Hill: "I don’t apologize. I have no intention of apologizing, and I stand by my testimony in 1991."

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/10/virginia-thomas-leaves-anita-hill-a-voicemail-asking-for-an-apology-hill-says-no.html

<snip>

A few days ago, Brandeis University professor Anita Hill received a message on her voice mail at work.

“Good morning, Anita Hill, it's Ginny Thomas,” said the voice. “I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought and certainly pray about this and come to understand why you did what you did. OK, have a good day.”

Hill didn’t think the call was real.

“I initially thought it was a prank,” Hill told ABC News. “And if it was, I thought the authorities should know about it.”

She reported the call to campus police.

Mark Matthews of our affiliate KGO learned about this and reached out to Virginia Thomas.

Thomas e-mailed him, saying: “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 what happened so long ago. That offer still stands, I would be very happy to meet and talk with her if she would be willing to do the same. Certainly no offense was ever intended.”

Hill told ABC News: “Even if it wasn’t a prank, it was in no way conciliatory for her to begin with the presumption that I did something wrong in 1991. I simply testified to the truth of my experience. For her to say otherwise is not extending an olive branch, it’s accusatory.”

She continued: “I don’t apologize. I have no intention of apologizing, and I stand by my testimony in 1991.”

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[suffragette]

2. K&R

[denverbill]

She's the one who is owed the apology from Clarence Thomas. n/t

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. good for her!! kick and recommend!!

[Tempest]

4. The Thomas' are trying to deflect attention from his conflicts of interest

His wife has close ties to conservative groups and is a lobbyist for companies with interests in court cases her husband makes decisions on.

[disillusioned73]

30. This....

:dem: Don't fall for the distractions.

[JDPriestly]

72. Maybe Ms. Thomas wants to run for public office and doesn't want

to be confronted with the ugly testimony about her husband while campaigning.

Maybe her husband denies what Anita Hill said -- and Ms. Thomas believes her husband.

Maybe Ms. Thomas is just trying to get back at Anita Hill and embarrass Anita Hill.

There are a lot of possibilities here.

But Ms. Thomas needs to learn to let sleeping dogs lie. The accusation is against Clarence Thomas. It's up to him to reach out to Anita Hill and apologize or, if he thinks Anita Hill should apologize to him, to wait for an apology.

Maybe Clarence Thomas's conscience is catching up with him. He is getting older. Maybe he has expressed regrets about having harassed Anita Hill.

Ms. Thomas's behavior is intriguingly foolish.

[knitter4democracy]

108. Maybe the message was really for Clarence.

Seriously, this sounds a bit too canned. I'm thinking someone found out her husband was cheating on her and decided to make sure he knows just how tenuous his political life really is and that she can quickly and easily destroy him.

[SemperEadem]

134. Hmmm... that's plausible... hadn't thought about it in those terms

[knitter4democracy]

144. It sounds like something a really ticked off wife would do.

I've been there--it's easy to see that road to Crazyville and think it's sane.

[SemperEadem]

133. you said it

intriguingly and breathtakingly foolish for her to take that 2x4 to this hornet's nest.

Watch her complain about being stung after whacking the hornet's nest. That's what they all do.

I can't believe thomas told his wife that it was ok for her to crack open something that has been dead and buried for easily 20 years now.

[The Wizard]

87. She was on the Bush transition team

when Judge Thomas ruled in Bush v Gore.

[treestar]

5. She calls that 'reaching out'???

Typical Republican.

[wtmusic]

Bingo.

They just don't get it. :crazy:

[fishwax]

110. indeed

:crazy:

[speedoo]

6. Idiot wife of idiot Supreme Court Justice should be sued.

She publicly accused Ms. Hill of perjury.

It was her lying husband who committed perjury, not Ms. Hill.

[Happyhippychick]

7. Anita Hill was and is a class act. If it were me I would have added

"fuck you" at the end. I am no Anita Hill.

[glitch]

8. Drunk-dial? nt

[Rozlee]

41. That was my thought exactly.

Still groggy from an all-nighter and wobbling to the telephone; the inhibitory circuits in her brain fried to a crisp. I'm surprised her diatribe wasn't interspersed with hiccups.

