Virginia Thomas Leaves Anita Hill a Voicemail Asking for An Apology — Hill Says No

Well I suppose Ginny Thomas has to believe her husband.

Thomas has proven Hill to be correct in her low estimation of his character.

Bizarre…just bizarre.

I hope Ms. Hill doesn’t have a pet bunny.

Rather boggles the mind. I’m guessing early stage Alzheimer’s.

Of course, Anita Hill should apologize.
She lied. ‘Nuff said.

If the message is quoted accurately and completely, and Virginia Thomas calls that an “olive branch,” then she’s as batcrap crazy as my second wife.

Unbelievable. Virginia Thomas’ conduct was inappropriate on so many levels. She has no personal knowledge as to the actual facts. Frankly, she would likely be the last to know.

Not sure what the tea in tea party is being made with these days.

I will never forget Anita Hill in her youth and dignity being grilled by those old men and how she did not bend or break under the pressure. There was not ONE INSTANT where she came off as being a liar, but HE SURE AS HECK DID, let me assure y’all. And yes, he did get his precious appointment, but she kept her dignity because all that did was make it look like he was given his appointment IN SPITE of his disgusting behavior. If I were Anita Hill, I would welcome the chance for this issue to resurface and let Justice Thomas’s wife drag his name back through his own excrement once more. Let’s pray about that indeed!

I remember being glued to the TV during those hearings. As I recall, Justice Thomas was confirmed because Anita Hill’s actions prior to the nomination were simply not consistent with her testimony. Following Thomas to a new department and asking to work with him is not the behavior I would expect from someone that experienced what she claimed to have experienced.

Anita Hill was a woman scorned. Her story was so far fetched as to be laughable. Nice try, Ginny, but why would a lying leftist ever want to come clean?

That’s awesome! Anita Hill was given a seat in from of the committee to lie her ass off – and to dispell once and forever that judicial hearings were a venue where philosophy is discussed. The Dems began it with Bork, continued it with Thomas, and tried the same thing with Alito and Roberts. In fact, you’re seeing that they’re using character assassination right now to try to save themselves from the whooping they’ve earned in November. It’s the same old story with the Left – they’re shameless.
Anita Hill not only ought to apologize to Clarence Thomas’ wife, she ought to apologize to America for putting us through her pony show. She’s a scumbag – she deserves the animus she gets!

Of course Anita Hill was lying.
Hill kept working for him and followed him to each job he earned. How many departments did she follow him to? Two or three? And these were after/during the supposed harassment! There is no excuse for liars that try to bring good people down. She should apologize for her lie not only to Clarence Thomas and his wife but the American people.

How interesting that this wife, one of the major players in the tea party, has forgotten all the pornography her hubbie was watching during his days away from home…It was all part of the sworn testimony. How good that she remind us of his upstanding character. Maybe she made the call on O’Donnell’s behalf?

Poor Anita Hill – being labeled things she’s not by guilty-faced right wingers after all of these years when all she had was the audacity to tell the truth even when it was unpopular. Seriously, people are going to believe that Tea Party nutjob of a wife Clarence has over an honorable professor like Anita Hill? Get over yourselves, wingnuts.
If there’s anyone who owes anyone an apology it’s Clarence Thomas – he owes both Anita an apology for painting her out to be a liar, and the American people a liar for all of the damage he’s caused while sitting on the Supreme Court.

Dose anyone proof these articles or do these people really speak like this?

you are all idiots by taking sides on the left or the right. They are same. Haven’t you morons figured that out by now?

Was Ginni Thomas drunk when she made that call? Or merely crazy?

What kind of releases this crap?

What I find funny is that, even if Anita Hill was telling the truth, what Thomas did amounted to some trash talk, nothing more. The same people who were “outraged” because Thomas said something about Long Duck Dong, pubic hair on his Coke can, and asked Hill for a date were just fine with a sitting President getting orally serviced in the Oval Office by an intern the age of his daughter(not to mention the other credible accusations made against Clinton). A bunch of hypocrites.

Anita Hill deserves an Academy Award if she can still keep that act up after all these years.

Anita will never be right with God until she owns up to what she did.

I watched every minute of those hearings. Hang tough Anita Hill and never back down. You stood strong against all those old men then and you can stand strong now. I cannot believe that Ms. Thomas made that call and left such a message.

Long overdue yet meaningless to a political democratic hack. I wouldn’t expect any response from Ms. pubic hair.

Hill was and is a scumbag. A waste of a call. (Super fatty Amanda)

“You’re Stupid” had the only sane comment following this story. No one else has any idea what happened. You should all realize that you are being used by both sides, same coin folks!

Talking about a nut! let’s talk a little paranoia here. Hill gets a phone call from Mrs. Thomas and runs to the POLICE!!!! Oh Brother! She’s either extremely paranoid or wants a lot of attention.

Stay strong, Ms. Hill. If anyone should apologize, it should be now-Justice Thomas. I guess his wife wants her 15 minutes of fame since she has nothing going on in her own life.

Ginny Thomas must have lost her mind. Or been drunk. If anyone should apologize, it should be that abomination on the Supreme Court. Then, he should admit his incompetence and resign.

when is Clarence Thomas going to apologize to Anita Hill for his sexual harassment when he was her boss?

Mrs. Thomas should pray that the Lord give her the strength to forgive Ms. Hill and move on. Such a waste of energy and time. This is just bringing the negative focus back on her husband and making her look like a stalker. Forgive and move on Mrs. Thomas!

It is very apparent that conservatives do not believe Hill and liberals do. But there is no proof one way or the other, there is not any reason to believe or disbelieve, but everyone jumps to their side of the political line –if this does not scare you about the future of this country, you are not paying attention.

I support Justice Thomas and I think Ms Hill lied for a promise that she’d be “taken care of” later. I also support the Tea Party movement. With that said, I do think this was quite strange and rather ill-advised. Why ressurect this issue now, after so many years. Strange, indeed.

The thing about lies is that unless you personally know what happened, you don’t know who is lying. Maybe Hill lied, maybe Thomas lied. None of us here know, only those two do. Virginia has been all over the airwaves lately talking about various issues and how she thinks her husband would vote on them. She needs to really watch what she says.
Oh and the reason Hill probably called the police is because if someone WAS impersonating a Justice of the Supreme Court’s spouse and making other calls in her husband’s name, that could be a major problem for Virginia.

Whether there was any truth to the specific charges Anita Hill made against Clarence Thomas or not, anyone with half a brain could see that she was in love with him.

Like most sexual harassment lawsuits in the workplace, it is a he says, she says situation, and the benefit of the doubt goes to the female party. Let alone Hill is a Black, Female placing a claim against a conservative Black Male. No one knows the truth except the parties directly involved here. All I have to say is both parties, at the end, didn’t do too badly. Justice Thomas is now a supreme court justice, and he has unlimited term until his time is up or his own decision to retire. Hill got a nice professorship job in a major University, also tenure, no job security problem there. Is she a pawn, is she lying, or she did speak the truth – only their consciencious can answer that truthfully. As for whether Ginny Thomas did the right thing, I’d say not. She should know the consequences of having the voicemail leaked to the press. She should know better. The media is basically a snake pit full of vipers ready to strike down any conservatives, let alone someone like Justice Thomas. Let it go, Ginny. Be a smarter woman next time around.

Big Government Media chooses who rules us. They choose by vetting and slandering any who oppose their agenda. Demonize Justice Thomas for making advances. Cover-up for Clinton the rapist. That allows them to push the communism that we all oppose. Hopefully, we will wise up soon and ignore petty personal issues, focusing on freedom. (the advance was petty, the rape was not petty)

What I have not heard mentioned yet is the fact that Anita Hill was compelled to testify. She was first assured that her testimony would be anonymous and then later thrown under the bus with a long line of democrat tools. So as a good lawyer, she stuck with the lie.
If you want a good idea how democrats have historically treated women, try to think how Betty Curry must have felt dealing with the harasment she had to deal with.
Even if Anita Hill were telling the truth, that was nothing compared to Ms. Currys’ torment

Some olive branch!!

Good for Ms. Hill !!! What the heck is wrong with Mrs. Thomas?

Is Mrs. Thomas needing some love or something? This happened years ago. Why come out now with this? Something very fake about this.

Clarence Thomas has nothing to apologize for. Hill couldn’t provide any proof, just fabrications. End of story.

Someone remind me, why did we ever let a porn addict on the supreme court???? He’s completely useless. He never ever asks a single question, has any input, at all. He is not up to par with the other justices, he is useless. Purely useless. Already Gagin and Sotomoya have proven more sharp, more savy, ask more challenging questions. THomas has not askeda single question, had a single bit of input for YEARS!!! MANY YEARS. He’s over his head. And what’s with the wife??? getting a little sick of seeing Clarence injesting his porn flicks??? What an odd kind of gross pair. The weird God Fearing prude and her twisted sick porn addicted stunted husband. ew.

I can’t not imagine why Mrs. Thomas would ever expect an apology from someone who told the truth.

I watched the hearings and I am fully convinced Anita Hill lied under oath in order to try to destroy Clarence Thomas.
As to why, my imagination does not have to go far. I would love to see if any deposits were made into Ms. Hill’s bank account.

The timing of this is very interesting.
Anita Hill and all Leftists doing their part.

OMG, someone call the Campus Poolice! A hate crime has been committed.

Justice Thomas’ wife is just as much a nut as he is. To call Hill 20 years later to ask for an apology and consider that to be extending an olive branch is really crazy – but I hear she’s a big Tea Party supporter. Thomas and his wife both seem to be very strange people indeed. This guy should not be on the bench.

Serious drama queens…

LOL…LOL….all the shallow right wing diatribe by the right wing supporters. Clarence and his wife are nothing more than “shills” of the right wing conservative fanatics. Look at his “decisions’(LOL) and who she works for (the Heritage Foundation). All this is, is another right wing “intrusion” into someone’s private life to create another “inflaming, distracting” non-issue to fire up the “base”. And look at the ‘responses” to this “non-issue”. They really know how to “fire up and work” their base…don’t they? LOL…LOL When are you people going to figure out how they use you?

