The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 113 - Democrats Criticize Kavanaugh For Being Angry? That's Insane
Episode Date: September 28, 2018The most insane narrative to come out of the Kavanaugh hearings is that Kavanaugh is an unfit judge because he was angry. Well, let's think about this. Why might a guy be angry at a bunch of smear mer...chants who have been trying to ruin his life, end his career, and destroy his family? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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You know, Lindsey Graham during his beautiful, beautiful monologue rant yesterday during the hearing.
And it really was a thing of beauty.
I probably watched it two or three more times.
Last night I watched the clip of it.
And, you know, I said yesterday that it was, it's the greatest rant I've ever heard from a politician ever in my life.
And that's not even close to an exaggeration.
I think by far it is.
And I still believe that.
The thing that made it so great, it wasn't just.
just cathartic to listen to, although it was that. But it was also important. Okay, not just
important because of the, you know, effect that has in this particular situation, but important
because I think hopefully it showed something to other Republicans, which is you got to just be sick
of this stuff. You've got to just be sick of this stuff from the left and from Democrats and get
angry. And when I say get angry, I don't mean, you know, there's the theatrical, rehearsed kind of
Republican anger that you see during campaigns and everything. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking
about raw and real, where you're not worried about trying to remain friends with these people,
and you're not worried about how it's going to be awkward at the cocktail party when you see them
later. But really angry and honest, one of the few times I've seen that,
from a Republican. And it was a great moment. And it was an important moment. I think that,
and I hope that other Republicans take note of it. But he, he said something. He said to the Democrats,
he said, I would never do this to one of your nominees. And he pointed out that he even voted
for, for Obama's nominees, which he shouldn't have done because their judicial philosophies are
disastrous. But either way, the point is, he said, I would never do this to one of your nominees. I would
never tear, ruin them like this, like you're doing. And you know something that's true.
That actually is true. And I, look, I've, I've criticized Republicans all the time. I've criticized
Republicans more often than I've criticized Democrats, uh, because they're the ones who are
supposed to allegedly represent me in my interests. So their failures and betrayals and everything
are more important to me. And, uh, and, and so that's why I've, I've criticized them so
often. So I'm going to be the, I'm not, I'm the last one to say that, oh, Republicans are all
perfect and, and all that stuff, because that's not true. But it is true that Republicans just,
they're not going to sink that low like Democrats will. Think about this. Republicans didn't
want Merrick Garland confirmed, right? And, and Democrats are still complaining about that.
How, look what you did you did to our nominee. Well, what did they do? They just didn't vote on them.
That's all. They didn't want them confirmed. So they didn't vote on them. That's it.
And Merrick Arland is, yeah, he didn't get to be on the Supreme Court, fine, but he can go and live his life and do whatever he wants to do. I assume he's still a judge somewhere and he can do whatever he wants.
In fact, in the end, he probably benefited to some degree by it because his name got out there and he's a sympathetic figure, at least on the left now.
And Republicans don't hate him. Nobody hates him. He's fine. Everything worked out fine for him.
So that's all. They didn't vote for him.
Democrats, though, didn't want Brett Kavanaugh confirmed, so they accused him of being a serial gang rapist, and they tried to ruin and destroy his entire life.
They ripped him apart limb from limb because they didn't want it.
Republicans could have tried to do that to Merrick-Arland, considering they controlled the Senate, they controlled the timing of everything, and so they could have dug into his past, tried to dig up skeletons.
I have no idea if he has skeletons in his closet or not.
but they could have made up skeletons if they wanted to.
I mean, they could have found someone somewhere to make some kind of accusation
and then destroyed his life that way.
But no, instead they just said, we're not going to vote on him.
That's all.
And that's the difference.
In fact, let's look at recent history.
Conservatives are very willing to criticize, not just Republicans, but I'm talking about
conservatives now.
They're very willing to criticize their own.
in the face of sexual assault allegations.
So the liberals that are, that are say, well, the only reason why all the conservatives are circling the wagon around Kavanaugh is because they want them on the Supreme Court.
No, that's actually not the reason.
