Justice Clarence Thomas is ‘our greatest living American,’ despite constant attacks from the left, a

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been vilified by the left for decades, but a close friend who believes he’s "our greatest living American" helped tell the justice’s story through his own words in a remarkable new book taken from 25 hours of candid discussion with the longest-serving justice.

Mark Paoletta, an attorney who served as Assistant Counsel to President George H.W. Bush and played a key role in the confirmation of Thomas, became a close friend of the justice over time. Over the past three decades, they’ve vacationed together with their families and made frequent road trips to visit a New Jersey nursing home where the Irish nuns who taught Thomas discipline at the segregated, all-Black Catholic parochial school resided later in life The two speak on a regular basis to this day.

The friendship eventually resulted in Paoletta co-writing a new book, "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words," that provides a unique look at one of the most polarizing people in America.

"I was fed up with the continual attacks from Hollywood and other places on Justice Thomas, who I think is our greatest living American and our greatest justice," Paoletta told Fox News Digital. "One of the things in the book that you really get a flavor of is Justice Thomas's strong disagreement with, kind of the left, and their liberal policies and their tactics."…


…It all started when Paoletta, seeking to tell the true story of his friend, was introduced to documentary filmmaker Michael Pack, who was interested in making a film about Thomas. But instead of a traditional documentary that presents both sides of an issue or story, Pack wanted to have Thomas tell his own life story, so Paoletta set out to convince his longtime friend to sit down for a conversation.

"Justice Thomas is never interested in defending his reputation or himself," he said. "Ultimately, [he] agreed to be interviewed." …


…"Just like anything Justice Thomas does, when he makes a commitment, he's going to see it through," Paoletta said, noting that turning all that content from a Supreme Court Justice who rarely speaks to the media into a two-hour film was quite difficult.

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"You have this 25 hours of Clarence Thomas on, you know, talking to Michael Pack about his life, about his journey, about his, you know, his jurisprudence, his thoughts and to make the movie and see all that cut away -- I was there for those interviews. You know, I saw these exchanges that I thought were gold, that would be great in the movie," Paoletta said. "With two hours and having to tell all parts of his life, you know, you're going to have to cut out a lot of discussion. So the idea was, let's package this up into a book in order to get a lot more of that interview."

Pack’s award-winning film "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words" was released in 2020. …












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Justice Thomas is a great American! He’s one of my favorite people in our government. He is fair and consistent in his decisions. He’s a constitutional originalist. He’s the best justice on the court.

 

I agree with the author. Thomas is the greatest living American.

 

I believe her.

 

Thomas is and has always been a joke.
Since Scalia's passing it has become clear how much of a joke he is because Scalia isn't there to tell him what to say.

 

I do not. She was the tool of a liberal lynch mob trying to take down an uppity black man.

 

He says what needs to be said and says it very well.

 

If you believe that you have proven my point on what a joke he is.

 

LOL
Is that what you think I'm doing!! Sad.

 

I agree. It's hard to say ANYONE is the greatest living anything but Thomas is a remarkable man who loves America. Yet, is maligned by the left. The reason for that is the left hates, despises with a white hot heat, any conservative black man or woman.

 

So do I, and she is the only reason he was confirmed. He was going to be denied but then she came along and the conservatives just couldn't let it seem that a WOMAN (shudder, shake) had intimidated them. It's how conservatism is the flip side of Woke.

 

It is his haters who are the joke in this country. He’s a great man who is the personification of the American dream.

 

That’s all his opponents can do. They have nothing on him. Sadly, he will retire during the term of the next Republican President.

 

So, Scalia is telling Thomas what to do from beyond the grave? Unless we're postulating necromancy or something, your assertions here dont really hold up...

 

Why is it that leftists hate blacks?

 

LMAO…Remember that interracial marriage only became legal in 1967.
Clarence is one maga brain fart away from being lynched for marrying a white woman.

 

No need, he’s sleeping with a seditious traitor who tells him what to think and do.

 

Is that what I said?
No, that's what you want to believe I said to prop up your strawman.

It's very sad how even a my very simple statement has been deliberately(?) twisted into nonsense.

 

He's a completely compromised sack of garbage.

 

But I thought that, according to democrats, Republicans are racists. You mean they hate women more than blacks?

 

Complaining while saying nothing? Is there another definition?

 

I didn't complain, I stated facts about the incompetency that has always been Clarence Thomas. He's a disgrace.

 

i hate to disagree without offering an alternative, but the 21st century is very devoid of great american.

compare thomas to the great americans of the 20th century - teddy roosevelt, lindburg, ted williams, buckminster fuller, elenor roosevelt, jfk, king, the mercury astronauts, even elvis, but, of course, they are all dead.

 

A great question! Sadly, I have no answer for you.

 

Thanks for sharing your complete and utter contempt for America above…

 

Seems like a racist comment to me.