Anita Hill thought that she would remain the darling of the liberal loons, and that Clarenece Thomas would become just a footnote after the orchestrated left attack. If I were Virginia Thomas, I’d have let that withered piece of licorice alone unless, of course, Hill is trash talking either Thomas. In that case, Hill ought to have every piece of her dirty laundry past and present, dumped prominently onto the Internet.
Hill’s associations and affiliations over the course of the intervening years ought to be reviewed for interesting connections, which may have been meaningless back then.

What next, Mrs. Thomas jumping out from behind bushes in the front yard? This woman is creepy. What an obsessive, delusion person. She is potential stalker material. Ms. Hill ought to get a restraining order against that creep.

This article has at least two typos and they are individually as annoying as this entire story.

What Supreme Court decision that he has made which lead you believed that he is not qualified for the job now? —have you not been paying attention these past years??? He never speaks! The Wallstreet journal had a “Will Clarence Thomas ask a question” watch because thomas NEVER asks a question!! Don’t you realize how odd that is??? Supreme court justices are supposed to be the ubber elite intellectual far superior to any laywer who argues a case. so when a case is brought before them, usually, nearly always, when the layers leaves a hole in his argument, a justice on the court asks a pertinent question that pokes holes in the laywers theory. Soyota asked more sharp intelligent question in her first WEEK than Thomas has his entire CAREER on the bench! Gagin has already asked very savy questions, shown her to be on par with the rest of the justices in this very short time, meanwhile ,thomas just sit there, silent. Nothing to add, nothing to challenge, looking …stupid. Where have you been? He’s not on par with the rest of them. Literally. I mean, he is NOT. It’s not an argumet. He contributes nothign and I do mean nothing. his job IS to contribute something yet he has nothing, nothing going on upstair and remaind silent and has for years. Useless.

WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD THOMAS WIFE START DIGGING AROUND IN HER HUSBAND TRASH PILE? DID SHE FOUND MORE TRASH, AND TRYING TO BLAME IT ON SOMEONE ELSE?
THE WIFE IS ALWAYS THE LAST TO SEE THE TRASH..IN THE PILE..A REAL WOMAN WOULD NOT CALL ANOTHER WOMAN JOB WITH MESS ABOUT A MAN….
SORRY… MRS THOMAS LOOK LIKE THE VILLAGE IDIOT.

I agree about the typos – three of them that I noticed. I’m not perfect either but this is ABC news for crying out loud. Embarrassing.

I get it. Virginia Thomas is the head of the Tea Party, which is dying and she’s trying to keep them in the news. In this day and age, any news is suppose to be good if you want media attention. Even bad news (Paris Hilton, Jesse James, ad naseum). And this Bad News Virginia is doing whatever she can to get media attention. Of course she knew that it would cause concern – and she doesn’t mind being seen as a self righteous stalker. She knows there are enough pea brains out there to think she is right.

Question, what has he done NOW that made his wife wonder what he did Back THEN????? Or is she just hitting the bottle too much? She is a bagger, after all, so I guess sanity is not really much of an option for her.

Whether or not Hill told the truth of not, though I firmly believe her, is really not even that relevant compared to the horrendously bad judgement of calling her work and dragging all this back from the dead. I mean, sure, most of us look at Thomas and think “pervert” but that is more because of the video store owner and the 200 porn flicks, not so much for Hill. HIll was nice looking, his wife is frightful and prudish – that we get. The 200 porn flicks with the conservative prudish wife??? Now that’s way too weird. So why does the wierdo wife drag this all back from the dead??? calling the women’s work of all places? Beyond odd. Makes me wonder what Thomas did now to cause his wife to wonder what he did back then.

Expecting Anita Hill to apologise to Judge Thomas is like expecting Crystal Gail Mangum to apologise to the Duke Lacrosse team.

“i did not have sex with that woman”
oops, that was clinton
“i will not take back that lie,
i would look like a liar”

Anita Hill lied under oath in an attempt to destroy a man’s life. I wish her all the worst in this world. And no, Clarence Thomas rented no porn – more lies from the morally bankrupt Left…sigh. If you really cared about Sexual Harassment you would have demanded that Bill Clinton resign. Reality arrives in 14 days!

For those of you illiterates who don’t know Clarence Thomas and accordingly have no reason to, he is a master of the Constitution, American History, and the English language. His carefully deliberated constitutional positions have been the deciding factor of many Supreme Court decisions. In addition, he has been and is an articulate speaker at many colleges where his oratory skills and teaching ability have left lasting positive impressions and he encourages African American children to set high goals by example. He is an African American conservative who overcame the racist stereotype liberal democrats place on black men. By their judgment, they must carry the outward badge of victim and curse the white man by adhering to a self deprecating loathing of their fellow man whom must have surely crippled them for eternity.

Jamie, What is “their long home is coming?”

Jamie, I think you meant to say Thomas is the dimwit that sits on the bench and has never opened his mouth at oral arguments.

What was perplexing was how Ms. Hill waited for so long to bring up charges of harassment against Clarence Thomas. I think she did it out of spite because she may have had some hope of marrying Judge Thomas. So, when Clarence Thomas married someone else and was heading for the supreme court, Anita Hill thought it was time to do him in. It did not work.

To unbelievable:
And you know her?

Anita Hill is a good example of what’s wrong with this country.
Dumb as a rock and completely lacking in judgment or morals.

It’s my distinct recollection that the scorned Anita Hill wanted to marry Clarence Thomas.

Man you people are hateful. A friend of hers told the government Anita had said this happened. The government interviewed her. Biden chose to not go there. Some women’s group found out about it and marched on Washington insisting it be brought up. Anita NEVER pushed this whatsoever. So no. She wasn’t wanting to marry the pig. She wasn’t looking to bury him. No, she’s not a waste of human life.

I remember the case clearly and read the transcripts more than once because of an assigned project in my sociology class. you can find it online yourselves.
Eight women who worked with Clarence testified in his defense and it is on record that they testified that Anita Hill was a scheming gold-digger who couldn’t trick Clarence Thomas into falling for her.

“I simply testified to the truth of my experience.”
What an odd phrase. You notice she didn’t just say “I told the truth.” She’s talking the way people on he left do when they talk about “your truth and my truth.”
The Anita Hills of the world don’t care what damage they cause to further their agenda. By any means necessary…

Liberals are horribly mean to women who speak out, unless the women happen to crazy, unknowledgeable and extremely liberal when it comes to social issues.

Mrs. Thomas should not have called Anita Hill. The matter has been closed for 19 years, and it is not appropriate for her to visit it again. If Ms. Hill wanted to apologize, she would have reached out to the Thomases and not the reverse. This was a poor choice of actions on the part of Mrs. Thomas, and everyone should drop the subject as soon as possible.

Why the need to alert the campus police over what sounds like a single politely worded phone call that contained no threats or other aggressive phrasing?
Couldn’t Anita Hill have just called Mrs. Thomas back, even if it was to tell her she’d never apologize?
The reaction seems a bit too strong.
How would one even complain about that? “I got this phone call asking me to apologize for something that happened about 20 years ago and… um… I need the police to launch an investigation!?!”

“Reader” is right. Why would she call the police?
“Someone called me and asked for an apology, dial 911!”
makes no sense at all. Pretty much likie ms Hills entire smear.
She reminds me of the Duke lacrosse team accuser.

Do I believe Anita Hill? Absolutely. Clarence obviously has his wife snowed.

Woman to woman…let the battle begin

Haha, Henry! Can you imagine that call? I wouldn’t even know where to begin… for fear of being laughed at.
Police: “Has this caller threatened you?”
A.H.: “No.”
Police: “Has this caller contacted you multiple times?”
A.H.:”No.”
“Has this caller hinted at any sort of injury, retribution or anything of the sort?”
A.H.: “No.”
Police: “Has this caller hidden their identity?”
A.H.: “No. They left me their name and phone number.”
Police: “OK. So what’s the problem?!?!?!?!?!”

Do I believe Anita Hill – no, I didn’t in the 90′s and I don’t today. What a way for democrats to treat a supreme court nominee – and republicans are called racists.

Reader, It’s about as improper as it gets to have a judges wife call and say this after sworn testimony involving her husband.

Ms. Hill told the truth.

Paul Smith, the Republicans of the past would be considered RINO’s today. The party changed in the late sixties and seventies, and the transformation was complete by the 1980s. Still, there were a few remaining that had sense and dignity. They were not right wingers but rather moderates. Now a sign has been hung out there: moderates need not apply.
Nowadays, Republicans and right wingers tend to blame those who are not in power– the disenfranchised, the harassed, the laid off, the sick and injured, those who are discriminated against.
They urge Latinos not to vote in Nevada.
They sponsor and support torture.
They intimidate voters in Texas.
They have no worthile ideas, and certainly no solutions to our problems.
They vote against the middle class.
They vote against small businesses.
They vote against disclosure.
They don’t understand the first amendment.
They disrespect American ideals.
They are fearmongerers and liars.

The callus right wingers on here who don’t understand why Anita Hill would call the police over what she construed as a prank probably have forgotten that she received insinuated threats from Thomas, and overt threats during and after her testimony.

Why the trashing of the Tea Party?? Best get used to it cause regardless of this election cycle outcome the tea party (everyday americans) are not going away!

“Anita Hill lied under oath in an attempt to destroy a man’s life. I wish her all the worst in this world” says Karen Marie.
The worst in the world? The world has some pretty unspeakable things to offer. That’s an incredible statement to me. It’s fine to disagree, to have doubts about Ms. Hill, Justice Thomas or anyone, really. But I continue to be struck by the hateful things people will post, and I’m always dumbfounded by people who claim to know another’s motives or another’s story at all.
I’m not sure what your point is, Karen Marie, other than threatening others.
What a sorry state we’re in.

Nothing like the light of knowledge to shine on the darkness and filth which the democrat party sickness has perverted our country with for so long.
It is amusing to see them so absolutely stunned by the education the internet has provided to the masses. They clearly have no idea what to do now that their illness has been exposed.

I’m sorry, but Clarence Thomas should never have been confirmed to the Supreme Court. He holds a reactionary and ossified view of Constitutional Law and he chooses his clerks less for intellectual rigor and more for ideological purity. He is part of the Right Wing cancer on the Court and his wife’s rhetoric is just this side of seditious. It’s simply appalling.

Anita Hill told the truth. Clarence Thomas is the most marginal of all the justices. His wife is, like Thomas, a marginal human being who is out to make a name for herself. She has already overshadowed her husband who is the least knowledgeable justice on the court. Everybody knows that and she is bringing his shortcomings to the public again now that she feels she can hide her bigotry behind the tea party flag. They are PATHETIC!

