Josh Hawley made quite a spectacle of himself today, going on and on about child pornography in great, lurid detail, accusing Ketanji Brown Jackson of being soft on pedophilia as a judge. It’s pretty sickening. Brown Jackson handles it very well, but it’s making an impression among the wingnuts. And it’s just gross.
Cruz did it too, but Hawley is really invested in this. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about:
Some time back, the NY Times reported this about Josh Hawley which is interesting in light of his apparently obsessive interest in child pornography:
On campus, Mr. Hawley wrote columns for the conservative Stanford Review and was active in student ministry groups. He described his worldview in gauzy phrases like “a proper sense of shared citizenship,” but drew a clearer line on at least one issue. Above his bed he hung a sepia-toned poster of a shirtless male model cradling a newborn; when asked by classmates, he said it reflected his fervent stance against abortion.
Here’s the story of that photo:
L’enfant, better known as Man and Babyis a 1987 photographic poster depicting a shirtless male model (Adam Perry) holding a young baby. The image, conceived by Paul Rodriguez was photographed by Spencer Rowell and published in the 1980s by British company Athena Posters. The photograph was said to herald the “sensitive but sexy New Man” aesthetic.
That strikes me as a little bit weird for a college boy, I don’t know about you. But whatever. He seems to have some issues. Here’s Hawley last November:
Ok.
Anyway,
Update — Oh this is good: