I Like Beer

2018

Date: 27 September 2018 · Place: Hart Senate Office Building, Washington D.C. · Senate Judiciary Committee hearing · Figures: Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court nominee · Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator (Rhode Island) · Christine Blasey Ford, accuser who testified that morning · Tags: SCOTUS, Hearing, Beer 01. The Phrase Brett Kavanaugh, nominated to the Supreme Court, testifies the same afternoon Christine Blasey Ford has accused him of a 1982 sexual assault. Under questioning about high-school drinking, Kavanaugh repeats the phrase 'I like beer' six times in roughly two minutes. He volunteers it. He returns to it. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asks if he ever drank to the point of memory loss. Kavanaugh asks back: 'Have you?' 02. Brewing Calendar Within hours the clip is supercut and looped. SNL opens that Saturday with Matt Damon as Kavanaugh, scowling, slamming a beer. Bars in D.C. and Brooklyn put 'I Like Beer' on chalkboards. The line outlives the hearing. Kavanaugh is confirmed on 6 October 2018 by a 50-48 Senate vote. The phrase remains a permanent search-result for his name. "I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. I liked beer. I still like beer." — Brett Kavanaugh, sworn testimony, 27 September 2018 Sources • Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, 27 September 2018 • Sheryl Gay Stolberg, 'Kavanaugh defiant, denies allegation in Senate testimony,' New York Times, 27 September 2018 • Know Your Meme, 'I Like Beer'