Ginny, Ginny. Go back home and keep yopur mouth shut as you have done since 1991. The tea-party has made you feel like you can come out from under your rock and make a silly name for yourself. Look who you married. This already tells the world about you and we see why he was so attracted to a beauty like Anita Hill. She was waaaaaaaay too smart for him.

Wow, what a bimbo: Clarence Thomas has set on the bench for 18 years drawing a paycheck, with a life-time appointment to that bench. Nothing else, nothing more. Which is a very good reason to NOT have life-time appointments to any job.

In fact, the best way to describe Dr MLK?
He was an Abraham Lincoln Republican.
That is far from todays democrats.

“I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years…” (Virginia Thomas)
Hmmm… seems more like extending manacles and asking Hill to please put them on and come peacefully! Virginia Thomas has simply proved what I have long known of most Republicans: that she is arrogant and has no respect for fairness or truth – but only for her own way. That she is a Tea Party activist should come as no surprise whatsoever.

Justice Thomas is a big fat liar. He’s also the dumbest justice ever.

Justice Thomas is a great american with superior intellect. You democrats really need to let this race thing go.
It is very unbecoming.

“What a sorry state we’re in. ”
You must be in Michigan then..

” Eight women who worked with Clarence testified in his defense and it is on record that they testified that Anita Hill was a scheming gold-digger who couldn’t trick Clarence Thomas into falling for her.” She was also racist in some of her remarks “why is he messing with that white woman?”

Justice Thomas is a great american with superior intellect.
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That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a darker side or hasn’t made mistakes, or that his wife didn’t make a huge faux pas in this instance. Moreover, it hasn’t translated into his being a particularly memorable or profound Supreme Court Justice.
And it certainly doesn’t give people on here the right to diss Anita Hill, who is also a great American with superior intellect.

She was probably a plant from the start.. either sent to watch the “up and coming black man”, or sent in when the rumour was out that he was going to be selected..

” A friend of hers told the government Anita had said this happened. ” OOh that means it never happened!! Just like when one of my friends told the police that his brother hadn’t been driving drunk.. even when it was obvious he was wasted..

“The author who wrote the article and/or the editor who allowed it to pass to publication are total Nimrods when it comes to the English language …this is where the Liberal statist media is heading ..towards illiteracy”… well ya know.. you have to have the requirements low enough to pass those of the lazy/don’t study/wont learn class… a.k.a. the LIEberal voter

Anita had every right to notify the authorities & to stop further harrassment from Virginia Thomas. So had the nerve to leave this type of message on Anita’s workplace phone then she should accept the consequences for her misjudgement. So let bigones be Virginia because if it is ok with Clarence Thomas then sToP!. Certainly he has likely wronged Anita so accept it unless there is trouble in paradise to focus your attention elswhere, hhhmmmmmm.

Why do we even have to hear about these disgusting degenerates that can’t accept who and what they are.

I believe Anita Hill. Her truth was the truth of all women who suffered the unwanted predatory advances of a boss. She was very brave to put up for sacrafice her whole career to speak for what was wrong, very wrong in society. Conversely, Ms. Thomas appears to have no life beyond the compelling need to dig up her husband’s dirty laundry. Ms. Thomas, dismount your high horse and get yourself together. Life begins NOW. Find a REAL purpose for yourself!

Anita Hill is full of guilt regarding her lies against a good man. She is an arrogant and angry scorned woman who thinks too highly of herself. Hopefully one day she will apologize and make things right so that she can have peace in her tormented soul.

I wonder how many of the above actually watched the hearings? It was obvious who was lying and who wasn’t. It was devastating to watch how low some people will stoop to ruin an honorable human being. Fortunately, truth prevailed.
God bless Justice Thomas and his wife, Virginia!

Was’nt this all about him asking her if that was a pubic hair on a Coka Cola can? Always seemed like an odd way to hit on someone to me…. almost like it was made up.

One phone call is not harassment in any sense of the word or the law. People who think it is are out of touch with reality. She never expected Ms. Hill to release a transcript of her message and call the police on her for it, but merely wanted to have an apology. She knows Ms. Hill was lying, after all she followed Judge Thomas when he changed jobs when she could have kept her job where she was and not been subjected to him. If he were as horrible as she makes out why would she have chosen to do that? As a woman who has been sexually harassed I can tell you there’s no way she would have if she truly was being harassed.

“The callus right wingers on here who don’t understand why Anita Hill would call the police over what she construed as a prank probably have forgotten that she received insinuated threats from Thomas, and overt threats during and after her testimony.”
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Oh, I doubt they’ve forgotten. They probably think Anita Hill deserved her fate for not saying “Yes” to Justice Thomas’s proposition

I could have gone the entire rest of my life without hearing Anita Hill’s name and been so much happier for it. She called the campus police so she could add 2 more minutes onto her expired 15 minutes of undeserved fame. I only hope I don’t have to see that liar’s name again until it’s printed in her obituary.

A woman testifies against a so called VIP man, and she becomes accused of lies all of her life. No one really knows if she was a liar except her creator, but why is this still troubling Mr. Thomas’ wife? There is a big possibility that Ms. Hill was telling the truth, but this is really left to each one of us to believe what they are convinced of to believe, and only God and his angels can know the real truth, but don’t tell me that you know she is a liar; you just don’t know, and don’t lie to us about your convictions in order to defend your political views!

Baconhead
I dont know about that.
I think comparing Anita Hill to the accuser in the Duke Lacrosse team smear may be somewhat accurate.
Is that what you meant?

Well I personally truly thank God that we have Clarence Thomas on the US Supreme Court.
Roberts, Scalia, Ailito, Thomas collectively represent by far the brightest and most educated court we have ever had.

Mrs. Thomas is clearly obsessed with Anita Hill. What is wrong with this woman? Her sense of entitlement is outrageous. I would press charges if i were Anita Hill or at least get a restraining order. Mrs.Thomas is as unstable as her husband is incompetent.

Justice Thomas is a black conservative who overcame the racist stereotype liberal democrats place on black men. By their judgment, they must carry the outward badge of victim and curse the white man by adhering to a self deprecating loathing of their fellow man whom must have surely crippled them for eternity.
Eight women who worked with Clarence Thomas testified in his behalf during his nomination proceedings, and more than one claimed Anita Hill was a manipulative schemer who was scorned when her plans to marry him failed.

Hill did not pass a lie detector test. That was a rumor that was picked up by the media and circulated wildly.
Joe Biden announced on C-Span years later that the “lie detector thing was false”. – Now Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden
Quotes of parties close to the investigation:
“It’s my opinion that to this very day, Ms Hill is insecure and has fleeting feelings of mild paranoia.”
“She set personal goals for herself that were not reachable, early in her career, her jealous personality caused her to want to bring down those friends that had reached the goals that she desired for herself.”
“She left her first job which where she claimed Clarence Thomas harassed her and followed him to her second place of employment so she could be near him. These are not the actions of someone who has been sexually harassed.”
Her own friends testified she was obsessed with him.
Other men came forward during the testimony as well, claiming she had made similar accusations about them.
Eight highly respectable women of good reputation testified on Clarence Thomas’ behalf stating Anita Hill had lied and the charges were not true.
The United States Senate declared the charges had no merit.
End of Story

I watched the hearings…closely, with no bias. I absolutely beleive Anita Hill. She was/is too smart to make up that kind of story about Justice Thomas out of spite. If a medical person were to have verified some of Ms Hills claims, for the court and the public,the viewing audience may have a much different opinion of the validity of the accuasations. The details, the comments were too off the wall to have been made up. Politics played a major role in getting Thomas through those hearings onto the Supreme court. I’m sorry the political process didn’t give more credence to Ms. Hills testamony.

great

To almostpicasso and anyone else troting out the tired meme that Justice Thomas is not an intellectual or or is otherwise incompetent because he doesn’t ask questions during oral arguements.
First off, you have obviously never read any of his opinions, which are amongst the most accessible and articulate in this court. Compare his opinions to a Gingberg, Bryer, or *shudder* a Stevens opinion and the clarity of thought and analysis immediately comes through.
Second, if you had bothered to read Supreme Conflict by Jan Crawford, you would already know that Thomas pulls Scalia equally and has been one of the more forceful personalities during the Justices internal arguements and his writings. In fact good or bad, it was Thomas’ arguements that caused O’Connor to drift more leftward in the latter part of her tenure.
Finally, ask any lawyer or legal expert and they will all tell you that in appellete actions, which the Supreme Court almost always is, it is the written briefs that carry almost all the weight and very rarely does the oral argument make any difference. Personally, I would rather have a Justice who studies the briefs and knows the law and Constitution and argues forcefully among his collegues than one who grandstands and asks questions during a meaningless oral argument.
So the next time you decide to drag out another tired, lame liberal talking point do some reasearch. Or continue to look and sound like an idiot. I really don’t care.

I wonder why they just went with the email and transcript and not the recording. Mrs. Thomas was probably drunk dialing. That would explain her wanting to get “passed” it.

I think Ms. Hill needs to get a restraining order against Mrs. Thomas.
Has anyone checked Mrs. Thomas to see if she’s still mentally competent?

Simple question. Why doesn’t Anita Hill take a lie detector test? What does she have to hide? There really is no viable excuse for her not to,since her testimony almost brought down a Supreme Court Justice. It’s ridiculous to expect people to just take her word for it when she can easily support her claims by taking a lie detector test even though they are not 100% reliable. 90% reliable is certainly good enough for most reasonable people.

Yes, it’s get ‘past’, not ‘passed’. Remember it’s an email she sent. C’mon, people, can we assume you never misspell anything in emails? Their for They’re or There? C’mon. Get real. Also, the other mistake, from ABC “ABC: “When you thing about Anita Hill … was she a pawn, was she a liar?” should be ‘think’ not ‘thing’. How come no one noticed the mistake by a news organization but were all over a private citizen’s email response. Classic.

Your right Michelle. I proof read my post twice and just noticed I goofed up a word.

