As far as human beings go, Brock Turner, the recently convicted rapist who violated an unconscious woman behind a dumpster, is about as loathsome as they come. In her extraordinarily powerful statement, Brock’s victim was rightfully aghast that the writer of the news article about the attack felt it necessary to make note of Brock’s accomplishments on the Stanford University swim team.
Quoting from her statement:
And then, at the bottom of the article, after I learned about the graphic details of my own sexual assault, the article listed his swimming times. She was found breathing, unresponsive with her underwear six inches away from her bare stomach curled in fetal position. By the way, he’s really good at swimming. Throw in my mile time if that’s what we’re doing. I’m good at cooking, put that in there, I think the end is where you list your extracurriculars to cancel out all the sickening things that’ve happened.
As reprehensible as Brock is, his father is no prize, either. True, Brock’s dad isn’t a rapist, but he’s getting an appropriate helping of opprobrium for his own letter filled with ludicrous and offensive assertions that Brock’s a good kid otherwise, except for that whole rape thing. Actually, he’s not even calling it a rape. He’s calling it “20 minutes of action.” Brock’s dad (hereafter known as “B.D.”) thinks it’s important to know that his son used to have an “easy going personality and welcoming smile,” is a “very humble person,” and that he’s a “very good cook.” Of course, the swimming came into play. B.D. cites his son’s “60% swimming scholarship” to Stanford and also points out that Brock was a solid baseball and basketball player, too.
Want to throw up yet? Go ahead and come back. I’ll wait.
All right, so it’s pretty clear here that Brock is scum, and that all of the swimming records he’s broken and great omelettes he’s made are entirely negated by his crossing a clear line of fundamental human decency. B.D. laments that Brock will have to be a registered sex offender for his whole life, but reasonable human beings who don’t think a record time in the butterfly relay mitigates sexual assault have no problem with Brock having to bear such legal consequences for as long as he lives. After all, his victim doesn’t get emotional or spiritual probation from her suffering, so why should Brock?
So here’s a question – how many of you would be willing to vote for Brock for president?
What? Why not? Well, okay, he’s only twenty, and we don’t know what his politics are. But let’s pretend he’s now thirty-five, agrees with you on every single issue, and that he has real political talent and skill. Not too big a stretch, really – if you take his dad’s word for it, little Brockie had a solid work ethic and a good academic record. Are you really going to let this one little rape get in the way of all the good things he’s done – and all the good he could do as your Commander in Chief?
No? Okay, well, how about B.D.? He didn’t rape anybody. All he did was make excuses for his son the rapist. Why should a dad be held responsible for his son’s actions – actions he tried to excuse, minimize, and refuse to fully acknowledge? (Dad chalks this up to a problem of “alcohol and promiscuity,” not the fact that his kid mauled an unconscious woman behind a dumpster.)
No? Not even if B.D. were running against someone as odious as Donald Trump?
Yes. I’m going there.
The bottom line is that Bill Clinton should never go anywhere where he doesn’t hear the name Juanita Broaddrick, who told five contemporaneous witnesses in 1978 that Clinton raped her when he was the Arkansas Attorney General. Or Eileen Wellstone, the woman who accused him of rape when he was a college student at Oxford. Or Kathleen Willey, a volunteer in his White House that Clinton sexually assaulted on the day her husband committed suicide. Not a day should go by when he’s not asked about his multiple trips on a private jet to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s island of underage sex slaves. Or about the seven women who reported varying levels of sexual assault when he was Governor of Arkansas. Or the fact that he lost his law license and his ability to practice in front of the Supreme Court because he repeatedly perjured himself on sexual topics.
The record demonstrates a clear and persistent pattern of sexual predation on Bill Clinton’s part, yet many of the same people who are outraged over the outrageous Brock Turner are ecstatic that Hillary Clinton could very well be our next president. After all, Hillary isn’t a sexual predator herself, is she? Why should she be held accountable for Bill’s twenty minutes of action?
Yeah, if you think B.D.’s letter was bad, read Juanita Broaddrick’s chilling account of Hillary’s veiled threats to keep her quiet. Review all the witnesses who recall Hillary’s considerable efforts to silence and destroy the women who came forward against Bill. Recognize that, regardless of her politics, this is a woman who, together with her husband, has crossed a line of basic human decency that ought to exclude her from polite society of any kind, let alone the most powerful office on the planet.
Although I hear Bill, like Brock, is a very good cook. I wonder what his swimming times are.