Thomas: ‘Left-wing zealots’ worse than the KKK.
By on Sep 30th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Thomas: ‘Left-wing zealots’ worse than the KKK.
In his new book, My Grandfather’s Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas writes that “he had grown up fearing the Ku Klux Klan’s lynch mobs but ‘my worst fears had come to pass not in Georgia, but in Washington, D.C., where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.’”
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September 30th, 2007 at 9:24 amWow,
I had no idea the suffering of Emmett Till was so trite and jejune compared to what Clarence Thomas had to go through.
I sure am glad we picked a person with such a healthy sense of proportion to a life-time job.
[/sarcasm]
September 30th, 2007 at 9:26 am…so to counteract that, I decided to be a right-wing zealot draped in flowing wingnuttery (except when it comes to opining as a member of SCOTUS, where I quietly vote as I’m instructed to by Scalia)…
September 30th, 2007 at 9:28 amAny way to get rid of a Supreme Court Judge appointed for life?
September 30th, 2007 at 9:38 amThis level of personal hypocrisy is utterly amazing. In criticizing “them”, he becomes that which he is criticizing. Is this what they mean by the “dumbing down” of america? He surely makes a case for it.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:39 amSome people can write books while others should just stick to reading…Judge Thomas is one who should focus his time and talents on learning to read properly first.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:40 amThe left wing zealots include the NAACP, ACLU and NARAL. I’m sure they will be so much more comfortable when one of their cases comes before the Supreme Court in the future.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:46 amAre you looking in the mirror right now by any chance, Sasquach?
September 30th, 2007 at 9:52 amFor someone affiliated with an abysmal number like 26%, I’d say that it’s you and your ilk who have become totally irrelevant to the political scene. But then again, living in the dark ages as you do, you probably believe that we’re still engaged in the Civil War. Get a grip on yourself…..oops, that’s your usual pasttime, isn’t it? Sorry. Next!
September 30th, 2007 at 9:54 amAnd this shallow wussy is a Supreme?
September 30th, 2007 at 9:54 amAnd the lockstep fascist right realizes that they don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning an election fairly so they have to get out their voting machine hackers and programmers now to put the “fix” in. You are one deluded reichwingnut junkie, Bigfoot. Sorry that you’ve become almost extinct here on these threads, big boy.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:55 amShallow wussy is an understatement, ggibson1! And a complement when it comes to this incompetent.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:56 amI see the liberal “thought police†are out this morning, doing what they feel is their duty to thwart dissent and opposition thinking…
The right can NEVER again make these kinds of claims without proving their malice and dark intent… all we have to do to prove this is play back video from the past 7 years from YouTube …
September 30th, 2007 at 9:56 amBTW, Sasquach….why don’t you pat yourself on your hairy back and grant yourself some more fictitious accolades this morning? Writing is definitely not your forte. (but then you wouldn’t recognize a forte from a fart-ee…:)
September 30th, 2007 at 9:58 amhahahaha….Your temperature now matches your IQ then.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:58 amAny way to get rid of a Supreme Court Judge appointed for life?
Comment by Veritas
I believe its called impeachment.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:59 amMaybe Thomas found another pubic hair in his soda can this morning, too?
September 30th, 2007 at 10:00 amBigfoot,
Bwaaaahaaaahaaaa! You’re a joke friend.
The problem with Clarence Thomas professing his political beliefs is not that he doesn’t have a right to do it, but that he engages in ridiculous political rhetoric by openly taking sides on the right v. left argument….as a sitting member of the SCOTUS! That is breathtaking. If you don’t understand the problem with that, then I understand your problem. You are ignorant.
You also don’t understand how fascism works. Look in the mirror for a clearer picture.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:00 amOmega3: Sad fact but absolutely true. He’s a disgrace and our Supreme Court is beginning to look more like a gang of thugs these days.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:01 amThis quite accurately depicts Thomas’ pedestrian mindset. That he is a Supreme Court justice with this attitude is a national disgrace.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:02 am” You consider any debate to your point of view, “abuseâ€. And when others support the dissenter, they are abusing the system as well.”
Project much?
TP doesn’t silence dissenters like Red State. TP allows debate amongst commenters, whereas Red State says from the get go that anyone posting anything other than a conservative view will be banned.
And Bush/Cheney….don’t get me started. They screen participants for their “town hall” meetings to make sure the audience supports the administration’s views. They remove people just for wearing anti-war t-shirts. They fire cabinet members and marginalize anyone who dares to even suggest that there might be another view. They readily agree to interviews on Fox but nowhere else.