In there years since her testimony, much evidence has emerged that Hill made it all up. The pubic hair/Pepsi can/alien remark, in particular, came from an actual court case she was familiar with for being in the circuit where she was teaching long after it supposedly happened under her employment with Thomas. Something that obscure is not going to happen twice. She obviously read it, recalled it, and perjured herself. An apology from her and those who support her is long overdue.

anita hill is the typical know-nothing affirmative action appointee. My money says she was given this Brandeis job by the likes of the kennedy/newyorktimes scum as a reward for her lies back during Justice Thomas’s confirmation hearings. Only a lying guilt-ridden commie-lib would call the police in response to the email sent by Mrs. Thomas. Libs, like devils and muslims are trying to destroy all that is good in this country.

She was a useful idiot for the Libs. They told her she could make the accusations annonymously, and she believed them.
Her employment positions since then have been nothing more than political paybacks.
It is typical of Liberals in that they always promote incompetence.

Anita Hill is the lowest form of near human. More closely related to still water scum than the human race.
She owes Clarence Thomas an abject apology daily.

Anita – it’s time to apologize for what you did to Clarence. We all now know that you lied for your party. How can you live with yourself, is what we all want to know, or are you like the typical Liberal who lies and feels no guilt? I guess by your response, you can lie without guilt.

Anita Hill must be churning inside from guilt after all these years and no confession.
I bet she has twitches and all kinds of little qwirks going on in her life.
Plus if you have ever listened to her, you know she is not the kind of person you’d put in charge of anything..

What’s worse than a bitter young woman?
Obviously a bitter old woman.
: o )

Supreme Court is merely an arm of authoritarian gov’t and yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by fencing-in demonstrators at G-20, banning books like “America Deceived II” and trying to take-over the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by wireless wiretapping.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars.
Impeach Obama (and sweep out the Congress, except Ron Paul).
[Link of Banned Book]:
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526

No question Anita is telling the truth. Mr. Thomas is to be commended for his ability to snow job his wife into believing otherwise.

An educated Tawana Brawley?

Clarence Thomas & his wife are the ones lynching Anita Hill. Before the sexual harassment issue hit the news, the big question for the Clarence Thomas confirmation was whether he was pro-choice or pro-life–a big issue for a Chief Justice candidate. I watched the debate and the pivotal moment for me was the question whether Anita and Clarence had a difference of opinion on abortion. She did not answer right away but paused waiting for the panel to pull the question back. Since no one did she stated “I don’t believe I’m hear to answer that question.” The Senator in charge of the panel then agreed and the question was not answered. If Anita Hill’s sole purpose was to bring down the candidate-she could have just answered that question. Anita served her county and they still want to lynch her for it. How rude not to respect her viewpoint and feelings over this issue–it is apparent that it was very real for Anita–maybe typical for some men not to realize it can be real to women. The sexual harassment issue became the scape-goat for those supporting Clarence Thomas. They used the fiasco for the stage of “public lynching”–words out of Clarence Thomas’s own mouth. In reality, he lynched another person-Anita. I have often wondered how her career survived this. I great respect for her after watching how she tried to share with the country amidst such hostility, what she truly believed in. Whether you believe her or not, you should respect how she handled herself with such grace and professionalism. She showed herself a better candidate for Chief Justice than Clarence–a guy who so easily cried “public lynching” rather than trying to let justice rein. I guess that’s got to still rankle the Thomas’s egos.

I still have a hard time believing Anita Hill!!
If Clarence Thomas did what she claims he did then why did she follow him to another firm? And by the way…didn’t she do this a couple of times? If someone was harassing me, then left for another firm I’d say good riddance and never want to see them again! Why would I want to follow them just to get another dose?
Sorry, but her story didn’t wash then and still doesn’t wash to this day!

“You have to LOVE how right-wing men lie and treat their women like deluded FOOLS.
It’s rather funny, the sad way they relate to one another, huh? ”
That’s rich. Kind of like Bill and Hillary.

Commenter ObiJohn at 7:02 a.m. – Fist bump, high five and slam dunk type of post! Highly recommended all give it a gander..

Personally I think Thomas’s wife has a bigger set of balls than he does. For a wife to ask for an apology for something that happened (or didn’t, choose your side)between two people other than herself takes allot of nerve.

The bizarre aspect of this is why the Thomas’s care. His clumsy and inappropriate sexual teasing or whatever you want to call if of Hill didn’t disqualify him for his seat on the SC. He is there now for life, period.
Mrs. Thomas is a strong and active political partisan with the obvious approval of the Justice. He is beloved by his political allies and despised by his opponents. The latter a role that he relishes. I calculate this silly stunt was simply meant to stir the pot to inflame some more passion before the election. Focusing the medias attention on something totally irrelevant to the issues of the day. It is obvious Hill will never recant her testimony so the request to do so has to be assumed to be a rather small minded political stunt. I’d expect little more from them.

As for being a mediocre employee, I think time has shown quite definitively that that description fits Clarence Thomas, not Anita Hill.
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HA! How true! The Wallstreet journal for years had a “will Clarence thomas ask a question?” watch. He has been useless. Soyota and Gagin have ALREADY been more effective, asked more relevant questions and shown their intelligence more. Soyota asked more pointed questions her first WEEK than Thomas has done his entire career on the bench. He’s obviously not qualified for his post.

She left her first job which where she claimed Clarence Thomas harassed her and followed him to her second place of employment —women put up with sexual harrassment all the time. I have had certain bosses, certain heads of companies ask me out to lunch, be inappropriate but you take it and let hte opportunties they open up for you help your career. He had rented, according to the video store clerk, over 250 porn flicks inside 6 months. HE’s a porn junkie and he’s a pervert and obviously this showed in how he carried himself and that he’s weird in that way shows he was not appropriate to be a supreme court justice. Look at how he’s done. Has he been an asset? A block of wood would have been as useful. A supreme court justice is supposed to challenge the defense, the prosecution, poke holes intheir theories, challenge them. He sits there like a block of wood taking his cushy pay check adding NOTHING, I mean NOTHING to the process for years.

Wow. Ms. Thomas needs to buy a clue. But then, Mr. Thomas could use a few clues himself.

Among military wives, we call ms teapartydarling’s actions “wearing the rank”. We joke about these unfortunates as ones who have no credibility of their own. What an embarrassment Mrs. Clarence Thomas is…in my opinion.

and asks questions during a meaningless oral argument.
—-meaningless????? Oral arguments is where you challenge the premise, where you poke holes in their theory. What cowardice to ‘argue among your colleagues’ when the case is not longer in front of you, the lawyer is no longer able to rebuff whatever your points are.

It was Anita who went to the police.—as would I. It could only have been one of two things. A prank or a stalker. It was the stalker. Better that the police know the crack pot has her sights on Hill. You never know when a wierdo like that would escalate to something else, some ‘revenge’ or other nutjob thing. Now everyone has the spotlight on Thomas so she can’t go near Hill without being known. I dont see that Hill had any chance. The one thing you KNOW instantly, from that message, is whether it’s the stalker or a prank, it’s someone who has ill will toward Hill and that’s scary.

Ms Thomas is out of touch with reality. The only thing that saved Clarence Thomas from the truth during those hearings was a rabid GOP majority in the Senate. Thomas and his “wife” are a disaster.

Clarence Thomas is probably the best Supreme Court Justice that has ever served–yes, it’s such an accomplishment to sit there like a block of wood and add absolutely NOTHING to the discussion or debate. Did you not catch the WAllStreet Journals “Is CLarence Thomas Going to ask a Question” watch? For years he says NOTHING. It is HIS JOB to challenge the cases brought before him, ask pointed questions, see if you can poke holes in their arguments. How is sitting there doing absolutely nothing helping toward that end????? He’s horrible. He looks stupid and unqualified and over his head. He’s not supreme court material.

one more dopey rightwing losers trying to rewrite history.

So what rightwing website is linking to this story all your whinny righties need to take a break.

This stupid woman who is in denial has a lot of nerve. Her pig of a husband is the one who should apologize! Unbelievable.

i hope no one calls me names for this. i am an indy so i dont care about either side. but i ALWAYS, even back then, thought this whole thing was a series of misunderstandigns and just human beings filling in gaps, and making assumtpions, and thinking they said things they might have said differently, and hearing things differently than what was actually said. my son was in the hospital once, he was dieing, he had a brain hemorrage when he was 3 days old, and required several life saving surgeries. it was touch and go for about 6 weeks, he made it. but heres the part that relates to this issue; everyday, just about, we met with doctors, real bigshot doctors, amazingly skilled. at J hopkins in bmore. so we’d be in these meetings, my wife, sometimes my parents or my in-laws and sometimes our pastor. well, after these meetings where there was lots of information exchanged and difficult decisions etc, just a LOT of information, we ALL came out and started talking and every one of us heard a different thing. no one could agree precisely on what was said. its just humans being humans. now that was an example in a heightenedd emotional state, and this story above we assume is not taking place on the same state. but cant we all find examples of times when lots of people in the same exact environment remember (honestly) MANY of the events and the discussions completely differently?? not only the actuals words, but in some cases the same words but meaning a different thing. even when things seem to be very important. like, how COULD you hear that? when i said this?? or are you kidding me? you think i did that!? uh, yeah you did. maybe with a spouse…. :)just my 2 cents. hope no one gets all made at me.

@ L Streeter Edwards
So you made it half way around the planet and you still get paid to post drivel for George Soros by the character. Nice twist on outsourcing.

I am a Republican but I have always felt he did it. A woman like Anita Hill would not have intentionally put herself in a position like that unless she truly wanted to tell American what he was. Too bad they couldn’t or wouldn’t find another woman to confirm it. There has to be one out there. Wonder what Mrs. Thomas’ agenda is after all these years.

The world know Anita lied– why ask for an apology? Mrs. Thomas is a better person than me.

I’ve worked with perverts before. I’ve work with pervs who have hit on me. And you put up with it, ignore them or just tolerate their existence. That’s just life. It’s not my job to change them, or turn them in. My job is to do my job. But then, what do you do when you realize one of these perverts, these porn junkies, is going to get a job where they will preside over women’s lives? and bodies???? at that point, are you morally obligated to speak up, tell the truth as you see it about the perv??? is it moral to just sit there and let him get this power over women when you know something about him that others may not know???? AGain, who rented over 200 porn flicks. He did. That’s not normal. Hill knew this. So the investigating committee asks her, do you know anything about him that may make is inappropriate as a supreme court justice. What would you do??? Me? I’d fess us. Well, he’s got sexual issues, he’s a perv and frankly, he likes to hit on women. He may not be the best person to pick to be hold power over them and judge them no more than a man hating women who enjoyed watching thousands of hours of men being demeaned and belittled and abused by women.

