Clarence Thomas used the phrase "high tech lynching". You'd think this guy would have done his homework. Even to this day I remember him saying it.
I well remember the Clarence Thomas inquisition, and Anita Hill's testimony. I called her Anita Shill back then, because that's what she was for the opposition to Justice Thomas, with her charges of sexual harrassment, yet she didn't think it important enough at the time to report him, and she certainly could have.
Nobody remembers this now, but the Clarence Thomas hearings were Arlen Specter's finest moment in the Senate. He caught Anita Hill perjuring herself and nailed her on it.
Specter is easy to dislike, but he, more than any other Senator, was responsible for Thomas's successful confirmation.