I believe Anita Hill.
I believed her during the Uncle Thomas confirmation hearings and I believe her now.
Fuck Uncle Thomas and his whiny-ass book.
I have an old college classmate who is a lawyer professor at a local New York area law school. She was scheduled to testify at the Thomas confirmation hearings, along with a couple of other folks I know. It was gonna even uglier for ol' Clarence but his buddies on the committee finagled the hearings to a close in order to staunch the bleeding. He did everything he was accused of doing and then some.
It was a fond hope of mine that Bill Clinton would have appointed Barbara Jordan to the Supreme Court, just to have her withering stare haunt Thomas every day for the rest of his career.
chalk me up as one who believed professor hill back then, and still believes her now.
she gave her testimony expecting zero benefit to come from it and with the knowledge that she would catch no small amount of shit. she did it anyway.
i have never been able to look at arlen spector without remembering the day that vicious pasty faced motherfucker set women's rights, and the judicial process back to the inquisition with his snide and insulting "cross examination" which was little more than an attempt to kill the victim. that bastard's still a motherfucker in my book.
Clarence was quoted as saying:
...unless you kowtow to an old order...
He lies so well. I wonder if he has even a modicum of sense of the absolute irony in what he's saying. He's made a career out of kowtowing to that order.
Worse than anything, though -- worse than being the ultimate "sell-out," worse than being a groping, sexual harassing pervert, worse than his judicial "philosophy" (I don't believe he actually has one) -- is his outrageous incompetence. I mean, this guy is stupid. And he's a Supreme Court Justice? Thorogood Marshall must be spinning in his grave.
maybe Thomas will have the same shorter life span as other African-Americans?
nah, he's one of the elites now
The present Supreme Court is what happens when the Dems don't have the backbone to stand up for our rights.
I posted a blog entry on my blog and on Blondesense ("Clarence Thomas Should Just STFU") about this imbecile. I made an assertion then, and I stick to it - that Justice Thomas is another embodiment of the Peter Principle, who has risen to the highest level his incompetence can carry him. Of course, there was no end to the behind-the-scenes armtwisting by Poppy Bush (including trying to sell him to the Dems as a "replacement" for Thurgood Marshall).
Counterpunch ran an article a few years back by one of their law experts, about a speech given by Unca Thomas at her daughter's graduation ceremony. The title of the piece (if I'm remembering correctly) was "Clarence Thomas: Still Whining After All These Years". The rotten old fucker is indeed one self-pitying son of a bitch, and is every bit as thin-skinned and vindictive as his beloved President Bush. Birds of a feather, eh?
"The present Supreme Court is what happens when the Dems don't have the backbone to stand up for our rights."
I have never lost the contempt I felt for Joe Biden - one of the clowns who presided over Thomas' nomination hearings - who responded to one of Thomas' patently phony "How DARE You Think To Criticize ME!!!!" tantrums by whimpering, "Please, Judge! I don't like this any better than you do!" Well, boo hoo hoo hoo! I do hope poor widdle Biden didn't lose too much sleep that night, crying into his pillow over the cruel treatment his good buddy Clarence had had to endure from the grubby peasants!
Doc, you forgot to mention "creep, misogynist, cretin..."
John D., ur absolutely correct about Biden. He sold us out that week. He agreed to block other women who were THERE, WAITING TO GIVE TESTIMONY TO THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, from appearing and then, on camera, claimed none of the other women would come forward to testify. I HATE Joe Biden. On the other hand, the election following that event gave us unprecedented numbers of GOP women crossing over to vote for Democratic female candidates, and at least in IL, voted in Carol Moseley Braun. Unfortunately Carol blew it, but that's a whole 'nother rant...
forgot to add that Anita Hill had nothing to gain by coming forward. She had everything to lose. She has always been the definition of integrity in my book. When I heard on NPR that Thomas called her a "mediocre employee" I choked on my cheerios. Guess he shouldn't have hired her, twice.
When Antonin Scalia thinks you're a little crazy?
Your wingnuttery is of surpassing grade.
