Three-day weekends are awesome, amiright? But sometimes you get back to the office on Tuesday and there’s a voicemail from 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, and you’re like, “Jesus, who does that? Why couldn’t they just send an email? Or wait until they knew I’d be back in?” But then you listen to the voicemail and it’s from the disgruntled wife of the guy who you accused of sexual harassment, twenty years ago, on national television. OK, now we’re getting a little far afield from your personal experience, but the point is that on October 9 Virginia Thomas left a delightfully passive-aggressive message on Anita Hill’s work voicemail, asking nicely if she maybe felt like apologizing for being so darn sexy that Virginia’s hubby Clarence had no choice but to talk to her about porn and pubic hair and whatever other distasteful things happened, in the ’80s.
Anita Hill is now some kind of fancy liberal law professor at Brandeis, so she was no doubt spending Columbus Day Weekend in contemplation of the destruction of indigenous cultures that Columbus wrought, as mandated by liberal academic law. Virginia Thomas is a real American patriot who runs an anti-Obama “grass roots” organization called “Liberty Central,” so she should have been spending the weekend celebrating said destruction of indigenous cultures — but instead she was moved by Jesus to leave the following message for Anita Hill:
Good morning Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas. I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought. And certainly pray about this and hope that one day you will help us understand why you did what you did. O.K., have a good day.
Did Anita Hill have a good day, after hearing this message asking her to apologize for being sexually harassed and then complaining about it? Probably not! Instead, she forwarded the message to the campus police, and if there’s any image more wonderful than some anxious Brandeis rent-a-cop showing up at Virginia Thomas’ office and asking her politely to stop with the phone calls, we can’t imagine it at the moment.
That is all that is “news” about this story (except maybe for the part where Anita Hill said that she is not, in fact, going to apologize), but it did offer the New York Times the opportunity to rehash some fun things the people involved in this story have said over the years. Like how Hill, noting in her book that Virginia Thomas once accused Hill of having a big crush on Clarence Thomas, said that “Virginia Thomas and I have never met … and one can imagine that she is guided by her own romantic interest in her husband when she assumes that other women find him attractive as well.” Ha ha, ouch!
Also, the Times reminds us that Clarence Thomas referred to the accusations against him during his confirmation hearings as a “high-tech lynching.” Remember back in 1991, when something could be legitimately called “high-tech” because it happened on television? Now it’d need to have its own Tumblr or whatever. [NYT]
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Obsessing much Virginia? Although I suppose when your husband has a collection of down-below hairs that he counts every night before going to bed just to make sure no one has stolen any of his precious pubes, I might be a little wacky too.
Anita should call Virginia back and ask her, "Do you have Long Dong Silver in a can?"
Is your do-nothing, reactionary conservative idiot "refrigerator" running?
God, that's funny.
Someone has unresolved issues.
Someone who waits quietly for twenty years, and issues stalker messages right before election time.
Haha! Clarence Thomas played the race card to get a job for which he wasn't qualified, and it still burns.
And the Irony! Hill has apparently spent the ensuing years becoming eminently qualified for the position Thomas was handed for his melanin-toned buffoonery.
Supreme Court Justice Anita Hill has a nice ring to it. Obama, make it so!
Wouldn't you love to see them sitting side by side up there on the bench?
Not qualified? Have you head his insightful questions to parties appearing before the court? Educate yourself, sir!
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kind of sounds like a certain potus, now doesn't it?
I'm wondering why she did this now, and how it's going to wind up hurting Obama. Because it will, somehow.
Hussein Nobama should invite them for a cosmo on the Whitehouse porch, to hash things out.
Clarence might be driving — better just make his a Coke.
Posted this in a different thread but I'm wondering if Ginnie was tired of hearing Clarence bitch about it. Maybe just got fed up of 19 years of sulking and this is her attempt to get him to stop whining.
You think it was just a, "alright goddamnit, if you are not gonna call her, I WILL!!" situation?
