ABC's Matthew Dowd: GOP ‘Empowered’ Clinton’s Predatory Behavior With ‘Tainted’ Justice Thomas

ABC’s make-believe Republican Matthew Dowd went completely off the rails Sunday during his appearance on This Week. During the panel discussion of the latest sexual harassment allegations around the country, Dowd went off the deep end and claimed Republicans “empowered” Bill Clinton’s sexually predatory behavior and “gave up their values” by putting “tainted” Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court.

According to Dowd, the only reason Justice Thomas was confirmed to sit on the court was that of tribal politics. “I think until we take off our jersey and say some things are not about our Jersey. Some things are not about the tribe that we’re in,” he pontificated. “We saw this in '91, then the Republicans gave up their values in order to get Justice Thomas on the court.”

“They basically called Anita Hill a nut and a liar in order to get Justice Thomas on the court. They empowered Bill Clinton,” he continued to proclaim, devoid of any facts or reason. “But in order to get those things, they decided the ends justify the means. They decided that a tainted person was better to get what they wanted.” He also claimed Trump’s supporters were guilty of siding with a tainted person just to get what they wanted. But his “tainted” label could also be applied to the Clintons.

Apparently, in Dowd’s version of history, there were no Senate hearings or Senator Joe Biden grilling Thomas in a “high-tech lynching” over Hill’s claims, or her evolving story, or all the testimonies from other women who contradicted her.

The most ridiculous part of Dowd’s analysis was that Justice Thomas’ 1991 confirmation somehow “empowered” Clinton’s alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick in the mid-1970’s. Clinton didn’t need to be empowered because he had a long history of preying on women. His comments effectively covered for Clinton’s sexual assault allegations, so he has no place to stand when he wants to claim to have a moral high ground.

Dowd’s ramblings occurred while they were talking about the sexual misconduct allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, and from his point of view, it would be better if the GOP lost the seat. “The worst possible outcome of the Alabama election for the Republicans is if the Republican wins … It hangs over them through the course of this. They’d be much better off with the Democrat,” He said.

He was also pessimistic about how seriously people would take sexual assault claims in the future. And he smeared white people and Christians as being the source of the problem. “Until more women, more non-whites, more non-Christians, are involved in power in the country, this will not change.” He also asserted that they were responsible for racism and were against a woman’s right to vote: “We thought a watershed moment was when women got the right to vote back in the early 1900s. And that turned out there was a big push back on that.”

This kind of off the wall craziness is apparently just what ABC’s wants from Dowd since he’s a staple for the network. But his faux moral pontifications were hypocritical seeing as he once attacked CNN commentator Mary Katharine Ham, a widowed mother, on Twitter for not being as critical of the Trump Administration as he was, and then blocked her after she shot back. His chivalry knows no bounds.

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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Carly Fiorina, I take her point that we should try to keep it out of politics. Impossible right now.

MATTHEW DOWD: It’s completely impossible right now. And I don’t think it should be out of politics because politics infuses all of this. One of the questions you canned multiple people is: Is this a watershed moment. An honest answer is, I don't know. Because there’s been watershed moments that I thought in American history that turned out not to be watershed moments. We thought electing Barack Obama was going to be a watershed moment for civil rights in the country and race in America. There was a pushback. We thought a watershed moment was when women got the right to vote back in the early 1900s. And that turned out there was a big push back on that. And so, I think we're in a situation where, until the power structure of America and the world changes, because this is all about power, it won't change until that power structure changes. Until more women, more non-whites, more non-Christians, are involved in power in the country, this will not change.

DOWD: I think Lanhee (Chen) right. I think it's more than six months. The worst possible outcome of the Alabama election for the Republicans is if the Republican wins. Because they have to deal with it in the immediate aftermath. They have to deal with it throughout the 2018 midterms. And then they have to deal with it in a presidential election in 2020. It hangs over them though the course of this. They’d be much better off with the Democrat.

DOWD: I think part of it-- George, you know, Stephanie, you know, I have been critical of Bill Clinton from the beginning. I didn't vote for him in '92, I didn’t vote for him in '96. A large degree because of this, because of his behavior.

DOWD: There were a series of things that happened in the midst of the campaign that reflected on his value structure in the course of that. I think until we take off our jersey and say some things are not about our Jersey. Some things are not about the tribe that we’re in.

We saw this in '91, then the Republicans gave up their values in order to get Justice Thomas on the court. They basically called Anita Hill a nut and a liar in order to get Justice Thomas on the court. They empowered Bill Clinton. In order to get the things that Stephanie said, all good and great things. But in order to get those things they decided the ends justify the means. They decided that a tainted person was better to get what they wanted. Donald Trump voters did the -- many did the same thing. The GOP did the same thing. A tainted person, we’ll get him in, we'll get us what we want in that. Until we take off our Jerseys and say, enough is enough, there are some things we have to stand for.

1. Eileen Wellstone (1969)
Allegation: Sexual assault

An article published on a site called Capitol Hill Blue in 1999 asserted that “Eileen Wellstone, 19-year-old English woman, said Clinton sexually assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford where the future President was a student in 1969. A retired State Department employee, who asked not to be identified, confirmed that he spoke with the family of the girl and filed a report with his superiors. Clinton admitted having sex with the girl, but claimed it was consensual. The victim’s family declined to pursue the case.”

While these allegations have never been proven and no woman has come forward to claim the story as her own, no sources have been able to reliably go so far as to claim the story is false, and Snopes only notes it as “unproven.”

