{"id":63579,"date":"2018-10-07T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T23:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=63579"},"modified":"2018-10-07T19:16:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T23:16:41","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-october-5th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=63579","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, October 5th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, October 5th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, two quick observations.\u00a0 First, if Joe Scarborough can see it&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z_buUJyRJok\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;it&#8217;s as undeniably obvious as the ears on Obama&#8217;s head.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, only the Party of Stupid could create this confluence of calamitous circumstances:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kavanaugh-fate-hangs-in-balance-with-3-swing-vote-senators-trying-to-get-to-yes-source-says\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\">As Kavanaugh vote looms, GOP Sen. Daines says he&#8217;s going to daughter&#8217;s wedding<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jfg4y.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jfg4y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jfg4y.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jfg4y-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>In an unexpected, almost movie-like twist late Thursday,\u00a0Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., announced <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he&#8217;s\u00a0going to attend his daughter&#8217;s wedding back home in Montana on Saturday<\/em><\/span> &#8212; <em>meaning that even though he supports Kavanaugh<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he would be unavailable to vote for his confirmation<\/em><\/span>, which is scheduled to be taken up\u00a0that evening.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>started the clock Thursday evening<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Republicans cannot technically delay that vote unless they secure the consent of all 100 senators<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">(50 affirmative\u00a0votes are needed for Friday morning&#8217;s procedural vote to invoke cloture, meaning to formally end debate\u00a0and move forward to Saturday&#8217;s final vote.)<\/span> The GOP <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could<\/em><\/span>, however, hold the session open overnight and allow Daines to vote Sunday if needed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Daines didn&#8217;t seem to think his absence would affect the final vote, even though Republicans hold a narrow 51-49 majority in the Senate.<\/span> He told\u00a0The Associated Press on Thursday that two things are going to happen this weekend: <em>There&#8217;s going to be a new Supreme Court justice, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Daines is going to walk his daughter down the aisle<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Seriously<\/em><\/span>, do these clowns ever\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>talk<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 Hey, it&#8217;s not like the fate of the Founder&#8217;s Republic is in the balance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We lead off the last edition of the week with the <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Have You No Sense of Decency?<\/em><\/span> segment, as Cory Booker, one of the most indecent individuals ever to curse national politics, uses his searing insight to arrive at a curious conclusion:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/cory-booker-ditch-kavanaugh-whether-hes-innocent-or-guilty\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ditch Kavanaugh, whether he\u2019s \u2018innocent or guilty<\/span><\/a>\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jaewo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63466\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jaewo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jaewo.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jaewo-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, amid the ongoing FBI probe into sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, suggested the Senate needs to\u00a0\u201cmove on\u201d to another Supreme Court nominee\u00a0whether Kavanaugh is innocent or guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Booker, D-N.J., <em>days earlier <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">backed<\/span>\u00a0the FBI\u2019s re-opened supplemental background investigation into Kavanaugh<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But\u00a0amid speculation that the probe could come to an end any day now, Booker indicated Tuesday that <em>it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">too late<\/span> for Kavanaug<\/em>h.<\/span> He said his &#8220;credibility&#8221; has already been challenged <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>echoing the latest Progressive talking point<\/em>)<\/span> his &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>temperament<\/em><\/span>&#8221; revealed at last week&#8217;s heated hearing with him and accuser Christine Blasey Ford.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cUltimately\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not whether he&#8217;s innocent or guilty<\/em><\/span>, this is not a trial&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>have enough questions been raised that we should not move on to another candidate<\/em><\/span>?\u201d<\/strong><\/span> Booker, a potential 2020 presidential candidate,\u00a0said on Capitol Hill Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Republicans seized on the remarks, with GOP Chairwoman\u00a0Ronna McDaniel tweeting\u00a0that it shows &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Senate Democrats finally admit that they don\u2019t even care about getting to the truth<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span> been about the truth for Dimocrats; because, like their father the Devil, the truth <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is not in them<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Case in point: Booker&#8217;s deliberate misrepresentation of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the facts<\/em><\/span>, aka, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the truth<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OGGUQjSi1TQ?start=21\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, Senator Spartacus, we weren&#8217;t aware ANY of Kavanaugh&#8217;s accusers knew him &#8220;well&#8221;, let alone would be considered &#8220;intimates&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, writing at the <em>WSJ<\/em>, Jason Riley highlights&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-mitchell-memos-devastating-conclusions-1538519778\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">The Mitchell Memo\u2019s Devastating Conclusions<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-mitchell-memos-devastating-conclusions-1538519778\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The outside prosecutor demonstrates that Ford\u2019s allegations against Judge Kavanaugh don\u2019t stack up<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/im-29037.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63498\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/im-29037.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/im-29037.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/im-29037-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Rachel Mitchell, the outside prosecutor hired by Senate Republicans, took some heat last week for the methodical manner in which she questioned Christine Blasey Ford, the college professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were in high school more than 35 years ago. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Supporters of Judge Kavanaugh had expected Ms. Mitchell to be more combative, but she was more interested in being thorough. