The Worst of Days
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
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🗓️ 27 September 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Commentary Magazine podcast. Today is one of the worst days in American history. |
| 0:30.0 | Thursday, September 27, 2018. I'm John Puthord, the editor of Commentary Magazine. You can go to our website at |
| 0:36.5 | CommentaryMagasing.com, which has just been newly refurbished and updated for your reading |
| 0:43.1 | enjoyment. With me, as always, Noah Rothman, our associate editor, Hinoa, Abe Greenwald, our |
| 0:49.0 | senior editor, Hy Abe. And senior writer, Saurabha Mari. Hy Saurab. So, one of the worst days in American |
| 0:54.9 | political history, certainly the testimony first of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. And then |
| 1:00.4 | Brad Kavanaugh, we are talking to you at 415. We have just heard Kavanaugh's repost to, or his |
| 1:07.3 | statement that came after the morning of Dr. Ford's appearance. And I think we are, we find ourselves |
| 1:18.0 | on the horns of a gigantic political, social, moral, existential dilemma, which is that we have two |
| 1:27.6 | witnesses, both delivering opening statements and testimony. Kavanaugh's testimony is just started. |
| 1:36.2 | We came in here just after he had only been talked to twice by the council for the committee and |
| 1:43.5 | once by Diane Feinstein, of course, Blasey Ford went through the entire Democratic |
| 1:51.2 | Senate and various sessions with Rachel Mitchell, the council. And we're on the horns of this |
| 1:58.2 | dilemma because I think it was fair to say that both witnesses work extraordinarily impressive. |
| 2:06.3 | It was very hard to watch Christine Blasey Ford without believing that what she, that she had |
| 2:11.5 | complete conviction about the truth of what she was saying, at least in her statement, about what |
| 2:15.9 | happened to what she says happened to her in 1982. And I think it was very hard not to listen to |
| 2:22.5 | Brad Kavanaugh and feel that he was fighting for his reputation and his life and was utterly |
| 2:31.0 | convinced of the veracity of his own words when he said that he had no idea what it was that she |
| 2:37.1 | was talking about. He never attended a party of the sort that she described. He never sexually |
| 2:42.4 | assaulted her. He never met her. He knows nothing about her. And it's a very emotional moment, |
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