Eugene Robinson on NewsHour

On tonight's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson offered his interpretation of Justice Clarence Thomas's new autobiography. Mostly by innuendo and insinuation, Robinson suggested, without saying it, that Thomas is a little off balance mentally, a little confused. This, in Robinson's view, explains why Thomas is such a poor fit on the Supreme Court and is such a disaster for blacks generally. But Robinson, too, has a history and his history makes him an inappropriate analyst for Clarence Thomas.