Why It's Not a Good Idea to Play Up Justice Thomas' Travels...

 Because if you focus on where in the world Justice and Mrs. Thomas visited with wealthy friends, and accompanied them on private travels abroad jets and yachts, you re-open the door to asking why the mainstream media never asks Mrs. Clinton -- still very much a public figure commenting on current political events -- if it's true that her husband, former President Bill Clinton really travelled 56 times aboard Jeffrey Epstein's private jet to the notorious private island where sex crimes against underage women were alleged.

Open a door into one man's alleged ethics violations, you have to open the door to asking honest questions about them all.  Don't be polite, press.  Ask the hard questions.  

You see, journalists forget:  they can cover, but History won't cover them.

The Bush/Cheney war crimes. What they did to our nation economically and in terms of devaluing trust.  Many people think that man had no business being president in the first place...  History won't be so kind and polite as the news media was, especially after the Bush elders passed.  They're not our royal family. We don't play that way here in America.

The Bill Clinton presidency.  Sure, the times were good economically. Those days WWWY leading up into the turn of the century... mmm.  Good days, ammirite?  But History will ask questions that journalists today leave unasked.  Did the women in power really "sell out" to protect him in the short run?  I mean, he served the full 8 years in office sure, but cost the Dems greatly (poor Al Gore) and foisted Bush Jr. upon the nation with his own bad behavior.  The Dems as a party sure paid the price for Clinton's dalliances with a subordinate employee on the clock in the office.  

Wouldn't it be crazy to learn... the former president didn't learn.  And his wife, who stood by him and some say even benefitted careerwise off his "forgiven" dalliances, as well as the rest of the party elders weren't able to reign him in and he still went a-visiting Epstein's island, even after the latter had his wrist lightly slapped by the Palm Beach County court and everybody knew who he was, and what was happening on that island?

I mean, compared to that juicy still-to-be-broken story... the fact that Clarence Thomas and his wife were palsing about at Coconut Grove with some wealthy elderly Republican men they called friends?  That's not really a story, is it? Rich people host friends all the time.  Like Jeffrey Epstein.  We should cover stories like that more honestly and openly if we really want to "protect the children" and end the secrecy that accompanies child sexual abuse in our country.

Ask her.  Ask the wife what she knows about her husband using Epstein's jet to travel to his island. Who paid for that and what services were rendered.  I always thought HRC knew more than she let on about Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones and Juanita Brodderick too.

Newspapers have since folded, but History is always interested in learning the true details... even all these years later.  See JFK.

It's kind of true:  we can't advance as a nation, casting off our old skins, until we admit the truths about who we are and what we did so that we can learn not to make the same mistakes again as we grow ethically and contemplate what we value in selecting the winners and losers in society. 

Maybe, we keep the rules fair for all, and let the people with the best skills compete to tell us the real stories. Even through Art, if the trades* fail us and History is too long to wait on... 

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* ie/ journalistic and marketplace