The Kavanaugh effect: The next Andrew Breitbart is watching

The Washington Times ^ | Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Larry O'Connor

[E. Pluribus Unum]

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Anyone who knew the late Andrew Breitbart knew that there was one seminal moment in his youth that altered the course of his life and, by extension, the course of American history: the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings of 1991.

Fresh from his American history degree at Tulane University, Breitbart was a self-described “default liberal.” As a child growing up on the tony streets of Brentwood in West Los Angeles, he was surrounded by liberals. The only real and legitimate “permissible” political identity was liberal. “It was my factory setting,” he would say. Four years at a liberal arts university did nothing to alter that fact.

So there he was with the rest of America watching the Anita Hill sexual harassment testimony play out on national television. He heard that Judge Thomas was some kind of predatory monster who had to be “taken down” for his horrible behavior. He tuned in expecting, wanting this man to get what he deserved for being so horrible to Ms. Hill.

“I watched Day One, I watched Day Two, I watched the entire thing,” he said years later in an interview on C-SPAN. “I went from wanting him to be taken down to saying, ‘Where’s the beef? What’s going on here?’

“I don’t understand what I’m watching here. I don’t understand the color commentary that’s on the screen, where they’re saying, ‘Oh, this is outrageous.’ And I didn’t understand the bumper stickers that were going by me on the streets that say ‘I believe Anita.’ I believe Anita WHAT? What’s going on here?”

[YogicCowboy]

Then there are those of us who never needed such a travesty in order to embrace conscious conservatism.

I am tired of the Prodigal Sons (for lack of a better descriptor) getting far more credit than the Dutiful Sons.

People like Andrew Breitbart and David Horowitz do a lot of damage before they have an epiphany - if they ever do.

[Zeneta]

I do remember one thing.
It took hours and hours but..
By the time I was done with it,
I was so involved, I didn’t know what to think.
I carried it around with me for days and days..
Playing little games
Like not looking at it for a whole day
And then... looking at it.
To see if I still liked it.
I did.

I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat...
The more I look at it,
The more I like it.
I do think it’s good.
The fact is..
No matter how closely I study it,
No matter how I take it apart,
No matter how I break it down,
It remains consistent.
I wish you were here to see it.

“Indiscipline”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiS2LZhLvYw

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

To the contrary - “liberals” are sophists who manipulate and use ad hominem arguments.