Colombia Takes Aim At “Narcotourism”, Closes Pablo Escobar Museum
Power Line: Democrats Dive Into The Mud, also, That’s Zinncredible
Shark Tank: Scott Points To Nelson & Gillum’s “Liberal-Socialist” Agenda
Shot In The Dark: Surge
The Political Hat: What Does A Socialist Dictator Do When People Flee?
This Ain’t Hell: I Am Tired Of The Fraud, also, When Killing The Enemy Is A Crime
Victory Girls: Is Ocasio-Cortez The Dumbest Congressional Candidate?
Volokh Conspiracy: Why We Shouldn’t “Just Enforce The Law”
Weasel Zippers: Yale Law Professors Cancel 31 Classes So Students Can Protest Kavanaugh, also, Administration Moves To Deny Green Cards To Immigrants On Welfare
Megan McArdle: Kavanaugh Has A Doppleganger – No, Not That One
Mark Steyn: Infany & Ongar, also, It’s Here, It’s There, It’s Everywhere


Category: Linkagery

A Steaming Pile of Bad Journalism

Posted on | September 24, 2018 | 6 Comments

 

The most important fact about the Deborah Ramirez story in the New Yorker is that the same story was rejected by the New York Times, which spent a week chasing the story, interviewing dozens of Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale classmates, but was unable to verify Ramirez’s story. Perhaps more disturbing is that Jane Meyer, who co-wrote the New Yorker story with Ronan Farrow, told CBS that their reporting involved “an email chain of Yale classmates of Kavanaugh” discussing this claim.

Allahpundit is shocked, shocked by the shoddy journalism:

After 35 years of uncertainty, within the span of six days, Ramirez somehow recovered her memories sufficiently to accuse a Supreme Court nominee of having sexually assaulted her. And coincidentally, this memory recovery appeared to happen only after her classmates had begun emailing about Kavanaugh’s time at Yale following his nomination this summer. At some point, by Ronan Farrow’s own admission, Senate Democrats got involved in the process.
Robert VerBruggen raises a very obvious possibility: “These emails would appear to be important evidence regarding how this ball got rolling. They also may bear on the question of whether Ramirez’s memory closely matches the anonymous source’s simply because they’re both the account that was circulating while Ramirez was putting her memories together and contacting her former classmates. Let’s see them.” Yeah, let’s. . . .
I can’t imagine what Ronan Farrow was thinking attaching his name to such a journalistic sh*tpile, lacking not only even one first-hand witness to the incident but saddled with a victim whose memory he has every reason to believe is unreliable. He and Jane Mayer seem fully aware that the story is garbage too, per their careful framing of Ramirez’s accusation. It’s not that it’s true or even probably true, you see, it’s that Democrats are interested in it . . .

Speaking of credible reporting, a source told me today that White House staff are prepared for an all-out fight: “The Boss is not budging” — that is to say, President Trump is backing Judge Kavanaugh 100%.

Guess what? Americans like Republicans more than they like the media:

“Forty-five percent of Americans now have a favorable view of the Republican Party, a nine-point gain from last September’s 36%. It is the party’s most positive image since it registered 47% in January 2011, shortly after taking control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections.”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: Media Bias, Supreme Court

The Ramirez Smear Against Kavanaugh Exposes the Desperation of Democrats

Posted on | September 24, 2018 | 5 Comments

 

“This is a smear, plain and simple,” Judge Brett Kavanaugh said in response to the implausible claim by former Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez. It is remarkable — and a frightening testimony to the ongoing destruction of journalism standards — that the New Yorker was willing to publish this claim despite the fact that Ronan Farrow and Jane Meyer could find zero substantiation for Ramirez’s fable:

