Commentary
Former Attorney General and U.S. Senator John Danforth recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal about how he was interviewed by PBS for a documentary about Justice Clarence Thomas. Given Danforth’s close relationship with Justice Thomas over the years and believing the PBS documentary would present a balanced story, Danforth agreed to do the interview.
Mistake. Now that the cancel culture mob is out to get Justice Thomas, all kinds of false and disingenuous attacks on him are standard fare. That includes the so-called “balanced” PBS documentary. As John Danforth described it, “The resulting show was far from nuanced, and it wasn’t really a documentary. It was a two-hour hit job of Clarence Thomas.”…