More like, "I'm sick of you sulking about that bitch testifying! Look, if I can get her to apologize will you just stop!?"
Maybe Thomas is so quiet during Court sessions because he's tired of whining to Virginia about Anita and the testimony.
No, Thomas is so quiet because Roberts can't reach under Scalia to get his hand up Thomas' ass.
Oh, the Fox News folks will all attack Hill for being ungracious and refusing to apologize, because they just know she was making the whole thing up as part of the liberal Saul Alinsky conspiracy, and demand that Obama condemn her.
I hate the word, but Virginia Thomas is a cunt.
It isn't enough that her semi-retarded hubby illegally gave the 2000 election to her boss and she's still making deep coin off that? Fuck off Virgina.
I like the word–so Anglo Saxon. So did DH Lawrence. Cunts are nice things. You shouldn't associate such an unsavory person as Ginnie Thomas with them. Shame on you.
Cunt. Cunt. Cunt.
Wow, I feel like I've been word-raped. I'm gonna need a shower, a smoke and a big can of coke with pubes all over to come down. (not necessarily in that order.)
stupid liberal shit.
Well, clearly this shows how bad Obama is at playing the race card. People accuse him of not even being an American, send racist emails, carry racist signs, and according to FOX News, we are supposed to feel sorry for them when it is pointed out that, just maybe, they are a bit racist.
On the other hand, a black women accuses Clarence Thomas of doing unseemly things that have nothing to do with race, and it is a high tech lynching.
Obama could be actually lynched, and Glenn Beck would spend a week explaining that it isn't racist since Woodrow Wilson said good things about Birth of a Nation., while Bill O'Reilly would point out that since Obama's Dad was a Muslim, and Muslim's attacked us, it is perfectly normal to hang a person from a tree.
If only FOX News had been around in 1991, we would know the truth, that Anita Hill was a Grand Dragon in the Klan, while Clarence Thomas was the next incarnation of MLK Jr.; at least until Glenn Beck was touched by the Angel Moroni and transformed into the true spirit of MLK Jr.
oh no, everything is fox news' fault! run for the hills!
No, I think your missin' it –
For over 10 years Clarence has been telling Ginni "That little 'Ho did that to me because she wanted the long dong, but I told her I was faithful to yer flabby white ass" –
Then Ginni say "if you won't call her and make the bitch fess up publicly then, I, by gawd, will…and don't worry I'll be nice to her. She'll never know what hit her, after all we are Republicans and you are a Justice – We're sure as hell smarter than any black bitch law school prof"
I think that's the most likely scenario.
And what better time to remember all this as the political career of Arlen "Anita Hill committed perjury" Specter draws to a close.
[T]hey play a vicious brand of politics in Washington. Washington can be a mean town. This was as vicious a fight as I've ever seen except it was totally one-sided….When you had Alan Simpson standing up there like Joe McCarthy, reaching in his pockets and saying `I'm getting stuff through faxes, and all over the country,' he sounded just like Joe McCarthy, let's face it. And you had Arlen Specter, who was a prosecutor at one time, saying that she committed perjury, when probably you couldn't find another prosecutor in the country that would tell you that she had committed perjury."
– Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson on Washington Week in Review, October 18, 1991
I think what Virginia Thomas meant was, "Haven't we done enough for you people?"
Yea, from what I've read about Clarence, he doesn't consider himself black. Black is those other people out there.
I figured she called Anita Hill because she desperately needed a partner to appear with her in a kind of retro latin lesbian combo on "Dancing with the Stars"
Drunk dial.
Most definitely.
Oct. 9 was the weekend she was among the guest speakers at the VA Tea Party Showcase. With their "Freedom Fever Dance Hall," which featured a live motown band, likely provoking unsolicited remarks and accostings from the Teatards whose drunk company she was sharing. I bet they plucked her last nerve and sent her on a drunk dial bender.
A-Fucking-Men!
Bitch please, bitch please, BITCH PLEASE!
It's Clarence's birthday but you're getting the presents!
