Little Lies Mean A Lot

[turbinetree]

Froma Harrop

October 3, 2018 1:15 am

Reprinted with permission from Creators.

Brett Kavanaugh’s fraught relationship with the truth took another hit Sunday, when a classmate from Yale called the Supreme Court nominee’s claim of being a moderate drinker in college a “blatant mischaracterization.” Under oath, Kavanaugh said that he was too busy being angelic — studying and playing sports — to get stumbling drunk.

“On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer,” Chad Ludington, a fellow athlete, wrote in a statement. The drunk Kavanaugh would also turn belligerent. In one episode, Ludington recalled, he threw a beer in the face of a man who had made a semi-hostile remark.

It is a mark of the habitual liar to tell untruths that don’t even advance one’s cause. I wouldn’t want to saddle anyone with the stupid things they did in high school or college. Drinking to excess is commonplace. It’s certainly not a hanging offense if the person has since shaped up.

But Kavanaugh lied and lied in a shockingly casual manner. One example was his assertion that drinking at the age of 18, which he did much of, was legal. It took no time to check the fact that Maryland had by then raised the drinking age to 21.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/little-lies-mean-a-lot/

[mr_lebowski]

1. The drinking at 18 thing was especially ludicrous ...

When minutes later he's explaining how 'boofing' refers to 'flatulence' ... and explains the use of the word as "WE WERE 16!"

So how old were you at the time of the calendar, Brett, where you're having 'Ski's' with BJ and Squi or whoever the fuck?

Why'd you bring up the drinking age only being 18, like it was exculpatory for you to have been doing so, and then minutes later claim (when convenient in THAT context) ... WE WERE 16?

Hmmm?

No wonder IQ45 loves Cavanaugh ... dude lies as automatically as he does.