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1991 WILLIAM SAFIRE Essay; The Plot To Savage Thomas
New York Times ^ | October 14, 1991 | WILLIAM SAFIRE

Posted on 09/20/2018 1:21:20 PM PDT by detective

The full story of the conspiracy to blackmail Clarence Thomas into withdrawing will not be told until after the Senate votes on his confirmation Tuesday. But the outlines of the plot to use Anita Hill to bring him down are clear.

Ricki Seidman, aide to that defender of womanhood, Senator Ted Kennedy, and James Brudney, aide to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, were tipped off by the legion of liberal activists digging for dirt that Professor Hill harbored a secret grudge against Judge Thomas.

They called her and persuaded her to file the accusation that the reassembled Bork Brigade thought would surely bring him down. As the chosen instrument of the conspiracy to scare the nominee into withdrawing, Ms. Hill was assured by new and old friends that it could all be done from ambush; that her name would never be used publicly, or even made known to her target.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: scotus; senate; thomas
This article is from 1991 but it is very relevant today.

The tactics are the same and many of the players are the same.

Ricki Seidman who worked to sabotage the Thomas nomination is also working to undermine the Kavanaugh nomination. The media is playing the exact same role.

1 posted on 09/20/2018 1:21:20 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

BTTT


2 posted on 09/20/2018 1:42:19 PM PDT by nopardons
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Ms. Hill was assured by new and old friends that it could all be done from ambush; that her name would never be used publicly, or even made known to her target...another similarity between Thomas and Kavanaugh situations - Ford thought she was going to be able to drop anonymous unanswerable allegations on Kavananaugh and then slink off into the night without taking responsibility - not even DiFi could take that and withheld her letter, forcing her finally to go to WaPo to try to bring down the Judge before it was too late - how strange.....
3 posted on 09/20/2018 1:49:41 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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It must be purely coincidental that Ford has retained the services of the same Ricki Seideman who attempted to blackmail Clarence Thomas into dropping out as a SCOTUS nominee.

Strangely, the mainstream media has not made this connection.


4 posted on 09/20/2018 2:06:45 PM PDT by PBRCat
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Wow. Same song different day. NYT has sunk a long long way since then.


5 posted on 09/20/2018 2:35:44 PM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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This was back when the New York Times pretended to be fair and still treated its readers as having normal intelligence.

The links at the top of the Time's page go to “How Strong Does the Evidence Against Kavanaugh Need to Be?” and “The Case for Impeaching Kavanaugh”.

That there is no evidence because Ford will not going on the record, or she's playing the role of a terrified victim after contacting senator Feinstein then wiping her online presence two months ago is not worth reporting.

The older I get, the more I get tired of being treated as stupid by the news.

6 posted on 09/20/2018 2:57:43 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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Just amazing.....


7 posted on 09/20/2018 4:17:38 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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I would like to see Trump withdraw Kavanaugh’s name or have Kavanaugh withdraw and have the president put forth another conservative nominee and watch the left scramble. It would be clear to one and all just how “fair” the dems want this confirmation to be. I wonder how many people they have lined up to go up against other names. Probably a slew of them. Rush seems to think or was going by what someone else said that they will bring forth more to make new accusations about Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh could tell them to stuff the job - he has a life to live. Who on earth would want to take on this process? Do we have the stuff to reverse this on the dems when they get the power back? I wonder!!!


8 posted on 09/20/2018 5:42:55 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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We never do anything to the Dems. Their people sail right through. That’s a big part of the problem.


9 posted on 09/20/2018 5:49:42 PM PDT by Luke21
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NO!!

Caving would only embolden the rabid Dems.

Don’t think they don’t have scads of fake news/dossiers on any potential conservative SCOTUS candidate, already in the hopper. The despicable LSM is at their beck and call to help push such fabrications.

Also...there would be no ‘just going back to life’, for Kav. He’s a marked man, tainted just like they tainted Sarah Palin, and other conservatives. Just like they TRIED to taint Clarence Thomas.

Thomas bucked up and fought the good fight.

I, for one, thank God that he did just that.

Kav needs his ‘high tech lynching’ speech moment.

Kav deserves now, more than ever, to be our next SCJ.

Is it all worth it, at the end of the day? I don’t know. You’ll have to ask Justice Thomas.

Just my 2¢


10 posted on 09/20/2018 5:50:10 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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