Posted on 05/21/2023 7:38:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I gave an interview about the Supreme Court justice that ended up on the cutting room floor. Here’s what the network didn’t air.
A popular tactic of American politics, especially on the left, is to attack the character of those with whom you don’t agree. This was evident with the recent show “Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court,” which PBS aired on May 9.
A PBS producer emailed me last January about a planned documentary on the life and legacy of Justice Thomas, who used to work for me. The producer wrote that she wanted “to speak to those closest to him to present a nuanced portrait,” and she would “therefore like to request an interview.”
I agreed to an interview that lasted an hour and a half. That was my mistake. The resulting show was far from nuanced, and it wasn’t really a documentary. It was a two-hour hit job on the character of Clarence Thomas.
I am indeed close to the justice. He worked for me twice, first as an assistant Missouri attorney general, then later as a legislative assistant in my Senate office. In the nearly 50 years I have known him, I have never commented publicly on his judicial philosophy or discussed with him a case before the court. My relationship with Justice Thomas can be summed up succinctly: I am his friend.
Trusting that PBS wanted personal memories that illustrated the character of my friend, I shared three stories that go to the heart of the man. Maybe because these stories contradicted the narrative PBS chose to present, it didn’t run any of them. The only excerpts from my interview it showed were biographical filler. To tell the real story of the person I know, I now...
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Not going to fight the WSJ paywall to read the entire story.
But NPR has been running hit pieces on Thomas for a month or so now. Sometimes the lead story when there is much more important news.
“Biden has a habit of staying for free at the homes of wealthy supporters, raising ethics concerns.”
https://nypost.com/2022/12/28/biden-staying-at-st-croix-villa-of-donors-who-got-state-dinner-invite/
It’s Danforth. He has to be one naive idiot. He knows what the deal is. It’s been 30 years and he still doesn’t get it. Thinks he can still work with the evil ones. Gotta be in his mid 80’s and hasn’t learned a thing.
PBS produces state-sponsored racism.
They surely intend to impeach Thomas knowing that the Senate would *never* vote to convict. One can only assume that they’ll do so in order to deflect attention away from Hunter...the laptop...the border...and the fact that The Big Guy can’t even spell “eight”...or “billion”.
You mean Maoism surely.
Senator Danforth showed some remarkable naivete for a long-time Washington insider. Hopefully he learned something.
I never forgave him for his coverup of the FBI slaughter of the Branch Davidians when they were trying to escape the buildings the FBI set on fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOW6UbAVs8A
“As for the people at PBS, I regret that they duped me into a long interview that went nowhere. Even though they’re subsidized with taxpayer money, I respect their editorial freedom to broadcast whatever they please, however biased and lacking in nuance. But in the interest of accuracy, I ask that they not fob off a political hit job as a “documentary.””
This is how pathetic John Danforth is. If he was still serving in the Senate he’d still be approving budgets that included funding for PBS.
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