This is hilarious! So if you hate Barack Obama and his policies, you’re racist. But if you hate Clarence Thomas and his policies, you’re not? Liberals are quintessential hypocrites. The main difference between Clarence and Barack, aside from being politically and ideologically antipodal, is that Clarence actually qualifies for his job. He was actually a successful lawyer, unlike His Fraudulency, the Failure-in-Chief.

Remember what the Dems kept saying back then? “It’s not “the nature of the evidence, it is the seriousness of the charge”. Yeah, they said and I couldn’t believe it. This is why Liberals are dangerous!

For those who used names like pigs, and negative descriptions there are several relevant facts that can not be twisted. One, Anita Hill steadfastly told us she would not write a book for any purpose either to make money, or defend herself. However, she did.
Secondly although a number of people who supported her at testimony, did not actually know, or work with her. This supporters were required to accept testimony which would not be allowed incourt. Those who did not support her had worked with her and Thomas at the time.
Lastly, a bureacrat involved in this affair, I had the opportunity to read Anita Hills interview, by two FBI agents, one a female. And at no time did she claim what she later stated in the Senate Hearings.
Furthermore, Clarence Thomas had been vetted three times before, as required by law by the Senate which had Democratic Majorities the first time.
Anita Hill, as a co-worker with Thomas at the time, could have, and should have brought up her future charges at the time. By not doing so, if they were true, Thomas would never had been confirmed by a Democratic majority in the Senate.
Finally, not a fact, but an opinion, there were many who could not handle the fact of a sitting Black Conservative Judge. This fact would put a large dent in the lefts charges that no self respecting Black could ever be a conservatve let alone a Republican. Thomas was called an “Uncle Tom” hundreds of times. Left leaning people used this perjorative to describe a man who had come from poverty and was a shining example of what blacks could do if they exerted themselves as any white or black who had the oportunity to achieve on merit. I am not speaking simply as Thomas as a Judge. He may not have been the best candidate, and picking a black was probably a good political move by Bush to deflect the general image of the Republican Party. But Anita Hill allows her wife to ask for an apology as to why she lied about writing the book, and why she did not speak up. She was a lawyer, some claim, an brillant lawyer. Didn’t she understand her duty to reveal her experience with Thomas as she claimed before the last Senate hearings?

Anita Hill is proof that there are very few Democrats in America that have the decency and honesty that is a staple of conservative Americans.
I live in an ultra blue area, I’m witness to Democrat values each and every day. Yes, they lie, cheat steal, and have a total disregard for human life. I suggest you come here and interact with them to see the truth.
If you plan on driving in the blue areas and have a family, take out a life insurance policy. Libs like Hill are so dominated by elitism and narcissim that they are a billion times worse than a drunk driver when they are just high on the Obama-Soros Koolaid.

As I read all these hateful comments, both for and against, all I can fathom is mass resentment because Clarence is black. That’s the true underlying feeling of all you a-holes.
He’s there for life, too bad. Get over it.
PS I like him.

Hill was a joke as a Law professor at the University of Oklahoma (first hand accounts of her former students bear this out…) and did this to gain notoriety, as well as a political move. What this woman says holds no water…

Virginia Hill seems like she has really low intelligence.

Thomas is the WORST supreme court justice ever. He never speaks during hearings and his opinions are short and poorly reasoned. He is SO DUMB, only the most simple minded talk radio listening sheep (like these commentators) would be fans.

My questions are these, if Anita Hill’s charge of sexual hassessment were true, why would Anita Hill follow Clarence Thomas to other jobs everytime he was promoted?
This is not the behavior of a victim but an opportunist. I know women who flaunt themselves without doing anything but their flaunting encourages the “wanted” attention for career advancement purposes. Then, when they get what they want they say the attention was unwanted and the man was a dirty dog.
Why did Anita Hill allow the dog to keep barking up her tree. And, even followed the dog to other jobs because the dog liked the chase? And, she was getting “something” while giving the dog “nothing?” Then, turn on the dog after creating the dog.

I admire Anita Hill so much. I always believed her testimony regarding Clarence Thomas. Like her, I was a pretty, well-educated, ambitious, woman who was never told by her parents, especially her father, that men would harass me despite my professionalism. When it happened, especially with men I had admired, I wish
I’d had her guts to stand up and speak.
Anita Hill is a beautiful woman now — this is not a woman living in denial of the truth, but one who has grown to love herself fully.

To Missy: You have to go back and look at how Hill was dragged into the whole thing. Just because she made this charge doesn’t make it true. And, like the Dems kept telling us back then, “”It’s not the nature of the evidence, it is the seriousness of the charge”. If that were true then why have a trial with juries and judges?

“missy says why is she (Thomas) doing this now? Missy the “right wing conseravtives” have employed this cynical, shameful tactic to keep their shallow cult follwers “fired up” for the past 20 years. It is the “art of distraction” used to keep people from focusing on and debating the real issues of our nation. Simply because they have no positive solutions for them. Remember who she works for. The Heritage Foundation. You can’t get much more “conservative” than that. Look at his (Clarence’s) decisions. These two people are paid “shills” for the conservative right…pure and simple.

Is this journalistic reporting? The spelling in this article is terrible. I’m guessing that Anita Hill is missing her 5 minutes of fame. Even suggesting that Clarence Thomas’ wife would give Anita Hill the time of day is absolutely ridiculous. I have friends that were in the law school at OU that avoided taking Professor Hill’s classes because she happened to be so monotone and boring law professor there at the time.
Anita Hill must be needing another 5 minutes of fame in her boring life to even be bringing up the Clarence Thomas Issue again after almost 20 years.
My suggestion to Anita Hill is to give it a rest, you are only going to have those brief 5 minutes of fame unless you plan on writing another boring book, which will never be on best seller list, and do some more boring lectures tours. Anita be content that you even had your 5 minutes of fame.

The question remains why would a pretty, well-educated, ambitious, young woman being sexually harassed follow her boss to other jobs when he got promoted?
Posted by: Larsim————————————————————
If you get a promotion, it doesn’t mean you are “following” your boss. Back then, even today, advancement at work was hard for a black woman to come by. Doesn’t mean he did it, doesn’t mean he didn’t. I’m just saying when you are very young in your career (she would have been in her 20s) you are more insecure about your job status and just do what you are told.

Like all Godless liberal/regressives/commiecraps, Anita Hill has no trouble living with a lie, and its just that simple, truth is what they say it is, just listen to our president, who proves this everyday.

She called the FBI over this voicemail? Really? There were no threats, no expletives, no anger, or any other kind of language which could have been construed as derogatory. I’m sorry; I don’t know who to believe in the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas standoff. However, this kind of over-reaction by Anita Hill has all the psychological markings of a victim complex. I wish I could believe that no one would accuse someone else of terrible things unless they actually happened, but bitter experience has made me a little wiser. If Anita Hill was telling the truth, then she has nothing to fear. In fact, it may do her a little good to forgive Clarence Thomas and offer the same to Clarence Thomas’ wife. However, if she was being less than truthful, then the information age in which we live will more than likely bear this out. I wonder what the verdict of history will be on this matter. Sometimes the benefit of time and perspective can change the way we view things.

Noticed how Anita Hill does not have a phalanx of active military body guards ready to arrest reporters for asking her questions.

BTW, is there a man out there who hasn’t been inappropriate to a woman, I doubt it. All men think they are god’s gift to women. We should be honored to be considered by them. Everybody knows Thomas is pervert

She called the FBI over this voicemail? Really? There were no threats, no expletives, no anger, or any other kind of language which could have been construed as derogatory. I’m sorry; I don’t know who to believe in the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas standoff. However, this kind of over-reaction by Anita Hill has all the psychological markings of a victim complex.++++++++++++++++I guess your analysis is backed by a deep personal knowledge of her daily life and if there have been other threats made against her right? Welcome to the Glenn Beck school of speculative journalism.

Maybe Ms. Thomas is upset because although she is one year younger than Anita Hill, Ms. Thomas looks ten years old than Anita Hill. Who knows. Even those who believe Thomas, must admit the decision to call was stupid at best.

If the spouse of a liberal Justice on the Supreme court was active in a political movement like Ms.Thomas and the “Tea-Party” and had sent a request for an apology the GOP and Conservatives would be on it like bees on honey in condemnation – so Republicans stand by your man [and wife] and don’t pull Arlen Spector back out with his coke can to do visual aid support. Clarence Thomas was not qualified for the bench then, now or tomorrow – what irks Ms. Thomas today is that Ms. Hill [professor of law] can run circles around Justice Thomas and she forgets one crucial point – Anita Hill did not voluntarily step forward to testify in the hearings. She was sought and following agonizing personal decision making – including the knowledge that she would be pillared at the hearings by the GOP [including many years thereafter] she came forward. Clarence Thomas’ weak [very, very, very weak] record on the court and the writings he has produced together with the stellar life of Ms. Hill proves one thing – the confirmation hearing decision was in error. Gross error and the nation has already paid two decades and more to come. An apology – Anita Hill deserves the apology from several Senators and the man who wears a black robe. The best apology would be his resignation from the bench.

And why would you send your child to Brandeis with professors like this? Brandeis must be embarrassed if this is the best they can do when it comes to hiring instructors.

Any woman with a bit of age on here completely gets how Anita Hill’s version of what went on mimicked working life across America at the time. It sounded as normal as it can get. Many of us also know she didn’t push to come forwards.

Justice Thomas: “I really don’t care enough — let me be honest with you. I went through that during the hearing. I thought about it. I really don’t care. What I care about is that the responsible people didn’t put an end to this nonsense.”
Mrs. Thomas it seems your husband was trying to bury the hatchett was in 2007 when he was interviewed by Ariane and Jan Crawford concering this matter. this is his direct quote. Why don’t you be a good wife and follow his example.

Why the angst for Anita Hill? The proper way to correspond (extend olive branch) is to write a letter. I have a feeling Mrs. Thomas has doubts about Judge Thomas. Regardless, it’s an unprofessional thing to do. And as far as Ms. Hill contacting the police, that’s what you do. Those who don’t pay attention to crazy sounding e-mails end up dead in some cases.

