Woman who dated Clarence Thomas says Hill's story is 'totally consistent with the way he lived'

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Woman who dated Clarence Thomas says Hill's story is 'totally consistent with the way he lived'
by Joe Sudbay (DC) on 10/20/2010 02:55:00 PM

Mrs. Clarence Thomas decided to revisit the past by calling Anita Hill and asking for an apology. She was trying to rewrite history, too. But, funny thing about mucking around in the past. Sometimes, it comes back to bite you. So, not only is Virginia Thomas not getting that (undeserved) apology, she's put the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment story back in the news. And, Anita Hill's description of Thomas is corroborated by one of his former girlfriends:

But 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, but it would be totally consistent with the way he lived his personal life then," said McEwen, who is writing her own memoir but has never before publicly discussed her relationship with Clarence Thomas.

McEwen also told the Post she was not surprised that Virginia Thomas would leave Hill a message, even after all these years.

"In his autobiography, Clarence described himself as a person incapable of doing what 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."

The message Virginia Thomas left for Hill again revealed the emotional toll that the Hill hearings took on the soon-to-be justice's wife. In the past, she has made unsolicited phone calls to voice support for people whose reputations have been shaken by what she sees as false accusations.

Keep working those phones, Mrs. Thomas.

http://www.americablog.com/2010/10/woman-who-dated-clarence-thomas-says.html

[laughingliberal]

1. Woman who dated Clarence Thomas confirms what sane Americans already knew. Wife clueless. nt

[femrap]

5. and husband a self-hating

misogynist who is now a member of Opus Dei.

Looking at his facial picture upside down reminds me of the dog's ass that lives next door. Seriously, turn it upside down.

[cilla4progress]

8. ok...I can't read anything else tonight

this takes the cake and I will probably be laughing every time I remember it for the next several days. At the same time, it makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

Thanks for this!

PS Could you pm me the dog's ass...naw; I'd bust a gut laughing...

[femrap]

11. I'm so glad you

enjoyed my post. Nothing like a good laugh!

[xchrom]

2. Oh how positively delicious.

Washington society will have a field day with this.

[jobycom]

3. That's my interpretation. Thomas actually believes her husband.

You have to be either delusional or completely crooked to be a far-right Republican. We know what Thomas is. I'm thinking we now know which his spouse is.

[yurbud]

4. So Jesus wasn't the one who hid the Easter eggs in my backyard?

:cry:

[architect359]

7. Of course not!

It's the Easter Bunny. Hello!

:)

[Blue Owl]

6. Thomas was a douchebag before douchebags were cool

n/t

[slampoet]

9. Clarence Thomas' porn addiction and his frequenting of porn theaters were well known in the 80's

back when Thomas was nominated to be the Civil Rights director under Reagan.

[Jakes Progress]

10. Hell, the senators who voted to confirm him knew it was true.

They rigged the hearings so that a half dozen witnesses who would corroborate Hill didn't get to testify.