national writing day

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:53 PM -0400 10/21/09, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 10/21/2009 11:57 AM, Dennis Baron wrote:
>>it's a fake quote, Joel!
>
>Which, the Lamar Alexander or the William Berkeley?  8-)
>
>But thanks for alerting me not to look further.  It was quite
>believable -- especially if no Republican except Olympia Snow voted
>for the Congressional resolution.  (Although I now see that specific
>votes were not recorded.)
>
>Slightly apropos:  Some months ago I predicted to a friend that one
>of the two Mane women Republican senators would soon switch to
>Democrat, thereby giving them a filibuster-proof majority.  I was
>blind-sided by Arlen Specter, whom I never would have guessed --
>hadn't he spoken out, and been a swing vote, for confirmation
>of  Clarence Thomas?

Indeed.  I can't remember if he actually referred to Anita Hill as "a
little bit nutty and a little bit slutty" during that "high-tech
lynching" of Thomas or if he just signed on to the character
assassination she underwent.  (I know one of the worst offenders was
David Brock, the guy who wrote the book on "The Real Anita Hill", and
later restored our faith in humanity by taking it all back.)


LH

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