I think it was an incorrect term or phrase. When you offer an olive branch, YOU make the apology and amends, not request it from the other person. Anyone can do that. It takes real courage and integrity to own your own side. Maybe you should pray about that, Mrs. Thomas.

Ms Hill must have made inquiries into how long the statute of limitations are for making false statements, under oath, before a congressional committee.
She’ll probably be happy to apologize the next day.

Dee: I’m glad you clarified you opinion from that of fact. The first Blacks in Congress were black. Dr. King and all voting blacks during the era were also Republicans. My grandfather was one of them.

This may seem not important to many, but each of our lives are being daily impacted by the decisions of the Court [including the votes of Justice Thomas]. Ms. Thomas’ involvement with Tea Party including her backing on positions of the Tea Party are interwoven into what is reflective of the decisions made by the conservative court and under Chief Justice Roberts merit consideration by everyone. Ms. Hill by some here has been critized for calling the authorities – that decision was correct. Ms. Hill [and contrary to one poster's denouncement of her record at the University of Oklahoma] has a stellar legal professorship record and beyond being at Brandeis she serves on boards and has been recognized by her peers in not only areas of social justice, but international law and economics. She has been hounded for years and years [something the poster's denoucement of her at Univ of Oklahoma failed to mention] and has been used by the GOP [and perhaps this time by the Tea Party] in a shadow agenda. I imagine few recall that journalist David Brock, founder of the progressive Media Matters, wrote the book The Real Anita Hill which he later described as a “character assassination”; he then disavowed it and apologized to Hill. Brock also used information provided by an intermediary of Thomas to threaten another witness, Kaye Savage, into backing down, which Ms. Savage confirmed. His recantation was published in the July 1997 issue of Esquire Magazine, in a piece titled “I was a Conservative Hit Man.” In his subsequent book, Blinded by the Right, he accuses himself of being “a witting cog in the Republican sleaze machine.” May I suggest that some of you do reseach and find Ms. Thomas’ connection to the infamous Media Matters, her public remarks before conservative gatherings and her conversations with Tea Party leaders. Ms. Hill did the right thing 20 years ago and she did the right thing today. She does not merit being placed on any pedestal – she merits one singular recognition: living a full rewarding and giving life after staring the sleaze in the face and trying to do something right for her nation. I learned that from her, I don’t think many of the younger people today will find that example in a woman from Delaware running for the Senate who doesn’t know what the Constitution says.

Anita Hill is finally doing something she somehow didn’t have the courage or judgement to do when she was allegedly harrassed—she is telling somebody about an offensive communication contemporaneously to it happening. That’s nice by why not wait a few years to file her complaint with the FBI? (That’s what she did years ago and she wanted us to believe her.)In fact, may she should wait until Mrs. Thomas is looking for a federal appointment? Then it would be timely and relevant.

Good for Ginny. She extended an olive branch to Anita Hill who was the ultimate pawn in a situation that went no where.
Anita Hill’s reaction says all there is to say about her lack of character

Mrs. Thomas is using the same poor judgement that her husband used 19 years ago. I’m just saying..

To those attacking Anita Hill AGAIN (actually, it’s probably one lonely acne-pocked intern at Karl Rove’s headquarters):
Shame on you. The only thing more laughable than Clarence Thomas’ ability as a judge is his decrepit moral underpinnings.

“I initially thought it was a prank,” Hill told ABC News. “And if it was, I thought the authorities should know about it.” A prank on a university campus? No way! Better call the police!
I think it was strange for Ginny Thomas to leave a voice mail and stranger for Anita Hill to call the police. I’m sure the campus help desk can explain the procedure for deleting a voice mail.
Someone just called my phone but it turned out to be a wrong number. I think the only reasonable thing to do is call the FBI.

DURING THE 1980′S. MRS. WAS A MEMBER OF
TWO CULT ORGANIZATIONS. SHE FINALLY
LEFT BOTH. AND GOT COUNSELING. BOTH
CULTS TRIED TO GET HER TO RETURN BY
USING “HARASSING” PHONE CALLS.
THE HARASSED BECOMES THE HARASSER.
HOW DO YA LIKE THAT!!
TRUE STORY — LOOK IT UP

That’s a good comment about Anita Hill finally making a contemporaneous complaint about offensive contact or communication. The fact she waited (years) until Clarence Thomas was being considered for the Supreme Court to make her complaint known really called her credibility into question. Of course, reasonable people know and understand this.

MARIA — YOU ARE CORRECT IN
EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAY.

Any black person that leaves the plantation and thinks for themselves is treated to the corruption of the racists that have run herd over blacks since before the Civil War. It just chafes them to have blacks that think and do for themselves instead of stand in line for the dole! That includes anita hill!!

This woman had a lot of nerve to do something like this. Who the h*ll does she think she is???
And for all of you racists on this site responding to this story, get a life! You’re so miserable with the way your own life has turned out that all you can do is bring up race, as if it really matters.

THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MRS. THOMAS
AND MS. HILL WAS INDEED INAPPROPRIATE.
MS. DID THE CORRECT THING BY TURNING
THE MATTER OVER TO THE UNIVERSITY.
IT’S A NO-BRAINER!!

Some of the commenter’s on this board are way out of focus and some are just distorting the facts! Maybe some of you have covenant amnesia. If I remember correctly Anita Hill did not go to the authorities about the sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thoma, the FBI came to her! They had already heard from other employees where they both worked and that’s what lead the FBI to Anita Hill! Do you remember or have you chosen to forget! Also, with this current issue she took the tape to campus police, campus police gave it to the FBI! Get your facts straight! It has a big impact on the accuracy of your comments!

One question – on the wording of the message. People say what they mean. Why did Ginny say “I want to know why you did what you did WITH my husband”???? not “to” my husband. Why “with”? With implies collusion WITH her husband. her husband knowingly taking part in something. Ginny knows that her hubby did do something, doesn’t she? Maybe hubby lied and said Hill and he were actually an item, so it wasn’t harrassement, it was being sexual with someone you were sleeping with??? If that’s the case, I’d have to laugh. I dont see pretty accomplished hill with ugly crusty Thomas the pervert porn addict. Yeah, clarence, talk about porn. That’ll make women want you….NOT! Why the word “with”? “With” is not the proper word one would use if they felt the person was a victim. then you would say “why did you do that TO my husband” – with her husband being an innocent party that took no part. Ginnyls upset someone did something WITH her husband. Think about it. Something is not right in that message, besides the obvious “what in God’s name were you thinking by sending it in the first place”

I’m questioning why this woman would wait all this time to ask for an apology. And I’d also like some of whatever it is she’s smoking. She demands an apology and then calls it “extending an olive branch”??? Mrs. Thomas, you are completely off your rocker.

The other things that brought so much credibility to Hill’s testimony is that Thomas acted consistent with men I’ve been hit on by. They start by being your friends, you feel they’re attracted, no big deal. I’m not reciprocating. They make a move, you say no. they dont take no for an answer. They do more desperate things to get you alone with them, they start to talk inappropriate, they start acting really stupid, almost angry and obessesed you dont want them to the point where they are half hitting on you, half lashing out at you because oh yes, really, you still do NOT want to be with them. Talking about porn after being rejected. Yes, this IS what guys I know have done. The subtle flirting thing didn’t work, let’s just go for the juggular then? Is that why they do it? It was an escalation of affection to passive aggressive anger and then finally she left. How it played out is exactly how I’ve seen in play out. The blatant “it never occured” was so lame next to a very familiar script I’ve seen playout in my lifetime, right up to the accusation that “she was a medocre employee”.. Of course. Do you often ask medocre employees to follow you to your next job??? I can understand the career driven wome nfollowing a pervert for the sake of her career than I could try to believe someone takes a medocre employee from one job to another. Why was he not happy to be done with her??? He lied. AND….he sucks as a justice.

Some of the commenter’s on this board are way out of focus and some are just distorting the facts! Maybe some of you have covenant amnesia. If I remember correctly Anita Hill did not go to the authorities about the sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thoma, the FBI came to her! They had already heard from other employees where they both worked and that’s what lead the FBI to Anita Hill! Do you remember or have you chosen to forget! Also, with this current issue she took the tape to campus police, campus police gave it to the FBI! Get your facts straight! It has a big impact on the accuracy of your comments!
Posted by: Choconet | Oct 20, 2010 11:53:44 AM
This is a perfect post and bears repeating.
I think some of the people commenting here were probably not even ALIVE when all this was going on. But your post is dead on accurate.
Anita Hill was dragged into this unwillingly and then totally put through the wringer by a bunch of old decrepit men. It was disgusting.
I’m old enough to remember it well. If ANYONE is owed an apology, it’s her!

She gets a voicemail that she thinks is a prank, and her first inclination is to call the cops?
Something tells me she’s the kind of woman who overreacts to things. Perhaps the kind of woman who would take something said innocently and make a big deal about it. Maybe even the kind of woman who, if you said “you look nice today” to her, would take it as sexual harassment.
It explains a lot if you ask me.

This episode simply proves that conversations between princesses should remain confidential.

Anita, good for you. Stick by your guns. As one american woman to another, I do believe you today as I did back in 91. The Thomas’s have a screwed up marriage and would like someone else to be the cause. Don’t let it be you. It is disgraceful that he is a supreme court justice. in my eyes it just lowers the standing of this high court.

Doc that is not how you get tenure. Virigina Thomas started this. If Anita is a media wh*re then what is Mrs. Thomas? You obviously did read her voicemail she use the word did with my husband as oppose did to my husband. It is clear Mrs. Thomas knows this women is tell the truth. Time has a way of bringing out the truth and Clarence is about to be uncovered.

Better not turn your homework in late, either.

Why would Mrs. Thomas remind all Americans that her husband did not deserve to serve on the nation’s highest court?

Anita Hill did the right thing – then and now.
FBI issued a subpoena to Hill to which she responded; and,
Hill took and passed a lie-detector test regarding her statement about Thomas; and,
Virginia Thomas’s tone and words left by voicemail recently were indeed hostile and threatening.
I would have done exactly the same thing Hill did; then and now.
To my read, in the most recent harassment Hill has had to suffer by Thomas’s, Hill was threatened by voicemail, the gist of Thomas’s message to Hill was, “apologize or else”. Given their history and Thomas’s pubic servant roles, nothing but a threat.
Go Anita Hill. I bet she is just a *star* professor and person.

