<p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas triggered laughs from his audience when he uttered a terse statement regarding the way those in the media do their job.</p>
<p>Thomas spoke at the Old Parkland Conference in Dallas, Texas, last Friday.</p>
<p>Prior to the remark that triggered laughter, Thomas was asked about a statement from then-Missouri GOP Senator John Danforth, who said regarding the way Thomas had been treated at his nomination for the Court, “If we ever get a chance to do to that side what they have done to us we should never do it.”</p>
<p>“And we have never done it,” Thomas said of conservatives’ treatments of Supreme Court nominees. “You would never visit Supreme Court justices’ houses when things didn’t go our way; you wouldn’t throw temper tantrums.”</p>
<p>“It is incumbent on us to always act appropriately and not to repay tit-for-tat,” he contended. “And I have to thank all the people, the regular people &#8230; the regular people showed up. It was always us against the elites. And that’s the way it has been for the last 40-plus years I’ve been in public life: us against the elites.”</p>
<p>“And one of the things you will see in my opinions is I never go after anybody personally,” he stated. “There’s nothing insulting in there; it goes after the argument. But you’re right: we are to conduct ourselves better than they conduct themselves.”</p>
<p>Then came the remark eliciting laughter. Thomas quipped, “One of the things I say in response to the media is when they talk about, especially early on, is about the way I did my job. I said, ‘&#8221;I will absolutely leave the Court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours.’”</p>
<p>“And that was meant as a compliment, really. It really is good to be me; it really is,” he laughed.</p>
<p>Some recent examples of the media attacking Thomas include <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/opinion/clarence-thomas-supreme-court.html">The New York Times</a> writing that he and other conservatives SCOTUS justices have been “whining about public outrage at their rulings,” <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/clarence-thomas-decries-irreparable-damage-of-roe-leak.html">New York Magazine</a> claiming Thomas “was credibly accused of sexual harassment by former colleague <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/09/anita-hill-clarence-thomas-joe-biden.html">Anita Hill</a> during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991,” and The Washington Post sniping that Thomas was “the black justice whose rulings often resemble the thinking of white conservatives.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the most disgusting thing I can remember seeing in a newspaper in sometime. </p>
<p>The Washington Post and <a href="https://twitter.com/MariannaReports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MariannaReports</a> should apologize. </p>
<p>Unbelievable<a href="https://t.co/WTL8SPe9nG">https://t.co/WTL8SPe9nG</a> <a href="https://t.co/SMke8Iu8vk">pic.twitter.com/SMke8Iu8vk</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1494328827455045634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Justice Thomas to the media:</p>
<p>&quot;I will absolutely leave the Court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/2V7h9vtoLt">pic.twitter.com/2V7h9vtoLt</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1526215424874008576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Danforth was Thomas’ great champion during the confirmation hearings. He <a href="https://www.emkinstitute.org/resources/john-danforth-oral-history">recalled</a> years later that Thomas was “terribly upset” about the vicious attacks leveled at him and told Danforth, “You know what this is, Jack? This is a lynching. This is a high-tech lynching.”</p>
<p>Danforth replied, “Well, Clarence, if you feel that way about it, when you go up to the committee, you say that.”</p>
<p>He added, “The Thomas thing was <em>sui generis</em> and it was just a totally out of the blue, grotesque thing. It was really bad. And to know somebody as well as I know Clarence, and know what it did to him and to see it.”</p>

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