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Now<\/span><\/em> we know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>why<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>On Sunday Ms. Mitchell sent senators a nine-page memo outlining her assessment of Ms. Ford\u2019s testimony, <em>and the portrait she paints of the accuser is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">devastating<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> Ms. Mitchell writes that Ms. Ford \u201chas not offered a consistent account of the alleged assault\u201d\u2014when it happened and what occurred\u2014and has even \u201cstruggled to identify Judge Kavanaugh as the accuser by name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201c<em>A \u2018he said, she said\u2019 case is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">incredibly difficult to prove<\/span><\/em>,\u201d writes Ms. Mitchell. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But this case is even weaker than that<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dr. Ford identified other witnesses to the event, and those witnesses either refuted her allegations or failed to corroborate them.\u201d<\/span> One of those supposed witnesses is Leland Keyser, a lifelong friend of Ms. Ford, whose attorney has stated: \u201cSimply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sexual-assault victims, we are told, sometimes experience memory lapses, and given the amount of time that has passed since the alleged event occurred in the early 1980s, it\u2019s no surprise that Ms. Ford doesn\u2019t remember every detail. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What\u2019s remarkable is how Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee <em>have attempted to turn her inconsistent statements and memory lapses <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">into a virtue<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">By\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their<\/span> <\/em>logic,<em> the hazier the recollection, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the more credible the allegation<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Ms. Mitchell, who has been prosecuting sex-related and other crimes for nearly a quarter-century, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t buying it<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>And neither are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 Nor, for that matter, as this article from <em>Frontpage Mag<\/em> forwarded by Jeff Foutch details, is David Horowitz:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-page-title\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/271471\/sorry-blurting-it-out-christine-blasey-ford-liar-david-horowitz\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sorry for Blurting It Out, But Christine Blasey Ford is a Liar<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"field-subhead\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/271471\/sorry-blurting-it-out-christine-blasey-ford-liar-david-horowitz\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">And her story isn\u2019t credible<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/passed-lie-detector-tests-ted-bundy-serial-killer-travis-walton-ufo-36536659.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/passed-lie-detector-tests-ted-bundy-serial-killer-travis-walton-ufo-36536659.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/passed-lie-detector-tests-ted-bundy-serial-killer-travis-walton-ufo-36536659.png 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/passed-lie-detector-tests-ted-bundy-serial-killer-travis-walton-ufo-36536659-251x300.png 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Any fair-minded observer of the Kavanaugh proceedings would have noted that no one \u2013 Republican or Democrat &#8211; so much as laid a glove on his female accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, even though she had come forward to destroy the life of an exemplary individual and his family. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>No one<\/em>\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dared\u00a0to do so<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> Call this feminine or victim privilege. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Kavanaugh\u2019s<\/em><\/span> high school yearbooks with tales of drinking <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were fair game<\/em><\/span>, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ford\u2019s<\/em><\/span> \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>which openly talk of the girls\u2019 sexual promiscuity and boast of girls passing out at drinking parties<\/em><\/span> &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were not<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Nor were her extensive political connections to the anti-Trump left, the pro-abortion movement, the Democratic Party <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and even the law firm involved in the Steele dossier<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jf60n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jf60n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jf60n.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jf60n-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>On the face of it<\/em><\/span>, Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s story is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not only unsubstantiated<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It isn\u2019t credible<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The destruction of Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s reputation is the equivalent of a modern-day lynching<\/em><\/span> \u2013 the third that Democrats have orchestrated in the last twenty-seven years. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It\u2019s despicable<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> At least Republicans like Lindsey Graham have laid that charge at the door of the Democratic culprits who worked so hard to accomplish it. <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">But, <em>as a nation, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we have obviously not reached the point where we can grant women true equality by confronting their lies and their reckless accusations with the same candor and frankness we would if they were coming out of the mouths of men<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, in a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>must-read<\/em><\/span> commentary at <em>NRO<\/em>, Kevin Williamson maps out&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/kavanaugh-confirmation-battle-mass-hysteria-roots\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-10-04&amp;utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Road to Waco<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/kavanaugh-confirmation-battle-mass-hysteria-roots\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-10-04&amp;utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">On our current moment of mass hysteria<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/JanetRenoWaco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/JanetRenoWaco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/JanetRenoWaco.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/JanetRenoWaco-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Janet-Reno-2a-Part-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Janet-Reno-2a-Part-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Janet-Reno-2a-Part-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Janet-Reno-2a-Part-2-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The case of Frank Fuster has been back in the news thanks in part to this magazine\u2019s efforts at reminding the public of the injustice of his situation. <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Fuster is, as\u00a0<span class=\"small_caps\">National Review<\/span>\u2019s headline put it,<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2018\/09\/10\/the-last-victim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Janet Reno\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"small_caps\">Last Victim<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>,<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u00a0the last man serving time for a conviction resulting from the \u201cSatanic ritual abuse\u201d hysteria of the Eighties and Ninet<\/strong><strong>ies.