FBI Notified: Anita Hill Rejects Apology Request From Ginny Thomas
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The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that she had phoned the woman who nearly derailed her husband’s 1991 confirmation hearing when she accused him of sexual harassment — a claim Justice Thomas denied. In a phone call to Anita Hill last weekend, Ginny Thomas says she left a message on Hill’s office answering machine asking for an apology for “what you did with my husband.”
“I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office, extending an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get past what happened so long ago,” Ginny Thomas told Reuters Tuesday.
“That offer still stands. I would be very happy to meet and talk with her if she would be willing to do the same. Certainly no offense was ever intended.”
ABC News has published what it says is a transcript of Thomas’ voicemail message to Hill:
“Good morning, Anita Hill, it’s Ginny 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 come to understand why you did what you did. Okay, have a good day.”
According to ABC, Hill — now a professor at Brandeis University — initially thought the call was some kind of a prank. According to the New York Times, Hill says she kept the message for nearly a week, unsure if it was actually from Ms. Thomas. Unsure, Hill told the Times that she handed it over to Braindeis campus police “with a request to convey” it to the FBI.
“Even if it wasn’t a prank, it was in no way conciliatory for her to begin with the presumption that I did something wrong in 1991,” Hill told ABC. “I simply testified to the truth of my experience. For her to say otherwise is not extending an olive branch, it’s accusatory,” she said.
“I don’t apologize. I have no intention of apologizing, and I stand by my testimony in 1991,” she concluded.
During a 2007 interview, Thomas
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apollo18
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 2:47amI’m sitting here, after reading this, and believe that Anita Hill started the “epiphany”, through the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, what true hypocrites those liberal social democrats really are. As that absolute farce that played out, it took awhile for it to sink in what the true motivations were for those malcontents really was. Just like Pat Schroeder schrill banter demanded women go throughout the military. Nevermind the unintended consequences like Lt. Kara Hultgren. Who hears for more women to be poured into the worst parts of the GWOT? (Oh yeah, refresh my memory, how many WOMEN FIREFIGHTERS were killed at the Trade Centers on 9/11?) There were the Olliver North Senate hearings where one senator berated LtCol. North about the worst terrorist he knew of; who kept him awake at night, and why did you charge the gov’t for a security system for your home, colonel? His answer was Osama bin Laden. The senator laughed at him. It was Al Gore.
Report Post »To DESPISE Justice Thomas for ascending to the highest court in the land, without wrapping himself in the cloaks of heresy of the left wing black power movement, and instead, rely on personal achievement and moral courage, is the true lesson here. Mrs. Thomas should not expect an apology from someone like Ms. Hill. I would have expected her to thank her for vindicating her husband after all. I haven’t heard anything about Anita Hill for a long time, or for that matter Fawn Hall, Admiral Poindexter, Eugene Hasenfus or Bud McFarlan. Lay the rock back down where you found it and don’t pick it up for another 20+ years. Please pardon my mixing of metaphors, but let _______ them climb back down that hole they crawled out of. Saddle up and move on please.
mpa
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 12:02pmPlease get your facts straight. Oliver North did not mention Osama Bin Laden in the testimony you refer to and Al Gore Jr wasn’t part of that hearing. He was being questioned by an attorney for the committee and the terrorist in question was Abu Nidal.
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/ollie.pdf
I stopped reading your post at that point so I have no comment on the rest.
Report Post »barackem
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 2:26amWe have to get rid of political parties. There is no other choice at this point. We need everyone to start acting like human beings talking to their neighbors for the good of this nation once again. The disgusting way we treat each other may even put is on the verge of civil war. If we had no D or R on the ballot, people would have to think for themself and couldn’t automatically have kneejerk hate for their neighbor who happened to be in the wrong political party. It has gotten out of hand.
Report Post »voodoo donut
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 2:25amI think Ginny Thomas should have considered the source, anticipated the reaction she got, and left it alone. I just don‘t think I’d call someone who lied about my husband and tried to ruin his career, no matter how many years had gone by.
I wonder what prompted her to do that. This story seems incomplete.
Report Post »barackem
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 2:22amAs I recall, the entire episode involved a reference to a pubic hair on a Coke can. That is hardly sexual harassment even if it happened, although as I recall, all other employees in the office doubted the story. It was low and dirty politics from top to bottom. I’m fed up with the whole thing starting with the Bork nomination to the latest reference to some silly college episode about Aqua Buddha. Give me a break. We will never get real leadership in this country if we keep acting like pigs in a mud puddle. Why would anyone bother talking to Hill so many years later? Why would they leave a voice mail? Why would Hill give it to authorities? Have people gone mad?
