Nearly 30 years after she first made her never-disproven sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas, the Media Research Center is still raging at Anita Hill. We’ve documented how the MRC has regularly bashed Hill, and particularly in the past few years, and it brought her up again during recent sexual misconduct scandals and even the Brett Kavanuagh hearings.
With the MRC now pushing sexual misconduct claims against Joe Biden, it’s also talking about Hill yet again.
The MRC’s chief Hill obsessive, Tim Graham, complained in his April 3 column that “There’s nothing on the Biden story on NPR – the proud purveyor of the unproven Anita Hill accusations against Clarence Thomas. He further whined in his April 15 column that “these liberal titans all jumped quickly on NPR unfurling Anita Hill’s unproven sex-harassment charges against Clarence Thomas.”
After NPR did a story on the accusations against Biden, Graham devoted an April 20 post to it, declaring, “This is especially slow for NPR, which was the first to champion the unproven sexual-harassment charges of Anita Hill against Clarence Thomas in 1991.” He went on to sneer: “In 1991, NPR reporter Nina Totenberg was an aggressive character witness for Hill. She told Vanity Fair she ‘checked Anita Hill’s credentials up the wazoo and everybody she said she was a saint, that her integrity was the highest.'”
Note Graham’s repeated insistence on describing Hill’s claims against Thomas as “unproven.” That suggests he knows that — despite assertions by himself and other MRC writers to the contrary, they haven’t been discredited and that, deep down, Graham knows they’re plausible.
Graham wasn’t the only MRC writer to name-check Hill. In an April 13 post complaining that the Biden allegations had not been covered to her satisfaction, Kristine Marsh groused: On April 5, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos gave a softball interview to Biden, where he avoided bringing up the assault allegation. But in 2018, Stephanopoulos brought out Clarence Thomas’s accuser Anita Hill to ask her if Republicans were ‘trying to destroy’ Blasey Ford.”
The fact that it’s Graham and Marsh who insist on bringing up Hill — not the media — shows us that she’s still living rent-free inside the MRC’s collective head.