democrats, rolling out a former colleague, making sexual harassment allegations against him, this character assassination was so vicious, nasty, thomas infamously called it "a high-tech lynching." you may remember. >> this is a circus. it is a national disgrace. and from my standpoint as a black american, as far as i am concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks. who in any way deign to think for themselves. to do for themselves, to have different ideas. and it is a message that unless you cow tow to old order, this is what will happen to you. you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured, by a committee of the u.s., u.s. senate, rather than hung from a tree. >> now we are watching a