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After reading the story, I think Virginia Thomas is a whack-job. After all these years, she has the balls to call Anita Hill and ask for an apology and an explanation? Who does she think she is?
She is a prominent Tea Partier and married to one of the worst Supreme Court justices in U.S. history.
I'd say that she had "kook" written all over her before she picked up the phone and decided to leave Anita Hill some creepy voicemail
If some wingnut called me with a weird request I'd do as Hill did, contact the FBI....
I don't know that an apology request from a wife who has been publically humiliated falls into the "weird" category. Women never forget and rarely let go of this kind of humiliation. Perhaps she really thought that after nearly 20 years they could speak as adults and Mrs. Thomas could get closure. Guess Anita wasn't willing to give her that.
Hill didn't bother to call the FBI when she claims she was being sexually harrassed, only upon questioning when it became evident that Thomas might become a SCOTUS appointee. I'd think the sexual arrassment would call for more immediate contacting of authorites than a voicemail asking for an apology.
The correct buzzword for those scary tea party nuts is "teaps." Please use this in all future references to faux news reated stories and to posts from wingnuts. Someone has to put an end to the mean-spirited name-calling by all those dittoheads.
Smearing Anita Hill: A Writer Confesses - TIME
Brock, who has forged a second career as a recovering conservative, makes one admission that implicates Thomas. Brock says he used information that came indirectly from Thomas to force a retraction from a woman named Kaye Savage, who had come forward in support of Hill. Brock threatened to publicize vicious charges made by her ex-husband in a sealed child-custody dispute.
... A book titled Strange Justice, by reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, had just come out — and it used on-the-record interviews to argue persuasively that Thomas had indeed subjected a number of women to frequent sexually explicit remarks about porno videos. Savage, a black mid-level aide in the Reagan Administration, told both the authors and the Judiciary Committee (although she wasn't called to testify publicly) that when she went to Thomas' apartment in the early 1980s, the place was littered with graphic photos of nude women. When Savage met Brock, she says, he let her know he could ruin her. "He knew all this personal stuff," she says. "He wanted me to take back what I had said. I couldn't — it was true — but I was intimidated, and so I faxed him something innocuous. I was scared."
Thomas lied. Republicans handling his nomination knew he was lying because they were in possession of evidence that supported Hill's claims. It may not have been sexual harassment, but Republican Senators suppressed evidence that Thomas was lying.
In his cathartic book, Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas, Danforth wrote he was "ashamed" by his unchecked emotions and the methods he used to discredit Professor Anita Hill, who had accused Thomas of sexual harassment. Aware of Hills' charges, Danforth didn't tell the senators, instead trying to force a vote before the Senate had been able to hear Hill's accusations. He also threatened to refuse to support a civil rights bill if moderate Democrats opposed Thomas. "In my years in the Senate," wrote Danforth, "I had never witnessed an explosion of uncontrolled anger like mine." Danforth admitted, "I completely lost my temper in a table-pounding, shouting, red-in-the-face profane rage." Even Sen. Strom Thurmond was shocked. "You are a minister," Thurmond told Danforth. "You shouldn't take the Lord's name in vain." Aside from Danforth's irascibility, the book reveals his poor judgment in supporting a paranoid and unstable future Supreme Court justice who thought people were out to kill him long before Hill came forward with her allegations. Danforth characterizes Thomas in a state of hysterical withdrawal, nearly catatonic, clenched in a fetal position, hyperventilating and sobbing convulsively. Frightening allegations about one of the judges who sits on the highest court in the land, albeit silently, during oral arguments. Danforth asserts disingenuously, "Clarence did not want to be nominated to the Supreme Court," a claim belied by Thomas' own frequent statements to the contrary. Danforth also admits using questionable methods to tarnish Hill's credibility, with conduct so unprincipled that some of his own staff threatened to quit. Rob McDonald, Danforth's top aide, thought Danforth "had to win at any cost." "Ms. Hill was outspoken and argumentative," wrote Danforth. "In Clarence's words, 'She was certainly not a Republican. She was not part of the Reagan team.'" Indeed, Clarence had campaigned for Reagan in 1984. Often referred to as "Saint Jack," Danforth describes praying with Thomas and playing "Onward Christian Soldiers" for him just before Thomas' final defense in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "And when Clarence left my office for the Caucus Room," Danforth wrote, "it was not as a martyr with his eyes fixed on heaven. It was as a warrior doing battle for the Lord." Most alarming, Danforth expressed a fear several times that Thomas's denials might subject him to perjury charges and possible impeachment.
In his cathartic book, Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas, Danforth wrote he was "ashamed" by his unchecked emotions and the methods he used to discredit Professor Anita Hill, who had accused Thomas of sexual harassment. Aware of Hills' charges, Danforth didn't tell the senators, instead trying to force a vote before the Senate had been able to hear Hill's accusations. He also threatened to refuse to support a civil rights bill if moderate Democrats opposed Thomas. "In my years in the Senate," wrote Danforth, "I had never witnessed an explosion of uncontrolled anger like mine." Danforth admitted, "I completely lost my temper in a table-pounding, shouting, red-in-the-face profane rage." Even Sen. Strom Thurmond was shocked. "You are a minister," Thurmond told Danforth. "You shouldn't take the Lord's name in vain." Aside from Danforth's irascibility, the book reveals his poor judgment in supporting a paranoid and unstable future Supreme Court justice who thought people were out to kill him long before Hill came forward with her allegations. Danforth characterizes Thomas in a state of hysterical withdrawal, nearly catatonic, clenched in a fetal position, hyperventilating and sobbing convulsively. Frightening allegations about one of the judges who sits on the highest court in the land, albeit silently, during oral arguments. Danforth asserts disingenuously, "Clarence did not want to be nominated to the Supreme Court," a claim belied by Thomas' own frequent statements to the contrary. Danforth also admits using questionable methods to tarnish Hill's credibility, with conduct so unprincipled that some of his own staff threatened to quit. Rob McDonald, Danforth's top aide, thought Danforth "had to win at any cost." "Ms. Hill was outspoken and argumentative," wrote Danforth. "In Clarence's words, 'She was certainly not a Republican. She was not part of the Reagan team.'" Indeed, Clarence had campaigned for Reagan in 1984. Often referred to as "Saint Jack," Danforth describes praying with Thomas and playing "Onward Christian Soldiers" for him just before Thomas' final defense in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "And when Clarence left my office for the Caucus Room," Danforth wrote, "it was not as a martyr with his eyes fixed on heaven. It was as a warrior doing battle for the Lord." Most alarming, Danforth expressed a fear several times that Thomas's denials might subject him to perjury charges and possible impeachment.
The above mentioned is the very reason I am against life time appointments of Supreme Court Judges.....maybe in an earlier time and place when one did not live past the age of 40, but not today.
Originally Posted by ovcatto View Post
"Virginia Thomas calls Anita Hill, asks for an apology?"
As my grandmother would say, "That's mighty white of her."
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Originally Posted by Avengerfire
You still can't defend this comment.
Oh yes he can
"That's mighty white of you" is a scathing response to a situation in which someone is condescendingly attempting to portray their own actions as incredibly generous and worthy of gratitude, when the reality of the situation is just the opposite.
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