The reason why conservatives are, are, now, they do want them on the Supreme Court, and there is quite a lot at stake here.
The lives of children are literally at stake here.
So we do want them on the Supreme Court.
But the reason why we're circling the wagons around them is because we think these charges are bogus and trumped up, and we think this whole thing is a coordinated smear campaign because it is.
That's the reason we're circling the wagons.
But many conservatives came out against Roy Moore, no matter how you felt about that.
The fact is many conservatives came out against them, even though that was a very important race for conservatives.
Many conservatives came out against their own presidential nominee a month before the election after the Access Hollywood takes.
surfaced. Now, there are also conservatives who will circle the wagons no matter what.
But the point is that there does exist a very sizable chunk of conservatives who have a certain
standard that they do apply relatively evenly and fairly to everyone. That just does not exist
on the left at all. There might be a few, a random few diamonds in the rough who have some kind of
something approaching a consistent standard, maybe.
But there is not at all any kind of sizable preponderance of leftists who are willing to
apply the standard that they set on, that, you know, that are willing to take the standard
that they apply to conservatives and apply it to their own.
There, there are just as, there, there are almost none who are willing to do that.
What they're doing to Brett Kavanaugh, they're doing only because they hate him for his
ideology, no other reason. And because they hate his ideology, they will stop at nothing,
and absolutely nothing. Think about this. There have been almost no Democrats or liberals.
I want to say no, because I haven't seen any, but maybe there are one or two. I don't know.
So there have been almost no Democrats or liberals who have even taken the position that,
look, the Ford allegations seem serious. Let's look into those. Okay. But
these others, and I don't think that those allegations are serious or credible,
but this is, I'm trying to describe what might be a somewhat,
here's a position that Democrats or leftists could take that is,
that at least pretends to almost sort of be consistent or semi-fair, kind of, right?
And that position would be the Ford allegations, yeah, those are serious.
The stuff about gang rape and all that kind of stuff, that's absurd.
No, they won't even take that position, okay?
They won't even do that.
They believe all of it.
All of it.
They'll take all of it.
So they're not going to, there's no discernment at all.
They say, yeah, the Ford allegations are serious.
Oh, this person's accusing, this person over here is accusing him of,
being a serial gang rapist who was part of a rape cartel, a rape mafia with his other friends,
and they would literally wait in lines outside of doors to rape unconscious women.
And they did this on an almost weekly basis for years at a time.
And nobody ever called the police or anything like that.
And there's no evidence of it.
It never turned up to an FBI investigation.
Yeah, sure, that's true.
They'll take that too.
They'll take anything, anything at all.
If somebody came forward and said that Brett Kavanaugh is a serial killer and has
has murdered 50 prostitutes, they'd take that also.
They'd say, yeah, let's have an FBI investigation into that.
It's not an exaggeration.
They'll take anything.
The Democrats on the committee yesterday, before Kavanaugh had even testified,
in fact, before the hearing itself, but even at the hearing, at the hearing, before his testimony, they said, and there were at least three, at least three of them said this.
maybe they all did some version of it.
They said to Christine Ford, I believe you.
Which means, consider what that means.
You're at this hearing.
You've got the accuser up there giving her version, which, again, as we've gone over, no evidence, no witnesses, not only no witnesses, but in fact, there are witnesses that refute what she's saying.
It does remember when, where, how she got there, remembers almost nothing except for.
Brett Kavanaugh somehow. She remembers that 100%, and she remembers the laughter, and she remembers a stairwell, okay? It's all she remembers. And she remembers, conveniently, that she only had one beer. She remembers that absolutely. Nothing else. Okay. She's given her version. The accused hasn't even said a word yet at the hearing. And they have already said, we believe you. To Ford. Which means, yes, Brett Kavanaugh.
as a rapist. They said that, they declared that without hearing the other side, just based on the
accusation. And then Kavanaugh came out and they demanded an investigation. That was the great thing.