Right wing/left wing interracial catfight, suitable for pay per view and its yours free.
Meanwhile, deep in the Dark Justice's (TM) chambers…
fap,fap,fap,fap,fap,fap,fap,fap…
Bootsy!! We want Bootsy!!
Well, we all knew being married to that walking cesspit of petulance, rage, hypocrisy, and false consciousness meant she had to be crazy, but boy-howdy!
She's also making a play to be a teabagger leader. Now she can say that she asked that hussy Anita Hill to pray over what she did, but Hill wouldn't.
But sometimes you get back to the office on Tuesday and there’s a voicemail from 7:30 a.m. on Saturday…
Usually it's a message from myself, drunkenly self-loathing, beseeching myself to stop masturbating at work….
These stories make it worth getting up in the morning; I'm drinking a can of Coke with a pubic hair on the rim.
I met a guy that went to law school with Thomas. Quote: "No one would have been surprised by anything that went on in Clarence's room".
This offers a brand new world of explanations as to why Thomas is always so sleepy in court. Terrible, terrible explanations.
"And certainly pray about this, because you see how praying and Clarence's dong have left me so satisfied and contented."
This whole saga would've been so much funnier if Anita's last name were "Johnson."
Ginni Thomas, my foot. Dana Carvey's trying to resuscitate his Church Lady act with prank calls. "Pray about this and hope that one day you will help us understand why you did what you did": was it SATAN?
I love how "Christians" want you to pray while they are being shitty to you. It really sends the perfect message of God is Love.
"I'd like you think about how we have rejected you from the family due to our suspicions about your sexuality. Why don't you just go ahead and pray on that, and when you are ready to apologize, get back to us!"
Ah, Christians!
Exactly. It's the power of passive-aggressive prayer.
Bless your heart.
How does a Christian say, "Go F yourself"?
"I'll pray for you!"
Especially when delivered with a shit eating grin as they reflect that "their god" is really gonna get your ass. I'm sure that they would shoot one the ass while delivering this message, but their deep seated sexual insecurities prevent them from doing so.
Well, if there was a pube in my coke I would want to know whose it was. It could get lodged in your trachea and you would have to make like a cat getting a hairball out.
I once found a gnarly coarse dark pube in the freezer of the lunch fridge at the office. WTF? Fortunately I moved on to another firm shortly thereafter, who knows what eventually transpired there.
I'm afraid that you were using test-icicles in your Hi-C during break, son.
Someone's been humping the ice cube trays again.
That leftover chicken salad was just asking for it.
I am guilty of dizzy thumb-clicking. I accidentally downthumbed Miss Volpe when I meant to upthumb. A thousand pardons, it appears that I am all fingers.
Doesn't Virginia Thomas know about Twitter? That way you can "reach out" to someone and have all the hangers-on know about it. And by "reach out" I mean a pre-emptive strike before the old girlfriend's memoir comes out.
Anita Hill needs to take a lesson from Harry Whittington and apologize for being harassed. You can be absolutely sure that Clarence Thomas will be just as stingy with an apology as Dick Cheney. At least she doesn't have to carry around birdshot for the rest of her life.
20 years of psychic birdshot from the Righty Hate Machine.
And while you're at it, please have Abraham Lincoln apologize for stealing Booth's bullet.
I dunno, this seems like a strange, indirect way to invite Anita over for a threesome.
Well, the Post sure doesn't b/c the first sentence in its story is "It is one of Washington's enduring mysteries." Really, WaPo? I believe that the end of that mystery was quietly written a long time ago.
No Ginny. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to make Clarence look reasonable by comparison.
Just look at both of them. Not an excuse for the disgusting asshole, but just saying!
Now if you'd just 'pologize? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFpM2OEWPs&NR...
Don't forget that Democrats had a majority in the Senate back then too, but still voted that assclown onto the Court.
