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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

9/19/18 A&G Hr. 2 Revisiting Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

While we wait for the Kavanaugh hearing to take place, we revisit the Clarence Thomas confirmation. Plus, there's a huge settlement being offered to victims of abuse by the Catholic Church. And, Joe reads a poem like a pirate.

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0:00.0

So many similarities and so many differences going on right now to what happened in 1991

0:27.1

when Clarence Thomas was nominated by George Bush senior H. W. To be on the Supreme Court. And he was

0:37.3

flying through the confirmation hearings. And then at the 11th hour, up comes a charge from a

0:42.5

woman out of nowhere. I mean, in right at the end, when they're about to vote. And they end up having

0:47.2

an open hearing and they both testify and very similar. And also the beginning of it was fairly

0:53.6

similar. Also, and we know more about it now because of the Fleming report that came out years

0:58.7

later. So after this was all over, the Bush administration set out to find out who leaked this

1:06.0

to get it started. Just like we're asking now, who put this woman's name out there? Right? She's

1:11.3

saying she didn't want it out there. And somebody dying finestein staff or somewhere along the line

1:17.1

to benefit the party and hurt the nominee was willing to sacrifice someone, sacrifice a woman,

1:23.9

a Democrat. Or was it all premeditated as many of our listeners believe we had won and I'll

1:31.4

share with you later, say, listen, this is a really well educated woman. She appears to be quite

1:37.6

intelligent as well. She had to know X, Y and Z. Well, I'm not sure I buy it, but it's an interesting

1:43.8

maybe there will be a Fleming report, a different person obviously on this someday, but the Fleming

1:49.3

report determined that Anita Hill was not the person who leaked her name out and drug her into

1:54.4

this whole thing on willing. And by the way, this report has other stuff that is not good for her.

2:00.6

So it sounds like a pretty balanced report to me. But so she gets a call from a friend. Unlike

2:09.0

the woman with Kavanaugh, Anita Hill did tell a couple of different people at the time. I got

2:15.3

this creepy boss who says these creepy things to me. So there were some contemporary stories out

2:19.3

there. And so when Justice Thomas or Clarence Thomas got named as the nominee, a friend of

2:25.5

her from back in the day in Washington DC calls up Anita Hill and says, hey, do you see that

2:29.7

creep hole that you used to work for is about to become a Supreme Court justice? Oh my god,

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