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RUSH: Now, the Kavanaugh circumstance has taken an absolutely despicable turn. Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer of the New Yorker and Clarence Thomas fame are now claiming that this story is attempted rape, that Judge Kavanaugh, Brett Kavanaugh attempted to rape the girl when they were both 17 back in high school. This is the girl supposedly locked in the room that didn\u2019t want any of this to come out.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ronan Farrow\u2019s tweet: A woman alleged to two Democrats that during high school Brett Kavanaugh held her down and attempted to force himself on her, placing a hand over her mouth and turning up music to conceal her protests. How the politicians responded is now a controversy. So you put Ronan Farrow\u2019s name in there, you know, he\u2019s got instant credibility on this. Weinstein, Leslie Moonves.<\/p>\n

So, back in a moment.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So now this has gone from being Anita Hill redux to Roy Moore redux. Anita Hill came forward and claimed that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her — while she followed him to every job and career change he made — and the evidence was a pubic hair on a Coke can. Clarence Thomas had had enough of it at some point and gave a great speech on the whole idea of a high-tech lynching. I heard it again yesterday.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d forgotten how powerful it was when he was speaking to the entire committee about this whole Anita Hill coming out of nowhere at the very end on the verge of confirmation. Well, now the same thing has happened with Kavanaugh. They\u2019ve gone to every length possible to stop his confirmation, hounding Susan Collins. In fact, they were even bribing her. They were telling her that they were going to — and they did, actually — start raising like a million dollars for an opponent to run against her if she did not promise to vote against Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n

\"\"She would not give them that. So they have ratcheted up the harassment, including sending her a massive cardboard cutout of male genitalia. All she has said is that she doesn\u2019t like the tactics of these people that oppose Judge Kavanaugh. She doesn\u2019t like the tactics. Now with Kavanaugh himself, it was originally that he had locked a young girl in a room at age 17 in high school, and she eventually got out. Now Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer have entered the scene claiming that this was attempted rape.<\/p>\n

Now, if this is true, why wouldn\u2019t this girl have come forward sometime before now? Kavanaugh has been in the news I don\u2019t know how many times in recent years. He has undergone similar congressional hearings, confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his previous posts. He has worked in the Bush administration. He\u2019s been involved in government lawyering for many, many years. Why now? Why all of a sudden now, when every effort to stop him seems to have been exhausted?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re told that Dianne Feinstein had this letter for months and she\u2019s been sitting on it, that whoever sent it to her asked her to not do anything with it, which is really odd when you think about it. Why send the letter to a United States senator if you\u2019re then gonna ask, “Don\u2019t do anything with this and keep my name out of it”? Why send it? When I heard that yesterday, it\u2019s like so much of what goes on: It doesn\u2019t make any sense. If you don\u2019t want to be caught up in this, then don\u2019t send that letter!<\/p>\n

You obviously want to be caught up in it if you\u2019re gonna send a United States senator a letter. You don\u2019t detail what happened, and then Dianne Feinstein finally decides to release it, turns it over to the FBI. The FBI says, “We\u2019re not gonna investigate this.” Well, that was yesterday. But whoever this is out in California could have come forward many times before now because Kavanaugh\u2019s been in the news many times before, including his previous appointments to the court.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been reported to be on Trump\u2019s short list since before Trump was elected. Trump put together a list of people he would nominate to the Supreme Court, and it was a very important factor in him getting elected, by the way. That\u2019s why he is judiciously following that list because it was. It was one of the stabilizing aspects of Trump. It was one of the things that helped people stabilize their view of Trump. That list of Supreme Court nominees was fabulous.<\/p>\n

He has stuck to it, and it mitigated against charges that Trump was a loose cannon and undependable and didn\u2019t know right from wrong, didn\u2019t know conservative from liberal and all. But the point is Kavanaugh\u2019s name has been out there publicly every day for three years minimum now. Why wouldn\u2019t this have been mentioned before? And if the charge was this serious — if it\u2019s attempted rape — why didn\u2019t Feinstein give it to the FBI back in July?<\/p>\n

\"\"And if it\u2019s true, why hasn\u2019t Kavanaugh told anybody about this as a warning? And why didn\u2019t Feinstein tell other Judiciary Committee members about this? Why did she hold this close to the vest and not say anything to anybody? And why didn\u2019t she asked Kavanaugh about it when they met in private or even when she questioned him in public? Let\u2019s go to some audio sound bites. Let\u2019s see. Nah. This is Trump\u2019s tweets over the hurricane and Puerto Rico. They\u2019re not letting that go.<\/p>\n

They think they\u2019ve got Trump now on this hurricane in Puerto Rico and they\u2019re gonna nail him. Let\u2019s see. I tell you what let\u2019s do. Grab sound bites 2 and 3 and 4 to start with — and 5. Yeah. Here\u2019s Clarence Thomas, sunset we\u2019re on the subject. Let\u2019s go back. He was on C-SPAN on Wednesday night. They aired a Federalist Society event that was recorded Saturday in Fort Worth. Justice Thomas spoke, and here is a portion of what he said…<\/p>\n

THOMAS: I was asking a friend this week, “What happened to the word ‘honor\u2019?” Think about it. How many peep can you use — in leadership positions today — the word that I used: “honorable”? “Honorable.” Not “the honorable.” “Honorable.” If we could use that word about more people who are in public life — people who actually ask the questions at confirmation hearings instead of Spartacus. (chuckling)<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n

RUSH: A little dig there at Cory Booker, and what he\u2019s saying makes sense. Where is the honor? Where is the respect for what\u2019s going on? We\u2019re talking about here a judicial nominee to the United States Supreme Court. Where is the honor in simply dealing with the occasion? It\u2019s United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the Supreme Court. It\u2019s the law of the land. Where is the treatment of this with any honor and dignity at all? There hasn\u2019t been any! The dignity is long gone. The honor is nowhere to be found. It\u2019s just nothing but despicable, extremist and radical left-wing politics destroying whatever they have to destroy along the way to getting what they want. Same appearance, next bite, Justice Thomas.<\/p>\n