of -- >> guest: what i want more than anything, this is my legacy, i dedicated the book after clarence thomas ginny thomas came up to me and i've told this story more times, i told it to everybody. i was at an event in washington and i didn't know who attacked me on the shoulder she told me who she was and i couldn't deal with -- its huge. you have no idea what that man meant to me, you know, what he had when he went through that. and i've gone through the and she said i wanted to bring black people back to slavery on national tv aired not one journalist challenged her on that when this is my life's most important thing is to do something that no stupid white person would ever think to do and that's stand up to jesse jackson and al sharpton and say enough and to stand up to these people who prey upon people in need, people like the ann jones. i can't think of anything more cynical of the world and what dan jones has done with his education. this guy graduated from yale and what did he do? went to the inner city in oakland california to teach the people in need how to fish. no, he organized ar

i call it in the book, and i'm not trying to be cute here, but this is what i got from the clarence thomas hearings. why did the naacp sit on its hands? why did dan rather, tom brokaw and thomas jennings play ball with this take down of clarence thomas? i call it the democratic media complex. a year later after clarence thomas, bill clinton was named the standard bearer of the democratic party when a year before they told us a very low threshold of sexual harassment, and then bill clinton's behavior in the workplace was deplorable by now liberal -- >> host: they saved him. >> guest: they came to his rescue and admitted they did it for abortion politics. they admit it now. that's they went after -- went after clarence thomas. >> host: you said they found an opening, and in fact, engaged in a conversation and ma manipulating the american people on what sex is and it's not about sex, but the power of the structures. >> guest: it was about the power structure in the workplace that you just don't understand what a woman is like in a workplace. it was the same stuff that the professor was talkin

i dedicated that back to clarence thomas. i met guinea thomas and she came up to me -- i told this story more times -- i told it to everybody, and i was at an event in washington, and i didn't know who this lady was who tapped me on the shoulder. she know told me who she was. and freaked -- i couldn't deal with the -- it's huge. you have no idea what that man, you know, meant to me. you know, the stoicism that he had when he went through that. and, you know, i've gone through where this lady said i want to bring black people back to slavery when no one challenged her when this is my life's most important thing is to do something no stupid white person would think to do and that's stand up to jesse jackson and al sharpton and say, enough! and so stand up to these people who prey upon people in need. people like van jones. i can't think of anything more cynical in the world than what van jones has done with his education. the guy graduated from yale and what did he do? he went to the inner city in oakland, california. did he te

we have to take a quick break but coming up tonight justice clarence thomas made a few remarks that got me pretty fired up somebody give him a piece of my mind in our own flood of the sacraments and then a grab a cocktail and join us for happy hour parties any churchill and christine for as our join us to discuss story though please just can't get it out of here gingrich gets a shower of glitter and his new video that makes the socks the front a version of a new cold war taking. we the party. we haven't got the. safe ready. freedom. hey guys welcome michel ancel on the obama show we've heard our guests not to say on the topic now i want to hear audio just go on to you seem to video response our twitter profile of the questions that we've posted on you tube every monday and on thursday the show long response is certainly. a hawk. for. instance for. fun. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lack of sleep you think you understand it and then he lives something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sor

we have to take a quick break but coming up tonight just as clarence thomas made a few remarks that romney pretty fired up some and give him a piece of my mind in our own flood of the sacrament and then grab a cocktail and join us for happy hour parties jenny churchill and christine firs hour will join us to discuss story of the police there can't get him out of there gingrich gets a shower of glitter and his new video that makes this ask it for on a verge of a new cold war take him. with the party. well. we haven't got the. safe ready because freedom. hey guys welcome michel ancel on the ellen show which part of our guests not to say on the topic now i want to hear our audience just go on to you seem to video responses are to twitter first part of the question the police host on you tube every monday and on thursday the show long response is the local. for. instance. funny. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then he glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don

