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Oh I think a simple

ocean-kat — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:33:41 +0000

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Oh I think a simple psychological explanation fits best. The more convincingly that little voice in your head tells you things you don't want to hear the more you have to do to shut it up. There's really no way to know what was the immediate trigger that restarted the little voice in her head that required this phone call to silence her doubts.

I am expecting more of these

babji — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:53:46 +0000

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I am expecting more of these type of turd bomblettes up until election day. It's distraction politicking. A little side trip to momentarily take the spotlight off the gaffe prone Tea Party candidates.http://www.gudtricks.net

I am expecting more of these

wabby — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:51:54 +0000

In reply to Open Thread on the Virginia Thomas / Anita Hill Incident

Eyes on the prize.

Yes, I caught those comments,

Oxy Mora — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:45:23 +0000

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Yes, I caught those comments, deadly, I agree.

Maybe not racism per se, but just get the ball rolling, some kind of flap to re-energize their base, get their whipping folks back on T.V. like the Reverend Wright fiasco. Maybe also self defeating for us to participate.

I don't know about the charge

Ramona — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:57:08 +0000

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I don't know about the charge of racism, since Anita Hill is black, too, but Clarence has always gotten ahead by playing the victim, and Ginni is his enabler. I saw a reporter today who had gone to one of Ginni's rallies. The reporter said even though she was spouting the worst kind of garbage she was "utterly charming" and likable. That's a deadly combination and one the Right Wing women seem to have honed to perfection. They DO get their followers. There's no denying that. Too bad they're on the wrong side.

Every man deserves a mama

Oxy Mora — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:29:19 +0000

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Every man deserves a mama grizzley.

Yes, I come out there, it was

Oxy Mora — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:21:13 +0000

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Yes, I come out there, it was meant to fuel the fire of racism and make sure the tea rabble cornered every last by God white bigot vote in the universe. I just can't wait to see Reverend Wright on CNN defending Anita Hill.

Well, in the end, the whole

CVille Dem — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:20:57 +0000

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Well, in the end, the whole rest of the world wins. Why? Because she is the one married to him. I think they deserve each other.

One look at Liberty Central

Ramona — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:10:55 +0000

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One look at Liberty Central and it's pretty clear that Ginni Thomas sees herself as the darling of her base. We're all making a fuss about the impropriety and downright zaniness of her actions, but her base thinks she's a hero(ine). This just reinforces it, and all the attacks against her are welcomed and savored.

To the Liberty Central crowd, their leader did a brave thing, telling the enemy to pray about the "damage" she has done, to confess, to do what she can to make it right. And when Anita Hill says "no way", the fires are fueled, the anger mounts, and the base is off and running again.

It works for her. She doesn't care what we think. We don't matter.

(Strictly my own interpretation, given after thinking a whole lot of thoughts and not coming up with anything else.)

>>If Virginia Thomas were

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:22:36 +0000

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>>If Virginia Thomas were required by God to bet her life one way or the other, which way do you believe she would bet?

I would bet that she would bet the same way as I expect Orin Hatch would bet. I would not, however, bet as much and I would not give nearly as strong odds. That is because I do not reject the possibility that she is "blinded by love", so to speak, although I doubt it. I put God into my original analogy to represent a holder of absolute truth and made the stakes in the bet so high that no sane person would choose a position that they only claimed to believe just to avoid admitting that they had been lying about their beliefs all along. It would also give a person who had not critically examined their beliefs, but was put into the ipsition of paying a huge immediate price for being wrong, strong incentive to do so. I brought Hatch in as an example of the first because I listened to him during the hearings and was never convinced that he believed his positions. Over the years I have become more convinced that he is a hypocritical, two-way, lying, sack of partisan crap. Worse than most politicians.