Only the delusional would believe that repubs believe in open, honest debate.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:02 amOh yeah, that “Impeach Bush and Cheney†movement was so successful, huh? Kind of left ya’ all tuckered out…
Comment by O. Bigfoot
Given the new powers of the “unitary executive” Hillary can take care of it all by herself in ‘09 …
September 30th, 2007 at 10:03 amShamefully, this justice is losing his credibility and if playing right into the people’s hands who will now make a public (or is it pubic?) spectacle of him. I’d say he’s already done that quite handily years ago though.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:04 amAnd if anyone thinks that Hillary is emasculating her opponents right now, just wait until the castrations begin when she is elected….
September 30th, 2007 at 10:05 amAbout the only thing the hairy troll is good for is to incite liberal bloggers and make TP a total success.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:06 amApe$hit: And the only reason there is not a stronger call for impeachment of the Bush/Cheney crime cabal is that no democrat wants to end up “owning this mess” which will go down in history as clearly being the last stand of the present-day GOP. Don’t delude yourself into believing that just because people are not screaming for impeachment (and neither are the dems in congress) that it is not a “calculated move” on their part. This toxic government and this amoral, illegal war is not something they want Bush and Cheney to get out of. They want them to be sitting pretty when their terms expire so the international community can slap a war crimes tribunal on the two of them.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:09 amFascist?? So lookie here and see who’s calling whom a fascist? hahahah – just like the reichwingnuts calling A’jad a Hitler wannabe. It’s called “projection”, folks and the reichwing has become it’s poster child. do they really believe they are fooling anyone?
September 30th, 2007 at 10:11 amAnd when it comes to “amorality”, the reichwingnuts have a corner on the market. Headlines on another blog this morning have caught Mitt, the Twit, Romney lying about his investments in both Venezuela and Iran. This guy’s as slick as a snake oil salesman!
September 30th, 2007 at 10:13 amWonder where Anita Hill is these days, Clarence??
September 30th, 2007 at 10:13 amSince someone brought up RedState … I saw the other day Ron Paul people on RedState making the same vigorous case (as I do here) for the reasonable people from the left and right joining together for a new way… that is like the original way in this country.
They were not being kicked (some were) and people like me over here are not being kicked… Last night we Ron Paul people raised $1,000,000 in 6 days just over the Internet… If the left would wise up about the democrats stabbing us in the back … and the right would wise up about being tricked and used by the neocons… we could put the DNC and the GOP back in their place… even if it was for only 4 years… they would have learned a lesson.. and a precedent would be set…
Ron Paul has an answer for all people… because he does not pander… Liberty applied evenly (not cheated here or there for special interests) will make things better for all.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:14 amhttp://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/home.htm
Thomas will be shilling his bio on 60 minutes tonight IIRC.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:14 amI wasn’t commenting on TP’s forum, I was commenting about the fascist mob who attempt to control the blogs by shouting down any dissent through petty labeling of their oponents and personal insults.
That never happens ’round here, do it?
Comment by O. Bigfoot
Occassionally, but most of us like to pull up evidence and links and history and make our cases based on these things rather than our “faith” or lame opinions or talking points…
September 30th, 2007 at 10:15 amLong Dong Silver hates the zealots who hounded him with the truth? Does he still drink Pepsi from the can?
September 30th, 2007 at 10:17 amThere are several excellent cases being made as to how the government in this country has ushered in a new era of fascism and the Democrats have stood by and allowed this to happen, which makes them an accomplice to the crime.
Make no mistake about though, the apparatus was hatched, funded and promoted by the rightwing, starting with Reagan’s dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine leading all the way up to the current administration’s alliance with Christian fundamentalists and the false flags of a perpetual “war on terra”.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:18 amBig Foot… learn something about American History… this is something I learned just a few days ago… I couldnt believe it… and if you dont like the source I am using you can look it up else where and see the same info…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
Its a long read… but a SHOCKING read…
September 30th, 2007 at 10:18 amNot a Hitler wannabe? You better wake up, bro. No matter who’s prez in 2008, Hitler, Jr. will have to be dealt with. Better sooner than later.
You’d best get off the blogs and start reading some history.
Comment by O. Bigfoot
The exact same types of crimes have been commited in this country in the past… and we have slowly grown out of the tribalistic past… remember we (humanity) JUST started the age or reason a couple hundred years ago… MOST of the world is still far behind us…
September 30th, 2007 at 10:23 amMore on Thurgood Marshall, 1st African American member of SCOTUS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall
September 30th, 2007 at 10:24 amBigfoot. First off, provide proof that Ahmadinejad kills homosexuals in Iran. News sources, links etc.