[maxsolomon]

60. more likely Ambien

the Republic's drug of choice - the only way their conscience lets them sleep.

[AlbertCat]

66. the Republic's drug of choice

I thought it was Oxycontin. Hillbilly Heroine

Same effect though it usually keeps you up.... but groggy.

[name not needed]

84. Probably got a visit from the Ambien Walrus

[maxsolomon]

93. that is pretty hi-larious

i think we have a working theory.

[SemperEadem]

135. while they sleep walk in the middle of the night and dump the

contents of the fridge into their gaping maws.

[Marnie]

65. Martha Mitchell

did come to mind.

At least Martha was tell the true truths.

[peace frog]

141. Send her a bumper sticker: Don't Drink and Dial

On second thought, scratch that. She's more fun when she does it. :evilgrin:

[Raschel]

9. Why does she say, "why you did what you did WITH my husband"?

I don't get it. I thought this was about harassment, not an affair. Someone help me out here.

[sabra]

10. I believe she is referring to her testifying at the hearings...

from the article:

<snip>

ABC: “When you thing about Anita Hill … was she a pawn, was she a liar?”

Justice Thomas: “I really don’t care enough — let me be honest with you. I went through that during the hearing. I thought about it. I really don’t care. What I care about is that the responsible people didn’t put an end to this nonsense.”

Virginia Thomas: “I think there’s a lot of theories, but I hope she once day calls up and apologizes and I look forward to forgiving her. … I’m sure she got swept up into something bigger than she may have understood at the beginning of whatever she was doing, but I think she owes us an apology and I look forward to receiving that phone call or that visit one day. “

“So this isn’t new territory,” Hill told ABC News.

[Raschel]

18. Lying about Thomas is something she would do 'to' him, not 'with' him.

It still doesn't make sense to me.

[JHB]

38. I wouldn't count on Ginny for precise and accurate grammar...

...She's a Teabagger "activist", is she not?

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/14/nation/la-na-thomas14-2010mar14

[WolverineDG]

27. Yo, Ginny, you can forgive her right now, ya dummy

Might even be something about that in the New Testament somewheres....might want to crack it open & read it sometime....just a thought.

(still loving that Anita Hill turned her in to the FBI :rofl: )

dg

[defendandprotect]

32. Ginni, like Clarence Thomas -- obviously bullying types -- harassers -- stalkers ....

That was clear from Prof. Anita Hill's testimony during the hearings --

It was clear from the dozen or more former EEOC employees who would have

testified that Clarence Thomas was a sexual harasser of women --

Those witnesses were denied the right to testify against Clarence Thomas by Sen. Biden

who closed down the hearings in the middle of the night, betraying the lawyers and

advisers representing Prof. Anita Hill who had been promised that the witnesses would

be presented.


These two are just two more crude, bullying "Christians" --

and only the Bush family could have succeeded in putting a sexual pervert on our Supreme Court!



If anyone is interested there's a great book on this subject -- "Strange Justice" --

[marions ghost]

54. Absolutely--this is bullying behavior

Harassment by the wife (when the hubby can't quite get away with it). And right before the elections--what's Rush talking about today???

Yes, I've read "Strange Justice" -- right to the point here.

[kath]

101. Yep - fuck Joe Biden for shutting down the hearings and keeping all those witnesses from testifying.

Asshole.

[chimpymustgo]

106. Have not been able to stand Biden since.

Not to mention Hatch, Specter and Simpson.

[BonnieJW]

61. Don't hold your breath, asshole.

[Name removed]

67. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[SemperEadem]

136. look forward to the day of forgiving her?

woman, you as a xtian, are commanded to forgive, PERIOD. There are no conditions in your bible for forgiveness.

Either you do it or you defy God's commandment and you don't. But you don't get to construct a counterfeit position that you are entitled to lay in wait for something of which the onus is NOT on Anita Hill, BUT ON YOUR HUSBAND.