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>Fuster is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">certainly<\/span> a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">criminal<\/span><\/em> (he served time for homicide, and there is no question as to his guilt in that matter), <em>and he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">may<\/span> even be a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">child molester<\/span><\/em>, <em>but it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">almost certain<\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he did not commit the crimes for which he was convicted<\/span>, because it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">almost certain<\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">those crimes did not occur at all<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>In Fuster\u2019s case and in others like it, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>discredited and unethical psychological and pseudo-psychological techniques were used to unearth \u201crecovered memories<\/em><\/span>\u201d<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em>sound <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">familiar<\/span>?!?<\/em>)<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in children<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>memories that were then used to convict men and women<\/em><\/span>, many of them workers in day-care centers, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>of sexual assault<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The stories the children told were, as stories invented by little children often tend to be, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>preposterous<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> They told not only of being sexually abused but of being transported via flying saucer to outer space to be abused, of being taken from their day-cares in American suburbs to distant Mexican prisons where they were abused and returned within the course of a few hours, of being dismembered and reassembled, of murder, being buried alive, and much more. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>That there was (of course) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no evidence that any of these things had happened<\/em><\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">again<\/span>, sound <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">familiar<\/span>?!?<\/em>)<\/span> <em>that prosecutors <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dismissed the details as inconsequential distractions from the \u201cgreater truth<\/span><\/em>,\u201d that Satanic sexual-abuse cults were real and active in Florida suburbs.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Of course, there was no evidence that these Satanic sex-abuse cults existed at all, much less that they had infiltrated the nation\u2019s day-care centers, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but that was treated as beyond question<\/em><\/span>: They <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>had<\/em><\/span> to exist, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because we were having a national hysteria about them<\/em><\/span>, <em>and we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wouldn\u2019t<\/span> be having a national hysteria about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nothing<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">would we<\/span>?<\/em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Why<\/span> would we do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Janet Reno<\/em><\/span> was prominent among those prosecutors and took the lead in the Fuster case. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">She oversaw the torture of his young wife, who was kept in solitary confinement, kept naked, denied basic hygiene (an observer testified that he found her covered with sores), subjected to sleep deprivation, etc.<\/span> <em>And though it is impossible to say at this point, it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">probable<\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">she was a party to the falsification of evidence purporting to show that a child in the case was infected with gonorrhea by Fuster<\/span>; she <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">certainly<\/span> was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">complicit in the destruction of that evidence before it could be more fully examined<\/span>.<\/em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Subsequent tests found no gonorrhea in Fuster or in the child.)<\/span> <em>Reno and her colleagues <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">exhibited absolutely moral certainty in the justness of their cause<\/span><\/em>: When the sexual abuse of children is at issue, justice will bear a great deal of innovation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sane<\/em><\/span> world, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Janet Reno would have been removed from office, disbarred, and possibly charged with criminal offenses of her own<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Instead<\/em><\/span>, President <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Bill Clinton made her attorney general of the United States of America<\/em><\/span>, <em>with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">predictable consequences<\/span><\/em>: Her most significant act in office was overseeing the massacre of religious nonconformists in Waco, Texas, schismatic Seventh-Day Adventists <em>who had been targeted by Reno because they were, she <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">believed<\/span>, a cult involved in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sexual abuse of children<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> (There were some\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/20120710211706\/http:\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1571\/is_n26_v9\/ai_14021102\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">ludicrous gun charges<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>, too.) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>But there was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">never any substantiation of that child abuse<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No problem<\/em><\/span>: As the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0put it at the time, \u201c<em>Officials said <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lack of evidence does not mean abuse did not occur<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span> Well, if\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>officials<\/em><\/span>\u00a0say so&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Our public-policy discourse is dominated by members of our elites and hence tends to reflect elite interests and, at times, elite hysterias. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">A great deal of attention has been paid in recent years to the epidemic of rape on our nation\u2019s college campuses.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That epidemic is a fiction<\/em><\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it simply does not exist<\/em><\/span>, and the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">data<\/span> suggest that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>women in college are\u00a0less\u00a0likely<\/em><\/span> than women in the general population to be raped. