By Scott Johnson |POWERLINE
I wrote about Michael Pack’s documentary on Justice
Thomas in “Clarence
Thomas speaks.” The title of the film is Created Equal. We ran
to one of our local suburban multiplexes to see it upon its release this past
winter, in the good old days when such activities were permitted. If you missed
it, however, you may want to catch it tonight on PBS, where it is scheduled
to be broadcast at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern), but check your local listings. It turns
up tonight at 10:00 on the schedule of our local PBS channel.
This is my take on the film. The left could not and
cannot deal with Justice Thomas. They disparage him for his silence on the bench,
but they don’t want him speaking out either. His comments on the Anita Hill
episode — his comments then and now — are utterly devastating. Joe Biden
makes a cameo appearance as a complete and utter buffoon. This section
of the film should elicit feelings of rage and disgust from sentient beings,
and yet the scenario is as current as today’s headlines. I am so grateful this
movie exists and urge you to see it.
The Claremont Institute has sent out a notice of the PBS
broadcast this evening. In their message they link to Martha Bayles’s fantastic
appreciation — “A
mouthful of bees” — in the new issue of the CRB. This is Professor Bayles’s
take on the film: “Created Equal is one of the most moving,
fascinating, compelling film biographies I have seen.”
