Wednesday, October 20, 2010
ToDaZeD Poo-Flinging Episode
hm… that was random
Nearly two decades after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his fractious Supreme Court confirmation hearing, it remains unclear who was lying.
“Unclear” to whom?
Now, Virginia Thomas, the justice’s wife, has rekindled the controversy by leaving a voice mail message at Hill’s Brandeis University office seeking an apology.
“Good morning Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas,” said the message left this month, according to a transcript provided by ABC News. “I just want to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometimes and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband."
Interesting request. Interesting timing.
"I certainly thought the call was inappropriate,” Hill [said] ...
“I have no intention of apologizing because I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony,"
*raised eyebrow*
Hill told reporters that she held onto the voice mail message for nearly a week as she weighed whether it was legitimate. Eventually, she turned it over to campus police with a request that it be sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI’s Boston field office declined comment.
*raised-raised eyebrow*
Lillian McEwen, a former Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer who said she dated Clarence Thomas from 1979 through the mid-1980s, told The Washington Post in an interview that Hill’s long-ago description of Thomas’s behavior resonated with her.
“The Clarence I know was certainly capable not only of doing the things that Anita Hill said he did, ...
McEwen said. “He is married to a woman who is loyal to him and religious in a way he would like to be. This combination of religiosity and loyalty and belief that he is really the kind of person who he describes in his book would just about compel her to do something like that."
*sprained eyebrow*
Ok—so she’s just a “rightwing, *scorn* religious *scorn* nut—who spells poorly *heaps of scorn*:
In a statement released this week to the Associated Press, Mrs. Thomas said she did not intend to offend Hill with the voice mail. “I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get passed (sic) what happened so long ago,"
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