The Smear this Time by Anita Hill - NY Times op-ed

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The Smear This Time - Anita Hill // 10/2/07 // NY Times

ON Oct. 11, 1991, I testified about my experience as an employee of Clarence Thomas’s at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

I stand by my testimony.

Justice Thomas has every right to present himself as he wishes in his new memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son.” He may even be entitled to feel abused by the confirmation process that led to his appointment to the Supreme Court.

But I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent me.

In the portion of his book that addresses my role in the Senate hearings into his nomination, Justice Thomas offers a litany of unsubstantiated representations and outright smears that Republican senators made about me when I testified before the Judiciary Committee — that I was a “combative left-winger” who was “touchy” and prone to overreacting to “slights.” A number of independent authors have shown those attacks to be baseless. What’s more, their reports draw on the experiences of others who were familiar with Mr. Thomas’s behavior, and who came forward after the hearings. It’s no longer my word against his.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/opinion/02hill.html?th&emc=th

How nice of him to reveal his inner charm to us.

I'm sick to death of this whiny neocon. He is a supreme court jester, I mean justice, for God's sake. He should be more mature and realize he won the battle. Despite making suggestive and lewd advances on a female employee, he still was confirmed. What is his beef? He doesn't make enough money? His prestige is not great enough? He can't sexually harass more women? His fellow neocons don't have enough power?

He is dragging a dead horse.