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A Moment In History That MUST BE REMEMBERED For Election 2016 - Attorney Anita Hill Speaks
America must know far and wide that DAVID BROCK the now point Media Man of Hillary Clinton -- Helped Throw Attorney Anita Hill Under the Sexual Harassment Bus....And This Is a "Campaign" That Is Suppose to Support, Women. YEAH RIGHT...
"One small but telling moment in the career of Jill Abramson, the new executive editor-to-be of the New York Times, took place at The New Yorker.
It was 1993, nineteen months after Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill had their historic showdown during Thomas’s Senate confirmation hearings. Jill and I, who had been friends since high school (and remain so), and who both worked for the Wall Street Journal, had signed a contract together to write an investigative book aimed at trying to figure out which of the two had lied, and why—an issue that divided the country. As reporters, we believed that if we interviewed enough sources, and rummaged through enough documents, the facts would lead us to the truth.
In the spring of 1993, after we’d already done a considerable amount of research, a then little-known writer named David Brock came out with a blockbuster book, “The Real Anita Hill,” purporting to bust Hill as a fabulist and liar. The book soon gained traction not just among conservatives but also within the journalistic mainstream; both the New York Times and Newsday treated it as credible. Jill and I were aghast. We had learned enough from our own reporting to know that Brock’s book was filled with things that weren’t true. We were torn when The New Yorker called and asked us to review the Brock book.
Ordinarily, competing authors don’t write about each other. But given that we were among the few people who knew the facts, Jill and I felt obliged to correct the record. So together, we wrote an investigative review that exposed Brock’s flim-flammery. It made both of us targets of Thomas’s supporters. But nine years later Brock himself came out and admitted, in his memoir, “Blinded By the Right,” that his writing on Hill had been “a witches’ brew” of deception, and that he had been “a right-wing hit man.”
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/abramson-and-anita-hill
It was 1993, nineteen months after Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill had their historic showdown during Thomas’s Senate confirmation hearings. Jill and I, who had been friends since high school (and remain so), and who both worked for the Wall Street Journal, had signed a contract together to write an investigative book aimed at trying to figure out which of the two had lied, and why—an issue that divided the country. As reporters, we believed that if we interviewed enough sources, and rummaged through enough documents, the facts would lead us to the truth.
In the spring of 1993, after we’d already done a considerable amount of research, a then little-known writer named David Brock came out with a blockbuster book, “The Real Anita Hill,” purporting to bust Hill as a fabulist and liar. The book soon gained traction not just among conservatives but also within the journalistic mainstream; both the New York Times and Newsday treated it as credible. Jill and I were aghast. We had learned enough from our own reporting to know that Brock’s book was filled with things that weren’t true. We were torn when The New Yorker called and asked us to review the Brock book.
Ordinarily, competing authors don’t write about each other. But given that we were among the few people who knew the facts, Jill and I felt obliged to correct the record. So together, we wrote an investigative review that exposed Brock’s flim-flammery. It made both of us targets of Thomas’s supporters. But nine years later Brock himself came out and admitted, in his memoir, “Blinded By the Right,” that his writing on Hill had been “a witches’ brew” of deception, and that he had been “a right-wing hit man.”
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/abramson-and-anita-hill
And Sadly, This is A Highly Questionable Moment in History for Joe Biden in his "questioning" of the Sexual Harasser Clarence Thomas.
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