The Real Anita Blair

In a clear display of contempt for some members of the United States military, the Administration has appointed a Clarence Thomas apologist to investigate the reported rapes at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration official who will run day-to-day operations of the Pentagon's investigation into Air Force Academy sex assaults is a prominent conservative who opposes coed training in the military.

Anita K. Blair, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, helped found the conservative Independent Women's Forum to fend off feminist attacks on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and serve as a counterpoint to the National Organization for Women. She later opposed admitting women to Virginia Military Institute in 1997.

Her selection to be executive director of the independent review panel has angered feminist groups, who fear it's a quiet move by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to give the panel a right-wing tilt.

The victims no doubt will be revealed as lying hysterics who fabricated their allegations after reading The Exorcist and obscure Eighth Circuit opinions.

The transom is now open for business.