[Heidi]

21. Because she's inarticulate. (nt)

[Control-Z]

31. I noticed that too.

It sounds like she believes her POS husband had an affair with Hill. She made the statement that she thought Hill was in love with him. Who knows. Hill needs a restraining order - publicly announced, to shame the woman - if shaming her is even possible.

[newspeak]

44. it's sad that there were others ready and willing to testify

against Thomas. However, Anita Hill, I believe, was the only one called, thus making it more like a media circus-he vs she--type of spectacle. And, while this media circus evolved, his beliefs-were put on the back burner.

I admire Ms. Hill, and really think she would have been a better candidate for the supreme court. Thomas with some of his rulings, has lessened the respectability of the court.

[Tatiana]

36. Clarence was likely attracted to Anita. I think Virginia was and still is jealous.

I think, in Virginia's mind, Anita seduced or coerced Clarence's abhorrent behavior.

[Marnie]

69. In the time period,

Thomas was Hill's boss, sexual harassment and sexually demeaning words and actions, including groping were common and were encouraged in the old boy ethos.
That is a large part of the context of why she was so believable. Around that time a national poll showed 92% of working women has experienced sexual harassment in their job.

Again thanks to Mz. Thomas for raking this up so we can all examine it again.

I suppose she will now leave Hill a tacky message asking her to apologize of taking her first very wierd message to the FBI.

[SemperEadem]

137. well, dag, when you stand them side by side

it's clear who is the more attractive woman.

gin-soaked thomas looks like a refrigerator. She would probably be jealous of any woman, especially with the kind of husband she married.

[knitter4democracy]

145. Because she's caught her husband cheating.

I'm dead-on convinced this isn't about Anita at all but instead Clarence. I think she caught him cheating but doesn't know whom he's with now and is sending him a message that she can destroy him whenever she lifts her little finger.

[defendandprotect]

146. Probably looks and makes comment a lot -- but who else would

actually freely agree to be with Clarence the Clown except Ginni???

:evilgrin:

[charlie]

11. The good part

is that Thomas, who's wrapped tighter than a grenade on a good day, is probably mad enough to bite himself right now. Yet AGAIN, the poor git is a nationwide joke.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Woot!

Imagine this serious, accomplished law professor having to deal with the insane shenanigans of silly little Ginny Thomas!

I don’t apologize. I have no intention of apologizing, and I stand by my testimony in 1991.

That should be the fucking MANTRA.

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. I stand by Anita Hill.

[peace frog]

91. Same here.

Standing tall and speaking proudly!

Mrs. Clarence Thomas can take her demand and stick it where the sun don't shine.

[AsahinaKimi]

130. totally agree

eom

[peace frog]

132. Yep, Mrs Thomas can STFU, go home and

put that well-used VHS tape of Long Dong Silver in the VCR for her viewing pleasure.
It was HER tape, you know. Mr Thomas just borrowed for a day to surprise and *delight* Ms Hill. :rofl:

[wtmusic]

14. It's interesting that she uses the word "with".

"I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband."

Not "to".

Does she acknowledge the harrassment, but consider Hill a hussy/seductress who was asking for it?

[closeupready]

15. Go, Anita!

:yourock:

[wtmusic]

16. Hill is the one who should be sitting on SCOTUS. nt

[Jankyn]

45. Here, here! N/T

[Marnie]

70. I don't know if she is qualified in law but

she certainly is in emotional maturity and class.

[femrap]

17. Why now? After 19 years?

I know this is all a DISTRACTION...I mean after 19 years, why now? I would think this would encourage Blacks to go to the polls.

But maybe it's just Rove and Murdoch having fun ridiculing the women...maybe a little of 'divide and conquer' of the Black and white women? Maybe 'da boyz' just want to make clear to the 'girls' that 'see, we got the power to do whatever we want...and you're just good for play and cleaning up after us.'

