(he later gave this stewardess a job in the White House)
Posted on 10/02/2007 8:14:41 AM PDT by presidio9
Anita Hill said on Tuesday she testified truthfully in 1991 in accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment and responded to a new book by the U.S. Supreme Court justice by saying he had unfairly attacked her character.
It was Hill's first response to the Thomas memoir that denounces his former aide and liberal interest groups who wanted to stop his nomination to the highest U.S. court.
"I'm really concerned that the approach that Clarence Thomas is taking now is so typical of people accused of wrongdoing. They trash their accusers ... and I don't want this to become the model of how we can react to bad workplace behavior," Hill said on ABC.
In an article on The New York Times op-ed page, Hill said Thomas in the book offered a litany of unsubstantiated representations and outright smears that Republican senators made when she testified.
"A number of independent authors have shown those attacks to be baseless," she wrote.
The sensational charges by Hill resulted in one of the most contentious Senate confirmation battles in history.
Hill, then a law professor in Oklahoma, charged that Thomas had badgered her for dates and offended her with sexually explicit talk when she was his aide at a government agency from 1981 to 1983.
A furious Thomas denied the charges and raised his own countercharges of racism and victimization. Both Thomas and Hill are black.
In the televised interview, Hill, now a professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, said, "I understand that he is very angry and he wants to vindicate himself. But when I testified in 1991 I was truthful."
She added, "I look back and think what could I have done to make this less combative, less tumultuous, and I can't think of anything I could have done to change that at all."
(Additional reporting by Andy Sullivan)
You’re right. I’d forgotten about Laura. I do remember that NOW, NARAL, and the ACLU were desperately calling out for other women to come forward to accuse Thomas. None did, and in fact the opposite happened, and women came forward to report that Thomas had always treated them with respect.
Anita Hill was simply paraded out there to smear Thomas. I’m sure there was your usual office horse play and flirting, (the pubic hair in my coke etc.) But if she was sexually harassed, why didn’t she speak up then? Why wait for the hearing? And if he asked her out on a date, so what?
She had her fifteen minutes of fame, and was stupid. She should have been loyal and happy at Thomas’ success, but on the other hand, “A woman scorned.....”....etc.
nick
Typical Lib play book: If you accuse a Lib, even truthfully, it's their duty to smear you. If a Lib falsely accuses you and you fight back, it's a smear job against the poor, lying Lib.
(he later gave this stewardess a job in the White House)
Doggett v. Metzenbaum was political theater about as good as it gets:
Senator, your comments about this document are one of the reasons that our process of government is falling apart. First of all, Senator, I have a copy of a statement that this person met. It is called a "Transcript of Proceedings." But, Senator, if you read this, it is a telephone conversation that she has with some staff members, pro and against Mr. Thomas, and she is not under oath.Full transcript for that session here. Search for "doggett" and you'll get to the beginning of his testimony.I did not do any of the things that she alleged, and, in fact, the first time any of these issues were raised was the day before I was supposed to come here, eight and a half years later. I knew when I put my information into the ring that I was saying: I am open season. For anybody to believe that on the first day of work for a woman working in the Xerox room, who is 19 years old, a 33-year-old black man would walk up to a 19-year-old white girl and kiss her on the mouth as the first thing that they did -- whoever believes that really needs psychiatric care.
Kennedy didn't have much to say.
ML/NJ
That is interesting, do you have a source so I can find out more?
Just look at the partisan witchhunt they are engaging in with the Congressional resolution against Rush Limbaugh. He lashed out at the antiAmerican War movement's phony soldiers (like Jesse Macbeth who NEVER served, NEVER saw combat, NEVER saw the warcrimes he described, and NEVER wore the uniform). Harry Reid and Tom Harkin (another phony soldier from what I've heard) have lied about it and said that Rush Limbaugh called any veteran who spoke out against the war a "phony". It is simply not true.
What the Left engages in is far worse than Joseph McCarthy was ever guilty of yet it won't ever be discussed in history books because the Socialists rule the roost.
Agreed. But I hope you do not think they are right, or are justified, to keep beating this dead horse.
I’d say that 24.5 months is about the limit that someone should be allowed to hang around here without bothering to learn how to post a simple jpeg.
So what?
No I don’t think that they should, but not sure if he should have done the interview either even though I did think it was a great interview.
When I was at Holy Cross, Justice Thomas’ alma matter, I spent a lot of time hanging out with a very liberal girl, who was friends with my girlfriend at the time. This was in 1991 and 1992, when the hearings were going on. She had clerked for Justice Thomas the previous summer. She like the man very much, but she did not agree with him politically, especially when it came to abortion, but she still said that Anita Hill was full of Sh-t.
Hey, Anita: “Better put some ice on that!”
I hear Steve Lawrence singing, “Go away, little girl....go away, little girl”....too bad this stupid pimple Hill isn’t listening....
So this is what it come down to - assuming her story is true - that he hit on her a few times and made a sex joke or two? And that would be relevant to a SCOTUS hearing for what reason??
IMO, This woman put balance in the workplace for women back about 150 years.
I never could figure out how bizzare it would be for ANYBODY to put a pubic hair onto a can of sode. Where did the hair come from? If she thinks Judge Thomas pulled the hair from his own body, WHEN did he do so? Who would ever walk about with a supply of pubic hair at the ready to place on a soda can?
None of it made any sense to me when it all happened.
Seems Ms Hill still is the angry old maid, IMO.
First, I did not see the intervie, but I am glad he did it.
He is a well spoken, intelligent man whom the left has unmercifully denigrated and still do.
I think any honest and objective assesment of the treatment of this man paints the left in a very negative light. This becomes more painfully obvious as he continues to carry himself in a very professional and dignified manner.
His name was John Doggett. He, along with the other woman who testified on Thomas’s behalf turned the tide in those hearings. Democrats knew Doggett’s testimony was going to be devastating to Hill’s case so they put his on the stand late in the evening. I, among many others who were glued to these hearings, stayed up late enough to hear Doggett.
As I recall, Doggett asserted that Hill acted as if she and he were an “item” when they were just colleagues who had worked together on some cases. As he described Hill, he made her sound as if she was delusional.
Doggett was attacked as if he was spurned by the “attractive” Hill and just wanted payback. But if you can find a picture of Doggett’s wife, you will know that argument was specious. Doggett’s wife is a knockout.
I recall that Anita Hill was quite deftly exposed as a liar by none other than Arlen Specter, who also exposed that woman California judge as a liar.
So whaddaya know? - - Hill is STILL lying.
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