Kavanaugh’s nomination, Cosby’s sentencing: News media pornography and the enraged middle class
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he senate hearings are a study in hypocrisy. Here are two elite products bemoaning their fate, both indulged in and very immature. She with her soft voice is like an adolescent that feels she is treated badly and he blubbers like a schoolboy found out cheating. It is typical of a class in decline where the assumed privileges do not quite work any longer or are being used against them. They were handled like pawns in a power play. It also indicates the protections in place for the establishment and the constant isolation from real life because like Bush Jr. they bear little responsibility for their actions nor can ever understand what it is that working people go through in order to survive. No wonder that Kavanaugh thinks torture is okay as he has never been or ever will be tortured and Dr. Ford thinks that being roughed up is a terrible fate while she has never been really in the horrid circumstances of the victims of the US empire. —GR
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The impolite question: What would this privileged, reality-impared duo do as “guests” of ISIS?
I don’t see Blasey-Ford as bemoaning her fate. She came forward to give character information about a Supreme Court Justice nominee. First of all, your dismissal of allegations of attempted forcible rape as the kind of minor offense that only 1st world snowflakes would bother to mention, strikes me as the kind of macho bravado so unfortunately common amongst 1st world lefty intellectual art dealers. Rape is not an exclusively 1st world problem. It is terrifies, humiliates, and scars women in every nation, class and ethnic group. Blasey-Ford did not come forward to prosecute the offense or to call attention… Read more »
Perfectly argued.