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People across the world tuned in to watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh give their testimonies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
And all across the world, people were tweeting their reactions.
Stephen King was among them. And he made it very, very clear who he was supporting.
Her testimony is terrifying and heartrending.
She says they laughed while It was happening.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 27, 2018
The following tweet, which he posted as the day was drawing to a close, has since been shared over 25,000 times.
Ask yourself who has more motivation for lying: the professor who’s had her whole life turned upside down, or the judge who stands to land a lifetime job at a quarter-mill a year, plus bennies the ordinary Joe can only dream about?
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 27, 2018
Finally, King used a reference from the Coen brothers’ Miller’s Crossing to draw a parallel with Kavanaugh.
Joel and Ethan Coen on Kavanaugh’s tears (from Miller’s Crossing): “I’d just squirt a few and then you’d let me go again.”
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 28, 2018
King’s referring to a line spoken by John Turturro’s character, Bernie Bernbaum, to main character Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne).
Earlier in the film, Reagan takes mercy on Bernbaum, opting not to kill after the man breaks down crying in front of him.
Later, we realise his tears were nothing more than an attempt to save himself.