2. Anonymous female student at Yale University (1972)
Allegation: Sexual assault

The same article on Capitol Hill Blue further alleges that “a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, a law student at the college. No charges were filed, but retired campus policemen contacted by Capitol Hill Blue confirmed the incident. The woman, tracked down by Capitol Hill Blue last week, confirmed the incident, but declined to discuss it further and would not give permission to use her name.”

3. Anonymous female student at the University of Arkansas (1974)
Allegation: Sexual assault

Again from Capitol Hill Blue: “A female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law school instructor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse. She complained to her faculty advisor who confronted Clinton, but Clinton claimed the student ‘’came on’’ to him. The student left the school shortly after the incident. Reached at her home in Texas, the former student confirmed the incident, but declined to go on the record with her account. Several former students at the University have confirmed the incident in confidential interviews and said there were other reports of Clinton attempting to force himself on female students.”

4. Anonymous female lawyer (1977)
Allegation: Sexual assault

According to Roger Morris in his book Partners in Power, “A young woman lawyer in Little Rock claimed that she was accosted by Clinton while he was attorney general and that when she recoiled he forced himself on her, biting and bruising her. Deeply affected by the assault, the woman decided to keep it all quiet for the sake of her own hard-won career and that of her husband. When the husband later saw Clinton at the 1980 Democratic Convention, he delivered a warning. ‘If you ever approach her,’ he told the governor, ‘I’ll kill you.’ Not even seeing fit to deny the incident, Bill Clinton sheepishly apologized and duly promised never to bother her again.”

5. Juanita Broaddrick (1978)
Allegation: Rape

Reports state that Broaddrick “claimed that Bill raped her when she was a volunteer on his campaign for governor while she was at a nursing student conference in Little Rock. She claimed that he forced himself on her while she screamed “please stop,” and he bit her lip. Norma Rodgers, a friend who was sharing a hotel room with Broaddrick during the conference, confirmed her claims that she had been sexually assaulted. Broaddrick did not come forward with the claims for two decades, claiming she was intimidated and ashamed.”

6. Carolyn Moffet (1979)
Allegation: Sexual assault

Moffet has stated for the record that “she met Gov. Clinton at a political fundraiser and was invited to his hotel room. ‘When I went in, he was sitting on a couch, wearing only an undershirt. He pointed at his penis and told me to suck it. I told him I didn’t even do that for my boyfriend and he got mad, grabbed my head and shoved it into his lap. I pulled away from him and ran out of the room.’”

7. Elizabeth Ward (1983)
Allegation: Unclear

Former Miss America Ward initially accused Clinton of forcible rape, but recanted in 1998 with an apology to Hillary for what she said was a consensual relationship.

8. Sally Perdue (1983)
Allegation: Unclear

The former Miss Arkansas Perdue has told the press that she while her sexual relationship with Clinton was consensual, “in 1992 she was visited by a Democratic Party staffer [who made it clear to her that they] ‘knew that I went jogging by myself and he couldn’t guarantee what would happen to my pretty little legs.’”

9. Paula Jones (1991)
Allegation: Sexual harassment

Paula Corbin Jones, then an Arkansas state worker filed a sexual harassment suit against Clinton, in which she included the following details under penalty of perjury:

“He came over by the wingback chair close to where I was at. Then it’s like he wasn’t even paying attention to what I was saying to him. Then he goes, ‘Oh, I love the way your hair flows down your back. And I was watching you,’ and stuff like that. Downstairs. And then he did it again. Then he started — he pulled me over to him while he was leaning up against the wingback chair and he took his hands and was running them up my culottes. And they were long. They were down to my knees. They were long, dressy culottes. And he had his hand up, going up to my middle pelvic area, and he was kissing me on the neck, you know, and trying to kiss me on the lips and I wouldn’t let him. And then I backed back. I said, ‘Stop it. You know, I’m not this kind of girl.’ I mean. And it still — and then I ran right over to where the couch was. I thought what am I going to do? I was trying to collect my thoughts. I did not know what to do. I was trying to collect my thoughts. I did not know what to do. After the second time — after the first time, I had rebuffed him. And then when I got over there and I kind of sat right there by the end of the couch on the — seemed like on the armchair part. And the next thing you know it, I turn around because he was kind of back over here, and he come over there, pulled his pants down, sat down and asked me to perform oral sex… He asked me would I kiss it. He goes — you know, I can see the look on his face right now. He asked me, ‘Would you kiss it for me?’ I mean, it was disgusting.”

10. Sandra Allen James (1991)
Allegation: Sexual assault

Back to Capitol Hill Blue, political fundraiser James alleged that Clinton “pinned [her] against a wall and stuck his hands up her dress. She screamed so loud that the Arkansas State Police knocked on the hotel door and asked if everything was okay. When she told her Democratic fundraising boss about the incident, he told her to ‘keep your mouth shut.’”

11. Christy Zercher (1992)
Allegation: Sexual assault

In Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson’s book, Dereliction of Duty, he states that Zercher, then a female stewardess on Air Force One, “complained that Clinton ‘sexually molested” and ‘cornered” her on [a] flight. Per Patterson, the woman only “wanted an apology.’”

12. Kathleen Willey (1993)
Allegation: Sexual assault

Willey claims that when she was working as a volunteer in the White House social office, Clinton “fondled her breast and placed her hand on his clothed, erect penis in the Oval Office while she was asking him for a White House job.”

An article titled “The Trashing Of Clinton’s Women” appeared in The Village Voice in 1999 closed with this:

“The president’s acolytes — such as Alan Dershowitz — continually bray, ‘Sex lies! It’s all sex lies!’ They insist that these thrown-away women are making all this up, including the threats and intimidation. But is every one of these women lying?”

Well, that is an excellent question. Indeed.

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