Second, he has not invaded another sovereign state preemptively based on lies, nor has he killed 100’s of thousands of innocents to get his hands on their natural resources. Our government is guilty on both counts and these are war crimes according to Nuremberg and every other treaty we are a bound to since the 2nd World War.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:25 amLehrer interview with Ray McGovern (27 year CIA veteran) on the Bush admins crimes:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/jan-june06/leaks_4-24.html
September 30th, 2007 at 10:29 amWho expected anything different from Thomas? The man has show his true… colour a long time ago.
That aside, why do many of you continue to respond to trolls? You may as well be banging your head against the wall for all the effort.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:32 amGood Morning Veritas,………Good post’s as alway’s.. Just a thought from me this morning……As alway’s this SAS-Squat dump’s on our thread’s, never leave’s anything good to the discussion’s and refuses to see the pile’s of crap that it leave’s behind….We can’t fix “stupid” and this little black hearted troll reich winger is no diffrent…..The only reason it post’s is for attention…..It must be realy lonely in the 26% group…
We all knew when Thomas was put into office what we were getting, just another dead head from the reich….Doubt the black communety think much of him either..Will have to ask some of my friend’s of color what they think…They can’t stand Condi dead eye Rice, if I ask bet I will hear a lot…..
If you all totaly ignore the troll’s they will leave to get attention else where…..Leaving for tree hugging…Blessings
September 30th, 2007 at 10:34 amYou shout, you scream, you cry like babies, when anyone other than yourselves gets any attention.
Comment by O. Bigfoot — September 30, 2007 @ 9:51 am
This is the perfect description of a republican.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:35 amTrojan John,
I hear what you’re saying, but this place tolerates the trolls generally, where other very solid progressive blogs don’t allow it. Every once in a while, you need to smack them down and point out their ignorance. It’s not difficult to do I grant you and it can be a head-imploding excercise.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:36 amSo true the KKK would have just terrorized him and his family maybe killed them. Now, those lefties who stood between him and his power and money those mo-fo’s were the real serious threat. A true conservative Thomas is.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:47 amWhy do you think governments want to control the internet? Especially dictatorial governments such as China or in a small way Myanmar/Burma…
Comment by O. Bigfoot
That point sounds reasonable if taken on its own…
Then you look into things such as the “science” of advertising…
Advertisers have gathered huge amounts of data… and out of that data they have found statistics that show them things like …
* If you show a child nagging their parent for a toy on a commercial then there is a 32% increasing in that toys sales…
* If a credit card company puts a charge on your account that doesnt belong there and when that person calls in to have it removed if you put them on hold for at least 7 minutes then 23% of them will simply hang up and pay the false charge…
People CAN be manipulated in mass… TV and the Internt can play into this for people that do not study things on their own… Todays world is not immune.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:51 amAlso if you look in those links closely you will see links to the transcripts for the congressional investigation into the corporate attempt to overthrow FDR and put a “soft fascism” in his place…
READ those transcripts… you will see that this was no “theory” you can see these people being caught in lies… Smedly was a true Marine Corp American Hero….
September 30th, 2007 at 10:59 amDid Bigfoot ever get around to condemning the FoxNews columnist who libeled all of our generals? Last night he was weaseling away writing this crap about dumb liberals and refused to comment on the actual topic. I see he’s up to the same bullsh!t this morning: blather about his superior intellect and do everything possible to derail the thread.
Bigfoot thinks he’s got a sacred cause: to post his comments, however irrelevant, until we all turn into “conservatives” like him.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:04 amPearls before swine from the illustrious O. Bigfoot:
“Personally, my post from earlier this morn sounded so good, and was so well written, and it fit in with this subject so perfectly, that I had to re-post it here. Enjoy!:
“That’s the problem with you far left kook liberals:………..
If you do say so yourself. What an arrogant self-indulgent prat you are, much like the Supreme Court Associate Justice you seem to like so much.
Oh, and you’re supposed to hyphenate your epithet like this: “far-left-kook-liberals”. See? That way you convey the idea that the four words are really one and that all liberals are kooks and on the far left.
You’ll never be a good right-wing-reactionary-whack-job until you get this stuff down. :-)
jb
September 30th, 2007 at 11:16 amThe mainstream right merely mocks you, or ignores you altogether.â€
Comment by O. Bigfoot — September 30, 2007 @ 9:51 am
The mainstream right is irrelevant, and merely tools of the corporate owners. The modern-day Good Germans, and bigfoot is one of the spokesmodels. Stupidity is the friend of fascism.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:24 amComment by O. Bigfoot — September 30, 2007 @ 9:51 am
Reported as spam and personal attack.
