Justice Thomas lashes out in memoir

[DesertFox]

Justice Clarence Thomas settles scores in an angry and vivid forthcoming memoir, scathingly condemning the media, the Democratic senators who opposed his nomination to the Supreme Court, and the "mob" of liberal elites and activist groups that he says desecrated his life.

"My Grandfather's Son," for which Thomas has received a reported $1.5 million, is a 289-page memoir of his life in rural Georgia, his reliance on religious faith and his rise to the high court. His book ends with the day he was sworn in and contains only fleeting mentions of his time on the bench.

Thomas lovingly describes the iron-willed grandfather who raised him after his own father abandoned him as a toddler, praises the Roman Catholic Church for providing him with an education but criticizes it for not being as "adamant about ending racism then as it is about ending abortion now," and gives a detailed description of the confirmation hearings that electrified the nation in 1991 and the sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill that he said destroyed his reputation.

More (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/28/AR2007092801634_pf.html)

[Lubbock]

Washington [Com]Post.

Lashed/Lashes Out.

Those particular words seem to be a favorite of the WaPo.

I can't begin to remember how many times I've seen that applied when President Bush makes a truthful pronouncement --forcefully.

In any case, Justice Thomas is going to be on Rush come Monday for 90 full minutes.

I plan to be Front-And-Center.

[DesertFox]

I left some comments. Clarence Thomas is one of the few great Americans alive in this low, dishonest period of American history. The Left stooped to new lows in its desperation to pillory this honorable man. Anyone familiar with the history of Nazi Germany recognizes the roots and practices of the modern Left -- the lies, the shoutings-down, the refusal to countenance opposed views, the unprincipled viciousness, the hatred of America.

One cheers for Justice Thomas as one weeps for America.

[Jack_Savage]

I left some comments.
Good post. I hope more people wake up to your warnings.

[Timberwolf]

"My worst fears had come to pass not in Georgia, but in Washington, D.C., where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony."

Thomas writes that he did not watch Hill's televised testimony against him at his Senate Judiciary Committee (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Senate+Committee+on+the+Judiciary?tid=informl ine) hearing, and so he does not respond in detail to her charges except to call them lies. He describes Hill as "touchy and apt to overreact" and says: "If I or anyone else had done the slightest thing to offend her, she would have complained loudly and instantly, not waited for a decade to make her displeasure known."

He writes that Hill did a "mediocre" job at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Equal+Employment+Opportunity+Commission?tid=i nformline), where he was chairman, and misrepresented herself at the time of the hearings as a "devoutly religious Reagan-administration employee." "In fact, she was a left-winger who'd never expressed any religious sentiments" and had a job in the administration "because I'd given it to her."
Yeeooouch!! I HAVE to get this book. I admire and respect Justice Thomas as I do few others who have served on the SC.

[DesertFox]

He's the onliest one I've read about whom I can respect as a man and not just as a justice. Dude plain got guts.

[Timberwolf]

I was privileged to listen to his interview with Rush in its entirety today. As much as I respected and admired him before the interview, I have even more for him now.

If only we had 9 like him on the SC...