WATCH: This MSNBC Commentator Just Said The Most Disgusting Thing Anyone Has Yet Said About The Kavanaugh Allegations | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: This informational nugget was sent to me by Ben Shapiro, who represents the Daily Wire, and since this is one of the most topical news events, it should be published on BCN.

    On Monday evening, Wonkette founder Ana Marie Cox let the cat out of the bag regarding the Left's perspective on the allegations of sexual assault against Judge Brett Kavanaugh: it doesn't matter whether he's guilty or innocent. He's guilty.

    Cox was appearing on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word on MSNBC when she made this shocking claim:



    We need to judge Brett Kavanaugh, not just by what he may or may not have done, but how he treats a woman's pain. And that is something I'm going to be paying attention to on Monday. How does he respond to what's happening. Whether or not he agrees that this happened with her, does he take her pain seriously? Do the people interrogating her pain take her pain seriously? Now, I'll give you a spoiler alert, I don't think Brett Kavanaugh takes women's pain very seriously, and I know that because of the decisions he's made as a judge.

    This is a morally abhorrent statement. So if a woman falsely accuses a man of rape, we don't judge him based on whether he actually raped her - we judge him based on whether he feels the pain of a person falsely accusing him of rape. The real question of the Duke lacrosse case, by this standard, wasn't whether a stripper was actually raped - the question is whether the members of the Duke lacrosse team were sensitive to her feelings while she was falsely accusing them of rape.

    That would be an insane statement enough. But Cox goes even further: she already knows that Kavanaugh won't meet her standard of sympathy because he hasn't decided cases how she likes on key "feminist" issues, presumably like abortion. Now, never mind that Kavanaugh hasn't actually signaled that he'd be willing to overturn Roe v. Wade. Think about the underlying contention: we can tell whether you are a bad person by your level of sympathy for a rape accuser whom you believe is lying about you, and we can judge your level of sympathy by looking at your political decisions. The logic is simple: if you're a person who disagrees with Ana Marie Cox, you can be slandered as a rapist, and any attempt to rebut such accusations will amount to a lack of sympathy.

    This is Stalinist show trial stuff. It's immoral and perverse. But presumably Cox knows that and doesn't care. She knows, deep in her heart, that Kavanaugh is a bad man - and if he was just maligned as a rapist, that's a merely secondary concern. It's hard to come up with a more bad-faith approach to a serious allegation than that.