He began by noting that many people had reported Hill had praised Thomas and his nomination to the Supreme Court. Or really, just for asking simple questions she struggled to answer. Prominent media partisans attacked Specter for asking tough questions of Hill.
What I couldn’t figure out how to do - and we still haven’t figured it out – how do you stop people from asking inflammatory questions?” On “The View,” Biden claimed, “If you go back and look at what I said and didn’t say, I don’t think I treated her badly. In the intervening years, activists have relentlessly attempted to change the narrative, writing fan fiction about Hill, bestowing honors on her, and asserting that her disputed allegations were credible. There was no gap between the sexes in the results. The widely watched hearings revealed inaccuracies in Hill’s various versions of events and ended with 58 percent of Americans believing Thomas and only 24 percent believing Hill. The issue is important, as the media and other partisans rewrite the historical record about Hill and her accusations. The exchange was published in Specter’s 2000 memoir, “Passion for Truth: From Finding JFK’s Single Bullet to Questioning Anita Hill to Impeaching Clinton.” But in 1998, Biden admitted to Specter that “It was clear to me from the way she was answering the questions, was lying” about a key part of her testimony.
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