How Borked Was Born

This article in the WSJ doesn't even begin to tell the tale. I watched every second of those hearing getting more and more incensed until I feared I'd sustain serious brain damage. If anyone had said then that those same cretinous senators would still be sitting in those same seats 20 years later, I would labeled him a madman and a fool.

I'll never forget the look on Bork's face when Leahy berated him for not doing pro bono work. He had just explained that he left Yale to work in a private law firm to make enough money to pay his wife's huge medical bills.

Then Laurence Tribe (may he rot in hell until infinity and beyond) actually lied about the events surrounding the firing of Archibald Cox. Or how about Teddy who asked a weighty question obviously written out for him phonetically and then when Bork started to answer, promptly dozed off.

And who can forget the anti-Bork ads paid for by Norman Lear and starring the sonorous tones of Gregory Peck (may he join Tribe in eternal agony) mouthing more lies and innuendoes. Peck is banned from my house. Nothing he’s ever appeared in can be shown here.

I have to stop now because I don’t want to get into that dangerous red zone.

I hope Bork has managed to live a happy life in spite of being turned into a part of speech and if he sounds a little bitter now and then, he’s entitled.