re: #805 lostlakehiker

Do you remember how Ashcroft was treated? If not, you could Google it. Or we could go on. Clarence Thomas. It was clear at the time, and it is clear now, that he didn’t sexually harass Anita Hill.

That charge was just what Thomas said it was. The defining moment was when Sen. Metzenbaum argued that the many other women who had been made to wait until the early AM hours to testify that from what they’d seen he was a perfect gentleman—-that “we don’t need to hear their testimony, because we already know what they’ll say.”

Faugh. Character assassination is easy if the target is, say, Hillary Clinton. Just point to the utter statistical impossibility of her cattle futures “trading” results. But generally speaking, the press maintains a discreet silence on that. But when you have somebody who isn’t a creep, just a Republican, the machinery goes into high gear.

Hmmm, I recall the press running with a story that smeared the decorated service of a certain anti-war Democratic presidential candidate.