Folks, this is our power. Stop him now or he’ll get progressively worse and so will his friends.
That’s what the flag’s for.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:27 amSee, if you cannot argue my points, simply lie to the authorities and see if I can be banned from TP.
Comment by O. Bigfoot — September 30, 2007 @ 11:31 am
You don’t have “points”, you have insults.
You cannot possibly expect to walk into a forum, virtual or not, insult, berate, patronise the people who are present there, and be listened to politely.
Anybody with an IQ in the double-digit range understands that fact.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:45 amLabeling my comments as “irrelevant†merely relieves you of any necessity to respond with any kind of actual thought.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not condemning you for that tact. You have every right to ignore my content. And believe me, I don’t expect to convert the liberal kook fringe into conservatives… far left idealogues have all the passion of religious zealots, and it’s very difficult to show people the error of their ways when their thought process is clouded by that kind of irrational attitude.
However, if I can get a few of the folks on the fence to see that there really is an opposing viewpoint, and the room for individual thought, in the United States, then my job is done.
Comment by O. Bigfoot — September 30, 2007 @ 11:28 am
So dismissing something as irrelevant is an indication that one has no rebuttal? Huh.
Along the lines of:
More hypocrisy from Bigfoot.
And what about the colonel and the generals, Bigfoot. Are you still pretending that you don’t have time to verify the colonel wrote what he wrote? Or are you ready to acknowledge that he, on foxnews.com, libeled all our generals for betraying the troops?
September 30th, 2007 at 11:46 amJeremy in Denver makes my point for me, in a most spectacular manner! Bravo, Jeremy!
Comment by O. Bigfoot — September 30, 2007 @ 11:31 am
The point being that you, Bigfoot, continue to generalize from a tiny dataset and that you’re only here for your own entertainment, pretending to be smart. Having a puffed up ego doesn’t prove anything other than arrogance.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:48 amPerhaps O.Bigfoot should go read the post in the thread about the AP spinning Rush’s comments, as I won’t post it here again.
When he’s deliberately combative, resorting to dropping the Fascist bomb against us, calling us kooks, attacking members of the community directly, it’s time to bring the attacks to TP’s attention.
I’ll cut O.Bigfoot some slack. I misread 3 threads instead of 2, so technically, while he was spamming, his spamming wasn’t to the excess that I thought it was. However, the personal attacks are present, and they’ve been brought to TP’s attention. There’s a simple solution for Bigfoot to avoid further notifications of his posts to TP’s admin: Do not drop personal attacks against blog posters singularly or in collective. There’s a very key requirement for posting at TP, one that everyone agrees to every time he or she send a post. If this does not match Bigfoot’s memory of the terms of use, he need to click on the terms of use link before his next post, as it spells out in black and white what everyone’s obligations are for posting to this blog.
Refering to us as ‘fascists’, ‘kooks’, and ‘crybabies’ violates the following ToS you agreed to when you posted, Bigfoot.
• Respect other Bloggers – please do not threaten, insult, abuse, intimidate or harass other Blog users.
We used to only be able to mock you back, but now, there’s a much better tool. Unless you want to lose your voice and eventually get banned by IP address like Mr. President, I suggest you reread the Terms of Use, Bigfoot.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:50 amJeremy in Denver makes my point for me, in a most spectacular manner! Bravo, Jeremy!
Comment by O. Bigfoot — September 30, 2007 @ 11:31 am
Still struttin’ his Neuticlesâ„¢ I see.
A Normal Life Process
Five Stages Of Grief
1. Denial and Isolation.
2. Anger.
3. Bargaining.
4. Depression.
5. Acceptance.
Grief And Stress
Recovering From Grief
Appears yer still stuck in Stage 1: Denial and Isolation. They’re not real. Get over it. Ya lost ‘em at TP shootin’ yer mouf off. All yer doin’ now is compounding yer embarrassment by insistin’ otherwise.
And yer certainly isolated.
You can be helped, but first, you must ask for help. I’d suggest LGF or Redstate. I hear those sites are packed w/ chattering, castrated fools.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:51 amYou’ll have plenty of company. And they won’t laugh at you the way we do.
