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Justice Thomas Speaks Out
September 28, 2007 9:44 AM
The long-awaited memoirs of Justice Clarence Thomas will be released Monday, and, for those of you who haven’t seen posts by Mark Obbie, Tony Mauro and Howard Bashman, I’ve done a series of wide-ranging interviews with him in several different locations (and states), as well as an extensive interview with his wife, Virginia. But I can’t say anything more than that until Sunday night.
So…until then, all I can say (having studied the confidentiality agreement, its pretty harsh penalties and wanting to stay in good standing with my bosses and the New York bar) is to be on the lookout Sunday night for my substantial dot com piece, which will be posted in several parts on ABCNEWS.com. (You know the old saying: You can take the journalist out of print, but you can’t take print out of journalist…)
Then, starting Monday morning with Good Morning America, my pieces on Justice Thomas will begin airing on ABC News. We will have a full report on all our platforms: Good Morning America, World News Tonight and a series of lengthy and revealing segments on Nightline, which of course is the perfect place for a closer look at one the most complex, compelling, maligned and misunderstood figures in modern history.
I’ve covered the Court and Justice Thomas for 13 years now, and I can tell you this is something you will not, under any circumstances, want to miss. If you can’t catch them all, Tivo them (I’ll have to get my kids to do it, but surely you guys are more technologically adept). I also will be blogging on this throughout the weeks to come. Thomas has much to say, and there will be much to discuss.
September 28, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (22)
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"This is something you will not, under any circumstances, want to miss . . . "'
"One [of] the most complex, compelling, maligned and misunderstood figures in modern history."
Puh-lease, spare us! I did watch, and Justice Thomas has nothing new to say. ABC has been duped into promoting his book through a reporter who is increasingly becoming a darling of the conservative wing of the Court.
I was particularly struck by the ABC report containing references to Anita Hill being "mediocre" and a "tool" of the left. C'mon, Justice Thomas and Ms. Crawford Greenburg. Give it a rest.
Posted by: Wilson | Oct 2, 2007 9:38:15 AM
Poor Justice Thomas who's had to suffer the sad consequences flowing from his "15 cent Yale law degree" all these years. The man is nauseating and Greenburg is a gullible dope to describe him as "misunderstood." People are smarter than she assumes. That he is universally disprespected and disliked is because he actually is well understood. His decisions, while well written by top law school grads, are simple parroting of Scalia's crackpot, inconsistent legal theories. Thomas' will be remembered in history not for his legal skill but as the greatest hypocrit.
Posted by: Alan | Oct 8, 2007 3:07:56 AM
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