Rather than ask the questions themselves, they demanded that Kavanaugh asked for the FBI to ask
the questions that they could have just asked if they weren't too busy asking him to ask the FBI
to ask him. And by the way, you're hearing from Democrats and liberals that the
confirmation. This is what you're hearing. You're hearing that the confirmation would only be
delayed by a week. They're saying, look, just delay it by a week. That's all. Just delay it by a week
and have the FBI investigate. That's all we're asking for. It's no big deal. Just a week. That's reasonable.
And if you don't know any better, if you're obtuse, you hear that and you say, well, yeah, okay,
that's a reason. Well, only a week. I mean, what's a week? A week is fine, right? What's a week?
What's a week after all this? It's a lie.
They're liars.
It will take a lot longer than a week for the FBI to conduct an investigation.
A lot longer.
We're talking at least a couple of months, easily eight or nine months.
And they know that.
And that's the only reason, the only reason they want an FBI investigation.
Because here's the other thing they know.
they know that the FBI investigation will amount to nothing.
It will do nothing because there's nothing to investigate.
The accuser has told us everything she remembers.
She remembers almost nothing.
They don't even have a location or a year for when this happened.
There's nothing for them to investigate.
Let's leave aside the fact that they don't investigate these kinds of things because it's not a federal crime.
A groping allegation against a 17-year-old 35 years ago is.
not a federal crime. It's not within the purview of the FBI. But even if it were, there's nothing
to investigate. So all they're going to do is just interview and get statements from everybody
concerned, which has already happened. But they know that. They just want to delay it until after
the midterms. That's the only reason. They are such liars. Everything out of their mouth is a
absolute lie. And even if it did only take a week, which it wouldn't, but I'm just saying,
even if it were only a week, or even if they found some other excuse to delay things for a week.
The reason why they'd want that week is to dig up more allegations.
Well, the point is, they already passed their verdict.
Okay.
They already passed their verdict before they heard from the accused.
It's like a jury, it's like a jury hearing the prosecutor's case, and then returned.
she gets a verdict saying, okay, he's guilty.
So then what's the point of an investigation?
There's nothing, nothing that will ever make them change their mind.
And that's the one thing, Brett Kavanaugh did a great job.
The one thing I wish he had said, which I'm not going to criticize him for not thinking
to say this, but given the circumstances, I wouldn't have done half as well as he did.
But still, the one thing I wish she had said to these Democrat senators who were asking for an investigation, I wish he had said to them, you snakes, you already said before I got up here that you believe her.
So what do you want an investigation for? You've already condemned me. What are you even asking me questions for? Why should I even answer your questions?
You're not trying to get to the truth. You've already made up your mind.
there's nothing I could
You know what he should have said? He said, Senator.
Is there anything I could say
or present to you
that would make you believe me instead of Dr. Ford?
Is there anything?
No, there's nothing.
They kept bringing up Mark Judge.
They want to hear from Mark Judge.
Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh's friend from high school.
Subpoena Mark Judge.
Well, Mark Judge already denied
the allegations under penalty of felony.
He's already given a statement.
So he said no, it didn't happen.
Here's the thing.
If you're saying that a certain event never occurred,
well, then there's nothing else to be said about it.
You're saying it didn't happen.
So that's all.
I can't answer more questions about a thing that I'm telling you didn't happen.
That's all I can keep saying is no.
But, but, and they already got their no.
Now, if Mark Judge had said, yeah, it happened, the party was there, there was some kind of
interaction between us and Dr. Ford, but it wasn't quite like that.
Right.
If you had said something like that, well, then, okay, yeah, then you have a, then you have
a very real reason for wanting him there in front of you so that he could explain,
okay, so it did happen, you're saying it wasn't quite like that.
Well, then what happened?
but there's no reason to have him there and ask him what happened because he already told you it didn't happen
that you can't say anything else about a thing that didn't happen except all you can keep saying is
didn't happen didn't happen didn't happen didn't happen didn't happen but they want him there anyway so
why do they want them to let's think about that why why do the democrats want mark judge who has already
denied it why do they want him there well um they want him because he's just a regular guy
He's a regular guy, and he apparently has a substance abuse problem,
which is what we learned at the hearing yesterday.
And so what they want to do is they want to parade him in front of TV cameras and rip him apart.