And it’s almost funny to hear or read a Bush cultist complaining about the “far left” (read: anybody who disagrees with my Leader), and how it quells dissent, when it is the White House and its assorted minions who have spent the last few years accusing anybody who disagrees with Pres Bush’s many failed policies “traitors”, “terrorist appeasers”, and much, much worse.
The accusations of fascism are even funnier: Fascism presupposes control over a compliant media, and marriage between corporate interests and government. Commenters in this blog who are members of this “far left” do not have control over either. Not to mention that fascism is, by definition, a right-wing ideology.
In short, Bush cultists are accusing their detractors of the very same sins they are guilty of. Only a very calculating propagandist, or a person completely devoid of self-awareness, can even think of posting such nonsense.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:53 amNow I’m going to take exception to TRoS.
We’ve got new tools here, Republic. Tools that don’t feed them, but instead either force them to play by the rules or leave. Read carefully what you posted, and for the moment, forget it was against a right-wing troll. He has every right to report you for abuse as well, again, for not treating fellow bloggers with respect. This is a recommendation to everyone. If he spews a post that makes no sense, either ignore it or say his post makes no sense politely. If he is combative and violates the ToS, do not compound the mistake by doing likewise.
Report him. If enough people report him, he’ll eventually be treated to a warning e-mail from TP admin. If he continues afterwards, he’ll find his login blocked. And if he continues after making a new login to violate the ToS, they’ll blacklist his IP and/or IP range, and he’ll lose his voice, period. If you play his game with him, then YOU’LL get blacklisted. Let’s get away from that particular method of counter-trolling and make use of the tools we’ve been given.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:58 amAs for Clarence Thomas, that is perhaps one of the most shallow comments I have heard him make.
A sanctimonious twit is worse that a lynching mob?
Who knew!!
I guess that makes our fiend Bigfoot worse than a lynching mob too.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:59 amNow I’m going to take exception to TRoS.
We’ve got new tools here, Republic. Tools that don’t feed them, but instead either force them to play by the rules or leave. Read carefully what you posted, and for the moment, forget it was against a right-wing troll. He has every right to report you for abuse as well, again, for not treating fellow bloggers with respect.
Comment by Jeremy in Denver — September 30, 2007 @ 11:58 am
Don’t lecture me dude. You haven’t put up w/ that twit for months and months. What I said is NOTHING compared to what’s been said here in the past. Go over to some of the rightie sites and check out all the cool “eliminationist” rhetoric sometime.
Notice when you threaten to flag his posts, the twit just laughs at you? Are you flagging him? (Hint: actions speak louder than words…)
September 30th, 2007 at 12:05 pmHe’s clearly too immature to be a Supreme Court Justice. Wow .
September 30th, 2007 at 12:13 pmNo wonder most people despise this sorry excuse for an intellectual.
Health Care: Red Herring issue. Health care is fine in this country. Only liberal scare tactics try to make this an issue.
I dont know who said this… but health care in this country is NOT “fine”… Though I make pretty good money my job does not offer health insurance (its a small company trying to quickly become a big company with a new technology we made) and a few weeks back my son cut open his leg… well after using AT MOST 1 hour of peoples time (2 nurses and 1 doctor for a few minutes) he got his 7 stitches and I got 3 bills totaling over $1400. WHO MAKES $1400 PER HOUR? I would have seen $400$-500 as resonable… unless I was poor like my parents were when I grew up… then $400 or 500 would have been more than one pay check.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:15 pmComment by The Republic of Stupidity — September 30, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
Actually, I have been putting up with him for the past months and months, him and Mr. P and Valiant Venus and Mighty Aphrodite and Jake and CT and Daryll and so on and so on. The names run together, there’s so many of them.
As for actions speaking louder than words, I’ve clicked the flag button not once but twice on each of those posts. What about you? Have you flagged his posts yet?
September 30th, 2007 at 12:16 pmUgggh, Clay-unce, you’se in ‘mo dangah frum de KKK, I ‘b-leef.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:28 pmThem “left wing zealots” marched and DIED so you could be a Supreme
Court Justice, sad- ass failure that you are.
ggibson1, I gotcha beat. We actually HAD insurance when this happened.
Back in 2005, my wife caught a stomach virus that emptied her GI tract from both ends. I hear a thud in the bathroom and she’s lieing on the ground, literally having passed out after sitting on the toilet and leaning over the tub. I call 911 right away. We get the ambulance there, and…my wife is black. Light chocolate skin. The ambulance people see her, then immediately pick her up and put her on the stretcher. One of them says something that shocks me to the core — her skin is paler than he’s ever seen a black person’s skin be before. They find her bloodpressure is very low and her heartrate very high — dehydration so severe it needed her to stay in emergency care overnight. They put her on a battery of medicines and a saline drip. Two days later, they finally release her, and she’s still weak on her feet and the first thing she does is crawls into the bed and then passes out, and sleeps for a good 24 hours straight.
