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Part Four: The Clarence Thomas Story

Behind the Bastards

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Sally Kohn: It's important to note that thomas really plays up the aspects of his background that sound good to liberals when he is during this confirmation process. And it should be noted that many, many liberals at the time absolutely did not buy what th Thomas was trying to get over on them. He has no real background as the kind of things you would want a supreme court justice to have, but he has gotten really good at this point at using his personal background as someone who grew up poor and black to fuddle lite liberals. This isn't going to feel like a fulkin road for long; nobody's going to feel good about anita hilla haa.

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