They want to take this guy in his 50s, been struggling with substance abuse his whole life, apparently.
And we can only, I know nothing about his life whatsoever, but someone who has had those problems.
for their whole lives, you know, you could only imagine that there are many other problems
compounding on top of that, probably most of the time, you know, problems with your family,
with work.
Somebody who has a substance who's been struggling with substance to be with their whole life
from the age, you know, from a teenager to now in their 50s, most likely that it has not
been a very happy life, but just put it that way.
So they want to take this guy and they want to parade him in front of TV.
cameras and they want to rip him apart and dissect his whole life every detail in front of a
national audience. They want to utterly ruin and eviscerate this poor guy and then condemn
Kavanaugh by association. Because again, there's nothing to ask him about the event because he's saying
the event didn't happen.
So they wouldn't ask him about that at all.
I guarantee you if they had, if they had judge in front of them,
they would ask him almost nothing.
They probably wouldn't ask him a single question
about whether or not this thing even happened.
They'd want to know all the nitty-gritty details
of his own personal drug use or alcohol use,
and they'd want to know all of that.
They'd want to know even years where,
even later years, where he and Kavanaugh hardly saw,
each other. And then
they don't even need to connect them to
Kavanaugh directly. All they want
to do is say, look at this pitiful
alcoholic
guy that Kavanaugh
was hanging around with. You see?
They don't need to connect the dots. All they need to do is
guilt by association. And so
Republicans, of course, aren't going to let them do that.
You think they'd have any mercy
on Mark Judge?
No, they don't care.
I mean, they would
rip him to pieces and
leave him there just a clump of matter sitting in front of them. And they don't care if he went
home and killed himself because of what they did. They couldn't care. They couldn't possibly care less.
Not at all. Someone asked me yesterday, they asked me, how do we come back from this? You know,
it seems like we've crossed some kind of threshold here. How do we come back from it? Well,
I do think in one sense, we crossed the line, a threshold. We entered a place where it really is now
just total war. One side observes absolutely no rule.
of morality or etiquette or anything.
I mean, they're even saying now if they get into power that they want to impeach Kavanaugh,
if he's confirmed.
So that means Democrats, if they get into power, they want to impeach a sitting Supreme
Court justice and the president.
So it's a total war for them.
Yeah, we should also keep in mind that we really, we crossed this threshold long ago.
And now it's just out in the open, unmistakable.
But as I've said many times, we long ago entered a place where there is no common ground
between people, no chance of unity.
People are just living in different universes.
I don't understand how anyone could have watched the hearing yesterday and come away feeling
like, yeah, that was fair on Brett Kavanaugh.
That was a fair process for him.
I don't see how any human with a soul could think that.
But there are quite a lot of humans who do in America.
And so they're at a different universe.
I cannot.
They are living in a version of reality.
I just can't relate to them.
It'd be like trying to hang out with someone who just did heroin or something.
And you're sober.
You can't.
Their mind is somewhere away over there.
And there's no, it's like you try to sit down and have a conversation with someone like that.
You can't do it.
It's like trying to sit down have a conversation with someone who's, you know,
on LSD or something.
You can't, there's no way for you to do that.
Because they're up in the twilight zone, right?
And that's how it is with the left.
They're permanently on LSD.
They're permanently in the twilight zone.
I said yesterday,
I know it was a very strong thing to say,
but I said yesterday that as I was watching the hearing,
all I could think about the Democrats,
as I was watching their performance,
all I could think is I'm ashamed to share a country with them.
and I meant it and I still mean it.
One other thing I want to say here, there's a talking point, a really frustrating yet predictable
talking point from liberals in the media and on social media, from Democrat politicians
and everybody else.
And what they're saying is that Kavanaugh was too angry yesterday.
He was too angry.
Some of them said that this means he doesn't have the temperament to be a Supreme Court justice.
