The HBO movie premiering this weekend on the Clarence Thomas hearings 25 years ago is an attempt by the left "to rewrite history," former White House attorney Mark Paoletta told Newsmax TV on Thursday.
"When the curtain came down on those hearings, the left went about trying to rewrite history," Paoletta told "The Hard Line" host Ed Berliner. "This is what this movie is about: It's the left's continuing efforts to rewrite history."
Paoletta served in the White House Counsel's Office under President George H.W. Bush during the Thomas confirmation hearings in 1991.
The movie — "Confirmation" — will be shown Saturday on HBO. It features actors Wendell Pierce as Thomas and Kerry Washington as Anita Hill.
"It's unfortunate that we're still arguing, because at the end of those hearings, and the American people got to watch them, they believed Clarence Thomas 2-1," Paoletta told Berliner. "They watched Justice Thomas testify, they watched Anita Hill testify, they watched all those other witnesses over the weekend testify — and it was very clear that Anita Hill's story never added up.
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If I were Justice Thomas sue HBO for millions. Why not?? You know they will distort the facts from the real hearing!!!
ReplyDeleteRewriting history seems to be a wonderful past time. Too bad facts are indisputable and etched in stone. Filmmakers are coming out more with quality material that demonstrates reality, so it's confusing why someone would finance this hot mess. Propaganda I guess is now the old new technique of the Left and the Right in today's America.
ReplyDeleteI guess we ALL know why Obama spent so much time recently in California. Fundraising? ? Or giving false information for the movie!!!!
ReplyDeleteI sat behind Joe Biden (dem)on the Metroliner shortly after the hearings concluded. Biden ran the hearings. He was sitting next to Senator Spector (rep) - who was his primary opposition during the hearings. The two were buds when outside of camera range. Biden admitted that the deadline for any comments and evidence had passed when Anita Hill made her allegations. Biden extended the deadline because of the scandalous allegations. Biden admitted to Spector that he should never had even let Hill's allegations be presented.
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