Yup. Basically, the concept, as understood by both the nation at large and the Senate, was that it was a trial at which he'd be found guilty or not guilty. If guilty, the punishment would be not being confirmed. If not guilty, obviously he would be confirmed, since legally he'd done nothing wrong. And since it was basically he said/she said, there was no way it could be proven even close to beyond a reasonable doubt, so they had to find him not guilty.
What's that you say? Qualifications, experience, temperament? Uh, hello?? What part of not guilty don't you understand??
Virginia, I realize the Wonkette's piece on Alito led to a tangent on potted plants and how inert your husband is on the High Court, maybe I even went too far in saying he calls Anita every Anniversary of his confirmation to [further] stick it to her, but we didn't realize it'd get you in a passive aggressive tizzy!
Now that we know you run "Liberty Central," there will be even less sympathy for you now – if there ever was.
You should have just let sleeping Silver Dong's lie.
I suspect 98% of the American public had completely forgotten about Anita Hill, pubic hair on Coke cans and Long Dong Silver before Virginia made that phone call. I can imagine Clarence Thomas sitting down at the breakfast table, picking up a copy of the NY Times, looking at his wife and screaming, "What the fuck is wrong with you honky bitch!"
Needs moar "Smack My Bitch Up," also.
Fortunately for the American public, we here at Wonkette will NEVAR FORGET.
Exactly. Except Clarence Thomas has said he doesn't read newspapers, especially the NYTimes, because they printed all that slander about him by Anita Hill (and a bunch of other people who worked for him). But it does make you realize that Ginny must be quite stupid, because the only thing she accomplished was reminding the whole country about what a sleazeball her husband is. And there are millions of young people who probably never even heard about this, but they have now….
"Clarence Thomas has said he doesn't read anything ever." Fixed that.
No, its been made pretty clear that he prefers visual media with minimal dialog.
He probably used his pimp hand on her.
Not me, I always write in Long Dong's name on the ballot. Long Dong Silver for President! Dolly Parton for VP!
Mrs. Thomas asked "why you did what you did with my husband"; someone needs to retake grade school English because she's gotten her subject and object mixed up.
I can just see this being made into a movie on Lifetime, with
Markie PostCCH Pounder playing Virginia Thomas.There's a youtube video of CCH Pounder doing some spoken word in which she's speaking very sassily about Black Sexuality out there. If I had Flash at work I'd totally hunt this down, but I guess, just do yourself a favor. It's begging for an Antoine Dodson remix.
I'm thinking more like the Snapple Lady.
Huh? Virginia Thomas is white. Very, very white.
CCH is busy with Warehouse 13- although why she would play Ginny- fat Whitey- THomas- I do not understand
This meme is ass-backwards. The black wife is supposed to be drunk-dialing the husband's "white bitch." What an awful mug-shot of Clarence in the NYT article. Just begging for Aunt Esther to tell him "that's what you get for marrying a daughter of the Confederacy, you cross-eyed, fish-lipped, potato-headed fool!"
I can think of no worse fate than waking up next to that flabby bag of Ginger Hate, or that shit-sack of Inferiority Complex. They deserve each other.
They are the least cool interracial couple ever.
I thought that place was held by the James Carville/Mary Matalin coupling.
That's interspecies, not interracial. But, yeah, least cool ever.
I think they are more inter-species than interracial.
Yeah, post racial America isn't as cool as I thought it would be.
Clearly you have now fucked up our invites to CT's all naked clerk jello wrestling party and Dildo Duel.
A man can only take so much streaming Netflix.
Geez, didn't your therapist tell you not to hold back….?
Hey, Potato-Headed Bobby was a friend of mine.
Can someone just make this stop??? Really, the whole thing was painful enough the first time around. Also, time until he comes out of the closet, gets photographed with a giraffe, etc. … 3, 2…..
Goes to show sometimes karma is a real mean bitch… especially if you're actually married to her.
Sucks to be you Clarence.
Josh, you missed the part in the voice mail about the Wesson Oil, heated marble floor, and the ménage à trois.
Someone in the Thomas household doesn't know how to use good judgment. Just kidding, NO ONE on the Thomas household knows how to use good judgment.
