{"id":1476910,"date":"2022-05-16T14:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T18:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476910"},"modified":"2022-05-16T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T18:59:52","slug":"clarence-thomas-triggers-laughs-with-one-sentence-targeting-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clarence-thomas-triggers-laughs-with-one-sentence-targeting-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas Triggers Laughs With One Sentence Targeting The Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclarence-thomas-triggers-laughs-with-one-sentence-targeting-the-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1236038565.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas\u00a0triggered laughs from his audience when he uttered a terse statement regarding the way those in the media do their job.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas spoke at the Old Parkland Conference in Dallas, Texas, last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the remark that triggered laughter, Thomas was asked about a statement from then-Missouri GOP Senator John Danforth, who said regarding the way Thomas had been treated at his nomination for the Court, \u201cIf we ever get a chance to do to that side what they have done to us we should never do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we have never done it,\u201d Thomas said of conservatives\u2019 treatments of Supreme Court nominees. \u201cYou would never visit Supreme Court justices\u2019 houses when things didn\u2019t go our way; you wouldn\u2019t throw temper tantrums.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is incumbent on us to always act appropriately and not to repay tit-for-tat,\u201d he contended. \u201cAnd I have to thank all the people, the regular people \u2026 the regular people showed up. It was always us against the elites. And that\u2019s the way it has been for the last 40-plus years I\u2019ve been in public life: us against the elites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd one of the things you will see in my opinions is I never go after anybody personally,\u201d he stated. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing insulting in there; it goes after the argument. But you\u2019re right: we are to conduct ourselves better than they conduct themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then came the remark eliciting laughter. Thomas quipped, \u201cOne of the things I say in response to the media is when they talk about, especially early on, is about the way I did my job. I said, \u2018\u201dI will absolutely leave the Court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that was meant as a compliment, really. It really is good to be me; it really is,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Some recent examples of the media attacking Thomas include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/15\/opinion\/clarence-thomas-supreme-court.html\">The New York Times<\/a> writing that he and other conservatives SCOTUS justices have been \u201cwhining about public outrage at their rulings,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2022\/05\/clarence-thomas-decries-irreparable-damage-of-roe-leak.html\">New York Magazine<\/a> claiming Thomas \u201cwas credibly accused of sexual harassment by former colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/09\/anita-hill-clarence-thomas-joe-biden.html\">Anita Hill<\/a> during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991,\u201d and The Washington Post sniping that Thomas was\u00a0\u201cthe black justice whose rulings often resemble the thinking of white conservatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the most disgusting thing I can remember seeing in a newspaper in sometime. <\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MariannaReports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MariannaReports<\/a> should apologize. <\/p>\n<p>Unbelievable<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WTL8SPe9nG\">https:\/\/t.co\/WTL8SPe9nG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SMke8Iu8vk\">pic.twitter.com\/SMke8Iu8vk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComfortablySmug\/status\/1494328827455045634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Justice Thomas to the media:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will absolutely leave the Court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2V7h9vtoLt\">pic.twitter.com\/2V7h9vtoLt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1526215424874008576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Danforth was Thomas\u2019 great champion during the confirmation hearings. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emkinstitute.org\/resources\/john-danforth-oral-history\">recalled<\/a> years later that Thomas was \u201cterribly upset\u201d about the vicious attacks leveled at him and told Danforth, \u201cYou know what this is, Jack? This is a lynching. This is a high-tech lynching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Danforth replied, \u201cWell, Clarence, if you feel that way about it, when you go up to the committee, you say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThe Thomas thing was\u00a0<em>sui generis<\/em>\u00a0and it was just a totally out of the blue, grotesque thing. It was really bad. And to know somebody as well as I know Clarence, and know what it did to him and to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas\u00a0triggered laughs from his audience when he uttered a terse statement regarding the way those in the media do their job.Thomas spoke at the Old Parkland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1481980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}