One of the milestones along the way to the Slow Motion Train Wreck we have today:
Not one Dem Senator on the Judiciary Committe calling Thomas for playing the race card and telling him that that alone was enough to disqualify him for consideration for any job higher than dogcatcher.
It was a fond hope of mine that Bill Clinton would have appointed Barbara Jordan to the Supreme Court, just to have her withering stare haunt Thomas every day for the rest of his career.
I saw Barbara Jordan as Carter's Attorney General after the Watergate hearings, and even as a Supreme, but I think that she was passed over because one, she wouldn't have taken dictation from anybody, and two, because she was a lesbian. Then she got sick with the disease that eventually cut her career short and killed her.
I'm so glad Anita Hill has spoken up and is doing well. If anything, her journey to being moderate-to-liberal began AFTER the confirmation hearings, not BEFORE.
I have never lost the contempt I felt for Joe Biden - one of the clowns who presided over Thomas' nomination hearings ...
Not only Joe Biden, but missing-in-action, but present-in-name only, Teddy Kennedy.
Remember, the Palm Beach-William Kennedy Smith scandale du jour had just broken, and he couldn't move a facial muscle because of days of headlines of him and his nephews drunk as skunks going from bar to bar, with Kennedy also shamelessly showing up in his shorts in front of women looking for action...
I watched all weekend with a sour stomach. Truly, I believed Anita Hill, but I couldn't believe the amount of discount and outright betrayal shown by Dems and Repubs alike, probably because they've done the same goddamn thing...
"Remember, the Palm Beach-William Kennedy Smith scandale du jour had just broken, and he couldn't move a facial muscle because of days of headlines of him and his nephews drunk as skunks going from bar to bar, with Kennedy also shamelessly showing up in his shorts in front of women looking for action..."
blksista, history truly does nothing but repeat itself, eh? What on earth could Kennedy have thinking with that particular fuck-up? The least you can say for Biden is that he was just a straight-up back-stabber.
Nader, unfortunately, was right about the Democrats. For all his mistakes, fuck-ups, faults and Ego, he was 100% on the mark with his comments about the Dem "leadership", and now we're stuck with hoping that the "merely" corrupt and crooked Party is going to save us from the psychotic one.
Chalk me up as another person who believed Anita Hill and wished the Dems had shown more backbone in the Thomas hearings.
For all his caterwauling about how he hates affirmative action and how left-wing bigots are worse then the Ku Klux Klan, Thomas sure played the race card to the hilt during his confirmation hearings.
I wish Anita Hill would sue him for slander and/or libel but she is a very private person who seems to shun the notoriety and the spotlight. Although I'm thrilled the NYT let her rebut him in her editorial yesterday.
Another sad note: At my local B&N, Thomas' new book was nearly sold out except for one copy. When I asked the clerk about it, she said (with disgust in her voice) that it had been selling like crazy the past two days. Ugh, that's all we need, Clarence Thomas best-selling author.
Loser? Yeah, he failed all the way to the top. Another Bush trait.
After Poppy's first nominee, wingnut of the highest order Robert Bork, was told to take a hike, the GOP did one of the smarter things they've ever done. Nominate someone just as wingnutty as Bork who's also black. If he's confirmed, they've their winger on the bench. If not, hold him up as proof that the Dems don't really care about blacks, it's all lip service. Win-Win situation. His fitness for the bench wasn't an issue. His now demonstrated vindictiveness is a reason he should have recused himself in Bush v Gore.
Allow me to translate Justice Thomas' remarks (with apologies to Steve):
"I is a shuck 'n' jiving, buck-dancing Uncle Tom Negro willing to not only throw my own sister under the bus, but lick every white boot between here and Selma if it gets me a pat on the head and a paycheck from my old-guard racist white patrons."
I guess we have to have sites like this so all of my sour lefties can spout their hatred of all with whom the disagree. Ms Hill was a pawn in a much larger story than lying about CT. I know from personal experience that to disagree with a lefty is to open yourself up to crucification! Free speech is good if you agree with them. Heaven forbid you have another viewpoint!! Witness the lefties now crying for a fairness doctrine! Got to shut those conservatives up for God's sake!!
Get a life-be real! PLEASE
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