Anita Hill has stated that she thought the call was a hoax and that’s why she turned it over to the campus authorities.  What sane person would have thought it anything else?

Oh, and a former GF of CT has FINALLY come forward and corroborated Anita Hill’s testimony….CT is exactly the scumbag Hill portrayed him as.

No, Ginny Thomas is setting up a diversion, a BIG diversion…“Ignore that man behind the curtin!”

OOPS !! I forgot to mention, I smell an endorsement from Sarah Palin. Can’t forget to mention the Head Bag of the Tea Party.

I smell impending divorce. I smell Tea bagger in political mode. I smell book, maybe 2. I think the thud I heard was Clarence as he hit the floor. I smell new very rich ex-scorned wife with national political ambitions. I smell a woman in envy of Meg Whitman. I foresee a pubic hair in Clarence’s future, but it’s his own after post-public castration. All-in-all, it stinks for Anita Hill. Her name is forever linked to that jerk and will continue to be used for someone’s cruel pleasures without regard to repercussions for Ms. Hill or her privacy.

The more pressing question is, how do we get rid of this lunatic?  Please, only legal answers.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

I’m sure you haven’t been naughty….or, have you?

Maybe you should watch for the switches.

I have to agree with you inherit the wind. This has more to do with Ginny Thomas
than Anita Hill, whose legacy is pretty secure. Clarence Thomas’s legacy is, on the
other hand, tainted. He won’t go down in history as an outstanding SC but as a
puppet and rubber stamp of the right wing whose decisions were probably more
vengeful than thoughtful.

Once again the Right achieved their short term goal—to get their way, to get
Thomas in, no matter the cost to the country, the democracy.

There is little pride being the spouse of Clarence Thomas.  I just know she didn’t
consult him before making that call.

It’s very easy to say Virginia Thomas is “dumb as a chicken”.

But let’s make three assumptions, just for grins:

1) Virginia Thomas is NOT dumb, but instead is very bright and very shrewd.
2) Virginia Thomas knows damn well Clarence did everything Anita Hill related and probably more.
3) Virginia Thomas is sane and not delusional.

If these three assumptions are ALL true, where does this take us?  It means Mrs. Thomas KNOWS Anita Hill told the truth and didn’t lie.  It means her husband is exactly the scumbag we think he is.

But what it really means is she (Virginia Thomas) has an agenda.  Why draw Anita Hill out?  Is it merely to make her a punching bag YET AGAIN for the Far Right?  Is it a GIANT red herring to hide, in plain sight, her totally inappropriate political actions?  Or is it another agenda?

In every scenario I can come up with where those 3 assumptions hold, the conclusions are pretty scary.

Think about it.

“As a wife” you understand being married for 23 years and not having a clue who your husband is ??? She’s dumb as a chicken.

“Why not ignore the message, rather than refer it to the campus police? “

This is the fallacy of this article. Why indeed. That this is an article, that it is a topic of discussion is because the phone call is so unusual after nineteen years.  Anita Hill cannot be made responsible for deciding the legitimacy or purpose or what happens next in such a bizarre (in my and perhaps Anita Hill’s opinion) phone call.

The best way to resolve the issue “is this just a phone call or something else” is to have the next level of review look at the incident. The follow up question is always. What did you do when you received the first contact from this person? A non reaction always weakens the defense or credibility of the victim.

The writer of this article knows this and has presented sloppy journalism in presenting the question about the victim.

The timing is indeed telling. Mrs Thomas is under some scrutiny w/regard to
the “anonymous” and sizable donations to her new right-wing group. one
totalling half million dollars. This phone call coming at the time of that launch
and during the midterm elections (amidst her public comments about Obama’s
destruction of the country) is curious.  You know, I don’t believe she really
thinks her husband is innocent.

This isn’t a stupid woman, and, yes, all of us are apt to fall into the denial
syndrome when there’s something we don’t want to face.  But the passing of
years and cooling of passion can make rational people of us all. Perhaps this
was an outrageous way to get Anita Hill to tell her what her husband did, to find
a way to accept it…and then DIVORCE the bum.  People in the public eye take
strange detours to the truth when they finally want to reach it.

Im afraid that Clarence is a bucket of porcine slime-he has proved this repeatedly with his so-
called rulings on the bench-he is not competent to be a justice. He was a total reactionary moron
when appointed, and it has been downhill for him ever since.
Sure he did what he was he was accused of; probably did a lot more that never came out.
All he and his fellow repugs can do is obstruct obstruct obstruct and then complain bitterly that
nothing gets done.

My theory is this is the next red-herring in a long line of them, the next “President’s Birth Certificate” blow up: “Why won’t Anita Hill apologize?” will be on the lips of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, all the slanted Faux Noise, and, of course, of Sarah Palin.  And, in part, Marcus is right: To steer away from Virginia Thomas’s blatant political activities that in any sane society would demand her husband leave the Court.

Anita Hill has been subjected to YEARS of harassment.  When it seems to be starting up again, she did what should be done—reported it.

I hope it comes back to haunt Justice Thomas so he is forced to retire, and let President Obama appoint someone who understands the Constitution.

Thomas was out of line.
Her arrogance is incredible.
It’s deliberately provocative, and must have been calculated to add to the general teabagging of the political atmosphere.

I don’t think Anita Hill was out of line by publicizing this strange voice mail message. Thomas’ wife has made herself a public figure and her actions in contacting Hill are odd and a little bit unnerving.