. . . is pornography. Well at least it has been according to orators at several Republican national conventions in recent memory. It's possible that such things are motivated by a Christian analogue of another right wing obsession: Sharia law, and it's possible that it was a smokescreen to divert attention from other core policies like borrowing on the promise of self funding tax cuts. One thing is clear, Politicians tend to be a randy lot, but Conservative males love porn the way they love money and women: they want it all for themselves.
Remember Ken Starr who wanted to make it a crime to use the word "breast" on the Internet but spent millions and wrote endless words, even on the Internet, about Bill Clinton's penis, Monica Lewinsky's cigar and related subjects? Yes, I know, Democrats like porn too and cheat on their wives and are hypocrites and all that as I'm sure someone will assure me to obscure the fact that they haven't been on a moral crusade for those nebulous but normative "family values" for decades. I've had all the contrived and deceptive equivalences I need for now, thank you.
Which brings me to Clarance Thomas. It was the equivalent of a lynching, said he when accusations were leveled by another conservative that he'd offered her a Coke with pubic hair on it, even though she had little reason to lie and had complained to the FBI only in private. Anita Hill was branded a Liberal, although she wasn't and isn't, in a fashion far more evocative of a lynching than the sworn testimony against Justice Thomas. It seems now that Lillian McEwen, a former girlfriend of the distinguished Justice says he was "obsessed with porn," and often made inappropriate sexual comments about and unwanted advances toward women in his office and she's kept quiet until now. She confirms, for instance, that he asked women about their breast size when at work.
McEwan was, in fact, given as a character witness by Thomas, to show that he had a regular relationship and wasn't the rude, sex-obsessed, predatory little creep he was alleged to be by more than one accuser. Too bad she wasn't called to testify under oath because, as we read in the Washington Post: in her soon to be published memoir, she confirms our suspicions.
Perhaps it was knowledge that the book contained such damning information that prompted his wife's odd early morning call to Anita Hill, but I don't think she need fear that he'll lose his job or reputation when the accusation of LIBERAL still carries the power that the accusation of WITCH used to have in centuries past. We're stuck with an overgrown adolescent and liar on the highest court. We may all have his pubic hair in all the wrong places and we don't have a hell of a lot of choice but to drink from the can.
Yes, Virginia, there really is a Santa Claus … and her name is Lillian McEwen. Do you still want that apology?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Ginnie talked it over with Justice Thomas before she made her telephone call to Anita Hill? I believed Hill 19 years ago and I still believe her. Thomas' crude and lewd commentary is typical of insecure men who connect their own sense of self-worth with their imagined sexual prowess. I find some pornography intriguing; it's people like Thomas that I find disgusting.
ReplyDeleteGinnie has probably had years and years of his moaning and groaning about being a victim and I'm sure she believes him and probably did this on her own, but you never know.
ReplyDeleteHill had no reason whatever to invent such a story, is hardly the type of person to do that sort of thing both for political reasons and reasons of personal integrity. If there was anyone whose reputation was lynched, it was hers and it was the damned Republicans who did it out of sheer greed and lust for power. Perhaps other people will corroborate her story. It's not too long ago, after all and although it's too late to get rid of him, it's never too late to expose the way our partisan insanity corrupts our institutions and ruins decent people while the wicked prosper.
Yes, I think you're dead right about Mr. Thomas and I've known too many similarly pathetic men. Disgusting, indeed.
Here is Pete DeFazio calling for the impeachment of John Roberts. Perhaps Defazio has the wrong justice in mind. Which lie is more worthy of impeachment: The Roberts Lie or the Thomas Lie? Or both!
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