The Washington Post article has quotes from a woman who dated Thomas back in the day who says "yeah, pretty much that's what he did…a lot."
Just the other day I was telling a friend that the only reason the Dems voted for Thomas was because he pulled out that brilliant "high-tech lynching" line, and it scared them off. God, how I hate him.
The only way you can believe him over Hill would be to believe that Hill is some kind of sociopath, or delusional.
Exactly. He is a useless asshole taking up precious space–whoever fed him that meme gave him his ticket to Easy Street. I would love a job where I made a boatload of money, had the Summer off and had to produce nothing of value other than the occasional head nod in agreement with regards to the talking points I'm supposed to follow.
That is what they said: she was delusional, that she had some sort of condition–erotomania??
I believe that was the last time Thomas has allowed the race card to be played. Touche, sir, the point is yours.
They should all just go on Maury to hash this out.
Nah, Maury's for the pregnancy tests and freak shows; this is definitely a case for Springer, especially with the possibility of on-set fight.
Oh goody! I live close enough–I would go to THAT taping.
I think this is more Jerry Springer material!
Oooopsie! Someone needs to stop having their breakfast out of a shot glass.
"Instant Regrits"
That would keep her from plausibly denying that she could recall ever making such a phone call.
Well, we still have no answer as to who exactly placed that pubic hair on Clarence Thomas's can of Coke.
Funniest bit is the statement that Ginni later released, saying that she wants to put all this "passed" her. Teabonics!
"Teabonics" is epically delicious. Commendations!
When the NY Times alert hit my phone I assumed it was a mistake or a prank or a bad joke because I couldn't think of a reason that a sane person on their side would open that can of pubes. Is this the first move in a bizarre judo match trying to get others to attack? As others have noted there was a conga line of willing witnesses to testify about his behavior. I am baffled unless this is merely about someone trying to buttress their illusions about their partner.
Nah, I am sticking with the batshit crazy theory it is so much more elegant.
If Justice Thomas' rulings are any guide, I'm sure there's also a message on his wife's voice mail:
That comment is a beautiful thing.
Awesome and straight to the point.
My first thought, along the same lines: "7:30am? That bitch is one heavy drinker!"
Looks like someone's stash of "Big Black Booty" DVDs got found over the weekend.
He needed some variety from the big white booty at home,
Well, Clarence couldn't call as he's still observing his vow of silence.
When the fix is in, it is in.
New Movie to pitch: It's a dark Wizard of Oz, with Clarence as the Black Scarecrow who says nothing, does nothing, then gets his 'ho, the White Witch, lathered up about them darkies, and the Tin Man comes along with a teabagger sign so the WW can ratchet up her Q rating and justify more bucks from the Koch Brothers, Tweedlesteal and Tweedlelie, and they buy all of the cable companies so they can get the Message of Hope out to the mental midgets/masses that the Other Side is Evil, then we all turn into cowardly lions and die.
is this some kind of sign that something terrible is about to happen to Thomas? Cancer announcement? Dead hooker? Impregnated intern? Would it be Christian of me to pray for such a thing?
That depends, the christian right heartily approves of such prayers. However, a genuine Christian would not
Hi, Rabbi Goldstein? This is Joseph Mengele III reaching out across the decades. I was wondering if you could maybe apologize for what you people did to my grandfathers reputation. Could you pray on that? Mmmkay, go teaparty!
We know who the true victims are!
For instance Vice President Cheney was victimized by that old man that got in the way of his shot.
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Thomas?"
I can only imagine that this phone call took place after an all night bourbon fueled bender between the couple.
Clarence had just played the nuclear option and killed off their imaginary son, Al Lito, so Ginni played back by calling and asking Clare Quilty's imaginary daughter Anita to explain her missing baby bump!
I would only add that the fight was probably about the most recent slut that's giving Clarence reason to keep ignoring Viginny. Feeling more impotent than usual, she called up the one "hussy" she would be able to track down with her limited knowledge of "airwaves." Voila! Passive agressive voicemail to the Anita Hill.
