Fred Guttenberg is the father of Jaime Guttenberg, who was a victim in the Parkland shooting. Today Fred Guttenberg today was able to make physical contact with Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s nominee for SCOTUS. Kavanaugh, clearly disturbed, turned away from Guttenberg.
You’re going to see media rip Kavanaugh for his good sense.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland victim, Jaime, tries to shakes hands with Brett Kavanaugh: "My daughter was murdered at Parkland."
White House says an "unidentified individual approached" Kavanaugh, but "before the judge was able to shake his hand, security had intervened." pic.twitter.com/IerpDMOW0h
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 4, 2018
CBS
WATCH: Fred Guttenberg, the father of a Parkland school shooting victim, approaches Brett Kavanaugh during a break in his confirmation hearing, but when he attempted to shake the Supreme Court nominee's hand, Kavanaugh appears to walk away. https://t.co/U2w8doDZr5 pic.twitter.com/xyQwhWHARr
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 4, 2018
ABC
"My daughter was murdered in Parkland."
Video shows Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, attempting to speak with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during a break in today's confirmation hearing. https://t.co/g944k9nDGc pic.twitter.com/1XNA5lnztt
— ABC News (@ABC) September 4, 2018
You get the idea. The comments from the were as vicious as expected.
First let’s frame this. Kavanaugh faced a shitstorm from minute one. democrats, led by the Vietnam hero Dick Blumenthal (D-CT), interrupted the proceedings innumerable times. The harassment got so nasty that Kavanaugh’s daughters had to be escorted from the room out of safety concerns, so wretched was the left. Now let’s also consider that Kavanaugh may not know who Guttenberg is. Further, this was not the time nor the place to do this. But there was a reason.
Guttenberg was out to ambush Kavanaugh. to embarrass him. How do I know? Let’s fire up the Twitter wayback machine. This is from July 11:
Kavanaugh must not become a Supreme Court Justice. This article does a great job of summarizing why the NRA likes him. If like me, you believe in both the 2nd amendment and public safety, this man does not. He is a risk to public safety. Please read.https://t.co/hS4dn2AehO
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) July 11, 2018
A brief perusal of Guttenberg’s Twitter account shows how rabidly left wing he is. And how anti-Kavanaugh he is. Guttenberg retweeted this
Judge Kavanaugh puts the NRA’s agenda above our lives. Call your senators now at 202-224-3121 to tell them to vote no on Kavanaugh. #StopKavanaugh https://t.co/itUOvPoE9i @GiffordsCourage
— Newtown Action Alliance (@NewtownAction) August 31, 2018
I was against Kavanaugh on the issue of guns, but as many know I also lost my brother becaus of 9/11 related cancer. I now have another reason to be against Kavanaugh. Apparently he does not care about the victims of gun violence or the 9/11 WTC attack.https://t.co/mWu3IzZOMy
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) August 30, 2018
Thank you @SenBlumenthal for your leadership on this. We must not let this nomination happen. https://t.co/LpntmxD9WE
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) August 23, 2018
Yesterday:
I will be at Kavanaugh hearings and I hope to play a role in ensuring that this man does not become the next Supreme Court Justice. https://t.co/6oC7OPlyB8
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) September 3, 2018
My heart aches for Guttenberg for his loss, but people in pain sometimes do very bad things. For all anyone knows, Guttenberg may have been holding a knife, or a shiv, to to try to keep Kavanaugh from becoming a Supreme Court Justice. He clearly said
“Kavanaugh must not become a Supreme Court Justice”
Given that the odds are very high Kavanaugh would prevail, it limits the options to prevent it. The environment was there, set by democrats. At the very least, Guttenberg was going to create a scene and make Kavanaugh look bad.
Kavanaugh was wise to avoid contact with Guttenberg.

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Looking at some of Guttenberg’s Tweets, he sounds like he expects a judge’s job is to be legislating from the bench.
I see Justice Kavanaugh turn look at the guy wondering who he could be then hurried off by security. This isn’t about a mourning father, this isnt about screeching harpies arrested for disturbing the peace, how many of the 500thousand documents have the dems actually read, it isnt about the documents.
We win they lose, the rules for them dont matter, look at lawmakers in other countries they actually go at one another, if thats how dems want it we will elect MMA to the congress. We are finished with promises of them to reform what they themselves wrote for laws. They had to organize the clown show they have no intelligent questions to ask.
Heres a sample from their fearless leader. My Friends we live in the greatest country in the history of the world. I hope you will join with me as we try to change it. Mission accomplished Barry you have changed the democrat party into the party most likely to be committed.
Fred’s last Tweet (above) seems to be a threat.
He is going to “play a role in ensuring that this man does not become the next Supreme Court Justice.”
I watched a video (one of many such) where an innocuous non-metal (in the case I watched, cardboard) was made into a razor sharp knife.
I really hope this man is not allowed to re-enter these hearings.
He’s gone off the rails.
@Wordsmith: That’s what all the left expects of a judge and if they are going to not legislate as a liberal or even adhere to the Constitution, they will be staunchly opposed.
@kitt: The left assumed when they changed the rules for confirming nominees that when the time came for them to be held to the same rules, they would simply shame the Republicans into being polite and letting the Democrats off the hook. What pisses them off the most is that what they are about to have shoved right past their sphincters, through the colon and out their throats is courtesy of none other than Harry Reid. And McConnell can remind them, “I told you so, dumbasses.”
@Deplorable me – I certainly hope McConnell enunciates every damned syllable as clearly as possible, too.
@Wordsmith: Indeed