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still_one

(92,116 posts)
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 12:09 PM Jul 2018

Former friends of Alan Dershowitz destroy his complaints about being 'shunned' in Martha's Vineyard

"Former friends of Alan Dershowitz are firing back after the renowned Harvard defense attorney whined in an op-ed that he was being socially “shunned” for defending President Donald Trump.

Dershowitz is a Democrat who financially supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. He’s drawn fire for defending Trump in the media and espousing a libertarian-leaning view that there should be no special counsel investigating Trump.


Walter Teller, a well-known entertainment lawyer and longtime resident of Martha’s Vineyard, sent a scathing group email to Derschowitz explaining exactly why he’d been booted from the social club. An individual who received a forwarded version shared it with the press.

“You thereby gave Trump an opportunity to use you and your positions in his own defense, to wave you like his pom-pom. How unfortunate for all of us,” Teller wrote. “You defended and gave cover to this president who relentlessly disrupts and destroys all that we value and causes massive and lasting damage to our political system, our courts, our standing in the world, the environment and more. In all of that you are complicit.”

“You proudly announce where you have dined and with whom, going so far as to send out pictures of the menu of your meal with Trump at the White House,” he contiued. “And then you complain publicly when you are not invited to dinner.”


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/former-friends-alan-dershowitz-destroy-complaints-shunned-marthas-vineyard/

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Former friends of Alan Dershowitz destroy his complaints about being 'shunned' in Martha's Vineyard (Original Post) still_one Jul 2018 OP
Good. smirkymonkey Jul 2018 #1
Dershowitz even has the nerve to invoke the bad old days of McCarthyism gratuitous Jul 2018 #2
Alan Dershowitz - wimp womp nt WhiteTara Jul 2018 #3
Awesome take down! sheshe2 Jul 2018 #4
Crowds gather in Boston to protest Alan Dershowtiz's treatment on Martha's Vineyard Gothmog Jul 2018 #5
Ha, ha, ha! PatSeg Jul 2018 #8
now that's funny!!! still_one Jul 2018 #9
More people there than at the Patriots Super Bowl parades. edbermac Jul 2018 #11
Alan, Alan, Alan............... MyOwnPeace Jul 2018 #6
Shame is working. sarcasmo Jul 2018 #7
Very erudite ways of saying "Fuck you Alan." nt TeamPooka Jul 2018 #10
Kickin' with gusto! Faux pas Jul 2018 #12
good bdamomma Jul 2018 #13
Just being a jerk can carry a price. Sneederbunk Jul 2018 #14
Good riddance to bad rubbish. n/t geardaddy Jul 2018 #15
K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Jul 2018 #16
I have had dealings with Walter Teller from time to time at my job Beaverhausen Jul 2018 #17
Someone finally said he's accountable for his support of Trump lunatica Jul 2018 #18
I Can't Believe Dershowitz Is A Law Professor PaulX2 Jul 2018 #19
Dear Alan Dershowitz: catbyte Jul 2018 #20
K&R Scurrilous Jul 2018 #21
Yeah.. well said by Walter Teller.. Cha Jul 2018 #22
He can dish it out, but he can't take it when it is reciprocated still_one Jul 2018 #23

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Dershowitz even has the nerve to invoke the bad old days of McCarthyism
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 12:21 PM
Jul 2018

As if not getting invited to dinner with the swells is the latter day equivalent of losing your job and your livelihood, having to move to Europe to find work, and being unable to clear your name because nobody will tell you what you did or are doing that's so wrong. From some other astral plane, the shade of Carl Foreman exhales a wry, papery chuckle over Dershowitz's plight. And he's not the only one.

MyOwnPeace

(16,925 posts)
6. Alan, Alan, Alan...............
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 01:25 PM
Jul 2018

Didn't you EVER learn:

"When you sleep with dogs you're gonna' get fleas!"

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
18. Someone finally said he's accountable for his support of Trump
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 02:22 PM
Jul 2018

The law of karma is you are accountable for everything you do or say. This law also applies to everything you don’t do as well. There’s no escaping accountability.

 

PaulX2

(2,032 posts)
19. I Can't Believe Dershowitz Is A Law Professor
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 02:58 PM
Jul 2018

I newer studied law, but I heard him babble some idiotic positions lately.

I love watching him argue with his students on the teevee.

Especially when they are right and he is wrong.

Cha

(297,077 posts)
22. Yeah.. well said by Walter Teller..
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 04:24 PM
Jul 2018

"You thereby gave Trump an opportunity to use you and your positions in his own defense, to wave you like his pom-pom. How unfortunate for all of us,” Teller wrote. “You defended and gave cover to this president who relentlessly disrupts and destroys all that we value and causes massive and lasting damage to our political system, our courts, our standing in the world, the environment and more. In all of that you are complicit.”

Dersh is a Dino.

Thanks, still_one

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