For historical purposes let me remind the younger generations of 'The second wife of Clarence Thomas who is white since he divorced the Black wife because she reminded him that he, too, was Black, and benefited from Affirmative Action which he absolutely detests...and since he is soooooooo confused over his racial-ness, he developed rather obtuse sexual perversions with coca-cola cans and those women (Black women only, of course) whom he oversaw at his ironic place of employment....the US Agency which overlooks Equal Employment Opportunity.'

He has also, since becoming a 'Supreme' (if only Diana Ross could take his place), he has become a Catholic and belongs to that church in DC that allows him to be a member of Opus Dei. This man has major psychological problems, IMHO.

I watched those hearings 19 years ago...I had smoke coming from my ears and fire from my mouth. I remember Teddy (of all people) and Biden who just let that turd off the hook. Well...at least the young women of today can see how women were treated....maybe that's the whole point...to remind them of their 'place' and if one of them gets 'uppity,' it can be brought back to haunt her after some 19 years. (While Senator Vitter is given a standing ovation when he returns to the Senate after having a prostitute diaper them so he can soil himself and get off sexually).

Anita Hill is a heroine...I hope she dismisses virginia and clarence like the annoying little gnats they are.

virginia can choke on her tea!

[xxqqqzme]

62. I remember those hearings as well.

Like you, I was livid at the way Anita Hill was treated - condescending remarks, insulting questions...I was shocked at Kennedy's behavior, lost all respect for Biden. Thomas was exposed as a worm (apologies to beneficial worms) squirming in the sunlight. He was then, and remains, unfit to occupy a position on the SCOTUS. That he was nominated to fill the vacancy left by Thurgood Marshall, is an insult to the memory of that great jurist.

".... In 1987, Marshall gave a controversial speech on the occasion of the bicentennial celebrations of the Constitution of the United States.<11> Marshall stated,

"the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today."..."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall

Nope, thomas on SCOTUS wasn't just a step backwards, it was a fall down 3 flights of stairs.

[femrap]

83. I so miss

Thurgood Marshall. A man of Justice.

clarence is a fall from the top of a skyscraper to the bottom. I truly believe he is a sexually perverted deviant with considerable issues of self-hatred.

[The Wizard]

88. I remember Thomas

confusing the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. That should have disqualified him as sure as Christine O'Donnell's confusion of the Constitution underlines her "qualifications."

[xxqqqzme]

125. OMG. I had forgotten that.

Excellent recall!

[NashVegas]

107. Perhaps

Thomas is considering retirement and doesn't want to go out, still in this particular cloud.

[MindandSoul]

19. "what you did with my husband". . . .?

What does that mean? Is it just me or can this "request for apologies" be construed in different ways?

That crazy woman, Ginny Thomas, didn't ask for an apology for - - -making false statement and making my husband's nomination to the Supreme Court so difficult ---

She asked an apology for what Anita Hill "did with husband"

Isn't that kind of strange???

I know, the whole phone call was strange. . .but the wording???

[Old and In the Way]

20. This Ginny Thomas seems to be a remarkably stupid person.

Why reopen this now? And doing it via a voice message that can be released? I love the presumption that Anita must be the one to apologize...a mighty big leap considering the facts.

Thomas was lucky that this didn't derail his bid for SCOTUS at the time. I always thought that the Republicans nominated him for the cynical PR cover his skin color afforded them. A no-lose nominee for Republicans...either he gets the Senate consent and becomes a reliable corporate Republican vote on the Court or they could use this as an election issue to pin the racist label on Democrats for torpedoing his nomination.

It's pretty obvious that this must be an ongoing topic of conversation at the Thomas home. The fact that they've reopened this ugly incident which allows the whole history to replay again is pretty dumb. I wonder if Ginny had a few glasses of Chablis before she decided to extend this "olive branch"?

[RaleighNCDUer]

26. Would anyone other than a remarkably stupid person have married Thomas? nt

[philly_bob]

43. She was at the American Enterprise Institute planning Bush transition ...

while husband Clarence Thomas cast deciding vote in Bush v. Gore, IIRC.

It was dumb of her to do it.
It was dumb of husband not to recuse himself.
It was dumb of Democrats not to make a big thing about it.

