Drunk dialing. It’s what someone does when they’ve had one too many. Most of us have done it at one time in our lives, most likely when we were in college.
But in a exercise of extreme chutzpah, Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, decided to call Anita Hill after 19 years a demand an apology from her for “what you did to my husband.”
Virginia Thomas, who, besides being the wife of the biggest jerkoff on the Supreme Court, is a Tea Party activist, must have been having a weird Saturday morning on October 9! Because around 7:30 a.m. she called up her old, you know, person whom she hates, at her (Hill’s) home office in Waltham, Mass., and left the following message in what The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer calls “a singsong voice”:
Good morning, Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas. I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought and certainly pray about this and come to understand why you did what you did. OK, have a good day.”
Now, Ginni Thomas is unusual for a wife of a Supreme Court Justice. Most, if not all, of the spouses of the Justices have not taken an active role in politics, since the Justices themselves are not supposed to be political. But Thomas has her own PR firm, and is the CEO of Liberty Central, whose mission is to “promote education, civil discourse, and activism focused on protecting core founding principles of the United States.” Basically, it’s a teabagger organization.
In November of 2009, Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas founded Liberty Central, a 501(c)4 organization whose primary objective is to harness the power of citizen voices, inform everyday Americans with knowledge, and activate them to preserve liberty. Ginni recognized the need for our country to bridge the gap between our nation’s citizens and its Capitol and return to a government that adheres to our core Founding Principles – limited government, personal responsibility, individual liberty, free enterprise, and national security.
Her public comments about President Obama have raised serious ethical questions about Justice Thomas’ ability to be an impartial jurist.
Max Reed, who authored the post on Gawker raises a serious question:
Serious question: Maybe I am parsing the Ginny Thomas Saturday Morning Account-Settling a little too much, but what does she mean by “did with my husband”? This is like a Raymond Carver story, isn’t it?! Though, Mayer says the message sounds “more adversarial than most peace offerings.”
Yes, what did Ginni mean by her statement?
Ginni, next time you feel the urge to call someone on an early Saturday morning to demand an apology, have a Coke and think about it. And make sure the Coke can doesn’t have a pubic hair on it.