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With the charges of an alleged attempted sexual assault swirling around the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the liberal media pounced on the obligatory comparison to the allegations of sexual misconduct against Justice Clarence Thomas by Anita Hill. On NBC Nightly News, correspondent Andrea Mitchell rewrote history and suggested that Hill’s claims were credible and hoped the charges this time around would sink the nomination.
At the start of the segment, anchor Lester Holt was quick to point out there were differences between the two cases but suggested there were larger themes we could observe. “Many Americans may be thinking: ‘we’ve seen this movie before.’ Thinking back to the name Anita Hill and her own 11th-hour bombshell that nearly derailed another Supreme Court nominee decades ago,” he announced. “The circumstances different, but some of the underlying issues may be relevant.”
By Mitchell’s suggestions of “eerie” “parallels”, those “underlying issues” dealt with believing claims despite the evidence, testimony, or lack thereof.
Skipping over the facts of the case, Mitchell whined about how Hill was “humiliated and accused of lying by some Senators on what was then an all-male Judiciary Committee.” Of course, there was no mention of how Hill’s story shifted over time or the lack of credibility from another witness.
But that didn’t stop Mitchell from lamenting how “back then, the committee led by Joe Biden sided with Thomas. Refusing to let Hill introduce a lie detector test or a corroborating witness.” She also huffed about how the George H. W. Bush White House put together “a fierce counterattack with a searing denial from the nominee.”
Mitchell made it painfully obvious which way she believed the confirmation of Justice Tomas should have gone and the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh should go when she wondered: “But in the #MeToo era, will it play out the same way?”
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