George Will on Official Excuses Tour

October 02, 2018 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

As it becomes increasingly obvious that Brett Kavanaugh lied many, many times during his testimony, George Will has found the lying under oath loophole.

Talking about Kavanaugh’s rant in his opening statement, Will justifies it by contending …

“Put yourself in his shoes,” Will replied. “He’s exhausted after weeks of this. He’s under tremendous bombardment. He loses his temper and people say, ‘Ah-ha!’ — the very people who have been bombarding him with these accusations… they say he lacks the judicial temperament.”

And Will even treads heavily on lying about the Devil’s Triangle.

“If he looked the Senate in the eye and said, what does a devil’s triangle mean and said, it’s a drinking game and that’s clearly known to be not true — and about two minutes on Google will tell you otherwise — then it’s the thin end of an enormous wedge,” Will observed. “Because then, the presumption shifts that if you lie about ‘A’ that’s small, might you lie about ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ that are large?”

So now we have to measure lies?  How many little lies are allowed, I wonder?

Does the lie of not hearing about Deborah Ramirez’s complaint until the Vanity Fair article count as a big lie or a whopper?  Or was it a justifiable lie because the senators were being mean to him?

Let’s see, Hillary Clinton was accused of murder who went through an 11 session with congress and never lost her temper to the bombardment nor lied in any way.

Damn, Republicans have short memories.

They are also a bunch of damn snowflakes.

 

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  1. I agree that the GOP defense of Kavanaugh’s lies is messed up, but I have to share this golden oldie. When Jimmy Carter (remember when we thought he was radically religious? boy, we didn’t know when we were well off) was running for President, he said he’d never lie to the American people. Somebody went down to interview his mama, Miss Lillian, and asked her if Jimmy had ever told any lies as a boy. “Oh, I suppose he may have told a few white lies.” The interviewer jumped on this: What’s a white lie? Give me an example of a white lie! “Well,” said Miss Lillian, “do you remember when you came in and I said how good you looked, and how happy I was to see you?”

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  2. That Other Jean says:

    Miss Lillian was a trip. Loved that lady.

    As for George Will, I have been wondering at how liberal he has been sounding–at least from where he started–and how long it would last. And he’s done. He can wash off the stripes he has tried to paint on himself to look like a tiger, and just admit that a leopard doesn’t change its spots.

    Poor Brett. He has been under such exhausting pressure. There’s only one real answer for that pathetic argument: Benghazi hearings. Hillary Clinton did not resort to weeping, shouting, lying or temper tantrums. She’s a better man than he is. Wonder how she’d like to be on the Supreme Court?

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  3. easttxdem says:

    Petulant little self-entitled boys, mad that they can’t get away with hitting little girls over the head with their toys and laughing when the girls cry. Spoiled rotten brats in expensive suits.

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  4. I have no problem with Kavanaugh telling different kinds of lies. But if that’s acceptable, then Senators should be able to follow up his response, for clarification, and ask whether that was an A, B, C, or D lie. Thanks for the suggestion George Will!

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  5. I don’t remember any escape clauses in the one about “Bearing False Witness”

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  6. Lying is the Rethug modus operandi, from the minute they wake up to the second they close their eyes, and the Liar-in-Chief cheers them on for following his example.
    This particular entitled twit had been assured that the confirmation process was a cakewalk, so he rants and raves and blames Democrats because they wanted him to tell the truth.
    Lindsay Graham’s tirade was itself based on the lie that Democrats had mistreated Kavanaugh, when in fact it was Kavanaugh who showed contempt for those Senators who repeatedly asked for his Yes or No answer.

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  7. I can understand why widdle georgie isn’t offended.
    After all remember he helped prep addled ronnie with briefing books stolen from the Carter campaign and then went on TV as a “neutral” pundit praising the addled one on his performance.
    He never felt he had done anything wrong even when caught after all alls fair in war and politics.
    So if he never felt guilt why should any rich privileged scion of the inbred elite.
    I mean after all its not like they were women who can never be believed just used, like conway, ivanka and other useful puppets who have internalized the lessons that women don’t have rational brains.

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  8. two crows says:

    So this is George Will’s excuse for not leaving his party as so many others have done: “You’re being mean to our candidate for the SCOTUS. That’s proof enough that I don’t need to leave the Party of Trump. I KNEW I could find an out if I looked hard enough.”

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  9. Would Georgie Porgie let Branca use that excuse for his pitch to Thompson? Or Billy Bucks use that excuse for letting Mookie’s hit go through his legs? George Will would never let a baseball player use a lame excuse like that but we are supposed to believe it is OK for a SCOTUS nominee.

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  10. Aha we get a better understanding of why demented donnie selected such a piece of bent humanity to defile the bench.
    He knew his sister, who was an active and complicit partner in tax fraud, was on the bench and if a crooked woman could get away with criminal activity while on the bench why couldn’t a poor widdle rich boy do so?
    NYT’s story on drumpf family frauds and complicity by his sister the bent judge.

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  11. Buttermilk Sky says:

    Poor Brett is exhausted. He’s under tremendous pressure. It’s a good thing he’s up for a no-stress part-time job as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, or he might start drinking again. I understand he likes beer.

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  12. AlanInAustin ... says:

    Ya’ll need to read this. REALLY. You need to read this.

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1046915870675619841

    Back in July, Kavanaugh and his team were already collecting information aimed at discrediting Ramirez. But if they knew about it then, certainly they would have had to tell the FBI for the background investigation. It seems, though, the FBI is just finding out about this. Could it be that Kavanaugh lied to the FBI during his background check?

    Kavanaugh told the Judiciary Comm. that he heard of the Ramirez allegation *after September 23* but the above, together with text messages, PROOF THAT WASN’T TRUE.

    “Kavanaugh lied—and *not* on any ancillary point, but on a sex-crime allegation he was so scared about that he was secretly plotting with Yale friends and possibly the White House to block it.”

    Also,

    “Remember how Brett Kavanaugh expressed *shock* (*shock* I say!) at the allegations of sexual assault against him in testifying before Congress? Remember how he gave the impression he was just learning of them? *All an act*.”

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  13. I think you’ll all really like this political cartoon. REALLY. It’s by Marty Two Bulls, Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    Now if anyone can recognize white privilege, it’s one of our American Indian neighbors. Mr. Two Bulls is very, very good.

    https://www.gocomics.com/m2bulls/2018/09/30

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  14. Leave it to Geo. FWill to instruct us on proper lying…

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  15. e platypus onion says:

    I clearly recall all those times HRC snapped while being relentlessly pursued, lied to, lied at, lied about, slandered, libeled, falsely accused, inuendoed, made to testify for hours on end and belittled by the orange POS in the Kremlin Annex.

    Kavanaugh sucks. Tha is all.

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  16. He so obviously lied. And he did not take a polygraph. Ford did. What is wrong with this picture?

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