bush's appointment to the supreme court of clarence thomas. says she had a certain amount of concern. then came the clintons. things with the plans started out on kind of a strange footing the magazine concocted what became known as the great cookie controversy. some of you, i can see nodding your has remember this. the question was, who baked the better chocolate chip cookies. was it barbara bush or was it hillary clinton? hillary consort of dismissed this and said to live too busy to bake cookies. you know, let's forget about this. mrs. bush said she thought the whole thing was forgotten. then a few months later the same magazine ran a story saying that in a taste test people like hillary clinton's cookies better. barbara bush said, well, that is interesting because that's not my recipe. well, i mention it because even though it seems like a silly game, perhaps, it garnered of a sudden some very serious comments from reporters and columnists. this also gave mrs. bush a certain amount of borrowing to seize with what she saw developing your. s

and can that's why i dedicated the book to my father who cut me off and clarence thomas at the same time. both of their guidance in my life coincided. >> with that's a good segway back to the hearings. >> yeah. [laughter] well, i went from my wait job, and i started watching the hearings wanting to root for the takedown of clarence thomas. i watched the television set, and the television set told me that this was a bad man, and the newspapers told me that he was a bad man. and i remember eleanor smeal, i remember patricia schroeder walking up the steps, these ladies, and saying we're going to take a stand against this guy for sexual harassment, serial sexual harassment. so i watched these hearings like a spectator who wanted to see somebody mauled, you know, like lions mauling, you know, romans. and i watched day one, i watched day two, i watched the entire thing. i went from wanting him to be taken down to wondering where's the beef, you know, what's going on here? i don't understand what i'm watching here. i don't understand the color commentary that's on the screen where they're sayin

i dedicated the book to my father who cut me off and clarence thomas at the same time. both of their guidance in my life coincided. >> host: that's a good segue back to the hearings. >> guest: yeah, well i went for my wait job watching the hearings wanting to root for the take down of clarence thomas. i watched the tv, and the tv told me this was about a man, and the newspaper said he was a bad man. i remember pa patricia walking up the steps, these ladies saying this guy, we'll take a stand against this guy for sexual harassment. i watched these hearings like a spectator who wanted to see somebody mulled, you know, like a lion mulling, you know, a roman, and i watched day one, day two, i watched the entire thing. i went from wanting him to be taken down to wondering where's the beast? what's going on here? i don't understand what i'm watching here. i don't understand the color commentary that's on the screen saying, oh, this is outrageous. i didn't understand the bumper stickers going by me on the streets says "i believe anita". what was that? i don't understand what w

[laughter] clarence thomas is a very strict on the court when litigants ms. filing deadlines. no fault of their own, i think that this is really a serious thing that he has now corrected. though there is nothing to be done about it, nothing to do except impeachment. this for me is really something that was quite egregious. he had over a 6-figure income. the other thing you need to remember is the supreme court justices are the only justice, and the judges in the entire country that it to make decisions on their own. there are basically no standards for them, and they come from the decisions that came out of the anti-war movement. it is just basically, the supreme court resolves lawless. >> well, -- [laughter] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> i just want to remind all of you that there is a signing area think immediately following this. i hope you enjoy the rest of the festival, and thank you all for being here. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaud [in

back in the 1980's, clarence thomas used to be the head of the equal employment opportunity commission. he signed off on a directive that said that title 7 applies to employment decisions that are made based on criminal background checks because those decisions had a disparate impact on people of color. there are great procedures in place that say that employers cannot discriminate on some based on a criminal record unless they can show that it is based directly on the job. basic common sense standards that are not in force because people mostly locked around -- employers mostly walk around saying that anybody with a criminal record of a felony or these blanket policies are illegal under title 7, so we need to strengthen title 7, up the title 7, and apply the standards to state law as well. and there is a good piece of legislation that would do some of that. then, san francisco was one of the first communities to adopt a policy called and the box -- ban the box. it is responsible for getting this whole thing going, but now, 21 local cities and counties around the country have adopted s

