{"id":1525443,"date":"2022-06-21T23:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525443"},"modified":"2022-06-21T23:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T03:04:16","slug":"clarence-thomas-it-just-felt-like-the-mob-outside-of-the-jail-in-to-kill-a-mockingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clarence-thomas-it-just-felt-like-the-mob-outside-of-the-jail-in-to-kill-a-mockingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas: \u2018It Just Felt Like The Mob Outside Of The Jail In \u2018To Kill A Mockingbird\u201d"},"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\">34<\/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-it-just-felt-like-the-mob-outside-of-the-jail-in-to-kill-a-mockingbird%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=1525443&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--><p>The Democrats And The Media Run With It\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MP: The media and Democrats certainly jumped on this leak. What was your reaction?<br \/> CT: This is the mob. That\u2019s what it felt like. It just felt like the mob outside of the jail in \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird.\u201d They didn\u2019t have their little robes on, but boy they were sanctimonious and they had their torches, which were maybe computers and things. But no, this was the mob; it wasn\u2019t any more a trial than Salem had trials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MP: You mentioned the media circus, and we haven\u2019t talked much about that, but that had been ongoing?<br \/> CT: The media was always bad. They just pretend to be objective, but for the most part, they were part of the mob from the beginning. But it just got worse. When you have media people calling up friends and they ask \u201cDo you have any dirt on this guy?\u201d not, \u201cWhat is the story?\u201d Just dirt. That pretty much should tell you all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It goes back to when I was at the EEOC, that I was \u201ccontroversial.\u201d I was brand new. How can I be controversial? That means I don\u2019t have the views that they\u2019ve assigned to me. That\u2019s the only controversial thing. So I had then effectively been caricatured. The media was not trying to find out facts; they were clearly a part of one team versus the other. There were a few who weren\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MP: The media also went out to Pin Point, GA.<br \/> CT: Initially when the media were told I was from Pin Point, they said Pin Point didn\u2019t exist. And that was really funny. These guys know so much. They said \u201cyou\u2019re a liar.\u201d Who would lie about where you\u2019re from? That\u2019s easy to prove and who would lie about it? Every time you said something and they didn\u2019t agree with you, you were a liar. One of the reporters went to Savannah and argued with my mother about the number of kids she had. How do you argue with a woman about the number of kids she had? I think she may have been there. She eventually had to tell them to leave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MP: How could the reporter be arguing about the number of children she had?<br \/> CT: He said they can only find records for two kids. How can you be so arrogant to tell a woman how many kids she had? But I think that it is similarly arrogant to tell people what their views ought to be just because of their race. \u201cI know what your views should be. I don\u2019t know you, but since you\u2019re black, your views should be this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MP: Yes, I hear this still from your liberal critics. They say you are \u201ca traitor to your race.\u201d<br \/> CT: Because you have views that you shouldn\u2019t have. You say what race? The human race? Which race? It is absurd. I love it when you are looking at a white person telling you that and they just don\u2019t see how laughable that is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MP: After it\u2019s leaked, then Anita Hill has a press conference. Did you see that?<br \/> CT: Oh God, no.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MP: Did Ginni see it and tell you about it?<br \/> CT: She watched and told me it was slickly done, that it was smooth, and there were a lot of professionals there. But what she described was not the person who worked for me. As I recall, [Anita] was portrayed as conservative (not true), that she was quite religious (that\u2019d be the first I\u2019d ever heard of that), and that she was demure (no way). That\u2019s a nice image to paint but that wasn\u2019t the person I knew. The person I knew was outspoken, could fly off the handle at people, get upset with people, a person who stormed into my office, could be pretty loud about things, and was quite liberal. She may have been religious but never professed to be that I knew of.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Another Round<br \/> \u201cIt was hard. I\u2019m at the end of my line\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>MP: Did you hear from Jack Danforth about the next stage for the hearings?<br \/> CT: I get a call when I was at Larry Silberman\u2019s house from Jack Danforth, Orrin Hatch, and Bob Dole. And they said that if [the full Senate] voted, then they couldn\u2019t guarantee that I would be confirmed. Remember we\u2019re dealing with a Democrat Senate and that they thought we needed to address this matter and it was determined that they would have another hearing.<\/p>\n<p>MP: And how did you feel?<br \/> CT: Not good. It was hard. I\u2019m at the end of my line. I don\u2019t know what they are going to do to me next. I still don\u2019t know what I\u2019m accused of doing, so you\u2019re tormenting yourself. Did<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats And The Media Run With It\u00a0 MP: The media and Democrats certainly jumped on this leak. What was your reaction? CT: This is the mob. That\u2019s what it felt like. It just felt like the mob outside of the jail in \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird.\u201d They didn\u2019t have their little robes on, but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":1525445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525443","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\/1525443","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\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}