Report Post »theshortender
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 1:14amGloria Allred’s line was busy so she called the Campus Cops??
Report Post »Voice-O-Reason
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 12:48amThis is a prime example of why you should not drink and take medication at the same time!
Report Post »voodoo donut
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 2:27amWho did that?
Report Post »LouieD
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 12:38amThe chronology of the events never supported the claims made by Ms. Hill’s purported friends. Those of us that carefully watched the entire proceeding and then followed the carefully chronicled chain of events (no FOX present notwithstanding) were quite certain of two things:
1) Somebody did some rather bazaar things that might have risen to the level of sexual harassment, and
2) Based on the well documented chronology of when that occurred vs. when Ms. Hill and Mr. Thomas worked together the event took place sometime between 9-11 months earlier.
Ms. Thomas enjoyed the fame and notoriety that went with her “go along ride” but the Books that chronicled the events carefully have never left any doubt that Justice THOMAS was not the man who harassed her. The man who did was likely a partner of the law firm she worked at, but clearly could NOT have been THOMAS.
Anyone that believes otherwise just never researched the historic records, which include employment documentation that dosn’t put the two together at the time the event purportedly occurred.
Hill should apologize and she knows she should. Bearing a false witness is the same today as it was 20 years earlier.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:53pmI don’t agree with the approach Mrs. Thomas used. However, I think she and Justice Thomas are owed an apology. I remember the hearings and the Testimony and it was awlful. At first I thought it was true but as time went on it was clear that it was not. Thank God that justice was done in the end and Justice Thomas was confirmed to the Highest Court of the Nation.
http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist.
Report Post »Desert Dweller
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:51pmMakes me wonder. To dig up a thing neigh on 20 years after the fact, hell even the statue of limitations has passed on accused sexual harassment. Pointless. My first thought is it was political but… well who is running for what? Who wants to look good in the eyes of the votes?
Speaking of which, got my early voting done today so I don’t need to worry about who wants to sling mud at who (for a while anyway).
Report Post »Helen-of-Joy
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:44pmKnowing a little about liars, sex addiction and harassment, I have a few thoughts. The person who believes Hill’s accusations is Ginny Thomas. The one who can’t live with the lie is the one living with the liar because she knows him better than anyone else. There is no need for an apology for something you are certain never happened and which failed to derail the Thomas appointment.
Political leanings aside, I believe Hill. That call was creepy at best. But so were the accusations. I can almost hear the argument at the Thomas residence. Having been so vilified, I can also understand why she handed the recording to the authorities. No way to trust how the Thomas’ would play out the call. No she said, she said, he said. Going public is the best defense.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:58pmGood post – very thought provoking and it makes sense!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »trentonjh
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 2:11amExcept, Helen, that Ms. Hill‘s attempted derailment of Justice Thomas’ appointment actually DID happen, laced with false accusations and blatant lies. And that is what Mrs. Thomas is seeking an apology for.
Your statement, “There is no need for an apology for something you are certain never happened and which failed to derail the Thomas appointment,” tells me you are confused about the story. The “something” you refer to is the alleged harassment, but Mrs. Thomas would not be calling Anita Hill for an apology for the harassment; it should be the other way around. If the allegations were true, what would be the point in Mrs. Thomas calling Anita Hill seeking an apology for the harassment Hill suffered at the hands of Clarence Thomas? The whole idea is ridiculous. “My husband sexually harassed you and you need to apologize!” What!?
On the other hand, if Mrs. Thomas was not certain that the alleged harassment never took place, she would be either seeking an apology from her husband, or seeking to apologize to Ms. Hill on behalf of her husband.
No, Mrs. Thomas is asking Ms. Hill to apologize for attacking her husband’s reputation without just cause. And Mrs. Thomas does not believe Hill’s accusations.
But, of course, you believe Anita Hill because you are confused and not thinking clearly.
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:30pmShe was probably having a few drinks while Clarence was off doing something, she didn’t want to attend.
Report Post »I hope all of us know, that you don’t call people or comment on the internet, when you’ve been drinking. You tend to say the truth and that ****** a lot of people off.
BreeZee
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:25pmHow many years ago? If she would have forgave her she could have let this go a long tyme ago.
Report Post »Anneke9
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:22pmPre-emptive strike? I‘ve heard some Libs suggest that Obama’s next Supreme Court nominee should be Anita Hill. Create a controversy now to prevent that from happening?
