Posted on 04/19/2016 3:51:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
The left is masterful at rewriting history. Witness HBO's TV movie "Confirmation," which aired Saturday, about Anita Hill's accusations of sexual harassment 25 years ago, which almost derailed Clarence Thomas from becoming a Supreme Court justice. The drama's makers claim that they didn't take sides in depicting Thomas' Senate confirmation hearings, even as a trailer punctuates close-ups of actress Kerry Washington, who played Hill, with stentorian capital letters: "It only takes one voice ... to change history." Another trailer proclaims, "One woman made a choice ... to take a stand."
Apparently, because HBO didn't expressly label Thomas as guilty, producers feel they can get away with saying they were evenhanded. One man (Thomas) made a choice and took a stand; where are his plaudits?
"The movie only has credibility if it's not espousing one point of view or presenting only one side," "Confirmation" screenwriter Susannah Grant said in The Washington Post. OK, then it has no credibility. "Confirmation" airbrushed out events that do not confirm the left's revisionist view on the Thomas hearings.
A number of former female staffers who worked for Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -- J.C. Alvarez, Phyllis Berry, Nancy Fitch and Diane Holt -- testified that they did not believe Hill's charge that Thomas sexually harassed her and discussed pornographic films at work. Their spirited defense of Thomas was the stuff of drama. But rather than build momentum to a peak of their riveting testimony, "Confirmation" showed a quickie montage of former colleagues defending Thomas. That choice undercut the forcefulness of the women's spirited defense of Thomas.
Stuart Taylor Jr., who covered the 1991 hearings, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that "Confirmation" also left out Hill's hard-to-believe story that she followed Thomas from the Department of Education to the EEOC because she feared losing her job. (As an attorney, she had to know she had civil service protection.) The movie also focused on an accuser who chose not to testify.
Then there's Ted Kennedy, the embodiment of the left's double standards. A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the late senator had a reputation for hitting on women in the workplace liberally. In "Confirmation," Kennedy aide Ricki Seidman acknowledges her boss might have a problem leading the fight on "sexual impropriety."
There was no scene in which Seidman pressed Kennedy about his opportunistic treatment of women. Likewise, there was no recognition that when Bill Clinton entered the Oval Office a year later, sexual harassment lost its potency as a political weapon. Female aides' willingness to prop up errant male Democrats -- that phenomenon did not interest the "Confirmation" team, which stuck to a script that confirmed liberalism's need to be heroic, especially when liberals are anything but.
Real life didn't work that way. After the hearings and what Thomas described as a "high-tech lynching," a New York Times/CBS poll found that Americans who lived through the controversy believed Thomas over Hill by a 2-1 margin. So HBO did a rewrite -- and produced a movie that left the women who stood up for Thomas on the cutting room floor. In Hollywood, that's a happy ending.
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Cut the cable.
Starve the beast.
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The one GOOD thing about that hearing.
I had been a Straight-Ticket voting Democrat until I watched the hatred and out-right racism from my liberal “heroes”, Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden.
That hypocrisy stopped me in my tracks and I thought, “What else have they been lying about?”
I went on to read conservative though that, somehow, never was required reading in my public school and I have not voted for a Democrat since.
I don’t watch HBO or any of the pay channels.
Awesome
Have refused to subscribe to HBO for at least 16 years: too much anti-gun and liberal tripe. That, and for the price I was paying, less than 5% of the movies were worth watching.
I felt from the get-go that Thomas was getting short changed on that deal.I’m glad he made it through that debacle. He is a good man,I feel. Was then & is now.
I don’t pay for any channels either.
:)
This is why I consider it to be patriotic to download movies and songs from the internet for free.
No way in hell will I watch this.
HBO >> Time Warner >> Jeff Bewkes >> Obama bundler
simple, yes?
I watched the whole thing live.A pubic hair on a coke can-please.It was ugly and mean.And she kept going back.They even went through his video rentals.Pathetic.I loved His closing statement.He hung in there and shines.I have a friend who is good friends with him.
We didn’t either when we still had our old TV. All you had to have was a cable ready TV which we had, but when the TVs changed the cable companies forced the costumers to have a cable box.
What is your internet access? DSL?
Teddy was miffed that his fellow Judiciary members who were Republicans didn't automatically accept every dubious unsupported claim coming from Anita as Gold Standard Truth.
He directed a cry of "Shame!" at them. As I recall, Teddy said something like, "Shame! Shame on you [GOP Judiciary Comm. members] for the shameful way you treated that poor woman!"
To which Orrin Hatch stood up and replied, "If anyone out there thinks that we Republicans treat women badly, I've got a bridge in Massachusetts I'd love to sell you."
HEH HEH!!
Both the people who will watch this drivel will think it’s great. Then one of them will have to go back to his room for evening bed check, and the other one will call her son, the director, and congratulate him on a job well done.
DSL. Ostensibly 3MBPS, but I just tested it on http://www.speedtest.net/ and it was 7.74 down and 0.78 up.
I think all DSL is faster than rated these days. Competition does that.
That’s good speed!
Yes competition is a good thing.
I’m still paying the same cable/internet amount I had in 2009.
Every time they try to up it I threaten to switch to UVerse.
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