In a voice mail message left at 7:31 a.m. on Oct. 9th, a Saturday, Virginia Thomas (pictured above with husband, Clarence Thomas) asked her husband's former aide-turned-enemy for an apology. Ms. Hill played the recording at Brandeis University and for The New York Times, and soon the wacky voice mail was the talk of the town.
In an an interview with The Daily Caller, Thomas said that making contact with Hill "was probably a mistake on my part."
"Probably a mistake"?Now, a "mistake" is putting on black socks that you thought were navy blue. A "mistake" is that third tequila shot or paying $10 to see a Wayans Brothers movie.
If your husband is a sitting Supreme Court Justice, calling his ex on a Saturday morning and leaving a crazy-lady voice mail is no mistake. That's just nuts.
In case you forgot, Thomas left the following message for Anita Hill on her office phone first thing one Saturday morning:
"Good morning, Anita Hill, it's Ginni Thomas. I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband.... So give it some thought. And certainly pray about this and hope that one day you will help us understand why you did what you did. OK, have a good day."
Look, Ginni, let's just call a spade a spade. You probably had one bloody mary too many that morning or took more than the prescribed dose of Xanax. It's OK, it happens to all of us.
Considering that Anita Hill's testimony has been substantiated by other women - not to mention this happened TWENTY YEARS AGO - your message was outrageous, embarrassing and completely loony. One thing it wasn't, though, was a "mistake."
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