Why I Didn’t Watch the Dr. Blasey Ford Testimony
By Beck Holladay
The entire country skipped breakfast to watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford quietly take her oath and then assume her seat in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, September 27, 2018, everyone except me. Blasey Ford alleges Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 36 years ago when both were in high school.
It’s not that I don’t believe Dr. Blasey Ford. In fact, I think there’s not a chance in hell that she’s lying about anything that happened to her at the hands of a drunken Brett Kavanaugh.
Another Sacrifice
She has risked reputation, professional respect, privacy, anonymity, security and status so that she may simply tell the truth. Dr Blasey Ford, the victim of a brutal assault is ruining her own life, so that she may simply point out that she was a victim. The victim of a man poised to ascend to the highest court in the land. She had no choice, the validity of the Supreme Court is at stake.
