Dershowitz on CNN at 10:30 p.m. EST

[JohnLocke]

He slammed the senators for not asking the tough questions on reproductive rights.

[Tom Joad]

1. Dershie is a firm believer in torture.

http://www.counterpunch.org/youmans0910.html

Alan Dershowitz is the kind of guy who never lets the facts get in the way of a good argument.

The Harvard Law School professor and part-time voracious defender of Israel devoted his celebrity legal mind to combating terrorism. His partisan and fundamental support for Israel, however, discredits his own views on terrorism.

He outraged supporters of civil liberties and due process after September 11, 2001 for suggesting that torture should be legally sanctioned and warranted by the courts--an argument he forwards in his new book 'Why Terrorism Works'. His shining model for a legalized system of torture is Israel, of course. In a talk he gave to the World Affairs Council on September 3rd, 2002, he described Israel's procedure as invoked judiciously and non-lethal in technique. He was unconcerned with who was being tortured and for what. What mattered to him was strictly technical in nature, like a good lawyer.

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[TomClash]

3. Especially the torture of Muslims nt

[bettyellen]

2. i was at a wedding with him once, he brought a stack of his new books and

his trophy wife with him. :shrug: i thought the books were a bit much.

[Tom Joad]

5. A self-promoter... even at someone elses Wedding. Pathetic.

[bettyellen]

7. and of course she looked like a miss usa contestant, the boobs, the teeth

the sequins. half his age +/or botoxed....LOL. sorta what you might expect. :shrug:

[hlthe2b]

8. Oh, Lordy... you are kidding!

What an arrogant narcissistic putz--even if he is (more often than not) on "our" side...

[bettyellen]

9. not kidding, it was about 8-9 copies of the book.

this was maybe 6-7 years ago? in newark. great klezmer band, awesome wedding!

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Books at a wedding? They weren't a gift?

[bettyellen]

11. he gave the books to people, but they weren't wrapped or anything

i know the couple got a nice fat check, but i dunno if they got a book as well. :)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

4. Sorry, can't stomach the guy.

My main reasons would be Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.

[radio4progressives]

6. Torture King Dershowtiz can go fuck himself ,Feingold Speaks For Me...

Dershowtiz's name should never be uttered here unless it's in the context of a round of a slap down flogging - i mean that with every ounce of my being.

that craven sadistic bastard has LOST ALL credibility with me, as he should with every single decent thinking American.

Anyway, Alito is just his kind of guy, he'll be a rubber stamp for every torture memo and illegal rendering prison in existence.

fuck that bastard.