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Archae

(46,318 posts)
Sat May 9, 2015, 12:35 AM May 2015

Alan Dershowitz has completely jumped the shark.

What an asshole...

Alan Dershowitz Likens Pamela Geller To Martin Luther King

As part of a nauseating and ultimately misleading discussion hailing Pamela Geller’s anti-Muslim provocations as heroic, famed attorney Alan Dershowitz likened Geller’s tactics to Martin Luther King.

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/alan-dershowitz-likens-pamela-geller

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gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. Yeah, I can see that
Sat May 9, 2015, 12:45 AM
May 2015

Except for the whole thing about according human dignity to your adversaries, reaching across social and class lines, accepting all people as sisters and brothers, and working for harmony and understanding, then yeah, Geller and King are practically indistinguishable. Oh, and King had better hair.

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
2. "Famed"? I would ask if someone can be famous for being an asshole, but then there's Ryan Seacrest.
Sat May 9, 2015, 12:45 AM
May 2015

okaawhatever

(9,461 posts)
3. Well other than the fact that one is a woman the other a man, one is white and one is black, one
Sat May 9, 2015, 12:57 AM
May 2015

is the embodiement of all that is good, the other evil incarnate then yeah, other than those things I can see the similarities.

In all fairness the d-bag Dershowitz said her TACTICS were similar to MLK, not that she was. That being said his mentioning her name in the same breath as MLK is deeply offensive to MLK's memory.

delrem

(9,688 posts)
4. Ayelet Shaked. She won an election. She's been promoted into highest power.
Sat May 9, 2015, 05:05 AM
May 2015

Dershowitz, Geller, ... , they're all very similar.

Beware - they're becoming the new normal.

Gothmog

(145,130 posts)
5. Dershowitz is out looking for press and fights
Sat May 9, 2015, 09:41 AM
May 2015

He also took a crazy position in the Freddie Gray case against the police. Dershowitz is looking for attention

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,173 posts)
7. Yep, Alan.
Sat May 9, 2015, 11:53 AM
May 2015

Because MLK was all about wanting to prove how inherently violent and evil all white people were.

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