The New Yorker reports that Mrs. Clarence Thomas has left a voicemail asking Professor Anita Hill for an apology. One sentence says it all:
"I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband."
Zoinks!
- Consider is an incredibly weak word to use here... if Mrs. Thomas really believed her husband had been lied about.
- 'Sometime' and 'some full explanation'! Why not a full, full explanation? Now? Perhaps because Professor Hill already provided the 'full' full explanation almost 20 years ago...
- 'Why you did what you did...' An example of Mrs. Thomas distancing herself from her husband's bad behavior? We could expect, if she believed her husband, for Mrs. Thomas to say something like 'why you lied.' Apparently 20 years is not distance enough.
- And I love this one best of all... 'what you did WITH my husband.' Zoink-a-rama! 'WITH' indicates complicity on her husband's part. A true believer clearly would have said 'TO my husband.'
Hilarious!
NPR was all over this story this afternoon, as one of their noted Washington DC correspondents, Nina Tottenberg first broke the Anita Hill story some 20 years ago. Her take on the recent developments can be found here:
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There's some speculation that Genni Thomas's reignition of this powderkeg may have something to do with misdirecting the press away from her Tea Party connections and funding scrutiny to a group called Liberty Central (which she appears to be the CEO of) which seems to be raising questions about whether or not Justice Thomas is operating at a conflict of interest. Either way, its a particularly peculiar story...