OMG Voicemail !

Everybody knew Anita will never change and stick by her testimony ever since…His wife Virginia should keep her mouth closed and have to learn to let it go..No wondering why Anita gone crazy and called FBI to find out if it is prank or not…I dont know what to say to her..Wish her well

Reading the various newspaper, web, and wiki entries on Anita Hill, one cannot help but note the incredible lack of detail about Ms. Hill’s life outside academia.
There is mention made in one article that the lady likes to draw and paint, but other than that no reference whatsoever to any husband, partner, significant others, children, or much of anything else that would give real insight into this woman of controversy or to her life experiences outside her relatively brief stint (3 years) spent in Washington, D.C..
Also, regarding Ms. Hill’s professional resume: Why, after ten years teaching on the faculty at University of Oklahoma College of Law, did Ms. Hill resign mid-semester (seemingly suddenly) in late October 1996?
(It was not until a couple months later, January 1997, that she landed, briefly, at Univ. of California – Berkeley, only then to jump cross-country to Brandeis Univ. later that same year.)
No one is claiming a conspiracy of silence, but if Ms. Hill were a Conservative Republican don’t you think the Liberal media would long ago have given every aspect of her life — professional and personal — a total examination and airing?
Just who is this lady?
Other than being a professor, what else is there to this woman?
It’s as though everything in the lady’s existence revolves around that single moment of fame during a Congressional hearing two decades ago, that and teaching about sexual harassment.
Is Anita Hill really defined by just those two parameters?

It amazes me that so many people this many years later think Ms. Hill was the person to push this by coming forward. When the government comes knocking you have to answer.

This is a perfect example of Liberalism. Anita “feels” upset so therefore the police must be called. Did she think she was in harm in some way? What a dolt.
I hope Campus Police send her a bill for their time wasted.

Wow, is Mrs. Thomas nutty or was she drunk when she made this call. How incredibly inappropriate.

I don’t know what really happened – neither do any of you. I will say that the severity of the accusation does not eliminate the requirement of proof – in my opinion. Those of you that are sure one way or the other – or just biased. But Thomas is innocent until proven guilty – just as anyone else.

With you all the way, Anita Hill! Virginia Thomas is an absolute idiot. Seriously???? Leaving a voicemail message asking her to apologize for telling the TRUTH?? Oh, and that’s considered “extending an olive branch”? I’d say Virginia Thomas’ actions are incendiary at best.

I AM SORRY that a Creepy Hack like Thomas is sitting on the Supreme Court.

One has to wonder if Mrs. Thomas has been struggling for years with the suspicion that Anita Hill’s accusation against her husband had some truth to it and her phone call was one way of possibly putting the issue to rest. The manifest issue (wanting an apology) is probably secondary to the latent issue (Is she still sticking to her story? Could he have really done it?) Dr. Muse

Hey Clarence – why don’t you say you’re sorry – you big perv!!!

I just gotta ask all the Anita Hill supporters one question: If you are so angry at Clarence Thomas for ‘alledgedly’ making poor jokes, then why aren’t you VIOLENTLY AND MASSIVELY OUTRAGED at Bill Clinton ‘alledgedly’ RAPING Juanita Broderick.
I mean, if the REAL story her was being outraged at what men in power do to women under them, then you should be DAILY calling for Clinton to be thrown in jail, because his ‘alledged’ crimes were MUCH, MUCH worse than Thomas’.
But I’m pretty sure the libs here won’t call for any action against Clinton, because, as we all know, this isn’t about women being abused, it’s about left-wing politics. Just like is was in 1991.

Maybe prisoner’s wives could contact their assault victims and ask for an apology.
You know, extend an olive branch

Anita Hill took a polygraph administered by one of the top professionals in the field and passed.
Thomas was offered the same test but refused.
And why would a woman continue to work with a man who harasses her?
Because she needed the job. Being both black and female, Ms. Hill knew that she was stuck.

Ms Thomas’s call, weird as it is, simply proves two things: (1) she makes her husband look weak; and(2) Justice Thomas, 19 years later and still smarting from Ms. Thomas’s testimony, seeks lpersonal solace in ratifying the right wing agenda. Hardly an admirable trait for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

It’s Thomas who should apologize. His wife should get a life.

I remember the hearings. The most important testimony was given in the early morning hours (2:00 AM? 3:00 AM?) by pro-choice women who had worked with both Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill.
These attorneys, bright, sophisticated, women each agreed that had Mr. Thomas been guilty as accused, each of these woman would have known something was wrong. Women sense these things, one of the explained, “we would have known,” she said.
Even though these professionals were liberal, pro-choice (as compared to Mr. Thomas more conservative views) and were in a position to destroy his confirmation, they defended Thomas’ character with vigor. They each said he was polite, helpful, and always honorable in his conduct. Most of America slept. I found their testimony most persuasive.
It is one woman’s word against another. None of us were there. Only Thomas and Hill know the truth. Lacking corroborating witnesses, we lack sufficient evidence to find Mr. Thomas guilty as charged.
The entire affair was a high tech lynching as Mr. Thomas said, referring to southern “justice” that led to the hanging of a black man only because he has been accused of raping a white woman. In the South, such an accusation alone was enough to ignite the social hatred of bigoted whites, who carried out justice and murdered the accused black. For Thomas 19 years ago, Anita Hill’s accusation alone was nearly enough to cause his character assassination.

Virginia Hill needs to get an apology from her husband. Has she asked him for an apology. After all these years, she can’t get over the fact that her husband wanted another woman, and, a black woman at that. Heck, her husband is black. that has to be the reasoning for her continued NONE LIFE…

People are overlooking a lot of details of how Anita came to testify at the hearing.
Susan (forgot last name) who was a worker’s compensation referee in California thought she remembered her friend Anita complaining about Clarence. She contacted Anita to encourage her to reveal this to the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Susan was probably actually remembering Anita’s complaints related to the job Anita held before working with Clarence.) Susan also told the Committee about these recollections and encouraged them to talk to Anita.
Anita sent a letter to the Committee but did not want to testify (not wanting to have to back up the story?). She had thought that a discreet letter could knock out Clarence without becoming public. However, the Committee had an established rule that negative input like this would not be considered unless the person testified publicly. Anita declined to testify, so the matter was disregarded.
However, Senator Kennedy’s staff or Senator Metzenbaum’s staff leaked the information to the press, causing a news commotion, and it could not be left alone. So Anita had to testify.
My best guess is that Anita’s story was really about the previous job, but she had been maneuvered into testifying about Clarence by her acquaintance Susan and people on Kennedy’s or Metzenbaum’s staffs.
In weighing credibility, you should remember what Anita’s fellow workers said about her job performance and demeanor while working for Clarence.

Clarence Thomas has lived an impeccable life of honor and dignity. It must be such a grief to those who know and love him the best, as expressed by his wife, to have someone conspire to destroy what he holds most dear, his good name and reputation. Not to worry Ginny, we believe in the greatness of your husband and I understand your passionate desire to set the record straight.

WHY WOUYLD A WOMEN BOTHER ANOTHER WOMEN AFTER TWENTY YEARS, SHE AND HER MARRIAGE MUST BE IN THE TOILET. YOU NO WHAT KIND OF JUDGE YOU MARRIED , YOU ARE A MENTAL CASE LOOKING FOR ATTENTION.PLEASE LEAVE MISS HILL ALONE SHE IS A CLASS ACT YOU AND CLARENE IS NOT .I SOORY HE IS A JUDGE JUST GO TO SHOW YOU WHO JUDGING US . PEOPL LIKE YOU SHOULD BE IN MENTAL WARDS OR JAIL.

WHo is going to apologize for the pubic hair on the coke glass???? Get over it Mrs. T.

I’m a Libertarian, and a strong supporter of Justice Thomas. But this is a textbook example of how NOT to overplay one’s hand.

More than likely Mrs. Thomas is not sure of her husband’s innocence in this matter and is seeking the only confirmation that her husband not a letcher, a confession from Anita Hill. Anita Hill is the only person that can give Mrs. Thomas this peace of mind, and it appears that now two decades later, Virginia Thomas desperately needs it.
As far as Ms Hill is concerned there are only two possibilities; she is either a very unstable miscreant or she was telling the truth. Twenty years later, it would appear that the later was the case.

Tom – Oct 20, 2010 4:23:15 PM
wrote: “As far as Ms Hill is concerned there are only two possibilities; she is either a very unstable miscreant or she was telling the truth.”
There is a third possibility, that this went on between two adults that allowed it to take place with neither of them saying anything to the other to stop it. Therefore, one party was aware the other party had a problem with it because she was following him to other jobs.
At no time in any of Anita Hill’s statements does she say she talked to Clarence Thomas about his behavior. Therefore, she did not report this to anyone. Until years later when bringing this to light, bringing what has no proof or could be proved, would politically damage Thomas career path. After Clarence Thomas advanced Anita Hill’s career path enabling her to be where she is today.

Ms. Hill has graciously lived down all the notoriety of the Clarence Thomas Affair. The same cannot be said of Mrs. Virginia Thomas who has brazenly asked for an apology from Ms. Hill. She was right to deny such a questionable request. However, the question now is: Shouldn’t Mrs. Thomas apologize to Ms. Hill for her request that brought such fear that she felt the need to report the incident to the police? How about it Mrs. Thomas?

Poor Mrs. Thomas. She still has to learn NOT to dial while drunk or crazy, and definitely not to leave messages while intoxicated. As for Ms. Hill, she did absolutely the right thing by notifying campus police. Who knew that Mrs. T was really the caller? The call itself sounds somewhat threatening and quite sinister. I would have called law enforcement too!!!

i think Mrs Thomas need some free publicity what better way to get it than to bring up something that happened 19 yrs ago. Let it go Virginia and get on with your life. You’re acting like you have some personal issues about the incident maybe you believe your husband is guilty.

