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Clarence Thomas: I Hate the Media
NewsMax.com ^ | March 4, 2007 | staff

Posted on 03/04/2007 7:04:09 PM PST by kellynla

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is no fan of the news media.

"One of the reasons I don't do media interviews is, in the past, the media often has its own script," he said in an interview with Business Week magazine. "The media, unfortunately, have been universally untrustworthy because they have their own notions of what I should think or I should do."

Thomas has been particularly upset by stories of how he ended up at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. According to the Los Angeles Times, Thomas says the common wisdom is that he was recruited for the school in 1968 as part of an affirmative action effort.

"That was the creation of the politicians, the people with a lot of mouth and nothing to say, and your industry," Thomas told Business Week. "Everything becomes affirmative action."

The real story, Thomas says, is that a nun suggested Holy Cross to him.

"That's how I wound up there," he said. "Your industry [the news media] has suggested that we were all recruited. That's a lie. Really, it's a lie. I don't mean a mistake. It's a lie.

"That thing that has astounded me over the years is that there has been such an effort to roll that class into people's notion of affirmative action," he continued. "You hear this junk. It's just not consistent with what really happened."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: clarencethomas; media; supremecourtjustice
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To: Steve Van Doorn
I wonder if Clarence Thomas is a freeper or at least a lurker? :)

Well, if he is, it's certainly an honor to be associated with him, even indirectly! I am so thankful to have a man with his convictions and talents on the SCOTUS.

Frankly, I was really hoping that President Bush would appoint Justice Thomas as the Chief Justice.

Mark

41 posted on 03/04/2007 9:20:12 PM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: kellynla

Justice Thomas has long been my favorite jurist.


42 posted on 03/04/2007 9:20:47 PM PST by B Knotts (Newt '08! FReepmail me to get on the Newt '08 Ping List)
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To: kellynla

Can't blame Clarence Thomas at all. The media and many on the left have told countless lies about him. It is so completely undeserved.


43 posted on 03/04/2007 9:23:44 PM PST by TAdams8591 (Guiliani is a Democrat in Republican drag.)
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To: humblegunner; Allegra; TheMom; Xenalyte; thackney; Eaker; Dashing Dasher; stevie_d_64; TXBSAFH; ...

Ping


44 posted on 03/04/2007 9:23:46 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: kellynla

I'm with Justice Thomas. I hate the MSM too...


45 posted on 03/04/2007 9:24:17 PM PST by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("We're Living In A Twilight World..."- Swingout Sister)
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To: kellynla
Does the Supreme Court ever lie?:
http://allanfavish.com/ajf_response_to_decision.htm
46 posted on 03/04/2007 9:25:18 PM PST by AJFavish
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To: Jaysun

Ditto!


47 posted on 03/04/2007 9:27:43 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: MarkL
"Frankly, I was really hoping that President Bush would appoint Justice Thomas as the Chief Justice."

That is a good question. I was wondering why to.

48 posted on 03/04/2007 9:30:49 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* ?I love you guys?)
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To: kellynla

What a fine and decent man.


49 posted on 03/04/2007 9:37:21 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: kellynla; FoxPro

Brushes with greatness, Clarence Thomas
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a26dc3333ab.htm


50 posted on 03/04/2007 9:37:41 PM PST by endthematrix (Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
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To: kellynla

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Speaks
Justice Thomas talks about the lasting influence of the man who guided him through his years at Holy Cross and why he's not a beneficiary of affirmative action

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_11/b4025080.htm


51 posted on 03/04/2007 9:40:02 PM PST by endthematrix (Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
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To: kellynla

>>"That was the creation of the politicians, the people with a lot of mouth and nothing to say, and your industry," Thomas told Business Week. "Everything becomes affirmative action."

The real story, Thomas says, is that a nun suggested Holy Cross to him. <<

I certainly don't blame him for not giving interviews.

And it the media repeated false information without verifying they are to blame.

But it sounds like there were other actors here too.

I'm just guessing but I wouldn't be surprised if the politicians he refers to didn't like the idea of a conservative black man being appointed to that slot.

BTW, I wonder what Anita Hill is doing these days... That was a well executed Borking - If Thomas had not used the phrase "hight tech lynching" with such force it might have worked.


52 posted on 03/04/2007 9:46:13 PM PST by gondramB (It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.)
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To: Jaysun

The one thing he cannot change; it ought not be remembered as an agent of change.

Why must this man always answer for what he seems to be rather than what he fully believes and has determined to be?

I await the day when the first Black, African-American, Negro, Person of Color attains the exalted position of "just plain Joe", a true American.

The law, in all its representations has become overly ponderous, too superficial and casual, sympathetically resonating with its time; lost between principle and purpose it is overdue for a bit of reflective inertia.


53 posted on 03/04/2007 10:20:16 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Rokke

BUMP!


54 posted on 03/04/2007 10:23:11 PM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: Vigilanteman

We need to relearn how to listen with our ears rather than our eyes.


55 posted on 03/04/2007 10:23:23 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: kellynla

Justice Thomas: The best we've got.


56 posted on 03/04/2007 10:23:43 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("Be strong in the Lord, in the power of His Might!")
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To: kellynla

It was shameful the way the racist democrats and media tried to "lynch" this man on TV.

It was a beautiful thing to watch him massacre all those lightweights on CSPAN and expose them in front of America.

Justice Thomas if you are here...welcome to FR!


57 posted on 03/04/2007 10:26:05 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: MarkL
And an incorrigible conman (chuckharder.com)


58 posted on 03/04/2007 10:26:39 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: I got the rope

http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/Thomaslynching.htm


59 posted on 03/04/2007 10:39:04 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: vox_freedom
Justice Clarence Thomas is an absolute hero to me.

Me too. I met him last summer. Easily the most impressive man involved in public life I've ever met. Not even close.

60 posted on 03/04/2007 10:41:09 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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