Senator Hirono Didn’t Always Tell Men to ‘Shut Up’ and Believe Accusers

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So we have this sitting senator that goes on talk shows and sits for interviews and essentially advocates the end of the presumption of innocence (due process) solely for political purposes and it turns out she is a hypocrite.  Go figure.

 

 

By John Fund

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September 23, 2018 7:56 PM

 

<iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-MCWKR6" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe> <img height="1" width="1" alt="" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=348952085304988&ev=PageView&noscript=1" /> Sen. Mazie Hirono speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, September 20, 2018. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)

When it mattered in her own backyard, with a male Democratic senator, she turned a blind eye to sexual abuse.

My, how times have changed. My, how liberals have changed.

Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opened the 1991 Anita Hill hearings by declaring that Judge Clarence Thomas must “be given the benefit of the doubt.”

In the end, eleven Democratic senators voted to confirm Thomas. That’s not going to happen with Brett Kavanaugh. Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii threatens to become the new model of Senate inquisitor. Rather than ask questions of both parties, she has made clear that her mind is already made up: She condemns Judge Kavanaugh and supports Christine Ford.

 

Hirono made some truly remarkable statements last week. “Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely comes forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed,” she insisted. She added, “I just want to say to the men in this country: Just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change.”

When the Wall Street Journal editorial page pointed out that her statements suggest that the “new American standard of due process will be the presumption of guilt,” she went further. Appearing on CNN on Sunday, Hirono said that Kavanaugh’s basic integrity had been undermined, in her eyes, during his confirmation hearings:

He’s very outcome-driven, he has an ideological agenda, and I can sit here and talk to you about some of the cases that exemplify his, in my view, inability to be fair.

In other words, Kavanaugh was less believable in her eyes because of what she assumed his political views were.

She even went on to imply that the mere allegation against Kavanaugh, even without any evidence to support it, had already damaged his credibility beyond repair:

We already have one person who got to the Supreme Court under this cloud. We shouldn’t have another.

It would be too easy to suggest that Hirono was flirting with McCarthyism in her brazen comments. She is actually flirting with medieval standards of justice, when those in power arbitrarily decided who was telling the truth and who was a traitor.

In Senator Hirono’s case, she had the opportunity to choose sides in the 1990s when credible allegations were made that Daniel Inouye, then a Democratic senator representing Hawaii, had engaged in a pattern of sexual assault.

 

Lenore Kwock, the senator’s hairdresser for 20 years, said she had been forced into nonconsensual sex back in 1975 and had suffered persistent gropings since then.

 

Kwock’s story became public after she was tricked by a campaign worker for Inouye’s 1992 Republican opponent into telling her story into a tape recorder. The tape was briefly used in a political ad until Kwock demanded it be withdrawn. Kwock told reporters she had “forgiven” Inouye, even as she stood by her story. But she nonetheless spoke cautiously: “It could cost me my business, and so I speak with tact and diplomacy.”

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/mazie-hirono-believe-accusers-not-stance-for-daniel-inouye/

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How can voters elect fuzzbrains like this?

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1 hour ago, TBoneTX said:

How can voters elect fuzzbrains like this?

Hawaii is essentially a one party state remincient of Tammany Hall.