The Media Research Center’s obsessive hatred for Anita Hill pops up yet again in an April 7 post by Scott Whitlock, in which he attacks the Washington Post for publishing an op-ed by Hill on the Bill O’Reilly sexual harassment scandal. Whitlock huffed that Hill is a “partisan” who “accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment and excused Bill Clinton’s actions.”
Whitlock refers only obliquely to O’Reilly’s scandal, keeping O’Reilly’s name a full paragraph away from the words “sexual harassment.”Instead, he nurses his employer’s grudge, whining that “Hill’s outrage at sexual misconduct is rather selective. On September 28, 1998, she came to the defense of Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.” He then quoted his boss, Tim Graham ranting that Hill “comically pretended not to know that Lewinsky came up in a sexual harassment case brought by Paula Jones.”
But Graham and Whitlock seem to have forgotten that Clinton was not being impeached over the Jones case but, rather, over his affair with Lewinsky.
Whitlock concluded by grumbling: “To recap Hill’s contention: Accusations against conservatives and Republicans warrant swift actions. Accusations against liberal Democrat Bill Clinton are no big deal. It’s no wonder why the Post turned to her for an op-ed on O’Reilly.” Of course, the situation Whitlock reductively describes is the complete opposite for his employer — which is why you’ve read virtually nothing about the O’Reilly scandal at the MRC.