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Destroying a Man’s Life
What is the value of a man’s soul? What is the worth of a man’s reputation? Most of us would say that both are priceless: the first is a gift from G-d, the second created by the toil and sweat of the person who lives a productive and honorable life.
But the Left believes the destruction of a reputation and soul is inconsequential if they determine the cause is just.
And thus they have decided to sacrifice Brett Kavanaugh.
Judge Kavanaugh was a man who had worked as a public servant most of his life, dedicating his efforts to being of service to others. His spotless character elicited sneers from the Left, which called him a choir boy. His years of coaching girls, nurturing not only male but female friendships, and hiring women to work for him were meaningless in the face of the Left’s desire to fatally malign him. This entire disgusting display by the Left shows how deeply the secular has poisoned our society.
Dennis Prager was quoted as saying the following about our good and bad deeds:
Every one of us has a moral bank account. Our good deeds are deposits, and our bad deeds are withdrawals. We therefore assess a person the same way we assess our bank account. If our good actions outweigh our bad actions, we are morally in the black; if our bad actions greatly outweigh our good actions, we are morally in the red.
By all accounts — literally all — Brett Kavanaugh’s moral bank account is way in the black. He has led a life of decency, integrity, commitment to family and commitment to community few Americans can match. On these grounds alone, the charges against him as a teenager should be ignored.
And yet the Left says his reputation is worthless.
The Bible teaches that destroying a man’s reputation is as bad as killing or stealing or lying: we kill a man’s soul when we degrade him; we steal his credibility and honor when we promote unsubstantiated slurs; we create a living hell for him when he is forced to live in a culture that lies about him and his contributions to society.
Brett Kavanaugh is not the only one whose reputation is damaged. His wife, Ashley, his two daughters, Margaret and Liza, are wounded, perhaps irreparably; his parents are devastated by the vitriol and slurs against him; his colleagues, friends—in fact anyone whose life has touched his life have been dirtied and wounded. Every person in the media, every Senator who has not promised to support him against this travesty, every human being who not only condemned him before he originally testified to the committee, but in the face of the absence of facts are not persuaded that he has been unfairly judged on the sexual assault of Christine Ford, have committed not only a terrible injustice, but will carry the sin of their behavior for the rest of their lives. For any of them who may be religious, they have sinned against Kavanaugh and his family and against G-d Himself. And there is no making amends.
I found this story that I believe speaks volumes to where we find ourselves as a nation in how we have allowed the Left to destroy Brett Kavanaugh:
A Chassidic tale vividly illustrates the danger of improper speech: A man went about the community telling malicious lies about the rabbi. Later, he realized the wrong he had done, and began to feel remorse. He went to the rabbi and begged his forgiveness, saying he would do anything he could to make amends. The rabbi told the man, ‘Take a feather pillow, cut it open, and scatter the feathers to the winds.’ The man thought this was a strange request, but it was a simple enough task, and he did it gladly. When he returned to tell the rabbi that he had done it, the rabbi said, ‘Now, go and gather the feathers. Because you can no more make amends for the damage your words have done than you can recollect the feathers.’
Where will we find the Constitutional traditionalists who are willing to risk having their lives destroyed?
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These are campaign rallies. Every president in my lifetime has campaigned for his party in the midterms. Am I missing something? Is a campaign rally somehow unacceptable when Trump does it?
But Gary, would you change your tune if there were a red wave?
Personally, I’m not going to expend one joule worrying about the outcome of the November election. I’ll do my duty, vote Republican (and against our local sales tax hike renewal), enjoy Thanksgiving, then head to Florida for the National Review cruise.
To continue countering the media narrative. In 2018, with a mainstream media that comes straight from the pit of hell, this is important.
Hank, you know I admire you, and I respect our friendship and glad it. But we are two different cats, so to speak. It will always be thus.
Gary, the “Ever/Never” dynamic has long-passed its ‘sell-by’ date; causes folks on either end to whip into an unhealthy froth, and doesn’t advance the conversation at all. One is left to shout at the other from behind the barricades. truly vexing….
Hi, George! Having POTUS hold rallies doesn’t – in and of itself – stop the country’s work from getting done, does it?
Poppycock! Or balderdash. Take your pick!
. . . which is when?
I find this an honest but illustrative comment. You start from a position of contempt. So I’m not surprised that your assessment of anything he does reflects exactly that.
Please don’t think I am attacking you. Each of us makes our own assessments based upon our own criteria. You are welcome to yours, and I am glad to have the insight to that process. It helps me understand the reactions of many others as well.
A close relative just sent me a lengthy email. That is unusual.
She is outraged at the Kavanaugh smear. She questions the likely origins of Dr. Ford’s claims, suggesting false memory mixed with real events.
She has written multiple Senators, something outside of her usual response to politics.