Others said that this anger really lets you see how he might rape.
somebody. I read someone on Twitter yesterday, and this was retweeted and liked thousands of times,
but they said that watching the hearing, you could really picture Kavanaugh putting his hand
over someone's mouth and raping them because he was so angry. Now, we know, obviously, that if he
wasn't angry, they would have said the opposite. They would have said, well, an innocent man would
would be angry in this situation. He wasn't angry. Where was his anger? Dr. Ford had emotion. He
had no emotion. So if he had no emotions, they would have said he's a
an emotionless sociopathic robot and they could totally see how he might rape somebody.
And if he shows emotion, they're going to say, oh, he's an angry hothead.
I can totally see how he raped somebody.
So no matter what he does, it does not matter.
He's damned either way.
That's the whole point here.
That's the whole, that's why this whole process is a sham is because the people who are
accusing him and orchestrating all of this and who won him off of the court.
It does not matter what happens, what he does, what he says, what evidence is presented,
what witnesses come forward.
none of that matters, none of it matters at all,
because he's already convicted in their eyes, period.
But I can't believe I even have to explain this.
But it's okay, he was angry.
He was very angry.
And I was glad to see that anger.
Not glad at the situation, obviously,
but I was glad that he let that anger out.
And I can't believe that we even need to talk about this.
But why was he angry?
For anyone who's could,
anyone who might have watched the hearings
or is watching clips now and thinking,
oh, my goodness, he's so angry.
I'm so, it's, I, anyone who feels scared or startled by his anger, why would he be angry?
I'm so confused.
That's so, it's so disturbing that this guy's so angry.
Well, if anyone who's thinking that, let me, let me try to explain.
Imagine, imagine, imagine that you have, that you're on the cusp of a, say, some kind of, let's even, in fact, we'll even scale
this down, okay? We'll scale this down to make it much smaller than what it actually is for Brett
Kavanaugh, okay? Because for Brett Kavanaugh, this is playing out on the national, the international
stage, really, and he's being slandered by the national media and his whole life is being
effect. But let's scale it down to something that's more, maybe, you know, more accessible.
So imagine at work, you were, you're up for some kind of promotion. And, um,
There are people at work who don't want you to get that promotion because they want someone else to get it.
And so they spread a rumor that you sexually harass.
Maybe they start with a rumor that you are a sexual harasser.
And then as the days go on, the rumors that they're spreading maliciously about you get more and more serious.
And then they say that, oh, you know, you even have groped a couple of women at work.
And then finally they come up with a story that you raped a coworker in the bathroom at work.
And so they're not even, they're not just trying to prevent you from getting this promotion.
They're trying to get you fire from your job, get you put in jail.
It doesn't matter.
If you end up in jail and divorced, fine with them.
They are trying to utterly ruin you because you committed the sin of,
performing really well at work and putting yourself up for a promotion.
So imagine that. And imagine that went on for two weeks.
Would that make you angry?
How would you feel after two weeks of that?
After two weeks of these lies that you've worked so hard your whole life,
you've got to this point where you've earned a promotion.
And now not only is the promotion going to be taken from you,
but everything in your life is about to be taken.
your job, your marriage, your reputation, everything based on these lies, rumors, innuendos.
Would that make you angry?
How would you feel about that?
And if you got a chance to confront the people who have orchestrated this, how would you approach it?
Would you say, well, gee, guys, I really don't appreciate this.
I really don't.
Gee, would you stop trying to destroy my life and my marriage and my family?
Would you, please?
You know, I'd really appreciate it if you would stop.
Would you mind? Oh, you would mind. Okay, well, then continue. Sorry. I didn't mean to continue. Yes, continue destroying me. Is that how you, is that what you would say? Or would you do what Brett Kavanaugh did? And would you be furious and angry and yelling? Well, of course, no, you would take the latter option because you're a human being responding as any human being would.
So what, do you expect Brett Kavanaugh? Is he not allowed to be a human being?
Is he not allowed to be indignant?
Is he not allowed to feel angry at what has happened, not only to him but his family?
Yeah, I think anger is totally appropriate here.
And anyone who would try to hold it against him that he's angry,
well, anyone like that, that's just disingenuous at best.
All right, been a long week, everybody.
Have a good weekend.
Talk to you next week. Godspeed.
