MSNBC’s Joy Reid had plenty of targets for a piece on sexual misconduct given that both D.C. and Hollywood are flooded with predators. Yet, somehow she thought it relevant to dredge up Anita Hill’s case from 26 years ago and repoint the finger at conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

For The Daily Beast Reid wrote, “As We Rethink Old Harassers, Let’s Talk About Clarence Thomas.” As much as the piece is about Thomas, it also serves as a defense of Bill Clinton, whom Reid said already “paid the price” for his sexual sins. And as a sort of tit-for-tat, Reid says if you’re going to talk about Clinton, who is accused of rape and had an affair while president, then, you have to talk about Thomas, who was only accused of talking about things of a sexual nature:

The national moment of self-reflection on the culture that produces such entitled men has compelled the left to indulge in its favorite ritual: curling into the fetal position as it self-flagellates over the eternal sins of the Clintons. It’s as if they’ve forgotten that the former president who left office 17 years ago indeed paid a price, including years of forensic investigation culminating in impeachment for his illicit affair with a 24-year-old White House intern.

Well if we are getting about the business of re-examining the past indecency of powerful men, we’d be remiss not to include the moment in 1991 when a woman was not believed and her alleged abuser was elevated to the highest court in the land, where he remains 26 years later.

Reid mentions the late Andrew Breitbart and how he was inspired by Thomas to become a conservative.

“Breitbart cloaked his savage politics in alleged concern for a beleaguered black man, saying of Thomas’ critics: ‘[t]hese white, privileged men knew that by taking this conservative, religious man and asking him if he rented pornography, the mere exposure of that would hurt… I was so pissed off. You guys are just trying to ruin him. You don’t have anything,’” Reid wrote. “Not anything, that is, except the word of Anita Hill, an African-American woman who risked national humiliation and ruin to publicly tell her story of repeated sexual harassment at the hands of Thomas, her onetime boss at the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission.”

Hill did go on to make millions off of a book deal and teaching law at Brandeis, so don’t feel too bad about her willingness to be humiliated. Reid seems to have forgotten that Hill’s evidence was never corroborated and was merely talk of a sexual nature — not physical contact, and nor was it conditional for remaining employed. And Reid certainly didn’t take the time to investigate how Hill was a major apologist for Bill Clinton’s behaviors in the years after he left office, which was brilliantly detailed over at PowerLine Blog.

But Reid just couldn’t resist going after Thomas:

It’s hard to see Thomas, who wrote off his Yale degree as worthless because of affirmative action yet retreated to the language of “lynching” to disparage his accuser and her supporters, as much of a victim. Particularly when most Americans, and most African Americans, took his side against Anita Hill and against prominent civil rights and women’s rights organizations who were unanimous in their opposition to his elevation to the seat once occupied by the great Thurgood Marshall. Democrats including then-Sen. Joe Biden, took Thomas’ side against Hill, too—even refusing to allow witnesses who could corroborate her account to testify at Thomas’ Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Instead, we were treated to a bipartisan spectacle of the old men of the United States Senate lecturing Professor Hill from the dais; scowling at her as she was forced to recount in mortifying detail how Thomas pushed her to date him and taunted her with disgusting jokes and insinuations at work that included graphic tales of pubic hair and Coke cans.

And Reid didn’t stop at Thomas, not that anyone will be surprised, because  he paved the way for… wait for it… Donald Trump:

In many ways, the banality with which Americans dismissed Thomas’ alleged sexual misconduct, his disparagement of his victim, and his ethical flexibility were a portent of the Trump era to come.

And like Trump, and unlike Bill Clinton, Thomas sits in power still; with the authority to make life and death decisions over the fate of those facing capital punishment, those needing health care, and most ironically, over the rights and liberties of women.

Reid saved her harshest critique for her closing paragraph:

Indeed, we need to continue to talk about predacious men. That needs to include the sexual raptors armed with immense power right now — beginning with the president of the United States and the high court’s scandalized associate justice, Clarence Thomas.

Thomas is a "sexual raptor" and yet, Clinton is absolved? How does Reid continue to be employed as a journalist when she's so bad at the job?