The New Yorker has not confirmed with other eyewitnesses that Kavanaugh was present at the party. The magazine contacted several dozen classmates of Ramirez and Kavanaugh regarding the incident. Many did not respond to interview requests; others declined to comment, or said they did not attend or remember the party. . . .
One of the male classmates who Ramirez said egged on Kavanaugh denied any memory of the party. “I don’t think Brett would flash himself to Debbie, or anyone, for that matter,” he said. Asked why he thought Ramirez was making the allegation, he responded, “I have no idea.” The other male classmate who Ramirez said was involved in the incident commented, “I have zero recollection.”
In a statement, two of those male classmates who Ramirez alleged were involved in the incident, the wife of a third male student she said was involved, and three other classmates, Dino Ewing, Louisa Garry, and Dan Murphy, disputed Ramirez’s account of events: “We were the people closest to Brett Kavanaugh during his first year at Yale. He was a roommate to some of us, and we spent a great deal of time with him, including in the dorm where this incident allegedly took place. Some of us were also friends with Debbie Ramirez during and after her time at Yale. We can say with confidence that if the incident Debbie alleges ever occurred, we would have seen or heard about it—and we did not. The behavior she describes would be completely out of character for Brett. In addition, some of us knew Debbie long after Yale, and she never described this incident until Brett’s Supreme Court nomination was pending. Editors from the New Yorker contacted some of us because we are the people who would know the truth, and we told them that we never saw or heard about this.”
The former friend who was married to the male classmate alleged to be involved, and who signed the statement, said of Ramirez, “This is a woman I was best friends with. We shared intimate details of our lives. And I was never told this story by her, or by anyone else. It never came up. I didn’t see it; I never heard of it happening.” She said she hadn’t spoken with Ramirez for about ten years, but that the two women had been close all through college, and Kavanaugh had remained part of what she called their “larger social circle.”

The former friend suggests the accuser’s obvious motive to lie:

In an initial conversation with The New Yorker, she suggested that Ramirez may have been politically motivated. Later, she said that she did not know if this was the case.
Ramirez is a registered Democrat, but said that her decision to speak out was not politically motivated and, regarding her views, that she “works toward human rights, social justice, and social change.”

Translation: “I’m a Bolsehvik.”

What’s really happening here? It’s very simple: Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) decided to stop Kavanaugh by any means necessary. Once the unsubstantiated tale by Christine Blasey Ford was pronounced “credible” (because any accusation against Kavanaugh is “credible,” when that word becomes a synonym for politically useful) this was a signal to anyone else who wanted to make such a claim that they would be praised as a heroic “survivor of sexual assault” and treated favorably by the media for joining the pile-on. When Judge Kavanaugh calls this story “a smear, plain and simple,” he is describing not only Debrorah Ramirez’s fabricated tale, but also the decision of the New Yorker to publish it, which they never would do if it were aimed at a Democrat.

This is pure partisan politics, part of a carefully orchestrated campaign by Democrats to win the midterm elections. Nov. 6 is coming.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.



 

Category: Media Bias, Supreme Court

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy Birthday, Alysha Nett!

Posted on | September 24, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

L.A.- based model, photographer & TV reporter Alysha Nett has become pretty well known on Instagram with a lot of pics depicting her scantily clad and tatted-up body. It’s her birthday today, and since I’m continuing to lack inspiration (this moving business is more stress than I care for) she’s the only decent-looking gal who cropped up in today’s birthday list.

Alysha in the kitchen; apparently a lost brassiere is getting in the way of sandwich making.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #384, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism continues to deliver from the road with Rule Five Loony California Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL reports on Kavanaugh’s Accuser, Banning Roosh V, National Cheeseburger Day, National Pepperoni Pizza Day, Maria Elvira Salazar, Oktoberfest, and Fall Rule 5.

A View From The Beach overcomes his iPad to send us Queen of the Night, The End of Bikini Season is Nigh, Alas, If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em, The Russiagate Strip Tease, “Iron Horse”, Last Emergency Post For A While, The Hazards of TV Reporting, Monday Morning Pick Me Up and Emergency Morning Post.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Imogen Poots, his Vintage Babe is Abby Dalton, and Sex in Advertising is covered this week by Lady Gaga. At Dustbury, it’s Tara Fitzgerald and Ségol?ne Royal.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Parenting in the #MeToo Era

Posted on | September 23, 2018 | Comments Off on Parenting in the #MeToo Era

 

Megan Fox at PJMedia is a mother, with a young son, and she’s angry:

Mothers of sons everywhere should be terrified by the constant destruction of men by duplicitous, lying women and an overzealous and political Senate confirmation process. All a scheming broad has to do these days is claim that your son touched her inappropriately more than two decades ago and she can derail his career. . . .
The press has underestimated the mothers of America who are watching this process of destroying a good man with horror and anger. What can we do as mothers to make sure this doesn’t happen to our sons? It begins with training them from a young age to protect themselves from unscrupulous girls. A long time ago the worst you had to worry about was a girl trapping your son by getting pregnant. Now it’s much worse. . . . .

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

A few years ago — in 2013, during the second Anthony Weiner scandal — I found myself reading the Riot Act to my then-14-year-old son.

“Don’t ever do anything like that! ‘Dick pics’ from a member of Congress? All this ‘sexting’ stuff? This is crazy! The Internet never forgets, boy! Don’t ever write anything in an email or a text message you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the New York Times!”