"Ginni Thomas! Queen of the Harpies!!!"
I understand the Thomas Family vacations in a motor home. Imagine how cozy it is, trapped in an aluminum box 24/7 with a manic-depressive drunk bitch whose emotions are so over the top she wears her clothes out from the inside-out. Sweeet!
And they visit Walmarts- or do they park the RV in the Walmart parking lot?(no, really)
Wouldn't get too many “Hate Stares” there, would they?
Does lynching Clarence with a rope made of pubic hair really count as high tech?
No, it counts as performance art, but something I'd travel to see.
Dear Mrs. Thomas: I would like to apologize for being the cause of your most recent break with reality. Sincerely, Anita Hill
Best AT&T "Reach out and Touch Someone" commercial ever.
Yeah imagine if they had used FaceTime.
Maybe the Thomases were hanging out with the Cheneys, who reminded them how Dick got the apology from the guy he shot in the face.
Unfortunately, this is probably the truth.
Hey, Thomas' wife is white?
I smell a beer summit. Bottles not cans.
Hi Dr. Hill-
I'm Mrs. Uncle Thomas- the one who married your old boss at EEOC. Anyway, he won't go near my wizard sleave and just makes me read his Citizen's United brief while he jerks off. could you give me some pointers on what turns this joyless sexless fuck on besides 2 foot dicks and pube-talk? Thanks so much and may your days be dripping in white christian nativist liberty.
Toodles
Wonketeers, I have never dispensed so many up-fists as for your comments herein. Y'all are on your game this morning!!
I am with Chet on this one. Though this is the slow ball right down the center of the plate/ 2 inch putt/uncontested layup/cake walk kind of post made just for sarcastic nymphs.
You rang?
I had no idea you were such a fan of fisting. Congratulations on an enjoyable day nonetheless!
No matter what really happened, there is no doubt some deeply fucked up psychology between the Thomases.
Nothing worse than a telemarketprayer call.
"I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years…". Apparently, Ms. Thomas understands "olive branch" as well as her husband understands "constitutional law."
Strangely enough, it's an olive branch in the exact form of a 2×4.
Actually, it's the olive branch of urging her to confess to perjury. Like the "open hand of, go take a nap on I-95."
Nonsense….Mrs. Thomas is just taking a page from the Palin/Bachmann playbook, "Crazy Moneys"….
Someone should tell Ginni Thomas that, once you go black, you never go back.
Also, what is the psychology of forming an organization that hate-stalks Sexytime Obama when you are married to a glowering, self-loathing Black Anger Bear?
Cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and wishful thinking, to start. My Barry is hawt.
When I read the first paragraph of the NYT article this morning (before coffee, clearly), I assumed that Mrs. Thomas had been calling to apologize to Anita Hill for all that her pervy husband did to her. And I thought, wow, what a decent thing to do after all these years. Silly me, because after I started over and re-read it, correctly this time, I realized that, no, she is a batshit-crazy wingnut, of course she blames the victim.
I cannot imagine being such an accomplished woman and knowing that throughout history I would be associated with pubic hairs on Coke cans and Long Dong Silver. I weep for Anita Hill.
Early onset Alzheimer's sucks.
That must the why she did it. Seriously, who calls up looking for an apology after nearly 20 years?
Maybe Ginnie is doing the 12-step and she thinks folks have to make amends to her and not the other way around?
It's similar to behaviors I can imagine my mother-in-law engaging in (she likes to strike up conversations with passing strangers while she's out on her rounds as self-appointed one-woman sanitation department, on the hunt for "litter"), except in my MIL's case the anti-depressants make a big difference. Also my MIL may have married a bit of a weird dude, but she did not marry one of the weirdest dudes in the history of the planet. So there's that.
Next she left messages for the pelicans around the BP oil spill.
What did those notes say? Cough up the oil bitch.
Anita Hill over-reacts to a gentle mild friendly comment and makes a federal case of it. Again.
