Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Character Witness, Cont'd. [UPDATED]


We noted the other day that the mystery boy in the room when right-wing former political operative Judge Brett Kavanaugh assaulted Christine Blasey Ford (yes he did, we absolutely believe her) was a clown by the name of Mark Judge, a classmate of Kavanaugh's at all-male Georgetown Prep. An admitted blackout drinker, Judge apparently has a -- surprise! -- nasty view of women going back to his prep school days (more about him later). Kavanaugh himself has some interesting entries on his Georgetown Prep yearbook page, like references to "Devil's Triangle" (three way sex), "100 kegs or bust", "Rehoboth Police Fan Club," "Maureen--Tainted Whack," "Wendy Whitney Fan Club" and more (click to enlarge image):

Here's his wretched buddy Judge's yearbook page:

Given those thoughts, maybe Judge has a history of abuse of his own. On top of that, his brother wrote a scathing letter in response to Judges' memoir about his alcoholism and family dysfunction:
"Mark claims in his book that we all lived in terror of my father’s drunken outbursts. I can only say that he is right in one thing; my family did come to fear one of its members. As another member of our family commented during one of many meetings about Mark’s behavior, 'Mark went to Markland a long time ago.' He still lives there. Sadly for my mother, that still means home.

And that’s it, that’s the real problem—not alcoholism or a lousy childhood or an abusive father. Mark is a solipsist: spoiled as a child, gazing always inward, unable to recognize any pain but his own."
This is the character witness for Kavanaugh, but worse, this is the type of person that he bonded to in school, sharing a room and lots of experiences, one of which in particular, 36 years ago, we should hear about under oath.

UPDATE: Dr. Christine Blasey Ford wants the FBI to investigate the sexual assault incident before she agrees to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She just called the Rethuglicans' bluff.