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:33pmI like your brain!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 12:14amI think so too.
Report Post »The SC needs to be stacked with “ friendlies” ..there are so many cases headed that way.
Obamascare, AZ 1070, Prop 8, Cr@p n tax, Net neutrality etc
cheezwhiz
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 12:28amand those jihadies of gitmo just dying to sue USA with help from DoJ and ACLU.
Report Post »Now whats a man to do to get the SC he wants .
MCGIRV
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:14pmAhhhhh who cares!
Report Post »clhathaway
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:09pmI sense there is something else here not being reported.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 1:00pmI agree. Wonder what it could possibly be. Maybe someone suggested that amends needed to be made and Mrs. Thomas tried to reach out. However, despite that, I agree it was a less than brillant move, since Ms. Hill’s character and morals are less than stellar.
Report Post »Honest Abe
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:04pmDo we not have larger issues in our nation than an apology from Ms. Hill to Justice Thomas.
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:02pmSooo, Mrs. Thomas makes an attempt at showing reconciliation and some class .. and hysterical hill shows she continues to have none.
/not sure we really learned anything new here ..
Report Post »:-)
M31Sailor
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:02pmDid you feel that venom laden threat in that phone call?
Imagine getting a call like that from the IRS
“We demand your payment by friday or we put a
lean on your property”? Or “Hello I’m from the
Insurance Czar, I demand to see your proof
of Health Insurance“ Or ” I’m the Federal Government
Union Card Inspector, May I see your Union Card
I see you voted Republican you will be contacted”
Vote on Nov 2nd
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:25pmevery black panther in america couldnt keep me from voting in november. the new slogan for the democrats starting next year will be “on advice of counsel i respectfully refuse to answer on the grounds it may incriminate me”
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 10:57pmLet sleeping dogs lay is the correct sentiment for sure. And what was the reason to notify the FBI? Does Miss Hill not realize these agents have real work to do?? Dense on both ends of this one.
Report Post »Sue Donim
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:27amI’m with you. Why would this possibly be an issue for the FBI? Perhaps the late lamented David Brock was right, before he went “a little bit nutty” himself.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 10:56pmWhy would she ever expect an apology? The smear attempt was a carefully calculated career move. She’s where she is today because of it. This wasn’t some silly mistake she made without thinking about it.
Report Post »Peraslax
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:54amActually, it was just the opposite of a carefully calculated smear campaign. I happened to be off work for a few weeks so was able to watch the hearing in it’s entirety, Senate staffers were sent out to question people who worked with Thomas and they were guarenteed they would remain anonymous. So Hill, being the good little lefty she is, made some fairly outragious claims comfortable in the fact that they would never be attributed to her. When it looked like Thomas was a shoe in for ratification, a Mettsenbaum staffer leaked Hill’s claims in order to sabotage the proccess. Now Hill had two choices, ruin her carreer by admitting she made her claims up, or double down and make even worse accusations under oath that she neglected to mention in her original statement. A fact that more than one senator found disturbing. She was asked more than once why these “new facts” werent present in her original statement, A question she never adequately answered. Remember, 12 other female staffers of Thomas‘ were witnesses at the hearing and eveyone said Thomas’ office door was always left open when he was alone with a female staffer and NONE of the twelve had ever heard either directly or through the company grapevine that Thomas ever acted inapropriately. Hill even followed Thomas to a different job as a staffer after all this harrassment supposedly happened. There was also testimony from a number of witnesses that Hill was furious that Thomas married a white woman.
Report Post »As a side note, this was my first exposure to Arlen Spectre and I must say he was brilliant. He became one of my favorite senaters there for a while, but sadly this hearing was the exception rather than the rule when it came to him. In fact he was so good, he was the main target of “The Year of the Woman” the dem strategy, that failed miserably. to replace all those good ole boys on the republican side of the hearing panel with democratic women “who got it”
Veritas
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 10:52pmWhat did Mrs. Thomas expect? Liberals will take lies to their graves!
Report Post »ToBe5906
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 1:02amTed Kennedy has now been sober 445 days! /s
Report Post »GEW
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 10:52pmYou know the old saying, “let sleeping dogs lie?” Well, what on earth was Mrs. Thomas thinking. Geeeeeeee
Report Post »Eternal Lucy
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 10:59pmWell said!
Totally agree.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 12:29pmNot a smart move. Makes me think that it was done out of emotion and not rational thought.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 10:42pmAny comments from Janet Incompetano yet ?
