Clarence Thomas.... the "Silent Justice"...

.... it seems that everywhere Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas goes, he is asked the same question; "Why don't you ask questions like all the other Justices during presentations to the court?" His answer is usually cryptic but every now and then, the question seems to irk him. When he does answer --- he explains in a frank and open fashion that even the dumbest questioner can understand ---- from a column by Mark Sherman, on the uber-liberal Huffington Post:

"He also has said he will ask a pertinent question if his colleagues don't but sees no need to engage in the back-and-forth just to hear his own voice. Lately, he has focused on the latter reason.
"If I think a question will help me decide a case, then I'll ask that question," he told C-SPAN's Brian Lamb in October. "Otherwise, it's not worth asking because it detracts from my job." He talked in that same interview about descriptions of him as the silent justice. "I can't really say that it's unfair to say that I'm silent in that context. I would like to, though, be referred to as the 'listening justice,' you know," Thomas said. "I still believe that, if somebody else is talking, somebody should be listening."
The following month, however, at an event sponsored by Hillsdale College in Michigan, Thomas was more combative when asked about oral arguments.
Suppose surgeons started discussing the merits of removing a gallbladder while in the operating room, Thomas said, as quoted by U.S. News & World Report. "You really didn't go in there to have a debate about gallbladder surgery," he said. Similarly, "we are there to decide cases, not to engage in seminar discussions." "

I hope folks' are takin' note of the media's fawning praise bestowed on Barack Hussain Obama during this Presidential race -- and thinkin' back on how this fair minded Conservative Black was treated (and still is) during his confirmation hearings.
He and Obama were both born poor and of a broken marriage - their early lives were similar. They both grew and excelled.
The only difference is that Justice Thomas left his liberal roots and evolved into a very conservative American! That's the sin for which the main stream media and political left have no forgiveness! More shame on them! And us, for not callin' 'em on it!