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- Subject: Re: Liberals v. Thomas (was Re: ProLife, ProMurder, ProCrime And Iraq)
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:40:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.170606.4086@oakhill.sps.mot.com>, pjm@anegada.sps.mot.com (Patrick J. McGuinness) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan19.193753.3146@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin) writes:
- |> >In article <C1396A.4Es@sugar.neosoft.com> jpsb@NeoSoft.com (Jim Shirreffs) writes:
- |> >
- |> >>Not even a liberal can be this stupid!
- |> >>
- |> >>You liberals tried to hang Justice Thomas on *alot* less than this!
- |> >
- |> >Lumping anyone who disagrees with you into a group, and then casting
- |> >aspersions on that whole group for the actions of some members of that
- |> >group, is a poor tactic.
- |>
- |> You are correct that it is a poor tactic, practiced too often in t.p.m.
- |> and elsewhere.
- |>
- |> >Jim, do you know for a fact that those of us defending Clinton for lack of
- |> >evidence didn't also defend Thomas for the same reasons?
- |>
- |> But there is a problem. I'm racking my brain, but I can't think of
- |> a single ("major") "liberal" commentator or editorial page that defended
- |> Thomas's innocence. Can you?
-
- Well, technically, "innocence" wasn't the issue - it wasn't a criminial proceeding.
- However, the most probable reason that you can't find a "liberal" commentator that
- defended Thomas is that, unlike the "conservatives" who merely shut their eyes and
- shouted "media bias", they actually WATCHED the hearings. As one who watched every
- minute of it I don't think there was much room to doubt that he was guilty as could
- be.
-
- |>
- |> It was indeed a high-tech lynching, and most "liberals" let Thomas twist
- |> in the wind because he didn't share their political viewpoints.
-
- the only "lynching" I saw was that performed by Specter & co. on Anita Hill. Thomas
- was treated with kid gloves by the whole committee.
-
- |>
- |> Pat
-