Report Post »Major Infidel
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 10:53pmThats pretty hilarious, Cheezwhiz.
Report Post »3NeedyKids
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 2:58amOh, I am SO stealing that!
Report Post »Huckabee Gingrich 12
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 8:00amIs there some unwritten rule that a Dem. POTUS must now nominate at least one woman named Janet whose last name ends with “O” to his cabinet?
Report Post »Ken
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:55amJanet Imcompetano can go jump into Lake Mead for all we care!
Report Post »Midwest Belle
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 10:41pmWhy ask for an apology 19 years after the fact? Dumb!
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:40pmI wonder how Clarence feels about his wife stirring up the muddy waters again. Let sleeping dogs alone.
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:07amSounds like Anita Hill has been living rent free in her head for the past 19 years. Time to let it go.
Report Post »THEGENIUS
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 8:40amMIZFLAME 98 hit the nail on the head. The alternative explanation would be that she was coopted by Bill Clinton and paid a handsome sum to open this can-o-worms before the election. I mean you really do have to be pretty naive or stupid to think that you can call someone up and think they’re going to apologize to you. There was abosolutely no reason to have done this, except the 2 reasons I just mentioned :-)
Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.
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Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:03amShould have just left things alone – can’t believe that “Ginny” would want to open up what has to be large wounds for both her husband and Anita Hill. http://wp.me/pYLB7-dI
Report Post »LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 10:35pmWHAT a piece of work! I hate DRAMA QUEENS.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:15pmI think it was gnawing at her all these years and she always wanted to say, “nany, nany boo boo, my husband is a Supreme Court Justice and you couldn’t stop him from getting there, ha ha.” and this is the way she said that.
Report Post »snowleopard3200
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:15pmDrama queens do not even do justice to this type of Bad Comedy – this makes the script for the movie “Water World” look like a diamond in comparison.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mix art)
YellowFin
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 11:36pmThis is nonsense. Both of these women are out of line. No one can force an apology from another. A genuine apology comes from a realization that you harmed someone and you want to make it good. It comes from a wounded conscious. If the conscious is not prodding you to confess, then no genuine apology will come.
Report Post »toongoon
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 12:20amyellowfin, hence the “So give it some thought and certainly pray about this”. What Anita Hill did wrong,she needs to atone.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 1:20amWhat a sleazy lowlife. But of course, since Thomas is conservative, everyone here will support her, just like Palindino. No matter how sleazy you are, if you support the tea party, you’ve got people who will defend you. Politics trumps Christianity and common decency nine times out of ten.
LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 2:41amJZS you’ve been TEATAGGED! Consider yourself marked as a hostile.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:51amMrs. Thomas seems like an intelligent lady. Why in the world would she reopen this can of worms? Guess it still hurts after all these years, but geesh. At least Justice Thomas and all Constitution-loving people got the last laugh. Thank God he’s on the court!
Report Post »gbeck2012
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:00amClarence’s wife is as screwed up in the head as he is.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 9:05amI did not hear a Demand for an apology I heard a request.. Hill KNEW exactly who left the message.. and wanted press.. I can‘t understand WHY Thomas’s wife would BOTHER with this women.. must be something that has bothered her but SHE needs to pray and give it to GOD and let it go..
Report Post »Michigan Vacation
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 9:07amSo now . . . go blog on your newspapers and help independents choose a proper candidate.
Report Post ».
Many voters will show up at the polls with little or no idea of how to vote (I work the polls and see this all the time, more than 50% of voters walking up really do not know the ballot or what is on it)
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Take the day off and go work the polls – help answer questions – counter the Dems – their Unions get the the day off and the Union bosses send underlings to work all the poles all the time.
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Lastly – we win if our voters come out to vote – it IS a big deal. 0bama won on those terms (McCains voters showed up in small numbers) GOTV is huge. Call your county party and go volunteer.
FIRED UP FREE MAN !
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 9:26pmMr. SOROS is an international criminal. Any government official taking money from this monster or those he supports should be brought up on treason charges. Anybody who takes money from this monster has sold his soul and our government to HELL ! GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE LIGHT OF DAY! For only TRUTH and the light of day is what this country DESERVES. Democrats seemed to have been infected by this DEADLY parasite and his minions. This country will NOT rest until SOROS is in prison orange and handcuffs standing in front of a military tribunal in Guantomino Bay, Cuba
If you have any complaints about Mr. SOROS here are the names and addresses, maybe you can send them a line.
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Report Post »jzs
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:36pmFIRED UP, give it a rest. Take it easy man. It’s all good.
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