We thought it was over? Of course not.
“INSURANCE DENIED! MWAHAHA! ELECTIVE SERVICE! WHAHAHA!”
“WTF, Mate?! The Ambulance service stuck a f—ing IV in her arm for Christ’s sake! What the h— do you mean elective service?!”
“Haha! You can’t beat us! We’re the Insurance Company! Bye!”
We call and fight and T spends a better part of _six months_ on the phone going back and forth before they finally let her pass. Then the next phase began. “Oh, we aren’t covering your Ambulance service because…whahaha…IT’S OUT OF NETWORK! PWNED, N00Bs! ROFLCOPTER!” Me? “How on earth was I supposed to know the damn ambulance was not in your provider network? ‘Hey, honey, hold off on dieing here for a moment, gotta make sure the ambulance is covered under insurance’?!”
Doesn’t matter. Out of network. They won’t cover it. We got stiffed for $700.
*sigh*
This is what the conservatives defend. It’s obvious they’re happy..they likely have stock in health insurance companies. Those same insurance companies deliver crap all service to us so that they can deliver more $$$ to those same investors, and we are the ones who suffer.
Making a profit is fine and all, but this is a little excessive.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:30 pmBy God, he’s right! Our most brilliant jurist reminded me something I’d nearly forgotten… It was LEFT-WING zealots who blew up the Murra building in Oklahoma, killing men women and CHILDREN in the second-worst terrorist attack on American soil! And of course it was those same nasty left-wingers who went to the South and sealed a deal with white racists to bring them into their party and defend their bigotry. You’re brilliant, Clarence, a real credit to the bench.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:57 pmI guess for a black man delusional enough to believe that he is white, that may be true. Delusion is a terrible thing, look at the bubble boy in the WH.
September 30th, 2007 at 1:04 pmIf the lefty zealots had not protested this waste would not be a token vote in the supreme court.
September 30th, 2007 at 1:06 pmTrue, Jeremy. Insurance companies don’t like to cut checks. We have a referendum on the ballot for November here in Washington State to force insurers to pay as advertised. There is a strong campaign against it from the right. (R-67)
September 30th, 2007 at 1:11 pmMy question for O. Bigfoot:
Fascism’s main objective is a dictatorial government.
How does that equate to liberalism which rejects authoritarian rule?
Please don’t try to say that up is down. It’s insulting.
The word “sanctimony” should choke anyone associated with the party of Helms, Falwell, The Christian Coalition, Foley, Dobson, the Moral Majority, Schlafley, and on and on. Pious, self righteous sanctimony is the caling card of Republican hypocrites.
September 30th, 2007 at 1:14 pmComment #75,
Marlow, you are being sarcastic about the left-wing zealots blowing up the Murra building, right?
September 30th, 2007 at 1:16 pmWe need that here in Colorado. But honestly, with the shit taking place here in the states, we’re planning a move to Canada if $$$s work out right.
September 30th, 2007 at 1:17 pmyou mean those Lefties that all but shamed the Klan out of existence (at least until righty talk radio revitalized them)
i’d take a tsk, tsk from a sanctimonious liberal over a lynching any day, Clarence. Anyone else, who’d prefer a visit from the Klan vs. Bill Maher?
September 30th, 2007 at 1:52 pmInstead of “My Grandfather’s Son”, wouldn’t the title have been more simple if he just had called it “My Dad”?
When I was much younger, I honestly thought Clarence Thomas was being harshly treated during his nomination hearings. I had no idea he was this crazy.
Yes, Clarence throughout history, black Americans have had more to fear from “sanctimonious liberals” than right-wing racists burning a cross in some unfortunate person’s yard. Obviously you, like Bush, are not a student of history.
September 30th, 2007 at 2:16 pmWhen anyone else claims to be a victim of racism the Republican white-wing screams “playing the race card”….”Racism is no longer a problem”.
Except of course when it is Clarence Thomas who is being criticized, then it is an example of egregious racism.
Clarence Thomas, the most angry and bitter man in America.
-GSD
September 30th, 2007 at 2:49 pmPerhaps there is something unbalanced about Thomas – as he asserts that the KKK was better than Washington DC.
September 30th, 2007 at 3:11 pmI wonder if Mr. Thomas would even be where he is today were it not for the “liberal” groups who fought for civil rights and tirelessly worked to end segregation.