[philly_bob]

46. Self-correction: it was the Heritage Foundation, per Wikipedia. (nt)

[Warren DeMontague]

128. No doubt. The Thomas Confirmation was one in a series of bad moves the GOP made which led directly

to the clobbering they got in 1992.

She wants to bring this up now? Great.

[DirkGently]

22. Anita Hill was the epitome of someone telling the truth *despite* the spotlight. Ginny's nuts.

[protect our future]

23. Could this sink Sharron Angle?

Angle said in a recent debate the justice she admires the most is Clarence Thomas.

The majority of voters probably know nothing about the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas events of so many years ago. Now they're finding out. Back then I was not involved in politics at all and was so busy with work that I didn't even know who Clarence Thomas was before the TV coverage began, and I couldn't help but see it. What seemed obvious to me was that Anita Hill was telling the truth.

It is my hope that newly-informed Nevada voters will feel the same way.

[AlbertCat]

71. Angle said in a recent debate the justice she admires the most is Clarence Thomas.

WHAT????

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What a complete fool Angle is. I mean it's embarrassing! She must be the ONLY person on the PLANET to admire Clarence Thomas....the most!

Angle is a bigot and this is an obviously false, pandering statement meant to try to cover her lily white (even if she looks Asian) bigoted ass.

[Wednesdays]

80. I dunno...talking about something sinking Angle

is like talking about something sinking the Titanic. In 2010.
:rofl:

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. Any apology from Hill would be like a Whittington apology.

Gee, I'm so sorry you were inconvenienced by your own stupid actions that hurt me more than they hurt you.

Ms. Hill's response was perfect.

[political_Dem]

25. I'm very happy for her. I hope she stands tall. K and R.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

28. Too bad she's a wingnut. She seems like a very thoughtful woman. n/t

[WinkyDink]

50. Neither woman suits your ridiculous description.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

52. HUH??!?! Why are you attacking me?

[Wednesdays]

82. Prof. Hill is a wingnut? Links, please.

And don't give me something from before 1992 that says she "voted Republican." I think there has to be a bit of substance before she's dismissed as a "wingnut."

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

85. How old are you? Were you even around during these hearings?

It is well known that Anita Hill is very conservative! Doesn't mean that she was harassed. She was. And Clarence Thomas is as guilty as hell. I thought everyone knew that Anita Hill is very conservative. Very!

[Pisces]

29. Anita is a class act. The Thomas's are lunatics. I hope this did not

dredge up any negative feelings for Anita. She did her civic duty, the Congress dismissed her testimony and still confirmed that piece of shit Thomas that basically is a mute pig on the court.

[ehrnst]

33. "In my heart I always believed she was probably someone in love with my husband..."

"... who never got what she wanted."

[Hepburn]

103. OMG..........

.......what woman, or man, in his/her correct mind would actually WANT Clarence Thomas???????

:puke:

[ladywnch]

34. we can only hope that Thomas is found with some young boy toy

before he leave the bench. Then have little ol Ginny humiliated asking the young boy to apologize.

[Matariki]

35. She really doesn't understand the meaning of "extending an olive branch"

[66 dmhlt]

37. At long last, the "smoking gun"

[defendandprotect]

40. As his friends told us ClarenceThomas is "lover of hard core pornogrpahy" ....

When this comment was related to his friends --

"drink from my ass with a straw" ..

his friends agreed it was the kind of thing that Clarence Thomas would say!


This was Poppy Bush's joke on America -- an America which wanted the Thurgood Marshall

seat preserved as a "black" seat.


At the time, Justice Thurgood Marshall warned us that . . .

"It isn't the color of a snake which matters - it's whether or not the snake bites!"

[Hepburn]

104. What an insult to America...

...replace the one and only Thurgood Marshall with that stupid piece of shit Clarence Thomas.

Unreal...like any black justice will do...:puke: What? They all look the same???

[deutsey]

39. This illustrates for me just how petty the Thomases are. n/t

[Hissyspit]

49. Thomas' book illustrated just how petty he is, if you recall. nt

[AlbertCat]

74. This illustrates for me just how petty the Thomases are

And arrogant! Oh the arrogance!!! Like know-nothings Palin and O'Donnell, who think they've got it all figured out. Astonishing arrogance.