The advent of the Social Media Age has caught adults unprepared for the consequences. Online lynch-mobs are constantly patrolling the Internet in search of their next victim, and many kids have not been adequately warned of the dangers of digital destruction. How many stories have we seen of young people going to prison on the basis of evidence found on their cellphones? It does not seem to occur to these young fools that the ubiquitous devices can be used, for example, to provide investigators with minute-by-minute data on their location, and that the electronic log of their calls and messages is also available as evidence.

A few years ago, we heard a lot about “cyberbullying,” with some kids being driven to suicide by tormentors on Facebook or other sites. And have we forgotten Steubenville? “The jocular attitude of the assailants was documented on Facebook, Twitter, text messages, and cell phone recordings of the acts,” to quote Wikipedia, and two 16-year-old boys were convicted of sex offenses as a result of that August 2012 incident.

Megan Fox offers some suggestions for parents to protect their sons from false accusations, and I would augment her list with two points:

  1. Pair up — Get yourself a steady girlfriend, one who’s not too crazy, and avoid the random casual hookups that seem to be the most common context of destructive charges of sexual misconduct.
  2. Don’t use text or email for personal conversation — Many young women seem to have the idea that their boyfriends have nothing better to do than to constantly monitor their phones and reply instantly to any message. It’s as if they’ve forgotten that phones can be used to, y’know, actually talk to people. Young guys foolishly cooperate with this routine of constant texting back and forth, and girls become accustomed to using their phones as a sort of remote-control device for manipulating their boyfriends.

So, the young man should limit his romantic activities to one girl, and put her on notice that he’s a busy man — he’s got places to go and people to see — who can’t be bothered to reply to every damned message on his phone. “You need to talk to me? Call me. Time is money, honey. If you got some kind of emotional issues, call a therapist, but that ain’t my job, woman. Now stop interrupting me with these silly messages.”

It is from the habit of using texting in a purely personal way that people get into the whole “sexting” business, wherein fools unwittingly create incriminating evidence against themselves. Anthony Weiner is the textbook example of where that kind of behavior can lead. The situation that has developed into the #MeToo witch-hunt arguably started with WeinerGate in 2011, which is when women first seemed to get the idea that social media can be used as a weapon of vengeance.

My son? The one I warned when he was 14? He’s been with the same girl since he was 15, and he doesn’t even have a Facebook account.

Get smart, kids. The life you save may be your own.



 

Category: Family

Left-Wing Lawyer Accuses Republican Senators of Bullying Kavanaugh Accuser

Posted on | September 22, 2018 | Comments Off on Left-Wing Lawyer Accuses Republican Senators of Bullying Kavanaugh Accuser

 

On the day in February 2017 when Jeff Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General, ABC News interviewed D.C. lawyer Debra Katz — identifying her only as a “protester” — as she declared: “We are going to fight back,. We are going to resist. We will not be silenced.” Debra Katz, whose enthusiasm for “LGBT Rights” is a matter of public record, is a member of the anti-Trump resistance and is also, perhaps not coincidentally, the attorney for Judge Brett Kavnaugh’s accuser. Friday, as a 10 p.m. deadline for Christine Blasey Ford to agree to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee neared, Katz became hysterical:

“Your cavalier treatment of a sexual assault survivor who has been doing her best to cooperate with the Committee is completely inappropriate,” Debra Katz, an attorney for Ford wrote to the committee leadership staff Friday evening. . . .
“The 10:00 p.m. deadline is arbitrary. Its sole purpose is to bully Dr. Ford and deprive her of the ability to make a considered decision that has life-altering implications for her and her family,” Katz wrote. “She has already been forced out of her home and continues to be subjected to harassment, hate mail, and death threats. Our modest request is that she be given an additional day to make her decision.”
Even with the extension granted, it appears the contentious back-and-forth could continue even spilling into next week, delaying Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote further.
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee and attorneys for Ford have for days discussed the terms of Ford’s testimony.
Ford offered a list of 10 demands, Grassley said, and the committee was willing to meet “halfway,” calling some of her demands “unreasonable.”

People who are beginning to suspect that Professor Ford’s accusation is “a flimsy smear-job,” to quote myself, will be inclined to ask, if this accusation is so “credible,” why does it seem the accuser is reluctant to testify? Doesn’t it appear that the whole point of this exercise is to obstruct the confirmation process? “We are going to resist,” Debra Katz promised at that February 2017 protest, and this is the #Resistance.

