Re: deja’ vu' by pk
[{"sender": "jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]", "recipients": ["paul krassner"], "timestamp": "9/18/2018 10:40:13 PM", "subject": "Re: deja’ vu' by pk", "body": "great"}, {"sender": "paul krassner", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:48 PM", "subject": "Re: deja’ vu' by pk", "body": "Why I Leaked the Anita Hill Affidavit\n\nI shall identify myself only as a female aide to a Republican senator. It is also relevant that I have long\n\nnurtured a keen interest in psycho-history, the process by which a nation’s direction is interpreted as an extension\n\nof the psychological makeup of those individuals who govern it.\n\nWithout going into specific detail, let me simply state that on October 5, 1991, I happened to hear part of\na conversation among Judge—now Supreme Court Justice—Clarence Thomas, Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator\nAlan Simpson. The three were meeting informally one week after the Judiciary Committee voted, first 7-7, then\n13-1, to recommend the confirmation of Judge Thomas, and one day after the full Senate indicated that he would\n\nbe confirmed.\n\nThe conversation I happened to hear had to do with those charges brought by Anita Hill and ignored by the\nmembers of the committee, both Democratic and Republican. At that point in time I still thought this was an\nappropriate response, because the alternative would have been to hold an executive session, and Judge Thomas\nwould then have had no practical choice but to resort to heavy denial. Now, however, these men were, in a\n\njocular fashion, acknowledging the truth of what would turn out to be Professor Hill’s allegations.\n\nSenator Simpson was saying, “Y’know, Clarence, I’ve seen some pretty raunchy porno movies in my time,\n\nbut I never did see one where a lady was having sex with an animal.”\n\n“T’ll never forget it,” Judge Thomas replied in his riveting sonorous tone. “They were in a barn. Except\n\nthat the inside of the barn was like a theater.”\n\nSenator Hatch interjected, “Summer stock, eh? No pun intended”"}]