Alan Dershowitz is a major-league asshole

[cthulu2016]

Just sayin'

It has been painful to watch the looooong ongoing process, since he used to be a major civil libertarian. (circa late-1970s)

Now on TV flogging the "it isn't civil disobedience if you don't turn yourself in" line... the true mark of the modern authoritarian dimwit.

(If the difference (sic) between being a criminal and being engaged in civil disobedience is that you go to jail in both cases, it is an odd sort of distinction to obsess over. What is really in play is people trying to square their youthful support of dissent with their contemporary state of being an asshole... which requires a lot of fancy footwork.)

[Ken Burch]

1. Who is he dissing for not turning themselves in in this case? Is this an anti-Snowden thing?

Dershowitz is always contemptuous of anybody to his left...was so even when he identified as a "liberal". Protesters are braver than he is, and he hides his cowardice by dissing them.

[cthulu2016]

2. Yes, Snowdenmania.

[Ken Burch]

4. Well, the Dersh is also a national security fetishist.

I remember his support of "torture warrants" in the post 9/11, pre-Iraq War period.

[cthulu2016]

6. Yup. He and Joe Lieberman are similar cases.

[KG]

3. piss on Alan Dershowitz

[Ken Burch]

5. That'd be a waste of good urine. n/t.

[rateyes]

19. Not even if he was on fire.

[7962]

21. My dad uses that saying quite often. nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. I second that emotion.

[Skittles]

8. he is disgusting

[Helen Highwater]

9. Maybe, but he was on TV this morning defending same sex marriage

Or at least the inevitability of it. Seemed pretty rational to me...
shrug

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Somehow, that doesn't seem to be enough to justify his continued oxygen consumption.

[Helen Highwater]

12. Sounds an awful lot like what Phil Robertson might say about us gay folk.

thanks.

[Jackpine Radical]

14. I didn't know gay people as a general class defend the use of torture,

ignoring international law, and nuking Iran, or publicly denounce Jimmy Carter as "a bad person [who] has gone to the Dark Side."

[marble falls]

18. Determining who is and who isn't worth oxygen is not a good thing.

[DemocraticWing]

13. Dick Cheney supports same sex marriage too.

Doesn't mean the rest of his platform isn't terrible.

[Hissyspit]

16. And he was on TV this evening calling Glenn Greenwald "pro-terrorist."

He's an asshole.

[quinnox]

11. Yep.

[niyad]

15. in other breaking news, water is wet.

[The Wizard]

17. My college mentor grew up with him

He said Ron Silver should have gotten an Academy Award for making him a sympathetic character in "Reversal of Fortune."

[nikto]

20. I saw Dershowitz on Michael Smerconish/MSNBC today (Dec26)

Smerconish was in for Matthews.

Dershowitz kept interrupting the other (more supportive of Snowden's disclosures) guest (can't recall his name),
just like a typical rightwing LOSER habitually does.

I did not realize the extent of Dershowitz's "assholeness".

I now know----It is considerable.

[pnwmom]

22. He lost me forever when he joined the Amanda Knox haters.

He clearly had no familiarity with the evidence in the appeals trial that resulted in an innocent verdict, but that didn't stop him from opining as to her guilt.