Biden and Kennedy III now that is a big fucking ticket

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69. Biden's questioning itself was harsh. And he never should have allowed the ridiculous testimony

about erotomania . To allow that testimony to be heard at the public hearing and not the testimony of the women and the porn shop owner was a travesty.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/biden-anita-hill-women-senate-clarence-thomas-213864

Biden has expressed regrets about the hearings but has never apologized for them, as many Hill supporters and others wanted. He's acknowledged that he was wary of the racial dynamics involved. He's said that calling those witnesses might have killed Thomas' nomination. He and aides admit that they didn't anticipate the degree to which Republicans would target Hill personally and that they were outplayed politically.

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Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School professor who represented Hill (and once had President Barack Obama as a student), said he's still mad about how Biden handled himself back then.

“I was shocked and dismayed that Joe Biden was asking questions that didn't seem appropriate and was not in her corner as a Democrat,” Ogletree said. “The point is that he's supposed to be neutral, but his questions to Anita Hill were as piercing as anyone's.”



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/11/24/rewatching-joe-bidens-disastrous-anita-hill-hearing-a-sexual-harassment-inquistion/?utm_term=.c1fe97d7c6b4


Re-watching Joe Biden’s disastrous Anita Hill hearing: A sexual harassment inquisition

Hill, facing 14 white men on the Senate panel, endured withering, skeptical questioning — including from Biden, who Hill and her defenders still blame for setting an accusing, skeptical tone and losing control not just of the seating arrangements.

“If you can, to the best of your ability,” Biden asked at one point, “I would like you to recount for us where each of the incidents that you have mentioned in your opening statement occurred, physically where they occurred.”

There was, Hill and others said later, some extreme tone deafness.

In asking Hill to describe the sexually charged moments with Thomas, Biden asked, “Can you tell us how you felt at the time? Were you uncomfortable, were you embarrassed, did it not concern you? How did you feel about it?”

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After the hearings, and as recently as this year, Hill and other women’s rights advocates expressed dismay that Biden did not call a panel of expert witnesses to inform the committee of 14 men about the pressure women felt to keep such incidents to themselves for so many years — their fear of reprisals, that men in power wouldn’t care, that women simply had no choice.