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Gay Former
Republican Admits
Vicious Lies
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By Jack Nichols
 avid Brock, a
former Republican zealot who admitted in 1998 that his writings had
allowed exaggerations about Bill Clinton’s behavior in Arkansas has
authored a new book titled Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of
an Ex-Conservative.
Mr. Brock, who is openly gay, now admits that he’d deliberately lied
in order to defame Anita Hill while supporting the right-wing U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
This occurred after Ms. Hill, the Justice’s aide, had been summoned
during Senate confirmation hearings to testify about incidents of sexual
harassment others had revealed she’d possibly suffered as Thomas’
assistant.
Brock’s 1993 book, The Real Anita Hill, characterized
Ms. Hill as "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty," a
characterization he now calls an outright lie. Not confined to lying
about Hill alone, the ex-Republican zealot admits: "I demonized
Democratic senators, their staffs, and Hill’s feminist supporters
without ever interviewing any of them."
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His defense strategies to save the reputation of Justice Thomas included
reportage that denied what Thomas’ close acquaintances had already
noted, namely the Justice’s admitted fondness for X-rated films. Brock
now says he had threatened—with divorce scandal information delivered to
him-- "to blacken" the name of one such acquaintance, causing her to
withdraw her honest account.
This derogatory information, reportedly, had been passed to David
Brock by Justice Thomas himself, but was delivered indirectly through a
Republican operative. Referring to the Justice, Brock wrote: "He was
playing dirty and so was I."
Brock now says his behavior indicates that he was "a witting cog in
the Republican sleaze machine." CNN and FOX News
focused yesterday on the scandal with Republican pundits insisting that
henceforth no one should believe anything that Brock says and wondering
why Brock hasn’t claimed to be "Sorry". "His new book is just another
money-making scheme," claimed Tucker Carlson on CNN.
Margaret Carlson of Time magazine, however, opined that
the truth would be easy to flesh out. It would only be necessary, she
said, for the Congress to call the informants and would-be informants to
testify under oath.
Justice Thomas was one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s "Gang of Five"
responsible for appointing George W. Bush to the presidency, an
electoral decision that 673 U.S. professors of law have jointly
condemned. See:
www.the-rule-of-law.com
Read Jack Nichols',
THE
GAY AGENDA, and see why it was named 1997 Outstanding Book by
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
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Jack Nichols is the author of The Gay Agenda: Talking
Back to the Fundamentalists (Prometheus Books, 1996) Of Men’s
Liberation: A New Definition of Masculinity (Penguin Books, 1975) and
of Welcome to Fire Island: Visions of Cherry Grove and The Pines
(St. Martin’s Press, 1976)
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