Isn't There A Limit?

This morning, the New York Post has a big article (for that paper) about Justice Clarence Thomas of the US Supreme Court.  The story is mostly an interview with a woman who says that she had a relationship with Justice Thomas.  Oh, scandal!  But wait, not really.  First of all, the supposed relationship took place in the early 1980's.  While Thomas was nominally still married to his first wife at the time, he was legally separated from her.  Thomas was also not a Supreme Court Justice at the time.  Further, even the woman who claims the relationship says that it ended before Thomas married his second (and current) wife 25 years ago.  Boiling it all down, the story is that a woman claim that before he was on the Court, Justice Thomas had sex with her while he was separated from his wife.  Scandal?  I think not.

Even better, though, is the fact that the article makes clear that Thomas' alleged paramour believes that Anita Hill was telling lies.  That bit of the story gets buried way at the end of the piece.  After all, why undermine the old scandal while trying to come up with a new one?

To be clear, Thomas has not commented on the story as far as I can tell.  Maybe it's true.  If so, who cares?  Is the media so desperate for scandals that they now have to invent them?