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Polls showed Americans by a margin of 2 to 1 found Thomas more credible


"I covered the confirmation hearings in 1991. HBO’s movie heavily edits history to favor Anita Hill."

Writes Stuart Taylor Jr.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hollywood-hit-job-on-justice-clarence-thomas-1460930701

Despite a surface appearance of fairness, “Confirmation” makes clear how it wants the hearings to be remembered: Ms. Hill told the whole truth and Mr. Thomas was thus a desperate, if compelling, liar. Her supporters were noble; his Republican backers were scheming character assassins.

This is consistent with how the media conveyed the story at the time and, especially, in the years hence. Yet immediately after millions of people witnessed the hours of televised testimony, polls showed that Americans by a margin of more than 2 to 1 found Judge Thomas more believable than Ms. Hill. Viewers of “Confirmation” were deprived of several aspects of the story that might have made them, too, skeptical of Ms. Hill. The most-salient of many examples....

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I haven't watched the show. I'd have to force myself. I remember the original quite clearly and don't feel any urge to watch actors endeavoring to seem like the real people or to worry about how HBO is trying to manipulate us in the direction I would assume they'd manipulate us. For me, there's no entertainment value and no educational value. I'd rather see a documentary about sexual harassment and the American public mind in the 1990s, beginning with the you-just-don't-get-it scolding that was delivered over the high-tech-lynched body of Clarence Thomas followed by the it's-just-sex championing of the Democratic Party hero Bill Clinton. That was one hell of a transition.

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/04/i-covered-confirmation-hearings-in-1991.html

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Thought he could get away with being Mr Flithy mouth to women he worked with. Harassing women to out with him.
I too watched every minute of this Senate
She had nothing to gain by her speaking the truth. Everyone knew he loved pornograph and had quite the collection.
She was a very brave woman.

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It does make you wonder what was in it for her if she was just bull- *beep* It didn't help her career. Kind of the opposite. I bet it made it hard for her to meet men for at least a while. It made her look pretty gutsy,but I'm not sure that is a valued quality in a college professor. It just seems like the payoff for her was minimal at best if she made it all up.

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It does make you wonder what was in it for her if she was just bull- *beep* It didn't help her career. Kind of the opposite. I bet it made it hard for her to meet men for at least a while. It made her look pretty gutsy,but I'm not sure that is a valued quality in a college professor. It just seems like the payoff for her was minimal at best if she made it all up.


it's obvious that she allowed herself to be used by the democrats to destroy thomas. at first she wanted to remain anonymous too, like "jackie" in that rolling stones gangrape thing at UVA.

and what was in it for michelle fields to make up her story about being assaulted by trump manager lewandowski? now she's out of a job.

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Actually it's not obvious at all, because she didn't destroy Thomas. We'll never know the truth, but I believe he was indeed a pig.

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Just based on Hill's general character and career before and after this I find it implausible to disbelieve her. The real question at the time was does having this sort of character flaw disqualify someone from serving on the Supreme Court. The Senate ultimately didn't think so, probably because many of them were guilty of the same sort of behavior.

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The truth of a thing isn't subject to polls. The reason the Thomas confirmation went through is the committee approved his nomination to a Senate vote, THEN the allegations came to light, and tried a do over, but had no ability to undo the committee's approval.

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You make yourself an unreliable commenter when you admit you didn't watch the movie.

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You have to understand how different things were for women. Most of us had to go along to get along. Laugh at the jokes. Ignore the hands. Smile and keep working.

Anita's testimony was kind of nerve-wracking at the time. She was talking about things that were potentially career destroying for women. And the way comedians and late night hosts went after her made it clear that agreeing with her was risky. She was not going along. She was not getting along. It was very unsettling.

Ask some of those same women now. Now we're all so sensitive to the realities of it, it's much easier to speak up. It was not then. We thought of ourselves as modern and emancipated and independent, but in retrospect I am horrified at the things I went through.

I'll bet some of those women might change their public opinion now that it's safer to do so.

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