{"id":178726,"date":"2018-09-04T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/04\/what-a-pathetic-punk\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T02:03:00","slug":"what-a-pathetic-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/04\/what-a-pathetic-punk\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Pathetic Punk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever want to see a portrait of cowardice, just watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2018\/sep\/04\/parkland-father-rejects-white-house-excuses-after-kavanaugh-fails-to-shake-hands\">Brett Kavanaugh slink away from the parent of a Parkland shooting victim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">When the father of a school shooting victim held out his hand to Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for the supreme court on Tuesday, Judge Brett Kavanaugh looked at him, then turned without saying a word and walked out. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put out my hand and I said: \u2018My name is Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, who was murdered in Parkland,\u2019 and he walked away,\u201d Guttenberg said in an interview with the Guardian. <\/p>\n<p>The moment was captured in dramatic photographs, as well as on video from several different angles. In a statement after the incident, a White House spokesman said that \u201can unidentified individual\u201d had approached Kavanaugh as he was preparing to leave for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/sep\/04\/brett-kavanaugh-protests-disrupt-senate-supreme-court-hearing\">confirmation hearing\u2019s<\/a> lunch break and that \u201cbefore the Judge was able to shake his hand, security had intervened\u201d.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">&nbsp;\u201cIf you watch the video, you see that\u2019s not the case, \u201d Guttenberg said. \u201cWhat the White House said was not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh made eye contact with him \u201clong enough for me to say who I was\u201d, Guttenberg said. \u201cHe could have absolutely shook my hand and said: \u2018I\u2019m sorry for your loss.\u2019 I mean \u2013 if nothing else.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s a miserably excuse for a human being completely lacking in decency.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the very modern model of the modern Republican judicial nominee.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sb02JXe0C_c\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever want to see a portrait of cowardice, just watch Brett Kavanaugh slink away from the parent of a Parkland shooting victim: When the father of a school shooting victim held out his hand to Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for the supreme court on Tuesday, Judge Brett Kavanaugh looked at him, then turned without &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,531,387,407,374,401],"class_list":["post-178726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-gun-laws","tag-hypocrisy","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}