Anecdote? Look at the latest poll in North Dakota. There is a basic violation of Americans’ sense of decency and fairness. People are assessing responsibility and preparing to impose consequences at the ballot box.
This post is not about Trump. I will say that Conservatives show contempt for those people who overvalue their feelings, especially when it keeps them stuck in wishful thinking (like I wish Trump wasn’t president). I have always believed that people are entitled to their feelings, but I think that after hearing about them for the umpteenth time, I’ve had plenty. If you had a child who was stuck in wishful thinking, wouldn’t you tell them it was time to move on?
I pick neither. The mainstream media in its current form is evil. Anyone who watches CNN or reads the New York Times or Washington Post (to pick just a small number of infernal news outlets) is consuming a product of evil minds.
Thank goodness for the North Dakotans. I’ll take any good news I can get!
Thank, PHenry. I always respect that you seem to respect my positions.
Let me just say again something that those who have not followed my thoughts, as you have, may not understand: My reactions to Donald Trump have nothing to do with policies he has put through, or most of the people he has put forward, certainly judges. Even Reagan couldn’t top them.
Rather, my contempt for him is strictly because of his manner and his lack of character, things that have always been with him, but I had hoped, with his attaining the Presidency, he might have realized where he was, and try and hides his needs. Sadly, it has not happened.
I prefer Cocaine Mitch’s approach. He wins.
Our fixation on the *person* occupying the office (on either end of the spectrum) and/or unexamined party connection can entangle us, while the process gets neglected, at times. This is true, it seems, most of the time; but the current occupant of the Oval Office brings it into rather sharp relief…
I actually think that Kavanaugh will create a Red Wave in Senate, but only Senate, races.
Otherwise, I predict a Blue Wave.
We shall see. Let’s talk on November 8th.
The pit of hell? Is the press demonic?
Yes.
They spread lies they know are lies to destroy a man’s life and his family. Doesn’t get much more evil than that.
At 1:00 a.m. on October 2, 2018 I awoke with a start and realized that I could vote for Trump if the Democrats nominate a SJW like Harris, Hirono, Gillibrand, or Spartacus. What an epiphany!
I am not sure if I agree with this or not, Nanda. It sounds good, to an extent, to not focus on the occupant. But this is our history. Until the Left got a hold of our holidays, we had only two Presidents, to be remembered that way: Washington and Lincoln. And we have always studied men like Franklin, Jefferson, etc. Some people think (my jury is out on this) that the study of biography is the best to study history.
This. There are new rules. This is a new era. The media is never going to play it straight.
I have had a NYT crossword subscription for a few years. I never read the paper. When I sign in to print a puzzle, I get off the front page as quickly as possible so as not to bust a blood vessel. The subscription is expiring next week, so I finally decided to cancel it and not give any more money to this publication. Of course, I couldn’t just hit “cancel,” I had to chat with an online rep. When he offered me 50% off, I said “I wouldn’t pay one cent.” His reply: “Understood.”
Gary, Mitch can only do so much. See:
Don’t idealize about stuff that doesn’t exist anymore.
I remember reading Andrew Breitbart’s book and thinking that it was good, and then I sort of forgot about it. This Frankfurt School and critical theory stuff is real.
I’m listening to Howie Carr right now. The university of Southern Maine is literally giving out credit to get on a bus to protest Kavanaugh at Sen. Collins’s Office in DC. Who is paying for the bus? The school or George Soros? Does it matter? Cocaine Mitch responds how?
This is how it works, now.
Government Is How We Steal From Each Other™
Trump holds a rally and sounds and ask like South American dictator. We are enough the banana republic, that I don’t really care. Let him try something different.
Listen to David Stockman about to structure of the economy. Watch his interview on real vision. Watch the exchange series on real vision.
You have to take the gloves off. Critical theory, Alinsky, Cloward and Piven; all of that crap works. People want their cut of the Keynesian centralized graft system or they wanted it fixed.
Bush never controlled spending either.
We are where we are.
Think about it. Why are they doing this? Because higher education is a racket. They have jobs and salaries to protect. Any principles they have are secondary. Statism pays and Kavanaugh cancels out statism.
Snort. I’m not idealizing — at least, I don’t think I am. But there was a time not too long ago when Supreme Court nominees — even Republican ones — could pass on a bipartisan basis: even Clarence Thomas was confirmed with the support of no fewer than eleven Democratic Senators.
No, things really did get worse. I think the inflection point was around 2000. Certainly I remember saying, then, that any plausible pretense of press balance was over, and we would have unleashed and unhinged coverage moving forward.
Basically, I think that’s when journalism lost whatever pride it had left after the Clinton years.
I’m addressing Gary, not you.
Damn. It’s so hard to follow those little gray lines, when you get to be my age.
It was a good point and Gary wasn’t responding.
Anyone: where am I wrong?