I remember some of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings on C-SPAN and Biden was insufferable - rude, arrogant, condescending, you name it. When Anita Hill testified, he nearly got out of his chair and licked her shoes - I almost needed a bucket.
I must admit I owe Biden and the other senators on this committee a debt of gratitude. At the time, my wife, who was pretty darn liberal at the time, was staying home with our two daughters.
I was away at work all day, so missed the hearings that she watched live. In the evening, we’d watch the news reports together of what had happened at those hearings. She was astonished that what was reported often bore remarkably little relationship to what had happened.
Particularly when dozens of women Thomas had worked with over a couple of decades took the stand to describe how he had always been the perfect gentleman around them. Rebutting Anita Hall. In the news, AH was pandered to, all the other women were ignored.
Started my wife’s movement from left to right. And for that I’m grateful to Thomas, the committee and the media.