Anita Hill

Your editorial noting the shift in public opinion over the past year in favor of believing Anita Hill over Clarence Thomas--tell me, was that gloating?

No wonder attitudes have shifted. For 12 months, liberals have conducted a masterful, revisionist PR campaign to portray Hill as courageous.

Maybe she is courageous. But she might also have been a willing conspirator attempting to scuttle a Supreme Court appointment. If so, she wasn’t courageous, she was a lying, vicious character assassin. Why would she lie? Perhaps she thought the outcome of Roe vs. Wade more important than one man’s reputation and career. Then again, maybe she was being honest.

The truth? I don’t know. I suspect we’ll never know. But I do know that whenever Hill is trotted out by the media as a victim or as feminist spokesperson, it’s implied that she was right and Thomas was wrong. It’s a cheat on the public and an outrage. Next time the media are accused of a liberal bias, don’t get exasperated and offended, just remember how you’ve conducted yourselves on Hill vs. Thomas.

JAMES L. BASS, Thousand Oaks