Liberal Smack Down
October 3, 2007 by scrubone
Heh. There’s a bit of history being dug up at the moment, with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (he’s the black, conservative one) having written his autobiography.
This has bought out all those crackpots who think it’s a criminal offence for a black man to be a conservative. Including one Jeffery Toobin who recently opined that the justice was “furious all the time”.
Unlucky for him, he seems to have believed his own press, and actually made the incredibly stupid mistake of taking an interview with Laura Ingraham. See, Laura has done the thing that Jeffery hasn’t - that is, she’s actually met the guy. Even better, she worked for him.
Sounds like our Mr Toobin did manage to escape with his life! 
On Monday’s Anderson Cooper 360, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin unspooled a wild, unsubstantiated theory that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is “furious all the time” and when Cooper asked if his “hatred of the media” started with the Anita Hill charges, Toobin said that event sent his rage into “the stratosphere.” Toobin also criticized CBS for not cross-examining Thomas on sexual harassment on 60 Minutes, when “subsequent evidence” (books by liberal reporters) “generally favors Anita Hill, not him, in what really happened between them.”
On Tuesday’s Laura Ingraham show, Toobin accepted an interview invitation, and Ingraham, who was a clerk for Justice Thomas, lit into him about his Cooper interview. She found it “incredibly condescending,” and also “appalling and stupid.” She asked Toobin if he knew Thomas, and he changed the subject, referring to the theme of anger in his writings and speeches. Later, when Ingraham asked Toobin if he had ever met or interviewed Thomas for his new Supreme Court book, “The Nine,” he wouldn’t even say yes or no. (Ingraham took that as a no.)
How can someone who’s supposedly a media professional claim without ever meeting someone that they’re “furious all the time” and even “furious his entire life”?
It would be one thing to say Thomas associates or even adversaries have seen an episode of fury, but “furious all the time”? (It’s even weirder when, in other interviews — but not this one — Toobin reports Thomas is the most popular justice inside the Court. Popular, well-liked — and “furious all the time”?)
Maybe he’s “funny angry” or something?
