Clarence Thomas: The Justice Nobody Knows (60 Minutes)

CBS News 60 Minutes ^ | Sept. 30, 2007

[Christian4Bush]

mark

[oblomov]

>>It’s not the weight of the evidence that is important. It’s the seriousness of the charges.

Ah, that’s an old chestnut from 1991. It still makes me laugh to hear it. That, and the bit about “the inequities of power”.

[rogue yam]

Video link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3312822n

[rogue yam]

My darling 9 year old grandson wants to read his book.

What a blessing! Get the kid the book, Grammy!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Just a few lines about his early life, brought tears to my eyes. What an ascent he has made!

[Egon]

Fascinating read.

[TChris]

One word comes to mind: Excellent.

Excellent man; excellent interview.

[LexBaird]

I did however take exception to Kroft’s failure to identify the critics who call Thomas stupid and inarticulate, because he is less likely to participate in oral arguments.

Although the transcript doesn't identify them, the video showed Sharpton and others at that point in the interview.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

My darling 9 year old grandson wants to read his book. I am sure it is waaaayyyy over his head, but

Give him that book! As a homeschooled individual (whose parent was too), I can assure you that jumping into a book over one's head is not like jumping into water over one's head. He won't drown, he'll come out taller. :)

[subterfuge]

These conceptions or misperceptions, you call them, have accumulated because you haven't really addressed them. You haven't talked about them," Kroft remarks.

IF 60 Worthless Minutes treated him "fairly" I'd be surprised. Did they allude to their and the rest of the media's role in highlighing and prepetuating the "misperceptions" of this great man? I can't watch that propaganda myself.

[ANGGAPO]

Every now and then our country wins one, thank God.

[freekitty]

I so believe America finally got a man this country deserves when Clarence Thomas became Justice Thomas. I have never doubted him; especially knowing who was behind keeping him off the bench.

[subterfuge]

I didn’t see it or read this in it’s entirety, so I’m left wondering if CBS admitted to the “High Tech Lynching” they performed on this great man?

[freekitty]

Why would Thomas want to talk? It’s just opening the door to the hyenas.

[subterfuge]

True. Only a stupid liberal, or liberal organization like CBS, could believe this man that grew up in a dirt-floor shack and rose to SCJ, could only do so merely a result of affirmative action.

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks for the ping -- excellent article, however badly edited, i.e. anecdote = antidote.

This made me sit up and take notice: "Asked if the Anita Hill that testified was the same Anita Hill he knew at the EEOC, Thomas says, "She was not the demure, religious, conservative person that they portrayed. That's not the person I knew." Makes the case for her manipulating for the cameras.

I'm glad Justice Thomas is willing to come out and defend his side.

I found the implied racism in the interviewer's questions appalling—his insistence that race should be the first thing Thomas thinks about himself. That's disgusting, and even if it were his journalistic "technique."

[Albion Wilde]

Hilarious screen name.

[Ditto]

I thought it was interesting that he thought the ruckus was all about abortion.

If you followed it at the time, it was pretty apparent that it was all about abortion. The left feminazis were the people who coached Hill and who created all of the PR fog that long weekend. It was raw politics at its ugliest.

[Dems_R_Losers]

I didn’t see it or read this in it’s entirety, so I’m left wondering if CBS admitted to the “High Tech Lynching” they performed on this great man?

It wasn't CBS, it was NPR, whose Court reporter Nina Totenberg was the person who revealed the leaked FBI report on Anita Hill. It was leaked to her by someone on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

[Albion Wilde]

Only a stupid liberal, or liberal organization like CBS, could believe this man that grew up in a dirt-floor shack and rose to SCJ, could only do so merely a result of affirmative action.

HIs story reminds me of the autobiographies of George Washington Carver, who was born into slavery and yet became one of the most prominent American scientists, and also Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskeegee Institute (now University), prominent philanthropist, guest at the White House and author of Up from Slavery (himself also having been born a slave).