Clarence Thomas? In the run-up to Mr. Thomas's confirmation hearings, Mr. Bozell's organization had provoked a firestorm by producing an ad that asked just that question. Today's discussion, often heated, starts with that ad and explores the history and ethics of what we now call negative campaigning. LBB: "This man [Ted Kennedy] undertook the most scurrilous character assassination campaign against Judge Robert Bork ... These same people ... said: We're going to 'Bork' Thomas. And our point was, 'If you're going to try to do it again, if you're going to put values and integrity on the line, we're going to talk about yours.' Did it work? ... I submit that there hasn't been the level of intensity against Thomas that there could have been."