If Virginia Thomas were not so pathetic I’d find her phone call to Anita Hill comical. Is Clarence Thomas aware his wife needs to be committed? The Tea Party movement just found their next “star”..Virginia Thomas! She’s perfect for the Tea Party!! The fact Clarence Thomas is a Supreme Court Justice is the only travesty of justice in this whole mess. And the the only soul that needs to be cleansed is the soul of Clarence Thomas. Anita Hill bravely told the truth 19 years ago. Everyone who listened to the proceedings sensed she was testifying truthfully. Her demeanor, her voice, her body language. There is a peace that accompanies the telling of truth. Anita Hill’s integrity and character and peaceful soul inspired me then and continues to inspire me today.

to offer someone a olive branch, you don’t start off calling them a liar, then ask Anita Hill to offer an explanation on why she did what she did. A person feelings are just that there’s. what might be alright for one is not for another. Sound to me like she threw a whole tree not a branch. It took twenty years Mrs Thomas to think she need an apoligy. I believe Anita Hill has gotton on with her life. and the Thomas should do the same.

Why is this news? It’s not as if Thomas is up for reelection or anything? Hill stands to gain nothing either way.
Yet the lefties sure are climbing the walls on this one.
It’s a personal matter folks…let it go.

“It boggles the mind, that Virginia Thomas would make this grossly inappropriate phone call.”
Who are you to arbitrate what’s appropriate? Sheesh. She believes her husband and living in DC she’s probably tired of the cat calls. Thomas wasn’t convicted of any charges and in light of the outcome I can understand it – even if I think she should let it go. Besides it’s a free country, she can call and ask.
And lest anyone forget, Thomas was confirmed by a Senate that was controlled by Democrats (55-45) so clearly even Democrats weren’t convinced in 1991 that Hill was telling the truth.

Ms. Hill still owes the entire country an apology. Probably an apology to Clarence and Virginia Thomas is a good place to start.

“Hello 911? I got a voicemail.”

Somebody call Joe Biden. Clarence needs another whoopin.

The only one who took a lie-detector test in this she-said, he-said story…was Anita Hill. And she passed with flying colors!

This woman had obviously had a snoot full of wine when she made her phone call. My mother used to call all of her ex-husbands in the middle of the night when she’d had a couple of glasses of wine!
Let’s hear the tape, let’s find out what time of the morning this call came in. Dollars to doughnuts she had a glow going on when she picked up that phone….
Maybe she needs to look into a 12 step program rather than a 19 year gruge.
Ha…just goes to show ya…they all put their pants on one leg at a time…Pitty-full!

I see why Thomas married this gal: Blonde and delusional must have been irresistable. Putting him on the supreme court was an act of comtempt to working women.

The most gracious thing Hill could do is issue the following apology:
Mrs. Thomas, I am truly sorry that your husband is a pervert.

Clearly Mrs. Thomas is having doubts about her husband and desperately needs Anita Hill’s apology to put her worst fears about her husband to rest.

I don’t understand! Why would she ‘wife’ after close to twenty years leave a message on her work vm?*&%? Why not send her a letter, request a meeting etc., and why ask for full details of what happened. Seems strange, maybe the wife hasn’t gotten past it or maybe she really wants Anita to apologize. His wife really should get past this ‘I think’.

I’m waiting on a comment from President O chiding the Brandeis University Police for “acting stupidly” with the FBI referral.

Sure, I would give a an appology.
“I appologies for your husband being such a pig 20+ years ago”

The thing I find disturbing is that flirting with a woman is considered a crime. Also, that a woman can decide to be offended and persecute a man based on this subjective offence. A man’s intentions are never taken into account. He could really like and respect a woman and be thoroughly destroyed for it. It’s sick really.

Why are libs so verbose. It’s pathetic.

Carol,
In this particular instance no. But a woman still holds the power to do so, and there are a great many of them that abuse this power. I will also add that no one should hold this kind of power over another person. It encourages tyranny. It is ironic that the very law that claims to protect women from a “hostile environment” automatically, by its very presence, creates a hostile environment toward men. The law clearly discriminates against men and violates our freedom of speech/expression. Regarding Clarence’s comment of pubic hair, it doesn’t really make a difference if intended it as a sexual advance. Big Deal. Harassment really should only apply to cases where there is intension to harass thus the term “harassment”.

Anita Hlll explained throughly why she accepted Thomas’ behavior. She realized he was on an upward swing, people liked him. She felt she could benefit from his political awareness and use his coattails to her benefit. She explained that she realized how difficult it was for a black man no less a black woman to move upward in American society and employment.
She at first refused to testify. She was then forced to testify and told the inquisitors exactly that. When Thomas said this was “nothing but a high tech lynching” he was refurring to Anita Hill, she got lynched.

It would appear Mrs. Thomas is trying to use Ms. Hill to cover up her tea party political activities that may jeopardize Mr. Thomas’ ability to hear cases that have conservative issues according to the experts.
Like others here, I suspect Mrs. Thomas’ marriage may be on shaky ground currently. Personally, I wouldn’t consider an affair on Clarence’s part to disqualify him from the Supreme Court. I’m a little more concerned about his rulings than any affair he might or might not be having. I might add that I’m also concerned about the political activism as signified by Chief Justice Roberts recent statement that Supreme Court Justices need not attend State of the Union speeches. I don’t see why conservatives should be issued special license to avoid suffering through the dratted things the rest of the us have to suffer through.

Virginia Thomas is a nutcase. The reason she wants an apology from Anita is because she can’t get one from her husband, or a full explanation. Anita has moved on with her life, and I suggest “Ginny” do the same. The nerve of this woman bringing up a subject that was so painful to most intelligent, hard working woman. The Thomases clearly won the battle but lost the war. Clarence Thomas will never be fully respected, and he will go to his grave with the stench of his actions towards Anita. He and his wife have to live with it, not decent Americans.

The comment that confuses me from Mrs. Thomas is that she “looks forward to forgiving her (Hill) and hopes she (Hill) can get past this.” I seems to me that it is Mrs. Thomas that has the problem for not “getting past it”….and not forgiving someone for almost 20 years seem to have bred some real anger and bitterness…I believe the apology should be directed the other direction….from Thomas to Hill.

Clarence Thomas should resign from the Supreme Court immediately. He is utterly unqualified and has little to contribute in legal insight to the cases before the Supreme Court. Now it is painfully clear that his wife, a conservative polical hack, is using his position to further her own political career. Thomas should not have heard the Citizens United case as he directly benefited from its holding. Thomas is a national disgrace.

Poor Mrs. Thomas — hope she still wasn’t drinking at 7:00 am but she certainly was stewing about something!! Restraint of pen and tongue should be her new rule to follow.
It was disturbing enough to hear the news and first thing I thought was hung over or really stewing!! I vividly remember watching it on television and Anita Hill has been victimized enough — but later, I heard a different twist from someone who definitely should know better — Chris Matthews spoke like he was on the side of Thomas — I certainly hope his wife straightened him out when he got home — spending too much time with Rove?? Mrs Thomas was way out of line and let’s leave Anita Hill alone and in peace she did the right thing for a second time and is being persecuted for it. No wonder women shy away from calling it what it is. People watching too much Mad Men!!

I’m with Judge Thomas, I don’t care what Anita Hill was involved in.
I do know that if an individual left me a voice mail including their name, and I knew who that person was, I wouldn’t involve the authorities unless there was a threat of violence involved or if it escalated to harassment.
This is just more thin-skinned tattling that liberals substitute for decent behavior. As Bernie Goldberg said about the Juan Williams debacle, this is just more evidence that liberals have forgotten how to be liberal.
-Jahfre Fire Eater

There are methods for detecting truthfulness and deception through body language / non-verbal cues, though I personally do not think that one necessarily needs to be aware of the specific behaviors in order to make a determination of anothers truthfulness or deception. An understanding of human nature, lifes experience and even intuition can also play a role.
Even though her detractors accused Ms. Hill of a politically motivated attack, she had nothing to gain and every thing to loose by publically airing her unpleasant experiances with Thomas while at the EEOC, under oath and before the US Senate Judiciary Committee no less!
In regards to the current Mrs. Thomas’ actions—-It’s quite possible that she in some way has lingering doubts about her husbands truthfulness, which an apology from Hill might serve to quash—–Just a thought!
For those of you who continue to doubt the veracity of Ms. Hills’ testamony during Thomas’ confirmation hearing You should check out ‘The Real Anita Hill’ a book written by David Brock in 1992 —— Oh, but wait—Read this first! [Brock now describes the book as a "character assassination" and has since "disavowed its premise"[2]. He has also apologized to Hill. In his subsequent book, Blinded by the Right, Brock accuses himself of being “a witting cog in the Republican sleaze machine.”] From Wikipedia

It’s not like Hill got a call from Mrs. Thomas and immediately alerted the media and the FBI. She thought it was a prank by one of her students, so she called campus security. It was maybe a little uptight of her, but not out of line with what many other college professors would do.
Sounds like Virginia Hill is just trying to dredge up old controversies to get conservatives fired up. It’s a shame that she’s willing to drag her husband’s name through the mud again, just for a little attention.

I hear tea is nice, I mean. I wouldn’t want to confuse those Ivy Leaguers with a typo.

So, Jan! What about Bill? The whole affair disqualifying from service??? Oooo, oooo, and Kennedy and, oh yeah, Kennedy, and Edwards (oh, yeah, he got caught)…I love the Libs, they are so consistent in their inconsistencies!

So an “olive brach” in a right wing pundits mind is a ultimatum for an apology. Apologize for what..C. Thomas is as unremarkable a Justice as “W” was as president. Can’t they(Thomas’) just be happy, He on the Supreme Court and she makes money for opinions and her status. I would guess that the Thomas’s make a lot more $$$ than Professor Hill…
Politics asside, how would you feel if you were the victim of sexual harrasment? Your daughter, wife, mother
Just a few moments ago had a female
student tell me that another teacher was
looking at her chest instead of looking
her in the eye..caught him 4 times…
Thomas did a lot worse…it happens in real life..not just on “Law and Order SVU” THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL ISSUE!!!!
Women are victimized every minute of every day all over the world…
THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL ISSUE!!!

Ms Thomas,
Your husband may be on the Supreme Court but he’s still a low-life predator and a creep. Multiple women confirm this. You need to get it.

“I’m not a poll watcher, I know that Gallup had some poll numbers that just came out yesterday that are a little different, so , I’m not a poll watcher.”
Just like G.W.Bush didn’t do nation building, Mrs. Thomas doesn’t do poll watching. She only “knows” the name of the polling company, “knows” what the poll numbers were, “knows” how different these numbers were from George’s polls and “knows” when the poll was taken. But, you see, she’s not a poll watcher. She’s just a poll knower.

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