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CORRESPONDENCE The Borking of Anita Hill My wife and I really enjoyed David Brock's article about "The Real Anita Hill" (TAS, March 1992). I can assure you that I do not normally compliment people...
...His remark was inconsiderate and was obviously not based upon any fact knowledge of his...
...All of the students who were in their first and second years at the time of the closing went on to other ABA-accredited law schools, and, from reports reaching me, did as well as—or better than—they had done academically at ORU...
...I have been faxed and mailed copies of the article and have told people about the article during my speaking engagements...
...The test result can often turn on whether or not the polygraph examiner is hostile or friendly...
...Thatcher's argument about Thomas's qualifications...
...My suggestion is that you contract with Mr...
...However, both pieces, as well as most of the rest of your publication, would do better under cover of some supermarket tabloid, next to headlines like "Boy Sees With Ears" and "Grandma Has Sex With Alien Creature, Delivers Puppies...
...Next time I will save my $2.95 for rental of something with "Long Dong Silver"—it can't be more fictional...
...That's all there is to it...
...Brock's "knee-jerk" reference to the ORU Law School as being "fourth-rate" (see line 14, column 1, page 26...
...I defy Brock to produce any responsible person to confirm this silly tale...
...Sanford G. Thatcher State College, Pennsylvania . . . As a former bureau chief for the Cleveland Plain Dealer who covered Howard Metzenbaum both in Ohio, when he was a behind-the-scenes political operative, and in Washington, while U.S...
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...Brock, as is every grad(continued on page 81) 12 The American Spectator May 1992 CLASSIFIEDS MIN111111111•1 PERSONALS ASIAN LADIES DESIRE CORRESPONDENCE...
...Zimmerman should leave journalism and join Senator Metzenbaum's staff...
...Judge Thomas is just not in the same league intellectually...
...John N. Doggett, III Austin, Texas Desperate for any reasonably articulate printed matter that makes the slightest point in favor of the case of now-Justice Clarence Thomas, relative to the charges of sexual harassment against him by Professor Anita Hill (as well as charges by two other females who worked for Thomas at the EEOC and whom the Senate Judiciary Committee did not hear), I made the consummate one-time-only error of buying your rag for the purpose of reading David Brock's "The Real Anita Hill...
...We had several faculty members who were distinguished in their fields and we did our fair share of publishing in national journals, etc...
...Is the point that, because Thomas was "not in the same league intellectually" as Bork, the Anita Hill character smear was an acceptable means of keeping him off the court...
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...I don't quite follow Mr...
...Interestingly, none of them took issue with my characterization of Hill...
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...The only problem that the ABA had with our school was its Christian orientation, and to me that is an accolade, not a criticism...
...I understand the position held by James Brudney will be open soon...
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...San Francisco, California David Brock has done some industrious spadework in unearthing more information about "The Real Anita Hill," and he makes a plausible, though hardly conclusive, case for interpreting her actions as those of a frustrated professional who wasn't succeeding as well in her career as she had expected or hoped...
...The ORU Law School was closed for one reason, and one reason only, and that was the financial straits which affected the Oral Roberts Ministry as a whole...
...Brock's diatribe, filled with scurrilous innuendo where it was not outright libel, fits into your journal very well, right alongside your musings about Mayor Marion Barry's sex life in prison, a dolphin's masturbation, and the beating to death of a "black" by "whites" in South Africa ("The Continuing Crisis," TAS, March 1992...
...Brock's work...
...The subject and the examiner have a long conversation before the exam is administered...
...Second, please send me a copy of your March 1992 edition so that I can have an original for my files...
...1. Please write your new address in the space provided...
...Since the test is measuring anxiety levels, it is hardly surprising that Hill passed...
...Howard Metzenbaum is so cheap that he doesn't know how to cavort with anyone, except maybe with Orrin Hatch or Jesse Helms on the Senate floor at taxpayers' expense...
...I even tried to purchase your March 1992 issue...
...Maly C. Dunlap, J.D...
...Overseas, sincere, attractive...
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...As for Mary Dunlap, I can only recommend that she chill out...
...Whatever one may think of Robert Bork's politics, there was at least no question about his having a brilliant jurisprudential mind, fully qualifying him to serve on the highest court in our land...
...In point of fact, the ORU Law School met every criterion established by the ABA and the state of Oklahoma and turned out some outstanding young lawyers...
...Perhaps Mr...
...More important, though, than the whole sorry episode involving Anita Hill is the simple fact that Clarence Thomas was pretty clearly not the best qualified candidate President Bush could have found to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court...
...The truth is that President Bush, despite his denial, chose Judge Thomas first and foremost because of his race, knowing that it would be difficult politically for the Democrats to oppose his nomination...
...Finally, I would like to apologize to Mr...
...Just be sure to allow six weeks for your change to take effect...
...Interestingly, however, he nowhere makes any reference to the lie-detector test that she took and passed, which of course is not conclusive evidence itself but does suggest that she may, after all, have been telling the truth...
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...And now what we have is a situation where it is at least conceivable, Brock's argument notwithstanding, that Congress approved the appointment of a Supreme Court justice who has committed perjury—all because we live in an age where "political correctness," if you will, counts more than intellectual merit...
...Brock to do an expanded and updated version of his article and publish it as a separate freestanding pamphlet or as a book...
...I have two requests and one suggestion...
...The American Spectator Circulation Department P.O...
...Doggett and I can reach some accommodation...
...I believe that I am entitled to a public apology from Mr...
...World's #1 Service...
...Inasmuch as I was on the faculty hiring committee that employed Anita Hill at Oral Roberts University, and subsequently served as her supervisor in my capacity as the last Dean of the ORU Law School, I was impressed with Mr...
...I bet you could sell at least 100,000 copies...
...Thatcher raises a common question about Hill's lie-detector test...
...I sure as hell did not agree with all of Metzenbaum's political stands and tactics, but to circulate this personal affront in order to question Metzenbaum's stand on women's issues does not befit what I thought was your responsible publication...
...2. Attach the mailing label from your most recent issue...
...This is unfortunate in light of the scholarly job he otherwise did in his article...
...Roger L. Tuttle Richmond, Virginia David Brock replies: I don't normally call people who write in to compliment my work obnoxious, so perhaps Mr...
...In the Hill case, the examiner was chosen by one of her attorneys, not an objective third party (like the FBI or the Judiciary Committee...
...senator, one reference in Brock's article was so totally goofy that I dismiss anything else he has to say...
...Unfortunately, no bookstore or newsstand in the Austin, Texas, or Claremont, California, areas has that issue in stock...
...I can assure you that I do not normally compliment people who call me obnoxious, but David's work was so compelling that I just had to say thanks...
...I refer to Metzenbaum's "cavorting" on Friday nights in Georgetown with a female Brazilian companion...
...Tuttle and all those ORU graduates who wrote to take issue with my hyperbolic characterization of the school as "fourth-rate...
...Richard G. Zimmerman Washington, D.C...
...In fact, he received the lowest rating ever given a Supreme Court nominee by the American Bar Association...
...First, please enter a one-year subscription for us to your magazine...
...If that conversation is designed to put the subject at ease, the result can be thrown...
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...On the other hand, I cannot help but resent Mr...
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