Posted on 04/28/2019 1:49:15 PM PDT by bitt
It's true that Joe Biden did his best to help Anita Hill, including concealing witnesses who would have been a disaster under examination. But even he admitted to his colleague that Hill was lying.
Former vice president Joe Biden repeatedly said on The View on Friday that he believed Anita Hill from the moment he heard her tale of sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas. But he previously told Sen. Arlen Specter that it was clear her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee included lies.
“Not only didn’t I vote for Clarence Thomas, I believed her from the beginning. I was against Clarence Thomas, I did everything in my power to defeat Clarence Thomas and he won by the smallest margin anyone ever won going on the Supreme Court,” Biden told “The View’s” Joy Behar.
But in 1998, Biden admitted to Specter that “It was clear to me from the way she was answering the questions, [Hill] was lying” about a key part of her testimony. The exchange was published in Specter’s 2000 memoir, “Passion for Truth: From Finding JFK’s Single Bullet to Questioning Anita Hill to Impeaching Clinton.”
The issue is important, as the media and other partisans rewrite the historical record about Hill and her accusations. The widely watched hearings revealed inaccuracies in Hill’s various versions of events and ended with 58 percent of Americans believing Thomas and only 24 percent believing Hill. There was no gap between the sexes in the results. In the intervening years, activists have relentlessly attempted to change the narrative, writing fan fiction about Hill, bestowing honors on her, and asserting that her disputed allegations were credible.
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Welllll....I think what one, ahem, Senator, writes in a memoir, about another, ahem, Senator, has to be taken with a grain of salt. Similarly, what a Senator actually does tell another Senator must be similarly salted. Finally, anything that touches Specter is obviously riddled with lies. A second finally, it can both be true that Biden knew she was lying and that he was against Thomas from the beginning (he was). Pfft. Facts don’t matter to these people. Whether Thomas did the stuff hill said was irrelevant (he didn’t, of course). It was a high tech lynching.
(Of course all that said....Specter was pretty good in those hearings....as was Hatch).
How convenient! Snarln’ Arlen is not around to defend what he wrote.
So Joe, you were dead set against one of the finest jurists this country has ever produced?
I hope your end is a very very bad one. You exude evil.
Excellent article. Lays out many facts.
“Well” as a respected (again by Conservatives) President often prefaced forthcoming statements, then that makes Ol’ Joe a liar too.
My logic? IF she was a liar, and Ol’ Joe supported her lying, because he didn’t like Clarence Thomas, or any other reason then he too is a liar, but then we already know he’s a Democrat.
Hill’s stunt was duplicated by Christine Ford just last year. With similar results.
And he out and out LIED to Clarence Thomas about it
Hill’s stunt was duplicated by Christine Ford just last year. With similar results.
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Except Christine affected that baby voice and mannerisms. It didn’t help.
The only Anita owed an apology is Anita Bryant.
Notice all these Democratic politicians that have undergone “woke”. Orwell was right. The Left sends facts down a memory hole and the past can be “mutated” to accommodate current political needs and realities. Biden is a dangerous phony.
Biden and all the ‘rats wanted to vote against Thomas, but they did not have the guts to oppose a black man; so they pulled lying Anita Hill outta their asses. They knew she was lying but she served their purpose.
He feels up little girls.
I can’t understand why there is anything else to say from the left or right.
He feels up little girls, for cripes sake!
How would that c Hill have reacted had Thomas grabbed her shoulders, smelled her hair, nuzzled her neck and made a play for her boobs?
Thanks for posting. If we didn’t have Mollie Hemingway, we’d have to invent her. One of the best.
Yikes!!
Who is that Rep? Is that his daughter and grandson in the pic?
This was when PLUGS was a little bit SANE! He has NOW gone ROUND the BEND!
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