[elleng]

42. Awful for her, to have the ordeal resurrected.

[defendandprotect]

114. Isn't it weird how someone else's wrongs can so much effect someone else's life ......

Prof. Anita Hill did a good deed for America and women in coming forward to tell

us what a sleaze Clarence Thomas was --

As they say -- "no good deed goes unpunished!" ----

And, here now is this ridiculous situation of Thomas' wife putting herself foward

in some arrogantly "righteous" way -- and who's being hurt again -- only Prof. Hill!


Trust that some day the whole story on Clarence the pervert will come out --

:)

[Guilded Lilly]

47. Bravo Anita!!

I'm sorry you have to deal with this kind of twisted behavior from a genuinely creepy woman.

[kpete]

48. THIS IS AWESOME

Anita Hill is a class act,
and so are you sabra,
peace, kp

[Kingofalldems]

51. She called Anita a liar-- but no offense intended

[tilsammans]

53. Kickin' this to the moon!

The Thomases are sociopaths. Would THEY ever apologize to anybody?

[h9socialist]

55. Actually it's Poppy Bush who should apologize . . .

. . . for nominating that idiot in the first place!

[defendandprotect]

115. Remember, they also put him in charge of the EEOC which was like putting

David Duke in charge of Affirmative Action!!

[barbtries]

56. he should be the one apologizing

imo

[louis-t]

57. The longer Mrs. Thomas is in the spotlight

the more people will be aware of her conflict of interest.

[amb123]

58. And I support you, Anita Hill,

1,000%.

:patriot:

[robertpaulsen]

59. What colossal delusional arrogance!

Anita Hill's response redefines classiness. I would have told Ginny to take her olive branch and shove it up her husband's Coke can. Those two harassing assholes deserve each other!

[HughMoran]

63. NY Times reporter who wrote book on this "preponderance of evidence supports Anita Hill's version!"

So yeah, Anita was right and should spit in that Teabag &^&^(^'s face.

[Scurrilous]

142. Indeed. n/t

[Marnie]

64. If that was an "olive branch"

then one wonders what Mz Thomas offers when she isn't being Holier than Thou.

Mz Thomas needs to remember that there were two or three other women who came forward with the same types of experiences but the spineless Dims didn't have them testify.

Ms Hill came off as completely credible, she was subjected to another round of sexist verbal abuse by Republicans on the panel. Throughout she remained in control and unalterable in her testimony.
She had to know she as putting her entire professional career and possibly her life on the line to give that testimony. Yet she remained a class act while Thomas and the Republicans beat her with demeaning accusations and sexism and stereotypical Repo-whining.

Much to the consternation of the Republican and probably many Democratic politicians most women even most White women, certainly working women, found Hill very believable.

Which means, Mz Thomas, they found Thomas very unbelievable.

But thanks, Mz Thomas, for reminding us of Thomas's confirmation and all that went with it.

[JDPriestly]

68. "ultimately get passed"? I make typos too (lots of them on DU), but surely Ms. Thomas

proofread her e-mail. After all, it bears her signature and she is the wife of a Supreme Court justice.

[Book Lover]

123. It isn't going to get caught by spell-check. What we have here

is a seat-to-keyboard problem.

[Scurrilous]

73. K & R

:thumbsup:

[katty]

75. Go Anita! Tell what's her name to piss off!

[felix_numinous]

76. What a brave women

to have stood up in public against such a powerful man against sexual harassment, and apparently has had to repeatedly stand her ground.

[DesertFlower]

77. K&R. nt

[Hubert Flottz]

78. Donggate revisited...

I like it!

[DesertDiamond]

79. GO ANITA!! And since you stood up, there seems to be a much less accepting atmosphere

for sexual harassment in the workplace. The things I used to see done, and were done to me, regularly before then are no more.