 

Late last night, committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley granted the anti-heterosexual #Resistance lawyer another 24 hours to agree to terms for her client’s testimony. Notice how, in her email to the committee, Katz asserted as a matter of fact that Professor Ford is “a sexual assault survivor,” and further asserted that Professor Ford is “doing her best to cooperate.” Many people are beginning to suspect that neither of these things is true, and that in fact Professor Ford never expected to be compelled to defend this flimsy smear-job in a public forum:

“Christine Blasey Ford is the Eric Clanton of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. You morons remember Clanton, don’t you? He was the antifa pussy who clubbed a Trump supporter with a bike lock, and I say pussy because just look at the video: He’s hanging in the back of the crowd, then suddenly bursts out in front, hits the guy when he isn’t looking, and disappears back into the crowd. Clanton obviously didn’t expect any consequences for his cowardly attack, but hadn’t counted on being tracked down and identified by 4chan. And it’s the same with Ford. She expected to just toss in a stink bomb and then disappear back into anonymity as just another #MeToo victim. And the Democrats expected the GOP to just flop like the Cleveland Browns late in the season and that would be that. . . .”

Far be it from me to call Professor Ford a liar, but the way she went about this — sending a letter to Dianne Feinstein, who said the accuser “strongly requested confidentiality [and] declined to come forward or press the matter further” — suggests that this was indeed a sneaky attack that Professor Ford hoped she could get away with behind the mask of anonymity. Just like Eric Clanton and his bike lock.

Eric Clanton attacked Trump supporters in Berkeley.

Some readers may remember that, after online activists ID’d Clanton as the bike-lock attacker, he claimed victimhood, saying people were “smearing and threatening me online,” which “created stress” for him. As if the Trump supporters who got bashed on the head with a heavy steel bike-lock suffered no stress? Quite similarly, Professor Ford says she is now suffering harassment because of her attack on Judge Kavanaugh, but who is responsible for this situation? Who decided it was a good idea to send this poison-pen letter to Sen. Feinstein? And who let this leak to the media? It wasn’t Republicans who did this. Feinstein was circulating this smear-job among Democrats on Capitol Hill, who were talking about it with their media buddies, long before she went public with it Sept. 13.

The Wall Street Journal has an editorial about where this #MeToo approach to accusations of sexual misconduct is leading us:

The core tenet of Anglo-American law is that the burden of proof always rests with the person making the accusation. An accuser can’t doom someone’s freedom or career merely by making a charge.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Any American with the least bit of common sense — a category that excludes Democrat voters — has to be horrified by what Professor Ford attempted to do to Judge Kavanaugh. Here was a man against whom no such accusation of sexual impropriety had ever been made, and yet all this woman had to do was to send a confidential letter to a Democrat Senator, and now everyone (including some so-called “conservatives”) is talking about how “credible” her accusation is. All it takes is one anonymous accuser, by this #MeToo standard, and a man’s reputation and career are destroyed, because of something that allegedly happened at a house party more than 35 years ago? Dear God!

Perhaps some will criticize me for describing Professor Ford’s attorney Debra Katz as “anti-heterosexual” merely because she seems so enthusiastic about “LGBT Rights,” with the implication that Ms. Katz’s interest in such issues is personal. Well, isn’t my suspicion “credible”? If we are expected to impose a verdict of guilt on Judge Kavanaugh based solely on this accusation made by Ms. Katz’s client, why aren’t we allowed to speculate about the motives of Ms. Katz’s role in the “resistance”?

Republican Senators play by the rules of decorum and civility, but I’m just a damned blogger, you see. Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules.

You want a fight? We’re going to fight by street rules, and I’m not going to hesitate to use any weapons within reach. Smash my beer bottle on the bar and slash your neck with the jagged glass — that’s the way I’m fighting this bar-room brawl, and the responsibility for the bloodshed rests with those who chose to inaugurate hostilities.

“Talk thus to the marines, but not to me,” as Sherman replied to Hood.

War to knife, knife to the hilt — this is what you can expect, when you believe politics entitles you to do anything you please, including such a cruel and heinous libel as Ms. Katz’s client has committed.

In the absence of any corroborating evidence, we can only conclude that Professor Ford is a liar, whose unjust defamation of Judge Kavanaugh was motivated by the spiteful sentiments of partisan politics. Let the talking-heads on TV keep blathering on about how “credible” this accusation is, and how it needs to be taken seriously, but nobody can force me to play that “civility” game in the middle of bar-room brawl.

Democrats are desperate to stop Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation, and they’re desperate to win the midterm elections. Nov. 6 is coming.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.



 

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