{"id":9925,"date":"2007-10-05T07:17:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T13:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9925"},"modified":"2007-10-05T07:17:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T13:17:59","slug":"an-answer-to-dr-caric-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9925","title":{"rendered":"An Answer to Dr. Caric [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the question he posed here<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Taranto:<\/p>\n

In the coverage of and commentary about Justice Clarence Thomas’s <\/a>new memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son” (buy it from the OpinionJournal bookstore<\/a>), a predictable theme has emerged: that Justice Thomas is a “bitter” and “angry” man, who really has no reason to feel that way. After all, as a USA Today editorial sneers, “Are we meant to feel sympathy for the plight of a Yale-educated Supreme Court justice with enormous power, long summer holidays and seven-figure book contracts?”<\/p>\n

Perfectly encapsulating this attitude is a letter to the editor that appeared in yesterday’s New York Times<\/a> (second letter):<\/p>\n

If Justice Clarence Thomas had lost his bid in 1991 to be appointed to the Supreme Court as a result of Anita Hill’s testimony about his behavior as her supervisor, it might be understandable that he remembers that testimony with anger and bitterness. However, he was appointed in spite of Professor Hill’s allegations.<\/p>\n

It seems that Justice Thomas has spent the last 16 years reliving that testimony and nurturing his wounds, as he reports in his memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son.” Perhaps no one warned the Supreme Court nominee that those hearings would be political and acrimonious.<\/p>\n

To Justice Thomas, I say: You received the appointment you sought. You are being “touchy” and overreacting to “slights.” It is time to move on. The country needs you to focus your energy, attention and intelligence on the work of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Janet G. Puente
\nNewtown, Pa., Oct. 2, 2007<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A point of personal privilege: We know Justice Thomas, having met him in 1993; and the caricature of him as “angry” and “bitter” is wildly at odds with our own experience. We have always found him to be warm, gracious and avuncular. The last time we saw him, at the Heritage Foundation on Monday, he was ebullient, smiling widely and laughing often. When we arrived, he greeted us with a vigorous handshake and a “Hey, buddy!” If he is bitter and angry, he certainly hides it well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if those are the two categories I’m permitted, I suppose I’m, to coin an expression, as bitter as a black conservative Supreme Court Justice.<\/em>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Bet that makes Ric pucker.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Jeff’s the one who’s dumber than a da Vinci.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To the question he posed here.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Taranto: In the coverage of and commentary about Justice Clarence Thomas’s new memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son” (buy it from the OpinionJournal bookstore), a predictable theme has emerged: that Justice Thomas is a “bitter” and “angry” man, who really has no reason to feel that way. After all, as a USA Today editorial sneers, “Are we meant to feel sympathy for the plight of a<\/p>\n

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