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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Can We Judge Kavanaugh Fairly?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Can you take what we say about the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh seriously considering we’re conservatives and he’s a conservative? Are we defending him because we are genuinely discomfited by how insubstantial the allegations against him are, or are we doing so because we agree with him ideologically? We explore this on today’s podcast. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0

Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday, September 24th, 2018.

0:28.3

I am John Pudhord, the editor of commentary magazine with me is always senior editor

0:34.1

Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. So see the editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John.

0:38.4

And senior writer Sora Bammari. Hi Sora. Hi John. Commentary magazine, the 73 year old monthly

0:43.4

of intellectual analysis, political, property, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.

0:47.8

You can join us at commentarymagazine.com. We give you a few free reads asking to subscribe.

0:53.0

1995 for a digital subscription, 2009, 95 for an all access subscription, including our beautiful

0:58.8

monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year. Gentlemen, we of course are a wash in allegations

1:08.8

of an unsubstantial and indeed highly problematic kind that are nonetheless shaking our political

1:18.1

system to its foundations and rather than explore the ins and outs of these allegations, I think

1:26.6

maybe we want to pull back a little bit and do some self examination. I'm going to

1:31.8

posit something and then I think I'm going to ask Soraub to start off with the self examination.

1:40.2

So there are four of us in this studio. We are all conservatives and we have independently

1:49.9

and at the same time come to believe that the allegations against Supreme Court nominee

1:55.8

Brett Kavanaugh are unproven, unprovable, un falsifiable, and that simple justice

2:05.9

requires and our system in which we believe that the one is innocent until proven guilty and

2:12.6

general fairness and all of that have led us to believe that it is possible that a terrible

2:19.6

injustice is going on, even if we believe that the allegations, in this case I would say the first

2:25.4

allegations by Christine Blasey Ford, not the new allegations by Deborah Ramirez which we can go

2:32.0

into later are really shockingly and substantial and frankly not credible.

2:40.7

But even if we believe that they should be investigated and that she should have her day to

2:45.1

arid and have him answered and all of that, that an injustice is going on very potentially and

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