happen with clarence thomas in a certain way, right, you know? in a more evil way, many of us have gotten comfortable because rock is in the white house, but he cannot be most effective unless we are on his ass, right? we voted, so i will go home now, and see you in four years. the republicans, the tea party, all these folks, they are on his ass, so if you believe that all that there is power in that position, and there are folks that make convincing arguments about a black face on white supremacy, so there is complications, but can progress be made? can progress be made with that position? absolutely. but while we honor and acknowledge that, we have to look at the masses of folks, and i think jamal represents the conditions of the masses that we need to be focused on. >> did you want to say something? it looked as though you were starting to say something. >> i will say, he said the same thing i was thinking. people ask me how i feel about having an african-american president. i said i had ambivalent feelings. on the one hand, i know that he is

>> anita hill challenged clarence thomas when he was up to become a supreme court justice back in 1991ually harassed her. he was confirmed but it opened up a discussion in the united states. sexual harassment laws were expanded and new laws imposed in the workplace. the same thing is happening in france. this is a moment in which all french everybody from the merchant in the store to the top politicians are saying, is this the way we should be behaving. it is this a moment of truth for us? consciousness raising, should we indeed think about changing our own rules? >> it's interesting, everything we've heard that the french were pretty much up in arms about seeing him, the famous perp walk. saying he's victim of a conspiracy plot. have they changed the dialogue then? >> there is an evolution day by day. this is why i don't trust any polls on this subject. the first reaction is defiance, disbelief, shock. it can't possibly be that this man we knew could have been guilty of such a crime. sort of stage of grief. then came incredible anger when the french saw him in handcuffs publicly which

individuals like gindin and scalia and clarence thomas was concerned since the mid 1930's. every republican president since richard nixon in 1968 has expressly set out to remake the constitutional law in this record and a conservative direction. it's easily cited that a very large extent they succeeded. now we don't realize it because it doesn't happen all let once, the supreme court received case by case not every single ruling has been on the conservative direction. the primary targets of conservatives overturning roe v wade, overruling the school prayer decision, and yet if you look at the sweep of constitutional law you can see that virtually every area conservatives had one. the consistently favored the interest of business over consumers, employees. henry tells a story and i want to start with a story, too. the client was sentenced life in prison with no responsibility for 50 years for stealing $153,000 of videotapes in california. he received a sentence under the three strikes law even though he never committed a violent felony justice stevens pointed out prior to ca

that's what i dedicated my book to clarence thomas. that black man's apparel as a result of the democrat media complex and the media complex tackled him mercilessly. my eyes opened up when day -- when i saw how they treated this black man different way than a black man who was liberal. this is my battle and i am not afraid of the race card anymore. it will become so worn out it will actually work when there is actual racism. host: we started this program by talking about the obama administration's handling of the as some of been laid in killing last sunday. al qaeda has said that they will release osama bin laden audio. they had a tape made about a week before he was killed and they will be releasing that shortly. how'd you think the obama administration has handled this killing of osama bin laden? guest: that is an obama grand slam. the first thing i did sunday night without calling anyone, i twisted congratulations president obama. -- i treated -- i tweeted congratulations president obama. the idea that he would make that tough decis

that's what i dedicated my book to clarence thomas.t black man's apparel as a result of the democrat media colex and the media complex tackled him mercilessly. my eyes opened up when day -- when i saw how they treated this black man different way than a black man whoas liberal. this is my battle and i am not afraid of the race card anymore. it will become so worn out it will actually work when there is actual racism. ho: we started this program by talking about the obama administration's handling of the as some of been laid in killing last sunday. al qaeda has said that they will release osama bin laden audio. they had a tape made about a week before he was killed an they will be releasing that shortly. how'd you think the obama ministration has handled this killing of osama bin laden? guest: that is an obama grand slam. the first thing i did sunday night without calling anyone, i twisted congratulations president obama. -- i treated -- i tweeted congratulations president obama. the idea that he would make that tough decision but if it