Now it seems so typically Republican — I got mine, now the rest of you can get your own.
He seems intent on accomplishing his own agenda as justice.
Let us never forget that “Longdong Silver’ Thomas’ SCOTUS career was achieved by a personal and professional smear campaign led by David Broder in his incarnation as a Rethug operative. I hope that Broder is given some airtime to comment on Thomas’ rewrite of history. Of course, we all know that the chance of that is nonexistent, except for Olberman or AAR?
September 30th, 2007 at 3:28 pmClarence, maybe “they” are not the problem.
Maybe you are just an A-hole.
I agree with a previous commenter that wondered if we should make it easier to remove crazies like good old Clarence. HERE HERE!
September 30th, 2007 at 5:57 pmThomas is a disgrace to all people mostly African Americans. People of all color died for Civil Rights and Equality yet he let himself be brought and paid for by the KKK. What ever the GOP tells him the do he does without question. His action since he’s as a Justice shows he’s just in the sit to do as his Master tells him.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:48 pmHis Mother is probably crying after all she did to help her child only to see he’s no better then the slaves of the past. I know we have a better Black person who will be his/her own person and follow the law and not the GOP.
If the left-wing zealots who live in Thomas’neighborhood could only sell their homes to KKK members, would he stay? Perhaps a cross burning or worse might cause him to reconsider his words.
But then again, the KKK would probably roll out the red carpet for him since he seems more than willing to do their bidding. Anyone anticipate a David Duke/Clarence Thomas presidential ticket in 2008 or 2012?
A poll of African-Americans in this country would be timely. His views are likely at extreme odds with the large majority of other members of his race.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:18 pmClarence Thomas just spit on the graves of those who’ve passed on and in the faces of those who haven’t yet who made considerable sacrifices to pave the way for him to enjoy the position of power that he does, serving as Scalia’s Siamese twin.
The deaths of those who risked their lives and were maimed/killed during the Civil War fighting (at least in part) to emancipate the slaves in this country, the unwavering perserverence of those who were staunch abolitionists at the time (sometimes at great cost to themselves), and again later in history, the incredible courage of the civil rights activists in the 1950s and 1960s (e.g., freedom riders, marchers, those who participated in sit ins and many others) seems to have all been wasted, at least in Clarence Thomas’ twisted mind.
Given the circumstances, it is indeed difficult to think of another public official in this country who has sunk to greater depths.
May he undergo a revelatory experience not unlike that of Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens’ Christmas Carol.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:45 pmIf Thomas someday finds himself in a life boat full of neocons (with global warming, Washington, D.C. could be underwater sooner than we think), along with Roberts, Scalia, and Alito, and the boat is one over its capacity, does he truly believe one of the others will be the one who is tossed overboard?
September 30th, 2007 at 9:52 pmHey, Clarence, if the neocons are successful in reversing all of the hard-fought civil rights from which you’ve benefited (which seem to be dwindling every month, in part thanks to you), let’s see if your Reich Wing buddies are willing to lay their lives on the line to restore some semblance of parity (which has only been approximated) between minorities and whites in this country.
Just who do you think will be first to participate along with you in acts of civil disobedience, being doused by fire hoses, arrested and beaten by police officers, and worse — George W. Bush? Dick Cheney? Scalia? Gonzo?
Well, who?
September 30th, 2007 at 10:03 pmI can understand the anger that Thomas feels about his treatment. It wasn’t pretty as I remember. All boiling down basically to some trashy stuff which I was unable to conclude, on my own, meant anything anyway. I wanted an impartial judge on SCOTUS be he/she republican or democrat. Just an impartial jurist. To hear Thomas complain about his treatment and then hold fast to the process rather than get out of the circus is remarkable. He had a choice to get out of it, to refuse to provide biggest show on earth with a clown. When he stayed with it he invited the feeding of the hosts of crazies. I don’t care about hearing him whine now. The past was lousy for a lot of us. So what! We still have to show up at work and raise our families. Justice Thomas, get over it! What I want is a Supreme Court Justice who will do his constitutional duty and move forward. Your impartiality will be judged by the people not Bush and his minions. If the people come to the conclusion you have become a whore for any agenda other than the constitution there will be another circus.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:10 amCurmudgeon…Well Said!
