Updated: Friday, March 1, 2024 — This morning, The New Yorker points out how utterly… unbelievable this whole “I was the victim” saga cum lately has become. Do read it all. End of updated portion.

Courtesy erstwhile commenter Rigby — nailing Hinderaker’s churlish lilly-gilding:

John’s other post yesterday, about law clerk Crystal Clanton, was equally hilarious (and dishonest). I have no idea if the accusations against Ms. Clanton are accurate, but even John would have to admit that her denial is less that emphatic:

I have no recollection of these messages and they do not reflect what I believe or who I am, and the same was true when I was a teenager.

“I have no recollection” is often lawyer-speak for “there’s enough evidence out there that I can’t come right out and deny it.” Again, I have no insight into the truthfullness of these accusations, but that non-denial gives me pause. If it were I, I would have said that those messages were unequivocally not mine. Notably, Clanton didn’t say that.

John also leaves out the rest of the racist message attributed to Ms. Clanton (“Like f—them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story!”), as well as the fact that this wasn’t the only racist language attributed to her.

John concludes:

The moral of the story, I suppose, is that the Left never forgets. No matter that she was cleared by an investigation by one of the nation’s courts of appeals; once the Left gets its hands on a smear it never lets go. It will never stop trying to destroy your life.

Riiiiight.

Anita Hill would like a word. So would Hillary Clinton (Vince Foster, anyone?). So would Ray Epps. So would Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and Ruby Freeman. So would John Kerry. So would Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. And on and on and on….

And Condor adds, as his own take on it:

I would also note that i find it extremely odd, that she “lived with” Ginny Thomas for over a year, in the Justice’s home… while “recovering” from being outed as a racist.

I hate to say it, but it makes me wonder… even more, about Justice Clarence Thomas himself. WTAH?

Anyway… it is all largely trivial, except that it speaks to some sort of dysfunction there. Wow. Onward.