Here's a gentle mild friendly comment. Go fuck a baboon while it eats your face off.
Hey! Mr. B – getting your Clarence on?
People, really? This was so obviously tongue-in-cheek.
Thanks. I clearly had my sarcasmometer set too low. It is impossible to parody a wingnut. They can't be outflanked on the crazy side.
This is perhaps what fuels my hatred of the wingnut/FOXfan/mobility scoottard species the most: They are able to actually render satire completely ineffective. That, and they totally buttmolest parody.
I'm agog. No, I take that back, I'm beyond agog. (Whatever that may be, I'm too depressed to look it up.) Surely this is a publicity stunt on Ginny Thomas' part to raise her political profile. Being married to Clarence sure hasn't managed to do anything for it! And also, 'get passed (SIC!) it?' Really, Ginny? You realize that you've just set intelligent black women, not to mention the proper use of the English language back about 50 years? Our alarm clock is tuned to NPR, and this was the first story we heard when it went off this morning. My wife (black, holds two post-graduate degrees, CPA and CFA) went…well…I think the best descriptive phrase I could use might be 'batshit angry'. I got out of the way, fast. Never, EVER, get between a black woman and what she's mad at. They tend to get rather…um….ethnic.
Damn, I wondered what all that noise was this morning. Need some help cleaning up?
It's not so much a matter of cleaning up as it is a matter of making sure the secondary radiation effects are contained. Thanks for the offer, but unless you've got couple of tons of metallic cadmium lying around, I'll just have to make do with wet cardboard and gaffer's tape as usual.
Thanks, Fferret. I just blew my iced tea through my nose. I'd spare you my surplus cadmium but I need it to get my keyboard clean before my wife gets home.
Most people would be smugly satisfied with the fact that Thomas got the job despite Anita’s testimony. Nasty, nasty women.
Yeah, but that was a long time ago, so it's hard to look shit up when you're part of a dying "news" company. Since Hill has always taken the high road, that likely means that Vagina Thomas is somehow going to capitalize on this stinky mess to
whore upraise even more coin for her Nazi youth/NAMBLA PAC.So much hate in me so early in the day…where is my friend tequila?
What, exactly, is Mr. Silver doing these days?
Not what, who.
This is just a high tech lynching of a bitchy drunk white woman.
I keep thinking someone needs a DrunkDial app.
I keep seeing that telephone scene from Frost/Nixon here.
Here comes the grudge!
Ginny doesn't like being reminded that she ended up with Short Dong Silver.
I used to feel like it was a "cheap shot" to question the mental stability of someone who had different political views than myself – you know, that sort of "well, if you can not see the validity of my argument then you must be crazy" kind of bullshit, but it does seem like that a fair amount of the TP people are straight bananas.
Well according to the WaPo, there is another woman who dated Thomas back in the day and basically all "yeah what Anita said". This woman is writing a book, so I'm thinking that the other Coke can is about to drop.
This is going to get real interesting, real fast…
Benincasa, girl, you have got to lay off the prank calls.
Yeah, sounds like comin' down from a coke binge, good point.
And not the kind that comes in cans with pubic hairs
Two weeks before the election – what a great way to wake up snoozing Democrats…
Over at Human Events they are promoting the story as "Anita Hill gives Virginia Thomas's private voicemail to the media!" Seriously.
Last week was the anniversary of the hearings, which I imagine is a rough time in the Thomas household. Clarence throws Coke cans at Ginny while weeping, she has to go live in the Winnebago for a few days. Poor thing.
Somebody get to work on that "Winnebago Man – Clarence Thomas Edition" video!
That's like saying "Murrah Federal Building Day Care Center Lets Out Early!"
I feel as if I should not laugh at that comment, and yet I did. Hard. And also wished I could give more than one thumbs up.
Chill out, Ginnie
Have a coke!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jeebus, the whole Clarence Thomas thing was 30 years ago, and I'm still pissed off every time I see his ugly mug (which isn't often, as it's usually firmly planted in Scalia's behind).