[laughingliberal]

81. K&R for the courageous and dignified Dr. Hill. nt

[gulliver]

86. Hill has to go on the offensive or the mugging succeeds, imo.

Hill shouldn't be saying she won't apologize. She should be saying, "Ginny, you must be nuts. But then you would have to be to marry a dirt ball like Clarence. How does it feel to be married to a pervert?"

Well, something like that.

Ginny Thomas insinuated that Anita Hill should apologize. If Hill simply refuses to apologize, it leaves the outrageous insinuation in place. Saying "I stand by my testimony" means nothing when no one remembers the testimony.

[quickesst]

89. How hugh is this?

....if this a copy of the actual e-mail.

" in hopes that we could ultimately get "PASSED" what happened so long ago"

Not a stretch to understand the typical mentality liberals have to deal with, much less acknowledge. Thanks.
quickesst

[csziggy]

119. I thought it was a phone message, in which case the transcriber goofed

:shrug:

[pleah]

90. I have always believed that Ms. Hill told the truth. n/t

[handmade34]

92. I stand with Anita Hill

...we are Anita Hill

[Waiting For Everyman]

94. Anita Hill is the one who should've been put on the SC

not Thomas.

[OnyxCollie]

95. K&R. nt

[butterfly77]

96. Kicked&Recommended!!!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[Maccagirl]

97. Long Dong Silver Rides Again

In all seriousness, this is frightening. The inmates have definitely taken over the asylum. I am now petrified about what will happen on Election day.

[KansDem]

98. Old joke: What did Clarence Thomas say when someone spilled a soft drink in his lap?

"Hey! Who put the Coke in my pubic hair?"

[David Zephyr]

99. It is an honor to be #233 R for this brave American, Anita Hill.

An honor. I admire her greatly.

[DinahMoeHum]

100. Thank you, Anita Hill.

My congressional representative, Nita Lowey (still in Congress!) was one of 7 Congresswomen who stormed up the steps of the Senate side of Capitol Hill to demand hearings on Anita Hill's charges.
It was captured in a photograph. (If anyone has that famous photograph, let's all see it.)


The "Magnificent Seven":
Barbara Boxer
Nita Lowey
Patsy Mink
Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia delegate)
Pat Schroeder
Louise Slaughter
Jolene Unsoeld

Meanwhile, this will have to do:
http://books.google.com/books?id=iAiOISZ-AukC&lpg=PA230&ots=wXx08IMpEy&dq=nita%20lowey%20jolene%20unsoeld%20pat%20schroeder%20barbara%20boxer&pg=PA230#v=onepage&q&f=false

:kick::kick::kick:

[Hepburn]

102. Proud to be the 255th rec on this OP

I watched those hearings live. No doubt in my mind that Anita Hill told the truth.

[patrice]

105. LOVE it! Don't you know Anita just non-stop MESSES UP Virginia's "beautiful" mind!!!

BBBbbbbbwwwwwwwwwaaaaaa!! HHhhaaaaaa!! Hhhhaa! Hhaa! Hha!! Haaaaaa!

[handmade34]

109. I am sure that

Mrs. Thomas was drinking that morning! Way too bizarre

[madokie]

111. What a beautiful lady

and a wonderful person to put herself through what she did in trying to protect us from the likes of clarance thomas sitting on our highest court.

[rocktivity]

112. On Laurence O'Donnell's show The Last Word, it was theorized

that maybe it was a weapon of mass distraction from the media's questioning the propriety of the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice receiving anonymous campaign donations. But did she honestly think Hill would fold that easily?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[gardenista]

113. I love it that she orders Anita to pray about it.

What a pompous idiot.

[krispos42]

116. So then Ginny is accusing Anita of perjury?

Nice. Perhaps a nice lawsuit would teach Ginny to keep her trap shut, lest something stupid fly out again.

[defendandprotect]

117. Prof. Anita Hill sacrificed her personal life to warn us about Clarence Thomas ---

and to awaken America to the issue of sexual harassment!!

My love and thanks to her!!