October 1st, 2007 at 12:10 amI watch Clarence on 60 minutes tonight and he’s an angry man who is already feeling the the hurt of his Mother and Grandfather. Yes Clarence sold out his race and now he will have to go along with what the GOP has plans for the voting of cases in the Supreme Court. Yes Clarence was ordered to vote down Woman’s Rights and Civil Rights when the Court returns and it’s eating him up inside. Reagan got him to have a black face and Daddy Bush used an unqualified lawyer to sit on the Supreme Court to do as he’s told. Clarence is now living his own hell on earth. Everything his Grandfather and his Mother sacrificed for him he sold out for the money. Now Clarence will answer to God for the chose he made to follow Satan.
This will be an interesting Movie of a Black man who sold out his race and now is trying to explain it before he has to tell it to God. As for his friends in the GOP I only need him to remember Gonzales who was used and kicked out after he wasn’t needed anymore. When Thomas does pass the law to dismantle the Civil Rights Act look for the GOP to tell Clarence to resign so he can spend more time with his family.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:14 amClarence’s hypocrisy knows no bounds … which makes him ripe for satire–Who has put a pubic hair on my coke? These words should be on his tombstone.
October 1st, 2007 at 8:31 am“I see the liberal ‘thought police’ are out this morning, doing what they feel is their duty to thwart dissent.”
What makes them worse than their conservative counterparts?
Oh, I see: better education.
Thanks.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:29 amIn criticizing “themâ€, he becomes that which he is criticizing.
Comment by Veritas — September 30, 2007 @ 9:39 am
Does this apply to everyone, or just those with whom you disagree. ;)
October 1st, 2007 at 3:53 pmAnita Hill on Justice Thomas’ attempt to smear her again (from the “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.
Justice Thomas’s characterization of me is also hobbled by blatant inconsistencies. He claims, for instance, that I was a mediocre employee who had a job in the federal government only because he had “given it†to me. He ignores the reality: I was fully qualified to work in the government, having graduated from Yale Law School (his alma mater, which he calls one of the finest in the country), and passed the District of Columbia Bar exam, one of the toughest in the nation.
In 1981, when Mr. Thomas approached me about working for him, I was an associate in good standing at a Washington law firm. In 1991, the partner in charge of associate development informed Mr. Thomas’s mentor, Senator John Danforth of Missouri, that any assertions to the contrary were untrue. Yet, Mr. Thomas insists that I was “asked to leave†the firm.
It’s worth noting, too, that Mr. Thomas hired me not once, but twice while he was in the Reagan administration — first at the Department of Education and then at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. After two years of working directly for him, I left Washington and returned home to Oklahoma to begin my teaching career.
In a particularly nasty blow, Justice Thomas attacked my religious conviction, telling “60 Minutes†this weekend, “She was not the demure, religious, conservative person that they portrayed.†Perhaps he conveniently forgot that he wrote a letter of recommendation for me to work at the law school at Oral Roberts University, in Tulsa. I remained at that evangelical Christian university for three years, until the law school was sold to Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Va., another Christian college. Along with other faculty members, I was asked to consider a position there, but I decided to remain near my family in Oklahoma.
Regrettably, since 1991, I have repeatedly seen this kind of character attack on women and men who complain of harassment and discrimination in the workplace. In efforts to assail their accusers’ credibility, detractors routinely diminish people’s professional contributions. Often the accused is a supervisor, in a position to describe the complaining employee’s work as “mediocre†or the employee as incompetent. Those accused of inappropriate behavior also often portray the individuals who complain as bizarre caricatures of themselves — oversensitive, even fanatical, and often immoral — even though they enjoy good and productive working relationships with their colleagues.
Finally, when attacks on the accusers’ credibility fail, those accused of workplace improprieties downgrade the level of harm that may have occurred. When sensing that others will believe their accusers’ versions of events, individuals confronted with their own bad behavior try to reduce legitimate concerns to the level of mere words or “slights†that should be dismissed without discussion.
Fortunately, we have made progress since 1991. Today, when employees complain of abuse in the workplace, investigators and judges are more likely to examine all the evidence and less likely to simply accept as true the word of those in power. But that could change. Our legal system will suffer if a sitting justice’s vitriolic pursuit of personal vindication discourages others from standing up for their rights.
The question of whether Clarence Thomas belongs on the Supreme Court is no longer on the table — it was settled by the Senate back in 1991. But questions remain about how we will resolve the kinds of issues my testimony exposed. My belief is that in the past 16 years we have come closer to making the resolution of these issues an honest search for the truth, which, after all, is at the core of all legal inquiry. My hope is that Justice Thomas’s latest fusillade will not divert us from that path.
Anita Hill, a professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis University, is a visiting scholar at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:01 am