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Article: Reputations: A Tangled Web.(author David Brock's credibility now beyond repair with confession that he lied)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 23, 2001
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David Brock is a liar. On this point, everyone agrees, including Brock himself. Brock used to be a conservative journalist, and in that capacity wrote a book defending Clarence Thomas called The Real Anita Hill. In recent years, Brock has taken to disavowing his previous work. In a new book that has been excerpted in Talk, he has gone so far as to claim that he lied in his book on the Hill-Thomas controversy and in follow-up articles. He says that Justice Thomas had a friend give Brock damaging information about a woman who was backing up Hill's account- information Brock then used to threaten the woman to change her story.
One oddity is that the lies to which ...