[rocktivity]

118. Of COURSE Hill thought it was a prank: The REAL Ginny Thomas wouldn't do such a stupid thing

especially after nearly twenty years! She probably figured that the culprit was either an aspiring James O'Keefe or some students getting their zany on. So she called the campus cops--impersonating the wife of a supreme court justice is NOT a laughing matter!

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Barbara2423]

120. Thomas should not have beeen confirmed. He played the

race card big time. Then Biden, gulped and it was all over.

[Douglas Carpenter]

121. kick and recommend!!

[Zambero]

122. Ginny Thomas the scab puller

Thanks to his clueless wife, after 19 years for the "dust to settle", it's back to minute one for Clarence Thomas. For those who may have forgotten or are unfamiliar with Anita Hill's congressional testimony against Thomas, it's now been revisted. Along with Ginny Thomas' questionable fundraising activities. Anita Hill gets the last laugh. It doesn't get any better!

[Major Hogwash]

124. Recommend -- #309 What Anita Hill did took guts - she warned us about Thomas and his attitudes

Especially his attitudes toward women.
And some of my friends are naive enough to believe that "they will never overturn Roe v. Wade."

Yeah, sure.

And I remember a time in this country when a corporation was just that -- a corporation.

[BlueMTexpat]

126. Both Ginny Thomas and her husband are pompous,

arrogant and ... stupid. They certainly deserve each other. I hope that bringing this story up now will remind everyone of just how nasty Republicans can be.

Thomas should never have been confirmed to the USSC - on qualifications alone. What a travesty that whole process was! And yes, I remember those hearings well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas#Anita_Hill_allegations

Good for Anita Hill! Then and now! She is the one who deserves an apology. It took real courage for her to stand up - virtually before the whole world - and testify as to being sexually harassed by Thomas. Biden's role at the time was certainly NOT one of his finer hours and one reason why I did not support his candidacy for the Presidency. He let ALL of us down. But he was not the only Dem to do so at the time.

In good part thanks to that behavior, we got the infamous results of Bush v Gore and Citizens United, among others.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/biden-and-anita-hill-revisited/

[Lost4words]

140. K & R! nt

[Enthusiast]

127. Clarence Thomas is no more an arbiter

of justice than Fox News is of truth. Even if what Anita Hill said isn't true, and I believe it is true, it doesn't change the fact that Thomas is one of the worst justices in history.

[rasputin1952]

129. Ms. Hill is one of the smartest women in the country, worked hard to get where she

is, brought up a situation that made Thomas look seem dumber than he is...and was crucified for it. Thomas had nothing but the old canard, the "race card" to pull him out of the fire, Hill has class, poise and intellect, Thomas is little more than a slug...now where's that salt in the back of the cabinet?

[tavalon]

131. Ginny Thomas is not a smart woman

I suspected this for years, given the fact that she was married to a man who had no business being on the Supreme Court and was, in fact, their "Step 'n Fetch" token black who didn't appear to have an independent thought in his head. But I had no proof that she was stupid until this week. Nineteen long years after the thought crossed my mind, Mrs. Clarence Thomas, Ginny to God knows who, proved it without a shadow of a doubt.

As Dan Savage so amusingly pointed out, no one remembered. There's a whole new generation out there busily googling, Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas and getting to find out once again, what an awful, awful creature that man is and there was no reason anyone would have thought to go back there, Ginny, but you just had to. I bet you don't even know what google is, do you, Ginny Dear? Well, you didn't until now.

[TwentyFive]

138. Clarance Thomas makes bad decisions...except for marrying this woman. THEY DESERVE ONE ANOTHER!!!

Thomas idea of extending an olive branch translates into calling the victim 20 years later (out of the blue) and accusing her of lying?

Republican DECEPTIONS are just mind boggling.

[BonnieJW]

139. Did anyone ever believe Clarence?

Even the senators who voted for him knew he did it. They just wanted a wooden puppet on the bench and they got it. Now we know his wife is stupid as well. Perfect match.

[HappyMe]

143. Ginny needs to lay off the gin.

After all these years, she decides to smack that hornet's nest with a stick/bottle.

:eyes:


Something fishy about this.