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">We are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> having a national discussion of rape on Indian reservations, in remote communities in Alaska, or in poor urban areas \u2014 <em>i.e., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in the places where the incidence of rape is in fact elevated<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> During the Satan-ritual-abuse panic \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and at this minute<\/em><\/span> \u2014 one of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most likely places<\/em><\/span> for a child to experience sexual abuse <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is in the home<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>especially in \u201cblended\u201d families in which minors cohabit with adult men to whom they are not biologically related<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Mothers\u2019 live-in boyfriends and stepfathers commit a great deal more sexual abuse than do the nefarious minions of Satan in underground cults.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But of course the reality \u2014 that this world is the mess we <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>With all due respect to Kevin Williamson, only if &#8220;we&#8221; is spelled &#8220;P-R-O-G-E-S-S-I-V-E-S&#8221;!<\/em>)<\/span> make of it \u2014 is too painful to accept.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">There <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are<\/span><\/em> legitimate concerns about how American police operate, but there <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t<\/em><\/span> an\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2017\/09\/police-violence-against-black-men-rare-heres-what-data-actually-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">epidemic of police shooting unarmed black men<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>Mass killings on the Columbine model are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">neither a new phenomenon nor a uniquely American one<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Mass hysterias come and go.\u00a0<\/span><em>Let us hope that the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">current one<\/span> passes before it finds <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">its<\/span> Janet Reno, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> its <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Waco<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, again courtesy of <em>NRO<\/em>, the great Victor Davis Hanson records how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/brett-kavanaugh-hearings-campus-chaos-comes-to-congress\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Campus Chaos Has Come to Congress<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/brett-kavanaugh-hearings-campus-chaos-comes-to-congress\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Senate adopted the modern university\u2019s doctrine of self-censorship, no-go zones, and safe spaces<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jf6i9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jf6i9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jf6i9.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jf6i9-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;&#8230;<\/span>During the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, we witnessed how college values have become the norms of the Senate. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>On <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>campus<\/em><\/span>, <em>constitutional due process <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">vanishes<\/span> when <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">accusations of sexual harassment arise<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">America saw that when false charges were lodged against the Duke University lacrosse players and during\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u2019s concocted smear of a University of Virginia fraternity.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Americans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may<\/em><\/span> disagree about the relative credibility of either Kavanaugh or his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">But they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> witnessed how <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the asymmetry of the campus governed the hearings<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Ford\u2019s veracity hinged on empathy and perceived believability. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>There was little requirement of corroborating testimonies, witnesses, and what used to be called physical evidence<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> In contrast, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Kavanaugh was considered guilty from the start<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>He<\/em><\/span> <em>had to prove <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">his innocence<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>One belief of the university is the postmodern idea of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>relativist truth<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>This dynamic explains why Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J) insisted that Dr. Ford told \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>her<\/em><\/span> truth.\u201d<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8230;There was little interest in discovering the ancient idea of \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the<\/em><\/span> Truth.\u201d<\/span> To do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> would have required the messy work of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>taxing the memories of teenage behavior nearly four decades prior<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Truth-finding<\/em><\/span> would have required difficult, time-honored examinations of physical evidence, the testimony of witnesses, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and even unpleasant cross-examinations about the time and place of the allegations<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Feelings<\/em><\/span> might have been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hurt<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Motives<\/em><\/span> might have been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>questioned<\/em><\/span>, <em>as they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">under constitutional norms of due process<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Also on the campus, the race and gender of people now increasingly determine who we are.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Republican<\/span> senators were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">repeatedly written off<\/span> by critics as \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">old white men<\/span>,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> unique individuals who might be disinterested or biased, fair or prejudicial<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Kavanaugh was largely assumed guilty<\/em><\/span>, in part for once being a privileged white kid of 17 who had gone to a prep school.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>Meanwhile, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Booker<\/span>, by virtue of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> being old and white, was considered a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">credible<\/span> senatorial examiner.<\/em> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">No one cared that Booker <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>had once invented stories<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>i.e., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lied<\/span>!!!<\/em>)<\/span> <em>about an imaginary friend named \u201cT-Bone.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Such blanket race- and age-based stereotyping <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was not even consistent<\/em><\/span>. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) is 72 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> white. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Yet given his progressive politics, no one dismissed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>him<\/em><\/span> on the basis of gender and age, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">much less for being a serial fabricator<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>i.e., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">liar<\/span>!!!<\/em>)<\/span> w<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ho concocted false stories of being a Vietnam veteran<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Senate also adopted the modern university\u2019s doctrine of self-censorship, no-go zones, and safe spaces.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Given issues of gender and the university concept that accusations of sexual assault inherently are exempt from constitutional protections of due process, Ford was more or less excused from normally tough cross-examination.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>In her testimony, Ford <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never explained<\/em><\/span> why, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>despite her self-professed fear of flying<\/em><\/span>, <em>she has been a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">frequent flyer on business and leisure trips<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ford\u2019s privacy and medical status were understandably\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(&#8220;<em>understandably<\/em>&#8220;&#8230;<em>why?!?<\/em>)<\/span>\u00a0to be respected and off-limits.<\/span> Yet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ford<\/em><\/span> suggested that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>her friend<\/em><\/span>, Leland Ingham Keyser, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was suffering from \u201csignificant health challenges\u201d after Keyser did not corroborate Ford\u2019s allegations<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ford was never really asked why her narratives concerning the number of witnesses to the alleged assault and their genders were not compatible.<\/span> Her accounts of the location and time of the alleged assault were either inconsistent or nonexistent.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>In contrast<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Kavanagh was grilled on everything<\/em><\/span> from his high-school yearbook to a made-up accusation that he once committed sexual assault on a docked boat in Newport, R.I.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Swarming and shouting down those who hold different views in order to shame and intimidate them is part and parcel of the modern university.<\/span> Now, we are seeing such campus street theater in Congress. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">During a break in the hearings, female protesters cornered Senator Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) in an elevator and screamed in his face.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The psychodrama worked \u2014 just as it usually does on campus. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A shaken and flushed Flake soon backed down from his stated intention of voting to confirm Kavanaugh.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Campuses are no longer out-of-touch ivory towers.<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em> Their creed is now beginning to run the country, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">which is frightening<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this recent entry from the\u00a0<em>Morning Jolt<\/em>, as Jim Geraghty records for posterity&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">How the Kavanaugh Fight Will Shape Our Politics<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rapist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rapist.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rapist.png 371w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rapist-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>You no doubt recall that during the 2012 presidential campaign, then-Senate majority leader Harry M. Reid accused Mitt Romney of having not paid any taxes over the past decade. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It wasn\u2019t true<\/em><\/span>; Romney released tax returns <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>showing<\/em><\/span> that it wasn\u2019t true.<\/span> In 2015, CNN\u2019s Dana Bash pressed him <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>about telling a blatant lie<\/em><\/span>, Reid responded,\u201c<em>Romney <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">didn\u2019t win<\/span>, did he<\/em>?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That is the only lesson anyone in politics is going to take from everything surrounding the Kavanaugh confirmation<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--square ad-unit--inline\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__inner\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-react-component=\"AdUnit\" data-unit=\"inline_2_mobile\" data-hide-subscribers=\"true\" data-lazy-load=\"\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>There is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no<\/em><em> circumstance<\/em><\/span> where everyone involved with those norm-breaking steps suddenly wakes up, has a crisis of conscience, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and realizes that they were morally wrong<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only way<\/em><\/span> they decide <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not to take similar steps in the future<\/em><\/span> is if they conclude that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>those steps are not effective<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>If these sorts of tactics <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">work<\/span>, we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span> get <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more of them<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Senators, <em>I hate to be the one to tell you this, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">there is never going to be enough political cover to stop activists from yelling at you<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only<\/span> thing that will stop the Left from hating you is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">total capitulation<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> There <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> another option of course, <em>which is to teach them the hard lesson that everything they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tried<\/span> against you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did not work<\/span> in its intended goal<\/em>, <em>which is to get you to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">vote against Kavanaugh<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">All of this is to sway you, frighten you, intimidate you, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and bend you to their will<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The future of American politics depends upon Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Mazie Hirono, Richard Blumenthal, Jane Mayer, Emily Bazelon, Michael Avenatti, Brian Fallon, and all the rest saying <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>after<\/em><\/span> the confirmation vote and the 2018 midterms, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Wow<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> <em>didn\u2019t work<\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>All of which confirms our long-held belief this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should