Anita Hill rears her ugly head (again)

Just when I was hoping I'd never hear about this oversensitive grandstander again, Anita Hill is given column inches in The New Liberal York Times to -- yet again -- bash Clarence Thomas. She has a lot of gall. She hasn't lost any of her bitchy, whiney attitude, either.

Justice Thomas has every right to present himself as he wishes in his new memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son.” He may even be entitled to feel abused by the confirmation process that led to his appointment to the Supreme Court.

But I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent me.

Oooooooooh, you go, girl!

And there's this gem:

Regrettably, since 1991, I have repeatedly seen this kind of character attack on women and men who complain of harassment and discrimination in the workplace. In efforts to assail their accusers’ credibility, detractors routinely diminish people’s professional contributions. Often the accused is a supervisor, in a position to describe the complaining employee’s work as “mediocre” or the employee as incompetent. Those accused of inappropriate behavior also often portray the individuals who complain as bizarre caricatures of themselves — oversensitive, even fanatical, and often immoral — even though they enjoy good and productive working relationships with their colleagues.

Does Hill not understand that most (but certainly not all) allegations of improper behavior in the workplace are motivated by huge, court-ordered payoffs? Accusing somebody of harassment is the fastest way to become a millionaire in America. I have never been able to determine if Anita Hill is hypersensitive, jealous of the success of a male co-worker, or just looking for a huge windfall. Whichever, she did her best to bring a man down, and lost.