On today’s BradCast, I’m your guest host — Angie Coiro, of In Deep with Angie Coiro. Brad and Des have one more day on the road!
Special note to anyone in our audience who’s suffered trauma hearing about or watching the Kavanaugh hearings: the last segment of today’s show is for you. My guest is DR. LASHANDA NALLS, Director of Trauma Therapy at Our Resilience in Chicago. Empathy and advice from the front lines, for both survivors and anyone in their loving circle. If you want to skip the rest and go right to that segment of the show, it’s 45 minutes and 53 seconds into the show. And my most fervent wishes for your well-being.
Jeff Flake will go down in history as a split-the-difference kinda guy. It was his “neither this nor that” stance at the end of today’s hearing that might well spell the end for SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh. I refer in today’s show to an image on the New York Times story – a screen capture of a video by Erin Schaff. A man with much on his mind.
Flake voted yes, but not until he threw a wrench in the works: he wants an FBI investigation over the next week. It was utterly unclear even to his colleagues whether that was a motion or not – I’ve got the audio in the show for you – but it started the dominoes falling. Lisa Murkowski joined him in his stance. Mark Judge, the sole alleged witness to the assault on Ford, agreed to cooperate with the FBI. Finally, Donald Trump followed suit.
So was Flake’s conscience sparked by Ford’s story, or the other allegations, or the protesters — more sexual assault victims — who followed him to an elevator and made him listen? Or did he reach sudden clarity on what this episode will look like to future generations, and decide he’d better straddle that line but quick?
It doesn’t matter, ultimately. The dominoes are down.
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The BradCast with Brad Friedman 9/28/2018Matter of Conscience? Kavanaugh Dominoes Fall: ‘BradCast’ 9/28/2018 | Guest-host Angie Coiro's audio documentation of a harrowing day in the U.S. Senate as Jeff Flake confronts history; Also: Counseling for assault survivors in wake of hearings with guest Dr. Lashanda Nalls... · · · · · Matter of Conscience? Kavanaugh Dominoes Fall: ‘BradCast’ 9/28/2018 | Guest-host Angie Coiro's audio documentation of a harrowing day in the U.S. Senate as Jeff Flake confronts history; Also: Counseling for assault survivors in wake of hearings with guest Dr. Lashanda Nalls...0:00 0:00
Supposedly on Kavannaugh’s calendar from 1982 (who keeps a 35 year old calendar?) that K provided for hearings, one of the entries is “to Timmy’s for skis w/ Judge, Tom, PJ, Bernie, Squi”
I was in college in 1982, and skis on my campus referred to ski weekends. At that time one of the slang terms for cocaine was “snow.” Ski weekends referred to all weekend cocaine parties.
Did ski (in July) in the DC area mean something different than on my college campus?
Re Alex @1. During the hearing, Kavanaugh identified “skis” as “brewskis” aka beer. If the July 1 entry relates to the date Dr. Ford says she was assaulted, it would be consistent with her allegation that Kavanaugh and Mark Judge were inebriated. Her description would not be consistent with someone who was high on cocaine.