be<\/em><\/span>, as\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Kim Strassel relates at the WSJ,<\/em><\/span>\u00a0an easy vote for Kavanaugh:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Don\u2019t tell the \u201cresistance,\u201d but the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hard vote to defend<\/em><\/span> would be a \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no<\/em><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That\u2019s the vote<\/span> that would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">legitimize<\/span> these shameful tactics and <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">guarantee<\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #008080;\"> similar gruesome treatment for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">future<\/span> nominees. <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That\u2019s the vote<\/span> that turns <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">#MeToo<\/span> into <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">#MeCarthyism<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">It\u2019s the vote that potentially removes Judge Kavanaugh from even his existing position, as Democrats pursue perjury charges and impeachment. <\/span><em>A \u201cno\u201d is a vote against every value Republican senators <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">claim<\/span> to hold dear\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">due process, the presumption of innocence, civility, conservative jurisprudence, the Senate\u2019s solemn role in advice and consent<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Democrats want Republicans to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fear<\/em><\/span> this vote.<\/span> Republicans should <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>embrace<\/em><\/span> it. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Because it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the right thing to do<\/span>, and because <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the Supreme Court rulings that will come with a Justice Kavanaugh will serve as a point of pride for decades to come<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What worries us is the demonstrated absence of character and moral courage in the individuals we&#8217;re dependent upon to deliver the message.\u00a0 Where <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would we be<\/em><\/span> without the knowledge <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>God is in control<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A comforting certainty which allows us to consider\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/afb100218dAPR20181002024506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/afb100218dAPR20181002024506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/afb100218dAPR20181002024506.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/afb100218dAPR20181002024506-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mle181002c20181001094704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63491\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mle181002c20181001094704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mle181002c20181001094704.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mle181002c20181001094704-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/payn_c16038720181002120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63492\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/payn_c16038720181002120100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/payn_c16038720181002120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/payn_c16038720181002120100-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/yearbook.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/yearbook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/yearbook.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/yearbook-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rodentstein.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63463\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rodentstein.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rodentstein.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rodentstein-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-4-18-at-8.27-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-4-18-at-8.27-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-4-18-at-8.27-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-4-18-at-8.27-AM-300x210.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-3-18-at-8.31-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-3-18-at-8.31-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-3-18-at-8.31-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-3-18-at-8.31-AM-300x151.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-1.jpeg 477w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-1-226x300.jpeg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-1.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-1-300x277.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-3-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-3-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-3-1.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-3-1-300x289.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63457\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-4.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-4-300x277.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, courtesy of the\u00a0<em>American Liberty Report<\/em> via Richard Colt, we&#8217;ll call it a week with this summary of&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanlibertyreport.com\/articles\/important-stories-hidden-from-america-during-the-kavanaugh-circus\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Important Stories Hidden from America during the Kavanaugh Circus<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jfbia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jfbia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jfbia.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jfbia-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>We\u2019re starting to think that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>certain members of the media don\u2019t like white men<\/em><\/span>, especially the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>American<\/em><\/span> kind. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">You know we\u2019ve turned a strange corner when a Supreme Court nomination can be derailed for the crimes of \u201cbeing white\u201d and \u201cmake flatulence jokes in a high school yearbook.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Those are barely misdemeanors<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The problem is that while the media is demonizing the men of one race, there are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a ton<\/em><\/span> of big, nationwide coverage-worthy stories out that there that are\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span>\u00a0being covered.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Here are some major stories the media has ignored while reassuring us that Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s toxic white male privilege is the worst thing ever<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>See if you notice a pattern<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Okay folks, nothing to see here&#8230;move along!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, October 5th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, two quick observations.\u00a0 First, if Joe Scarborough can see it&#8230; \ufeff &#8230;it&#8217;s as undeniably obvious as the ears on Obama&#8217;s head. Second, only the Party of Stupid could create this confluence of calamitous circumstances: As Kavanaugh vote looms, GOP Sen. Daines says he&#8217;s going to daughter&#8217;s wedding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63580,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63579\/revisions\/63580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}