I never actually see his face due the hair on Scalia's ass.
I am sure you will all be as stunned to hear this as I was:Ms. Thomas canceled a scheduled interview with NPR. http://hubbub.wbur.org/2010/10/20/virginia-thomas...
Emergency dental appointment. Having her tongue pulled.
I KNEW I shouldn't have had that eighth mimosa. One minute Clarence is telling me how perky Anita's tits were, the next thing you know I'm huddled in the pantry dialing the Brandeis main campus line and navigating the computer operator. When I woke up with the cell phone in my hand and a half-eaten box of Cheezits stuck to my face, I knew something had gone horribly wrong.
Every time we see Geo H W Bush on tv, we should remember that he played some kind of little joke on us, slotting Thomas into Thurgood Marshall's seat on The Court.
Very clever really. Wasn't Thomas the deciding vote that stole the election for W?
At first I thought sending the comment to the FBI was overboard. Then I saw some comments on CNN and Yahoo and remembered how much "Christian love" the conservatives have and enjoy inflicting on its "enemies".
But I guess that is progress, just like Obama. In both situations, I would have thought someone would take a shot at them. Instead, they just whine and act more and more stupid.
Bringing in the FBI was the genius part. Anita Hill wanted the story to land with the biggest splash possible. It may have evaded Ginny Thomas' sense of fair play, but the fact of the matter is, if anybody got screwed at the confirmation hearings of 30 years ago, it wasn't Long Dong. I also think the message sounds just a teensy weensy little itty bitty bit like a death threat. So there's that.
She thought it was a crank call. I mean, think about it–how hard it would be to believe that this was actually his wife.
The philosophy in my city is "snitches get stitches." I don't care if it is 20 minutes after I testify against someone or 20 years, if a member of that person's family contacts me, I'm reporting it to the appropriate authorities, whoever they may be. They may do nothing, but I'm documenting the crazy just in case.
What do you say we propose Ginny Thomas for an appearance on MTV's Bully Beat-down?
Yea I caught that. The timing made me wonder if this call was not the result of an Ambien induced truth or dare confession or the discovery of some Polaroids or scented letters in an old shoe box in the back of the closet the night before. A call to someone's office at 7:30 am on Saturday is an angry pissed off impulse call, shades of a gold club through the windshield.
Nope, can't agree –
First, it does make Anita Hill guilty of perjury when questioned about her relationship with Clarence "Pubic Hair" Thomas:, which while possible, I doubt.
Second, I doubt it simply because she seems to have better taste than that and there were numerous other complains from female co-workers about "Pubic Hair" being a second rate sleaze and lecher – guys like that don't get laid much.
Third, P.H. might have lied his ass off to the Senate, but you can count on the fact that he lied his ass off to the missus. And Ginni coming down off an extended booze/coke/Ambien jag thought she'd clear "Pubic Hair's" name once and for all and bring Anita to jeebus.
Golf claps and huzzahs all around.
It should be remembered that Ms. Hill didn't come forward, she was outed on NPR and the repugs were the ones who forced the hearings.
The first thing I thought when I read this last night was, "what's the Wonkette gonna say about this?"
Doesn't Virginia Thomas know about Twitter? That way you can "reach out" to someone and have all the hangers-on know about it. And by "reach out" I mean a pre-emptive strike before the old girlfriend's memoir comes out.
Also. Too. I can see pubic hair from my house too also
Maybe ol' "Legman" Thomas is not giving his baby mama the sweet, sweet romance she needs these days.
There's only one way that could make this NOT crazy and in context.
That would be, we find out later that Anita sent a congratulatory gift to Clarence on the anniversary of his confirmation: a case of Cokes "decorated" appropriately and a couple of Clarence's favorite Dong videos… which he was caught pounding his gavel to.
Are both of the Thomases Opus Dei? Do they scourge each other instead of having sex?
Orin Hatch reads aloud from The Exorcist: http://tinyurl.com/24kdqz6
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