{"id":198312,"date":"2007-11-18T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/18\/clarence-thomas-too-stupid-to-cut-his-own-meat\/"},"modified":"2007-11-18T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T02:58:00","slug":"clarence-thomas-too-stupid-to-cut-his-own-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/18\/clarence-thomas-too-stupid-to-cut-his-own-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas:  Too Stupid to Cut His Own Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/15\/AR2007111502187.html\">Dana Milbank had this gem in his account of a <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Federalist Society <\/span>meeting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But there were signs that Thomas is not a regular on the speaking circuit. &#8220;You know, it&#8217;s really hard to talk up here when this guy in front of me keeps moving,&#8221; Thomas announced early in his speech. He was referring to a television screen on the floor in front of him that was showing his own image &#8212; but because nobody but Thomas could see the TV, nobody knew what he was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s me! I see myself moving around!&#8221; Thomas explained, then let out a resonant laugh: &#8220;Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!&#8221; He continued: &#8220;This guy keeps moving around in front of me. Jeez! At any rate, stop looking at this guy in front of me! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! You look at it and think, it&#8217;s too much of a good thing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A technician covered up the offending screen with a black cloth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Clarance Thomas, much like your average parrot, is capable of being fascinated and distracted by an image of himself.<\/p>\n<p>What a maroon, to quote Bugs Bunny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Milbank had this gem in his account of a Federalist Society meeting: But there were signs that Thomas is not a regular on the speaking circuit. &#8220;You know, it&#8217;s really hard to talk up here when this guy in front of me keeps moving,&#8221; Thomas announced early in his speech. He was referring to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}